2026 K League 2

Hana Bank
K League 2

Season	2026
Dates	28 February – 29 November 2026
Matches	64
Goals	180 (2.81 per match)
Top goalscorer	Borja Bastón (Paju Frontier) Edgar (Daegu FC) Matheus Frizzo (Suwon FC) (5 goals at each)
Biggest home win	Daegu 4-2 Jeonnam Dragons (7 March) Suwon FC 3-1 Yongin (7 March)
Biggest away win	Gimhae 1-4 Ansan Greeners (28 February) Chungbuk Cheongju 1-4 Suwon FC (1 March) Gyeongnam 1-4 Jeonnam Dragons (1 March)
Highest scoring	Daegu 4-2 Jeonnam Dragons (7 March)
Longest winning run	5 Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Longest unbeaten run	5 Suwon Samsung Bluewings, Busan IPark
Longest winless run	5 Chungbuk Cheongju, Yongin
Longest losing run	4 Gimhae
Highest attendance	24,071 Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2-1 Seoul E-Land (28 February)
Lowest attendance	1,639 Hwaseong 2-2 Cheonan City (15 March)
Total attendance	323,550
Average attendance	5,055
← 2025 2027 → All statistics correct as of 19 April 2026.

The 2026 K League 2, also known as the Hana Bank K League 2 for sponsorship reasons, is the 14th season of the K League 2, the second-highest division in South Korean football league system.

Overview

The league has expand to 17 teams for this season. Two teams relegated from K League 1, and the twelve teams remaining in the league, two teams promoted from the K3 League and one newly established club.

K League 2 will be reduced or expanded to 15 or TBD teams starting next season, due to the expansion of K League 1 from 12 to 14 teams, no team will be automatically relegated from the top tier.

This season, Promotion and Relegation between K League 2 and K3 League have been introduce for 2026 onwards. First and second place are promoted automatically, while third and sixth place face a promotion play-off, the winner of the promotion play-off final will automatically be promoted, the loser of the promotion play-off final will face-off against the 12th place team of K League 1 (only if Gimcheon Sangmu does not finish last).

Last place in K League 2 will face -off against the Champions of K3 League in the inaugural Relegation play-off round.

Teams

Team Changes

As the 2025 K League 2 champions, Incheon United and the play-off winners Bucheon FC 1995 have been promoted to the K League 1. ^{[1] [2]} Both teams ended in the second tier after one and twelve years, respectively.

Meanwhile, Suwon FC and Daegu FC have been relegated from the K League 1. ^{[3] [4]} Daegu FC and Suwon FC return to second tier after nine and five years absence, respectively.

Additionally, Gimhae FC 2008 and Paju Frontier have been accepted into the K League 2 following a decision by the K League Federation, having participated in the K3 League since 2020 and 2021. ^[5] In August 2025, Yongin FC received approval to join the K League, confirming its intention to participate in the 2026 K League 2. ^[6] On 16 January 2026, two teams from K3 League and one newly established team will participate in K League 2 for the 2026 season after its final approval for membership in the K League Federation.

Incoming Teams

Relegated from K League 1
Suwon FC Daegu FC
Accepted from K3 League
Gimhae FC 2008 Paju Frontier
New Club
Yongin FC

Outgoing Teams

Promoted to K League 1
Incheon United Bucheon FC 1995

Locations

The following seventeen teams are participating in the 2026 K League 2. ^[7]

Team	City/Province	Abbreviation
Ansan Greeners	Ansan	Ansan
Busan IPark	Busan	Busan
Cheonan City	Cheonan	Cheonan
Chungbuk Cheongju	Cheongju	Chungbuk Cheongju
Chungnam Asan	Asan	Chungnam Asan
Daegu FC	Daegu	Daegu
Gimpo FC	Gimpo	Gimpo
Gimhae FC 2008	Gimhae	Gimhae
Gyeongnam FC	Gyeongnam	Gyeongnam
Hwaseong FC	Hwaseong	Hwaseong
Jeonnam Dragons	Jeonnam	Jeonnam
Paju Frontier	Paju	Paju
Seongnam FC	Seongnam	Seongnam
Seoul E-Land	Seoul	Seoul E
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Suwon	Suwon
Suwon FC	Suwon	Suwon FC
Yongin FC	Yongin	Yongin

Gimpo Gimhae Paju Daegu Cheonan Chungbuk Cheongju Chungnam Asan Gyeongnam Busan Jeonnam Locations of the 2026 K League 2 teams

14km 8.7miles Hwaseong Suwon Seoul E Seongnam Suwon FC Yongin Ansan     Locations of the 2026 K League 2 teams in the Seoul Capital Area

Stadiums

Ansan Greeners	Busan IPark	Cheonan City	Chungbuk Cheongju	Chungnam Asan
Ansan Wa~ Stadium	Busan Gudeok Stadium	Cheonan Stadium	Cheongju Stadium	Yi Sun-sin Stadium
Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 12,349	Capacity: 26,000	Capacity: 16,280	Capacity: 19,283
Daegu FC	Gimhae FC 2008	Gimpo FC	Gyeongnam FC	Hwaseong FC
Daegu iM Bank Park	Gimhae Sports Complex	Gimpo Solteo Football Stadium	Changwon Football Center	Hwaseong Stadium
Capacity: 12,415	Capacity: 15,066	Capacity: 5,000	Capacity: 15,074	Capacity: 35,270
Jeonnam Dragons	Paju Frontier	Seongnam FC	Seoul E-Land	Suwon FC
Gwangyang Stadium	Paju Stadium	Tancheon Stadium	Mokdong Stadium	Suwon Sports Complex
Capacity: 13,496	Capacity: 23,000	Capacity: 16,146	Capacity: 15,511	Capacity: 11,808
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Yongin FC
Suwon World Cup Stadium	Yongin Mireu Stadium
Capacity: 44,031	Capacity: 37,155

Personnel and sponsoring

Team	Manager	Main sponsor	Kit manufacturer
Ansan Greeners	Choi Moon-sik	Ansan City Greeners	Hummel
Busan IPark	Jo Sung-hwan	HDC	Puma
Cheonan City	Park Jin-sub	Cheonan City	Sunderland of Scotland
Chungbuk Cheongju	Rui Quinta		Sports Tribe
Chungnam Asan	Kim Hyo-il (Interim)	Chungnam Asan	FCMM
Daegu FC	Choi Sung-yong	IM Bank	Mizuno
Gimhae FC 2008	Son Hyun-jun	Gimhae City	Sports Tribe
Gimpo FC	Ko Jeong-woon	Goobne	Sunderland of Scotland
Gyeongnam FC	Bae Sung-jae	Nonghyup Bank	Hummel
Hwaseong FC	Cha Du-ri	Hwaseong Special City	Kelme
Jeonnam Dragons	Park Dong-hyuk	POSCO	Reebok
Paju Frontier	Gerard Nus	Lucell	Kelme
Seongnam FC	Jeon Kyung-jun	Seongnam City	Umbro
Seoul E-Land	Kim Do-kyun	E-Land	New Balance
Suwon FC	Park Kun-ha	Suwon Special City	Hummel
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Lee Jung-hyo	Samsung Galaxy S26	Umbro
Yongin FC	Choi Yun-kyum	Yongin Special City	Puma

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Replaced by	Date of appointment
Ansan Greeners	Hong Seong-yo (Interim)	End of Interim	17 November 2025	Choi Moon-sik	17 November 2025
Cheonan City	Cho Sung-yong (Interim)		1 December 2025	Park Jin-sub	1 December 2025
Gyeongnam FC	Kim Pil-jong (Interim)		8 December 2025	Bae Sung-jae	8 December 2025
Jeonnam Dragons	Kim Hyun-seok	End of Contract	4 December 2025	Park Dong-hyuk	16 December 2025
Chungnam Asan	Cho Jin-soo (Interim)	End of Interim	17 December 2025	Lim Kwan-sik	17 December 2025
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Byun Sung-hwan	Resigned	7 December 2025	Lee Jung-hyo	24 December 2025
Suwon FC	Kim Eun-jung	Mutual consent	24 December 2025	Park Kun-ha	24 December 2025
Chungbuk Cheongju	Kim Gil-sik	End of Contract	12 December 2025	Rui Quinta	30 December 2025
Yongin FC	Inaugural season			Choi Yun-kyum	4 January 2026
Chungnam Asan	Lim Kwan-sik	Resigned	15 April 2026	Kim Hyo-il (Interim)	15 April 2026
Daegu FC	Kim Byung-soo	Resigned	20 April 2026	Choi Sung-yong	20 April 2026

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Former players
Ansan Greeners	Gabriel Lima	Marlon	Milan Obradović	Machop Chol	Tim Hartzell
Busan IPark	Antonio Gutemberg	Cristian Renato	Gabriel Honório	Xavier
Cheonan City	Bruno Lamas	Gustavo Sarjani	Ivanildo	Aboubacar Toungara
Chungbuk Cheongju	Enzo Monteiro	Ménder García	Finley Welch	Irakli Bugridze	Rafael Bandeira
Chungnam Asan	Charles Lokolingoy	Denisson Silva	Wiliam Marcílio	Maks Čelić	Naeem Mohammed
Daegu FC	Cesinha	Edgar	Geovani	Jatobá	Matheus Serafim	Marcus Dackers
Gimhae FC 2008	Miguel Baggio	Beka Mikeltadze	Bruno Costa	Maissa Fall
Gimpo FC	Connor Chapman	Djalma	Luan Dias	Luis Mina	Amar Muhsin
Gyeongnam FC	Danrlei	Felipe Fonseca	Lucão	Marcus Uberaba	Aleksa Karadzić	Chigozie Mbah	Rúben Macedo
Hwaseong FC	Aleksandar Vojnović	Demethryus	Leonard Pllana	Sava Petrov
Jeonnam Dragons	Ronan	Valdívia	Jérémy Corinus	Keelan Lebon
Paju Frontier	Walterson	Julián Bonilla	Jafar Arias	Luke Amos	Julio Báez	Borja Bastón	Siam Yapp
Seongnam FC	Elionay Freitas	Rodrigo Angelotti	Venício	Paul Villero	Ryoji Fujimori	Shun Kudo
Seoul E-Land	John Iredale	Alan Cariús	Euller	Gabriel Santos	Francisco Geraldes	Osmar
Suwon FC	Derlan	Matheus Babi	Matheus Frizzo	Willyan	Martin Hoel Andersen
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Bruno Silva	Fessin	Paulo Henrique	Reis	Stanislav Iljutcenko
Yongin FC	Gabriel Tigrão	Jardel	Emanuel Novo	Valter Zacarias

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or qualification
1	Busan IPark	9	7	1	1	20	11	+9	22	Promotion to K League 1
2	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	9	7	1	1	13	4	+9	22
3	Seoul E-Land	8	5	1	2	15	7	+8	16	Qualification for the promotion play-offs
4	Suwon FC	7	4	1	2	14	11	+3	13
5	Paju Frontier	9	4	0	5	14	14	0	12
6	Gimpo FC	7	3	3	1	10	7	+3	12
7	Daegu FC	8	3	2	3	16	17	−1	11
8	Chungnam Asan	7	3	2	2	13	11	+2	11
9	Ansan Greeners	9	3	2	4	12	14	−2	11
10	Cheonan City	8	2	5	1	10	9	+1	11
11	Seongnam FC	8	2	4	2	9	8	+1	10
12	Hwaseong FC	8	2	3	3	8	9	−1	9
13	Gyeongnam FC	8	2	2	4	9	13	−4	8
14	Chungbuk Cheongju	8	0	6	2	10	14	−4	6
15	Jeonnam Dragons	9	1	2	6	11	17	−6	5
16	Yongin FC	7	0	3	4	6	13	−7	3
17	Gimhae FC 2008	7	0	2	5	5	16	−11	2	Qualification for relegation play-off round

Updated to match(es) played on 25 April 2026. Source: K League Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goals scored; 3) Goal difference; 4) Wins; 5) Head-to-head points

Positions by matchday

  Leaders, promotion to K League 1
  Promotion to K League 1
  Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-final   Qualification for relegation play-off

Team ╲ Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Busan IPark	9	4	4	2	2	1	1	1
Suwon Samsung Bluewings	5	3	3	1	1	2	2	2
Seoul E-Land	12	9	10	10	5	5	3	3
Suwon FC	1	1	1	3	3	3	4	4
Paju Frontier	11	15	10	5	8	6	8	5
Gimpo FC	16	10	5	6	6	9	6	6
Daegu FC	6	2	2	4	4	4	5	7
Chungnam Asan	4	7	9	12	7	6	7	8
Cheonan City	7	14	13	15	10	10	12	9
Seongnam FC	9	11	14	7	9	8	9	10
Hwaseong FC	17	8	6	8	13	13	11	11
Ansan Greeners	1	6	7	9	11	11	10	12
Chungbuk Cheongju	13	13	12	13	14	15	13	13
Jeonnam Dragons	1	5	8	13	15	14	15	14
Gyeongnam FC	13	16	16	11	12	12	14	15
Yongin FC	7	12	15	16	16	16	16	16
Gimhae FC 2008	13	17	17	17	17	17	17	17

Updated to match(es) played on 19 April 2026. Source: K League

Results

Teams played each other twice, once at home, once away.

Home \ Away	ASG	BSI	CNC	CBCJ	CNAS	DAU	GMH	GPO	GNM	HWA	JND	PJF	SNM	SUE	SWN	SSB	YON
Ansan Greeners	—	1–3			1–3				1–1		2–1	1–2		0–2
Busan IPark		—				3–1							1–1		2–1		2–0
Cheonan City			—	2–2				0–1			1–0		1–1	0–0
Chungbuk Cheongju	1–1	1–2		—			1–1								1–4
Chungnam Asan					—	2–3	1–1			1–0	2–2	3–2
Daegu FC			1–2			—		3–3		1–0	4–2			1–3
Gimhae FC 2008	1–4						—								1–2	0–3
Gimpo FC								—
Gyeongnam FC		1–2		2–2				1–0	—		1–4			0–1
Hwaseong FC			2–2				2–0	2–2		—	1–0		1–3				0–0
Jeonnam Dragons											—
Paju Frontier							3–1		2–3			—		1–3		0–1
Seongnam FC	0–1			2–2	2–1			0–0				0–1	—
Seoul E-Land		2–3							1–0					—	3–0
Suwon FC						2–2						2–1			—		3–1
Suwon Samsung Bluewings		3–2		0–0				0–1			2–0			2–1		—
Yongin FC			2–2					1–3			2–2					0–1	—

Updated to match(es) played on 25 April 2026. Source: Soccerway
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Promotion play-off

Bracket

	Semi-finals					Final
	3
	6
	4
	5

Semi-finals

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Final

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Statistics

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player [8]	Team	Goals
1	Edgar	Daegu FC	5
	Borja Bastón	Paju Frontier
	Matheus Frizzo	Suwon FC
4	Willyan	Suwon FC	4
	Sava Petrov	Hwaseong FC
	Charles Lokolingoy	Chungnam Asan
	Luis Mina	Gimpo FC
	Ménder García	Chungbuk Cheongju
	Baek Ga-on	Busan IPark
	Cristian Renato	Busan IPark

Top assist providers

Rank	Player [8]	Team	Goals
1	Matheus Serafim	Daegu FC	4
	Cristian Renato	Busan IPark
3	Stanislav Iljutcenko	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	3
	Kim Chan	Busan IPark
	Euller	Seoul E-Land
	Leonard Pllana	Hwaseong FC
	Gabriel Honório	Busan IPark
	Kang Dong-hyun	Ansan Greeners
	Valdívia	Jeonnam Dragons
10	11 players		2

Awards

Weekly awards

Round Player of the Round Player Club 1 Matheus Frizzo Suwon FC 2 Edgar Daegu FC 3 Gabriel Honório Busan IPark 4 Cristian Renato Busan IPark 5 Kang Hyeon-je Seoul E-Land 6 Kim Jong-min Chungnam Asan 7 Baek Ga-on Busan IPark 8 Xavier Busan IPark 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Round Player of the Round Player Club 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

Annual awards

Award	Winner	Club
Most Valuable Player
Young Player of the Year
Top goalscorer
Top assist provider
Manager of the Year

Position	Best XI
Goalkeeper
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards

See also

• 2026 in South Korean football
• 2026–27 Korea Cup
• 2026 K League 1
• 2026 K3 League
• 2026 K4 League

References

1. "Bucheon FC 1995 Secures Historic Promotion to K League 1".
2. "Incheon United Sweeps K League 2 Title, Awards, Promotion".
3. "Daegu FC has been demoted".
4. "Suwon FC Relegated After Benching Top Scorer Ssabak". The Chosun Daily. 9 December 2025. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
5. 김해·용인·파주 회원가입 승인…내년 K리그2 17개 팀으로 (in Korean). Yonhap News Agency. 11 August 2025. Retrieved 23 December 2025.
6. Ham, Seung-tae (18 August 2025). "용인FC, K리그2 가입 승인받아 창단 현실화" [Yongin FC confirms its foundation with approval to join K League 2]. Yonin Simin Shinmun (in Korean). Retrieved 31 December 2025.
7. "Record" (in Korean). K League. Retrieved March 22, 2024.
8. "K LEAGUE / Record".

External links

• Official K League website