
2025 K League 1 Round 1 Preview
02/12/25 • 44 min
K League is back! The 2025 season kicks off this weekend and Paul Neat, Matthew Binns, and Andrew Farrell look ahead to all the Round 1 action. Pohang Steelers vs. Daejeon Hana Citizen is the official season curtain-raiser before Jeju SK host FC Seoul and Gwangju FC entertain Suwon FC. On Sunday, the Champions take to the field when hosting newly-promoted FC Anyang, before Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors get the Gus Poyet era underway domestically at home to Gimcheon Sangmu, and Daegu FC lock horns with Gangwon FC.
K League is back! The 2025 season kicks off this weekend and Paul Neat, Matthew Binns, and Andrew Farrell look ahead to all the Round 1 action. Pohang Steelers vs. Daejeon Hana Citizen is the official season curtain-raiser before Jeju SK host FC Seoul and Gwangju FC entertain Suwon FC. On Sunday, the Champions take to the field when hosting newly-promoted FC Anyang, before Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors get the Gus Poyet era underway domestically at home to Gimcheon Sangmu, and Daegu FC lock horns with Gangwon FC.
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2025 K League 1 Season Preview
The K League United Podcast returns for its eighth season ahead of the 2025 K League 1 kick-off to preview all 12 teams in the division once more and give their thoughts on who will be lifting the trophy come the end of the season. Matthew Binns returns to host alongside podcast regulars Paul Neat and Andrew Farrell to preview this year's K League 1 along with special guests Jung Muyeol, Nathan Sartain and Stuart Warren. From newly promotoed Anyang to reigning Champions Ulsan, all twelve teams are given the preview treatment, each with a look back at their 2024, a glance at their transfer window plus key players and key questions identified. [READ: K League 1 Team Guide] After all that, there's time to discuss title predicitions as well as pick out who is destined for the drop, before then continuing the conversation over on Patreon to go through AFC Champions League qualification and where Jeonbuk may end up after their misfiring madness that was 2024. There's also the announcement of our latest kit giveaway. In celebration of 10 years of K League United, we look to give away a match worn home shirt from our website's first interviewee, FC Anyang's Austin Berry. To stand a chance of winning this 2015 Anyang kit, simply follow us and reshare the related social media post of this podcast, or share this page with @KLeagueUnited tagged, for your chance to enter the draw with the prize set to be drawn in March. All this and more on The K League United Podcast!
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