K League 1

Following the 2002 FIFA World Cup, leaders of the K-League had hoped to transfer South Korea’s passion for its National Team to the domestic league. However, the K-League continued to flounder. Although a number of K-League clubs have relocated in the past, the "Lucky Goldstar" (LG) corporation caused a huge controversy at the end of 2003 when they made the decision to uproot their "Anyang LG Cheetahs" from the Seoul satellite city of Anyang and move into the empty Seoul World Cup stadium, becoming "FC Seoul". Then following the 2005 season SK announced it was moving the "Bucheon SK" FC to the island of Jeju, where they became "Jeju United".