Monday, February 25, 2013

FC Seoul vs Jiangsu Sainty FC | Football AFC Asian Champions League 2013


FC Seoul vs Jiangsu Sainty FC, Football AFC Asian Champions League, live match on Tuesday, 26 February 013 at 10:30 GMT.


FC Seoul is a South Korean professional football club based in Seoul, South Korea, that plays in the K League Classic. It is currently owned by GS Sports, a subsidiary of GS Group.

The club was officially founded as Lucky-Goldstar FC in 1983, by the Lucky-Goldstar Group. FC Seoul have won 5 League titles, 2 League Cups and 1 FA Cup. FC Seoul is one of the most successful and the most popular club and in the K League Classic, with financial backing from the GS Group. Also, 2012, FC Seoul was evaluated that club had most valuable football brands in K League Classic. FC Seoul are the reigning 2012 K-League winners.

On August 25, 2010, FC Seoul beat Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 3–0 to become the 2010 K-League Cup winner. FC Seoul were also crowned K-League champions as a 2–1 win over Jeju United in the second leg of the play-off series final saw them triumph 4–3 on aggregate in K-League Championship final, thus, achieving their first double in FC Seoul's history. The crowd of 56,769 at the 2nd leg also set the record of the highest attendance in K-League Championship history.

Jiangsu Sainty Football Club is a professional Chinese professional football club based in Nanjing, who currently participates in the Chinese Super League while playing their home matches in the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center. The team was originally founded in 1958 as Jiangsu Provincial Team while the current professional football team was established in March 1994. They were also one of the founding members of the first fully professional first tier league in China, the Chinese Jia-A League, however they would struggle within the league until they won promotion back into the top tier at the end of the 2008 season. They would then go on to achieve their best ever league finish when they ended up being runners-up at the end of the 2012 season.

The 2012 Jiangsu Sainty season is Jiangu Sainty's 4th consecutive season in the Chinese Super League after promotion in the 2008 season. They also competed in the Chinese FA Cup that year, getting knocked out in that competition.

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