FC Blue Wings · Records
The Suwon Bluewings top scorer also holds the appearance record and the assist record, all three at once, which is unusual enough to start with. Around him are the Suwon Bluewings players and the seasons that built a 24-trophy history.
Arrived from Jeonbuk in 2010 and left holding all three club records. Also the K League’s all-time assist leader on 110, and the only two-time FA Cup MVP in the tournament’s history. Managed the club himself in 2023 and 2024.
The Serbian striker of the four-trophy season: 23 goals across all competitions in 1999, 18 of them in the regular season. Named in the club’s tenth-anniversary greatest team.
A South Korea international who joined during the title years and later returned as head coach in 2013. The club’s record scorer before Yeom Ki-hun passed him.
Took a first-season side to the 1996 championship play-off final, then won the 1998 and 1999 titles. K League Manager of the Year in 1999.
The four legends above are the names a Suwon supporter would give you unprompted, and the Suwon Bluewings players who own the numbers are mostly the same four. Yeom Ki-hun is the reason this page is short at the top and long underneath. He made his K League debut with Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors in 2006, joined Suwon in 2010, and by the time he retired in 2023 he had taken over the franchise leads in matches played, goals and assists all at once: 413, 71 and 119, across all competitions. He is also the all-time assist leader of the K League itself, on 110 in league football, and the only player to have been named FA Cup MVP twice in the tournament's history. He had told the club after the 2022 season that he wanted to retire and was talked into one more year as a player-coach.
Two different totals circulate for him, 413 apps and 71 goals in one place and 417 and 72 in another. They are different scopes rather than a contradiction. The figures on this page are the ones tied to the phrase "franchise leads" in the source that reports them.
Before him the Suwon Bluewings top scorer was Seo Jung-won, a South Korea international who arrived in 1999 and later came back to manage the club in 2013. The single-season mark belongs to someone else again: Saša Drakulić scored 23 in 1999, of which 18 came in the regular season, in the best year the club has had.
| Record | Mark | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Most appearances | 413 | Yeom Ki-hun, all competitions |
| Most goals | 71 | Yeom Ki-hun, all competitions |
| Most assists | 119 | Yeom Ki-hun, all competitions |
| K League all-time assists | 110 | Yeom Ki-hun, league only, a competition record |
| Goals in a season | 23 | Saša Drakulić, 1999, all competitions (18 in the league) |
| Trophies in one season | 4 | 1999: K League, Adidas Cup, Daehan Fire Insurance Cup, Super Cup |
| Record home crowd | 45,192 | v FC Seoul, 1 April 2012, won 2–0 |
| Consecutive top-flight seasons | 28 | 1996 to 2023 |
Scroll the table sideways to see every column.
The continental record sits slightly apart from the domestic one and is arguably the stronger half: back-to-back Asian Club Championships in 2001 and 2002, an Asian Super Cup after each, and a semi-final in the modern AFC Champions League in 2011. The honours page lists them competition by competition.
Three men on the list of fifteen managers are on the pitch side of this page too. Seo Jung-won played through the title years and came back to coach from 2013. Park Kun-ha scored the first goal in the club's history in 1996 and managed it from 2020. And Yeom Ki-hun, who holds every record above, took the team as caretaker in the year he retired and then managed the whole of 2024, the club's first season in the second division.
The continental half of the record deserves its own line. Two Asian Club Championships in consecutive seasons, in 2000–01 and 2001–02, an Asian Super Cup after each, and under the modern AFC Champions League format a semi-final in 2011, reached by a squad assembled in the February 2011 transfer window. For a club that was eight years old when it won the second of those titles, that is the part of the Suwon Bluewings records that travels furthest outside Korea.
A record book is only interesting against the current table, and the current table is in the second division. Read the Suwon Bluewings records forward and they stop in 2019; read the Suwon Bluewings players of the current squad against them and the distance is the point. The last trophy was the 2019 Korean FA Cup; relegation came in 2023. The history page follows that line, and the attendance figures are the reason it still reads as an interruption rather than a decline.
Twenty-four trophies is a large number for a club founded in 1995, and they are not spread evenly. Two clusters carry almost all of it: 1998 to 2002, and 2008 to 2010. The gap since is the part of the Suwon Bluewings records nobody in the north end needs reminding about.
Most of the legends on this page belong to those two clusters, which is what makes the third one overdue. The clearest single season is 1999, when Kim Ho's side won four competitions: the K League championship, the Adidas Cup, the Daehan Fire Insurance Cup and the Korean Super Cup. It was four, not the treble it is sometimes called, and Kim Ho took K League Manager of the Year for it.
Yeom Ki-hun, 71 goals in all competitions. He holds the appearance and assist records too, on 413 and 119.
Yeom Ki-hun again, 413 between 2010 and 2023.
Saša Drakulić, 23 in 1999 across all competitions, 18 of them in the league.
Twenty-four: four K League titles, five FA Cups, six League Cups, three Super Cups, two Asian Club Championships, two Asian Super Cups, the 2005 A3 Champions Cup and the 2009 Pan-Pacific Championship.
The Korean FA Cup in 2019.
