[서울신문] Kim Bo-kyung, K-League’native annual salary king’ with 1.358 billion won

1,439 million won Sejingya for foreigners

This year’s professional soccer K-League native salary king was counted as Jeonbuk Hyundai midfielder Kim Bo-kyung (left).

On the 28th, the Korea Professional Football Federation announced the spending of 11 teams in the 2020 K League 1 (excluding resident managers) and 10 teams in the K League 2 (including various allowances and options).

The total annual salary of the K-League 1 players was 95.2 billion 425,000 won on average, with an average of 199.1 million won per person. The overall scale increased by 11 billion won compared to the previous year, which is interpreted as including the annual salary paid to players who transferred, rented, and terminated the contract during the season from this year. An average of 60,000 won per person increased.

In terms of total annual salary by club, Jeonbuk was 1,69629 million won, and Ulsan Hyundai was 1,6391,900 million won, forming the Yanggang district. The next was FC Seoul, which spent 9.4 billion 20165,000 won. The average annual salary per capita was 433,495,000 won in Jeonbuk, 365.9 million won in Ulsan, and 247,86,000 won in Seoul.

In the personal annual salary rankings that were released to the fifth place, Kim Bo-kyung (1.35 billion won) was ranked first in Korea. The same team, Kim Jin-su, who had an annual salary king (1.45 billion won) last year, transferred to the Saudi League. Jeonbuk Hong Jeong-ho (1,268 million won) was in second place, and Ulsan Lee Cheong-yong (1.28 billion won), Cho Hyun-woo (1.96 million won), and Yun Bit Garam (1.065 million won) took the third and fifth places. Jeonbuk dominated the top 5 for three consecutive years until last year, but Ulsan made a leap this year. The highest annual salary for foreigners was Se Jingya (right, Daegu FC, 1.43 billion won). Scorer Junio ​​(Ulsan, 1,113 million won) was second.

On the other hand, the total annual salary of the 10 K League 2 clubs was 421.3967,000 won, an average of 168,63,000 won per person.

Reporter Hong Ji-min [email protected]