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Suwon Samsung Bluewings 수원 삼성 블루윙즈
Full name	Suwon Samsung Bluewings FC (SSFC) 수원 삼성 블루윙즈 축구단
Nickname(s)	Bluewings
Founded	1996
Ground	Big Bird Stadium Suwon, Gyeonggi, South Korea (Capacity 43,288)
Chairman	Yun Jong-Yong
Manager	Cha Bum-Kun
League	K-League
K-League 2007	2nd
Home colours 　 Away colours

Suwon Samsung Bluewings (Korean: 수원 삼성 블루윙즈) is a Korean football team, based in Suwon. Founded in 1996, they have become one of Asian football's premier clubs, with a host of domestic and continental honours.

Former national team manager Kim Ho took charge of the side from their opening season in the K-League, and the team finished runners-up in the championship play-off that same season. The championship was secured in 1998 and retained in 1999 as Suwon started to dominate Korean football.

Suwon lifted the AFC Champions League twice in succession (2001 and 2002), also adding twice the Asian Super Cup.

The club has been home to some of the best Korean football players; Ahn Jung-Hwan, Hwang Sun-Hong, Lee Woon-Jae, Ko Jong-Soo, Choi Sung-Yong, Kim Nam-Il, Song Chong-Gug and Seo Jung-Won wore the blue shirt. Some of the best imports to the league have worn the Suwon shirt, with Nadson, Denis Laktionov, Saša Drakulić, Zoran Urumov and Gabriel Popescu all proving hugely influential for the club through the years.

The departure of Kim Ho in 2003 saw Korean football legend Cha Bum-keun appointed boss and trusted with keeping the Bluewings at the top of Korean and Asian football.

Cha kept up the fine traditions of the club by leading the Bluewings to victory in the second stage of the 2004 K-League season, and guaranteeing the club a place in the end-of-season Championship playoffs. The club emerged victorious after a dramatic 4-3 penalty shootout win over Pohang Steelers and lifted the 2004 Championship.

Now Suwon is the most famous and influential football club in South Korea, with highest average attendance and strong fan base.

Contents 1 Team honours 1.1 National honours 1.2 International honours 2 Club records 2.1 K-League records 2.2 Asian Cup Winners Cup Records 2.3 Asian Champions Cup (AFC C/L) Records 2.4 Asian Super Cup Records 2.5 A3 Champions Cup Records 3 Players records 3.1 Top league goalscorers by season 3.2 All time goalscorers 4 Managers 5 Current Squad 5.1 2008 Season transfers 6 Backroom Staff 7 Supporters 8 Famous players 8.1 10th Anniversary Fan's Best Eleven 9 Club Sponsor 10 Kit Suppliers 11 External links

K-League Champion: 3 1998, 1999, 2004 K-League Runner-up: 2 1996, 2006 FA Cup Champion: 1 2002 FA Cup Runner-up: 2 1996, 2006 Korean Super Cup: 3 1999, 2000, 2005 Adidas Cup Champion: 3 1999, 2000, 2001 Hauzen Cup Champion: 1 2005 Korean League Cup Champion: 1 1999

AFC Champions League Champion: 2 2001, 2002 Asian Cup Winners Cup Runner-up: 1 1998 Asian Super Cup Champion: 2 2001, 2002 A3 Champions Cup Champion: 1 2005

By Year

Year	Position	Games	Wins	Draws	Losses	Goals Scored	Goals Against
1996	Runner Up	40	21	11	8	65	43
1997	5	36	14	13	9	50	50
1998	Champions	37	18	7	12	55	37
1999	Champions	43	31	4	8	89	41
2000	5	38	15	11	12	64	56
2001	3	38	19	6	13	55	46
2002	3	36	16	10	10	54	40
2003	3	44	19	15	10	59	46
2004	Champions	39	17	14	8	46	33
2005	9	36	13	14	9	49	43
2006	Runner Up	42	14	16	12	40	39
total	-	429	197	121	111	626	474

By Team (1996-2006)

Against	Wins	Draws	Losses
Busan	24	12	12
Chunnam	18	11	11
Daegu	8	4	1
Daejeon	19	11	7
Gyungnam	1	1	1
Gwangju	9	2	2
Incheon	4	4	1
Jeju	24	10	11
Jeonbuk	23	11	7
Pohang	18	16	16
Seongnam	18	15	13
Seoul	16	13	14
Ulsan	15	11	15

Year	Position
1997	Runner Up

Year	Position
2001	Champions
2002	Champions
2005	Round 1

Year	Position
2001	Champions
2002	Champions

Year	Position
2005	Champions

Correct as of December 31, 2006. Figures include all competitive matches.

Season	Name	Goals	Goals per appearance
1996	Park Kun-Ha	7	21.9
1997	Cho Hyun-Doo	14	21.9
1998	Saša Drakulić	8	44.4
1999	Saša Drakulić	23	62.2
2000	Denis Laktionov	10	37.0
2001	Sandro Cardoso dos Santos	17	51.5
2002	Sandro Cardoso dos Santos	10	34.5
2003	Nadson Rodrigues de Souza	14	77.8
2004	Nadson Rodrigues de Souza	14	36.8
2005	Mato Neretljak	10	32.2
2006	Baek Ji-Hoon	5	35.7

	Name	Period	Goals	Games
1	Seo Jung-Won	1999-2004	46	185
2	Park Kun-Ha	1996-	43	251
3	Denis Laktionov	1996-2003 & 2006-	42	161
4	Saša Drakulić	1998-1999	36	69
5	Sandro Cardoso dos Santos	2000-02 & 2005-06	32	73
6	Ko Jong-Soo	1996-2002 & 2004	32	128
7	Nadson Rodrigues de Souza	2003-04 & 2007-	28	56
8	Parakhnyevych Vitaliy	1998-99	22	65
9	Cho Hyun-Doo	1996-2002	20	135
10	Lee Ki-Hyung	1996-2002	18	165

As of November 30, 2006. Only competitive matches are counted.

Name	Nat	From	To	Record
				P	W	D	L	GF	GA
Kim Ho		1996	2003	312	153	77	82	491	359
Cha Bum-Kun		2004	present	117	44	44	29	135	115

Lee Woon-Jae # 1 Song Chong-Gug # 8 Kwak Hee-Joo # 29 Mato # 2 Yang Sang-Min # 30 Kim Nam-Il # 5 Baek Ji-Hoon # 20 Lee Kwan-Woo # 13 Kim Dae-Eui # 11 Edu # 9 Nadson # 12

No. Position Player 1 GK Lee Woon-Jae 2 DF Mato Neretljak 3 DF Park Joo-Sung 4 DF Lee Jung-Soo 5 MF Kim Nam-Il 6 MF Hong Soon-Hak 7 MF Kim Jin-Woo 8 MF Song Chong-Gug 9 FW Edu 10 FW Ahn Jung-Hwan 11 FW Kim Dae-Eui 12 FW Nadson 13 MF Lee Kwan-Woo (c) 14 MF Moon Min-Kwi 15 DF Lee Sa-Vik 16 FW Bae Ki-Jong 17 FW Park Sung-Bae 18 FW Shin Young-Rok 19 MF Namgoong Woong 20 MF Baek Ji-Hoon 21 GK Kim Dae-Hwan 22 FW Lee Hyun-Jin

No. Position Player 23 DF Cho Won-Hee 24 DF Son Seung-Joon 25 DF Choi Sung-Hwan 26 MF Kim Tae-Jin 27 FW Seo Dong-Hyun 28 FW Ha Tae-Goon 29 DF Kwak Hee-Joo 30 DF Yang Sang-Min 31 GK Park Ho-Jin 32 DF Im Yo-Hwan 33 FW Denis Laktionov* 34 FW Lee Sun-Woo 35 FW Ahn Hyo-Yeon 37 MF Jung Min-Soo 39 MF Kim Hyun-Joon 40 MF Choi Chan-Yang 41 GK Kwon Ki-Bo 43 MF Han Byung-Young 46 DF Park Kun-Ha - FW Hwang Mu-Kyu - MF Choi Sung-Hyun

*Also has South Korean citizenship.

In

No. Position Player FW Hwang Mu-Kyu (Transferred from Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix) MF Choi Sung-Hyun (Transferred from Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix)

Out

No. Position Player 42 MF Kim Hyun-Seung (Transferred to Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix) 45 GK Lee Hyun-Ho (Transferred to Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix) DF Kim Seung-Hwan (Transferred to Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix)

Coaching Staff

• Manager: Cha Bum-Kun
• First Team Coach: Lee Lim-Saeng
• Reserve Team Coach: Choi Man-Hee
• Coach: Park Kun-Ha
• GK Coach: Cho Byung-Deuk

Medical Staff

• Club Doctor: Fratz Richard
• Assistant Club Doctor: Kim Byung-Woo
• Assistant Club Doctor: Lee Hyun-Joo
• Assistant Club Doctor: Yoo Hwan-Mo

Scouter

• Jung Kyo-Poong
• Kim Soon-Ki

Executive Office

• President: Yun Jong-yong
• Vice President: Jang Chang-Duk
• General Manager: Ahn Ki-Hun

• Director (Team Leader of Administration): Oh Keun-Yeung (Chief of Squad support)

• General Manager (Public Relations & Marketing): Lee Ho-Seung (Leader of Public Relations, Chief of operation of All Home Games, International affairs, Support Foreign Players)
• Manager (Public Relations & Marketing): Kim Yong-Gun (Matchday Hospitality)
• Manager (Public Relations & Marketing): Hong Chang-Young (team planning)
• Assistant Manager (Public Relations & Marketing): Baek Jeong-Heum (Selling Character Goods, Managing Consignment Sales)
• Assistant Manager (Public Relations & Marketing): Joo Hyung-Sup (Matchday Hospitality)
• Officer (Public Relations & Marketing): Lee Eun-Ho (Media, Website management, Supporters Clubs Enquiries)
• Officer (Public Relations & Marketing): Kim Ji-Hun (Team Management Staff)
• Officer (Public Relations & Marketing): Yang Dae-Hyun (International affairs, Interpretation)

• Vice Chief (Supporting Team): Kim Ki-Yeol (Managing Club Budget, Managing Club Asset)
• Officer (Supporting Team): Choi Ji-Suk (General affairs, Acounting)

• Translator : Lee Dae-Yeul
• Equipment Supervisor : Kang Min-Ho

Suwon's supporters are usually called as 'GRAND BLEU Supporters Union', or 'GRAND BLEU' more commonly. The name 'GRAND BLEU' has came from Luc Besson's movie Le Grand Bleu, which refers the meaning of 'Great deep blue sea'.

GRAND BLEU was organised in 1996 as the first official supporters club in the K-league. At the first time, the official name of supporters club was 'Cyber Wings'.

With their general two motos, The First & The Best and All the people who loves Suwon are the GRAND BLEU, now GRNAD BLEU has grown up as the largest supporters group in the K-league which more than thirty thousand people has joined. GRAND BLEU shows great performances at each matches using various equipments such as flars, smoke, giant flags and giant mosaic of placards.

The famous Red Devil, South Korean national football team supporters club was also organised by people who are members of GRAND BLEU.

(current)

• Lee Woon-Jae : (GK) 1994, 2002 & 2006 World Cup squad member.
• Kim Nam-Il : (MF) 2002 & 2006 World Cup squad member.
• Song Chong-Guk : (MF) 2002 & 2006 World Cup squad member.
• Ahn Jung-Hwan : (FW) 2002 & 2006 World Cup squad member.
• Kim Dae-Eui : (FW) 1998 World Cup squad member.
• Cho Won-Hee : (MF) 2006 World Cup Squad member.
• Lee Kwan-Woo : (MF)
• Baek Ji-Hoon : (MF) 2006 World Cup Squad member.
• Park Kun-Ha : (DF)
• Lee Sa-Vik : (DF)
• Denis Laktionov : (FW)
• Nadson Rodrigues de Souza : (FW) 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad member.
• Edu : (FW)
• Mato Neretljak : (DF) Euro 2004 squad member.

(former)

• Yoon Sung-Hyo (DF) Retired. *Retired number(38)
• Shin Hong-Ki (DF) 1994 World Cup squad member.
• Lee Ki-Kuen (FW)
• Seo Jung-Won : (FW) 1994 & 1998 World Cup squad member.
• Hwang Sun-Hong : (FW) 1994, 1998 & 2002 World Cup squad member.
• Ko Jong-Soo : (MF) 1998 World Cup squad member.
• Kim Doo-Hyun : (MF) 2006 World Cup squad member.
• Cho Byung-Kuk : (DF)
• Cho Jae-Jin : (FW) 2006 World Cup squad member.
• Lee Ki-Hyung : (DF)
• Cho Hyun-Doo : (MF)
• Lee Byung-Keun (DF)
• Choi Sung-Yong : (MF) 1998 & 2002 World Cup squad member.
• Kim Dong-Hyun : (FW)
• Gabriel Popescu : (MF) 1998 World Cup Squad member.
• Pavel Badea (MF) 1987-88, 1990-91 & 1995-96 UEFA Cup squad member. 1991-92 European Cup squad member.
• Cosmin Olăroiu (DF)
• Ion Lutu (MF)
• Marcel Augusto Ortolan : (FW) 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup Squad member. 2005 UEFA Champions League squad member.
• Tuta : (FW)
• Enio Oliveira Junior : (FW)
• Silva : (FW)
• Sandro Cardoso dos Santos : (FW)
• Saša Drakulić : (FW)
• Zoran Urumov : (MF)
• Parakhnyevych Vitaliy (FW)
• Alen Avdić : (FW)
• Javier Musa : (DF)
• Juan Manuel Olivera : (FW)

• 3-5-2 formation

• 1996- : Samsung Electronics

• 1996-2001 : Rapido
• 2002- : Adidas

• Suwon Samsung Bluewings Official Website (Korean/English)

• Suwon Samsung Bluewings Supporters Club 'GRAND BLEU' Official Website

• K-league Official Website (Korean Only)

• ROKfootball Korean Football Website (English Only)

Preceded by Pusan Daewoo Royals	K-League Champions 1998-1999	Succeeded by Anyang LG Cheetahs
Preceded by Al-Hilal	Champions of Asia 2001-2002	Succeeded by Al-Ain
Preceded by Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	K-League Champions 2004	Succeeded by Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i

Suwon Samsung Bluewings – current squad
1 Lee Woon-Jae • 2 Mato • 3 Park Joo-Sung • 4 Lee Jung-Soo • 5 Kim Nam-Il • 6 Hong Soon-Hak • 7 Kim Jin-Woo • 8 Song Chung-Gug • 9 Edu • 10 Ahn Jung-Hwan • 11 Kim Dae-Eui • 12 Nadson • 13 Lee Kwan-Woo • 14 Moon Min-Kwi • 15 Lee Sa-Vik • 16 Bae Ki-Jong • 17 Park Sung-Bae • 18 Shin Young-Rok • 19 Namgoong Wong • 20 Baek Ji-Hoon • 21 Kim Dae-Hwan • 22 Lee Hyun-Jin • 23 Cho Won-Hee • 24 Son Seung-Joon • 25 Choi Sung-Hwan • 26 Kim Tae-Jin • 27 Seo Dong-Hyun • 28 Ha Tae-Kyun • 29 Kwak Hee-Joo • 30 Ko Kyung-Joon • 31 Park Ho-Jin • 32 Im Yo-Hwan • 33 Denis • 34 Lee Sun-Woo • 35 Ahn Hyo-Yeon • 37 Jung Min-Soo • 38 Kim Hyun-Seung • 39 Kim Hyun-Joon • 40 Choi Chan-Yang • 41 Kwon Ki-Bo • 42 Kim Hyun-Seung • 43 Han Byung-Young • 45 Lee Hyun-Ho • 46 Park Kun-Ha • Coach: Cha Bum-Kun

K-League 2007 clubs v • d • e
Busan I'Park | Chunnam Dragons | Daegu FC | Daejeon Citizen | FC Seoul | Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix | Gyeongnam FC | Incheon United | Jeju United | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | Pohang Steelers | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | Suwon Samsung Bluewings | Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i