K League alters foreign player quota for 2025
Published: 21 Jan. 2025, 15:20
Updated: 21 Jan. 2025, 15:26
![FC Seoul manager Kim Gi-dong, left, poses with the K League 1 trophy with FC Seoul forward Cho Young-wook on Feb. 26, 2024 at the Plaza in central Seoul. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2025/01/21/8c37ce30-ac58-49c4-ba89-0b528e46c790.jpg)
FC Seoul manager Kim Gi-dong, left, poses with the K League 1 trophy with FC Seoul forward Cho Young-wook on Feb. 26, 2024 at the Plaza in central Seoul. [YONHAP]
The K League will have a new foreign player quota for the 2025 season, with nationality restrictions no longer in place.
The K League announced a series of changes for the upcoming season on Tuesday. In the K League 1, clubs can now sign up to six foreign players, regardless of their nationalities, and can play a maximum four of those players in the same match.
Previously, K League 1 clubs could have five foreign players and one player from a member country of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).
Until 2022, K League 1 teams had each been allowed three foreign players, one player from an AFC country, and another player from a Southeast Asian country.
The K League will also follow the rules guiding concussion substitutes approved by the International Football Association Board in March 2024. Under this change, teams can replace a player with a suspected concussion without having it count toward their substitutions for the match.
Among other changes, the league office may switch venues if pitch conditions at a stadium are considered unplayable. In such instances, the home team may be asked to play at the stadium of their opponent for that match or to seek a neutral venue.
The second-tier K League 2 will welcome a new member Hwaseong FC. There will be 14 teams in the K League 2, where they will each play 39 matches.
Yonhap
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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