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The Korea Professional Football Federation selected and announced the teams that won the Full Stadium Award, Plus Stadium Award, Fan Friendly Club Award and Green Stadium Award by evaluating the performance of attracting, marketing, and grass management in the 1st to 13th rounds of the Hana Bank K League 1 2025.
This season's K League 1 continues to be a box office craze, surpassing 1 million spectators in 91 games. Among them, Seoul won the 'Full Stadium Award' given to the club that attracted the largest number of spectators. Seoul attracted an average of 29,848 paid spectators in a total of six home games held between 1 and 13 rounds. This is the highest number among the 12 K League teams.
The "Plus Stadium Award" given to the club with the largest number of spectators compared to last season's average was taken by the promoted team Anyang. Anyang brought 8,379 paid spectators to Anyang Stadium, up 3,129 from last season's average 5,250 paid spectators.
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The "Fan Friendly Club Award" is given to the most fan-friendly club by evaluating marketing and fan service, and the winning team was selected by adding scores from the first judging committee (40%) and the second group vote (40% for reporters and 20% for fans). As a result, Daejeon won the first K League 1 fan friendly club award in the 2025 season. Daejeon (94.6 points) won the hearts of fans by improving MD shops and F&B facilities and strengthening marketing using mascots.
Ulsan (91.6 points), which came in second, received good reviews for planning travel products for away fans, launching team children's songs and holding Children's Day events, and Seoul (84.8 points) which came in third, provided the first table seat delivery order service in the K League, and collaboration with 'FC Seoul x GS25 Concept Store' and 'Crayon Shin-gu'.
The 'Green Stadium Award' was awarded by adding up the evaluation of the match supervisor (50%) and the evaluation of the team (50%). As a result, Gwangju's home stadium, Gwangju World Cup Stadium, received the highest score. Gwangju maintained an optimal ground condition through systematic management by the Gwangju Sports Council. Following this, Jeju World Cup Stadium and Anyang Stadium ranked second and third, respectively.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
