The mini East Coast Derby was fierce, tooUlsan U18 Wins 53 Over Pohang

Jul 14, 2025

Ulsan young guns smiled broadly in the heavy rain.

Ulsan U-18 (Hyundai High School) won the second Group D match against Pohang U-18 (Pohang Steel High School) by 5-3 on the 14th. Ulsan, which had one win and one draw, was on par with Bucheon (four points) but ranked second behind goal difference. Pohang went down from first place to third place.

The K League U-18&17 Championship will be held in Cheonan, South Chungcheong Province for a total of 13 days from the 12th to the 24th. The 18-year-old tournament, which will involve 25 teams, will be divided into seven groups and will go through the group stage and tournament. The second place in each group will reach the round of 16, and the top two teams among the third place teams will reach the round of 16. The final match will be held at Cheonan Football Center at 7 p.m. on the 24th.

Ulsan-Pohang, dubbed the best derby in the K-League, also had a rivalry with the U-18 team. The two teams played a fierce game in each game regardless of their strength.

It was the same day. In the beginning, it proceeded in the unilateral flow of Ulsan. '10' Park Kang-hyun flew. Park Kang-hyun scored the first goal in the 13th minute of the first half and then scored multiple goals in the 24th minute of the first half. Ulsan led 4-0 in the first half by combining Jung Woo-seok and Lee Ji-woo's goals in the 17th minute of the first half.

However, Pohang's potential was also not easy. It changed the mood in the second half. Kim Bum-joon scored one goal in the 10th minute of the second half, followed by Ryu Hye-sung's own goal in the 17th minute, chasing Ulsan hard. Ulsan scored again in the 21st minute by Lee Yong-hyun, who was replaced, but Pohang did not give up. In the 28th minute, Park Kyung-taek continued his pursuit by recovering one goal with a penalty kick, but no more goals were scored. In the end, Ulsan finished the game with a complete victory.

The K-League Youth Championship has produced numerous K-League prospects. Yang Min-hyuk, who won the K League 1 Young Player Award at the same time as his debut last year and moved to Tottenham Hotspur, Han Hyun-seo (Pohang) and Park Seung-soo (Suwon), who are considered the best newcomers in the K League this season, are all from this tournament.

The high and middle school tournaments will be broadcast live from the tournament on the official K League Youth YouTube channel, and the final will also be broadcast live on TV on Sky Sports Channel.

The K League Youth Championship has established itself as the best youth competition in Korea over the past decade by making various attempts to improve the skills of youth players. This year, high-quality competition operations will continue in consideration of the team, including providing video analysis data for all games, providing physical data using EPTS, holding night games, and conducting cooling brakes.

In the K League Youth Championship, Nexon, which serves EASPORTS™ FC Online in Korea, will be the title sponsor of the tournament for the fourth consecutive year. The Korea Professional Football Federation and Nexon jointly launched the K-League Youth Soccer Support Project 'GROUND.N' in 2022 and are conducting various activities such as the championship and stove league.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.