The final team that laughed was Busan I'Park U-15.
Busan beat Jeonbuk U-15 at Cheonan Football Center's main stadium on the 21st with a score of 0-0 until overtime in the final match of the '2025 GROUND.N K League U15 Championship'.
Busan won the U-15 after the U-18, setting a milestone of winning the first middle and high school in the history of the tournament.
Jeonbuk continued to run to the final. From the group stage to the quarterfinals, they won five consecutive games, and in the semifinals, they defeated Ulsan by 4-3 after a penalty shootout. Last year, he was eliminated from the quarterfinals, but his performance was not lacking to clear up his disappointment. He gathered around Lim Ji-sung, who led Jeonbuk to the runner-up at the U-14 Championship last year, and scored 21 goals right before the final, showing a hot attacking football.
Busan also lost 1-3 to Jeonbuk in the first game, but did not lose the following game and won the opportunity to compete for the highest position. The frustration of failing to advance to the tournament with one draw and two losses in the group stage last year disappeared. The ace was responsible for 12 goals out of Kim Nathaniel Jin-woo, who scored as many as 12 goals, and 12 of Busan's 18 goals until just before the final.
The whistle blew at the start of the game, and Jeonbuk and Busan faced off sharply. Both teams threatened the opposing defense with aggressive breakthroughs and attacks. Busan shook the net first, but the score was not recognized. In the 9th minute of the first half, Kim Nadaniel Jin-woo finished with a shot in a mixed situation in the Jeonbuk box and split the Jeonbuk goal, but the assistant referee declared offside.
Jeonbuk is also not behind. Lim Ji-sung's shot was unfortunately blocked by the defense after Lee Chae-woon's sharp cross in the 24th minute of the first half. Bae Hee-sung's shot, which received Lim Ji-sung's pass in the counterattack in the 28th minute of the first half, was also blocked by the Busan defense's fast cover and left the goal.
Jeonbuk and Busan continued to seek opportunities by entering near the opponent's box several times, but failed to take the opportunity and finished 0-0 in the first half without scoring.
In the second half, Jeonbuk opened the parabola first. In the 6th minute of the second half, when Kwak Ji-hoo's header fell into the center, Lim Ji-sung finished with a shot, but he headed to the side of the net.
Busan also actively sought a chance to score. Lee Ju-an and Kim Dong-wook tried to finish the cross from the corner kick in the 16th minute of the second half with a header, but it was a little over the height.
Jeonbuk missed the opportunity and swallowed the disappointment. In the 31st minute of the second half, Oh Tae-joon, who advanced by catching the ball deep to the left, entered the left side of the box arc himself and finished with a right-footed shot, but the ball was a little off the goal.
The two teams failed to score even in the battle that lasted until the second half, and entered the extension 0-0.
The two teams did not back down until the end in a fierce battle that lasted until the extension. Jeonbuk tried to shoot after Lim Ji-sung broke through from the left side in the 10th minute of the first half of extra time, but the ball did not reach the goal due to Busan's hand-to-hand defense. The two teams, who did not score until the end of the second half of extra time, eventually entered a penalty shootout. While Kwak Ji-hoo, who was the first kicker in Jeonbuk, and Kim Yoo-dam, the fifth kicker, missed out, Busan won by succeeding all the fourth kicker.
The competition, which began in Cheonan on the 9th, involved 25 teams from K League 1 and 2 (U-15) and 14 (U-14) teams, excluding Hwaseong FC. After the group stage, the U-15 was a round of 16 tournaments and the U-14 was a round of 8 tournaments to determine the winning team. In the U-14 Championship final held on the 20th, Suwon Samsung U-14 beat Chungcheongbuk-do Cheongju U-14 to win the championship.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
