Baek Seung-ho, who plays for Birmingham City in England, has been selected as the EFL League One team of the year in the 2024-2025 season. Baek Seung-ho is the first Korean player to be selected as the team of the year in England's third division.
PFA selected England's best professional players through the PFA Awards on the 20th (Korea time). Baek Seung-ho appeared at the ceremony as a member of the `third division.' Prior to this, the Birmingham club said on the club's official website that '7 of our players have been selected as EFL League One Team of the Year. Ryan Allsopp, Alex Cochrane, Ethan Laird, Christoph Klarer, Tomoki Iwata, Jay Stansfield and Baek Seung-ho were chosen by the vote of the league players. Baek appeared at the ceremony in a suit.
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Baek Seung-ho left Jeonbuk Hyundai in 2024 and joined Birmingham, where he belonged to the championship at the time. However, Birmingham have been relegated to League One this season. However, Baek Seung-ho was not disappointed with this, and he appeared in 41 league games in the 2024-2025 season, scoring one goal and three assists, helping the team to advance to the championship. Birmingham City have won 111 points this season, having lost just three of their 46 League One matches.
Baek Seung-ho, who played in the third division last season, also started in both games after the opening in the second division (championship) of the 2025-2026 season and performed well. Birmingham City have continued their unbeaten run, beating Blackburn Rovers 2-1 in the second leg following their opening 1-1 draw with Ipswich Town.
Meanwhile, Baek Seung-ho became the third Korean player to ever make the PFA Team of the Year as he was selected as the PFA's third division team of the year. Prior to Baek Seung-ho, Ji So-yeon and Son Heung-min were on the list. Ji So-yeon was included in the FA Women's Super League (England Women's Soccer) list in the 2014-2015 season. Son Heung-min was selected as the 2020-2021 EPL Team of the Year.
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This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
