A new connection, not career break, is launched to support the challenge of retired K-League players. Next Play is launched
Oct 02, 2025
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Soccer players will retire in their mid-to-late 30s, earlier than ordinary office workers. Accordingly, if you finish your career without sufficient preparation, you often experience anxiety and difficulties about your career path after retirement. K League Association prepared this program as part of the 'Care Project' launched last year to support current and former soccer players.
'Next Play' aims to help players continue their post-retirement lives with new connections rather than career breaks. To this end, the curriculum was organized around the four areas that were most in demand, reflecting the results of a survey of active K-League players last year.
Education consists of four courses: soccer academy (CEO Kim Won-il's mentor), sports agent (CEO Lee Wan's mentor), start-up (CEO Kwon Jung-hyuk's mentor), and study (CEO Lee Sang-woo's mentor). Each course provides practical and practical advice with mentors from the K League and experts from each field who have succeeded in career transformation after retirement.
All training will be conducted eight times for a total of six weeks, and the entire curriculum will be operated by Sports JobAlio, the nation's largest sports industry recruitment service. After completing the course, a total of four outstanding participants in each field will be given an internship opportunity.
The football academy course is conducted by mentor Kim Won-il's 'OFL Football Academy', the sports agent course is 'LW Sports Agency', the start-up course is a sports video AI company 'Spoit', and the academic course is conducted by an AI company 'H'Intelligence' to help participants gain practical experience.
The recruitment period for Next Play is from the 2nd to the 20th, and those who have retired or are about to retire among K League 1, K League 2, or K3 League, K4 League registered players and college players. You can access the application through the QR code in the promotional poster of Next Play, and then fill out and submit the Naver Form application form.
Meanwhile, K-League Association started a free legal advice service for current and former players last year and has recently continued to design career paths for retired players through youth injury prevention programs 'Medical Assistance' and this time 'Next Play' to establish a support system that encompasses the entire career cycle of players.
K League Association plans to continue to promote various support projects for the lives and careers of all soccer players, including the K League.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
