Season 2012 Matches played 228 | Champions FC Pocheon
3rd Title Goals scored 1003 (4.4 per match) | |
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The 2012 Challengers League was the sixth season of the Challengers League. Playoff systems were used as the same as last season and league was divided two groups and play with home and away each other, with the winners of each stage and the two runners-up advancing to the post-season championship playoffs.
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Competition Format
The 2012 season run from March 5 through October 22. The 18 teams in the league are divided into the Group A and Group B — nine in the Group A, nine in the Group B. Each team competes against the other team in same group twice, home and away, the other group's team once, home or away, for a total of 25 games. The two group winners and two runners-up qualify to the Championship playoff.
New clubs
Name changed
Group A
League standing is calculated by group A result (16 round) plus inter league (9 round) result.
Updated to games played on 3 Nov 2012.
Source: www.kfa.or.kr (Korean)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1 Namyangju Citizen were deducted one point
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Group B
League standing is calculated by group A result (16 round) plus inter league (9 round) result.
Updated to games played on 3 Nov 2012.
Source: www.kfa.or.kr (Korean)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
2 Goyang FC were deducted one point
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
League Total
Updated to games played on 3 Nov 2012.
Source: www.kfa.or.kr (Korean)
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1 Namyangju Citizen were deducted one point
2 Goyang FC were deducted one point
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.