R-League
Korea Professional Football Reserve League (Hangul: R리그), or R League for short, is the league for reserve teams of the top football clubs in South Korea.
The league started in 1990 and consisted of the five reserve teams of the K-League member clubs -POSCO Atoms, Yukong Elephants, Daewoo Royals, Hyundai Horangi and Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso. POSCO Atoms won the inaugural title, finishing two point ahead of Yukong Elephants to lift the crown. But league was lived just for 1 years and reserve teams participated in semi-professional tournament such as National Football Championship.
The competition was relaunched in a different format in 2000. Nine reserve teams were divided into two groups, Central and South. Each team in the same group met each one of the other teams four times.
In 2001, Police FC joined the league and Gwangju Sangmu's reserve team joined in 2002.
For the 2009 season, The League was rename to R-League and thirteen of the fifteen K-League clubs are fielding reserve sides in the league along with the Police FC team, giving a total of fourteen participating sides. K-League newcomers Gangwon FC and Jeju United are the two sides not entering teams in 2009.
The part of advance arrangements for promotion and relegation in 2013 season, the 2012 season will be reduce the league size.
Read more about R-League: Members For 2012 Season, See Also