List of South Korean football champions

National Semi-Professional Football League (1964–1982)

• National Semi-Professional Football League was a semi-professional league. The Korea Football League consisted of many stage tournaments and didn't have aggregate champions in one season.
• Many works teams, bank teams, and military teams competed.

  K League (1983–2012)

• Professional football clubs and semi-professional football clubs competed together between 1983 and 1986. Since 1987, only professional football clubs competed in the league.
• The league was renamed to K League in 1998.

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Top scorer
1983	Hallelujah FC	Daewoo Royals	Park Yoon-ki
1984	Daewoo Royals	Yukong Elephants	Baek Jong-chul
1985	Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso	POSCO Atoms	Piyapong Pue-on
1986	POSCO Atoms	Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso	Chung Hae-won
1987	Daewoo Royals	POSCO Atoms	Choi Sang-kook
1988	POSCO Atoms	Hyundai Horang-i	Lee Kee-keun
1989	Yukong Elephants	Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso	Cho Keung-yeon
1990	Lucky-Goldstar Hwangso	Daewoo Royals	Yoon Sang-chul
1991	Daewoo Royals	Hyundai Horang-i	Lee Kee-keun
1992	POSCO Atoms	Ilhwa Chunma	Lim Keun-jae
1993	Ilhwa Chunma	LG Cheetahs	Cha Sang-hae
1994	Ilhwa Chunma	Yukong Elephants	Yoon Sang-chul
1995	Ilhwa Chunma	Pohang Atoms	Roh Sang-rae
1996	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Shin Tae-yong
1997	Pusan Daewoo Royals	Chunnam Dragons	Kim Hyun-seok
1998	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	Yoo Sang-chul
1999	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Pusan Daewoo Royals	Saša Drakulić
2000	Anyang LG Cheetahs	Bucheon SK	Kim Do-hoon
2001	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Anyang LG Cheetahs	Sandro Cardoso
2002	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	Edmilson
2003	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	Kim Do-hoon
2004	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Pohang Steelers	Mota
2005	Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	Incheon United	Leandro Machado
2006	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Woo Sung-yong
2007	Pohang Steelers	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Cabore
2008	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	FC Seoul	Dudu
2009	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma	Lee Dong-gook
2010	FC Seoul	Jeju United	Yoo Byung-soo
2011	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Ulsan Hyundai	Dejan Damjanović
2012	FC Seoul	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Dejan Damjanović

K League Classic (2013–2017)

• Top flight league was renamed to K League Classic in 2013.

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Top scorer
2013	Pohang Steelers	Ulsan Hyundai	Dejan Damjanović
2014	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Santos
2015	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Suwon Samsung Bluewings	Kim Shin-wook
2016	FC Seoul	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Jung Jo-gook
2017	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Jeju United	Johnathan

K League 1 (2018–present)

• Top flight league was renamed to K League 1 starting with the 2018 season.

Season	Champions	Runners-up	Top scorer
2018	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Gyeongnam FC	Marcão
2019	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	Ulsan Hyundai	Adam Taggart

Total titles won

• In South Korea, professional era records are generally accepted.

  All-time (1964–present)

• Bold text team is competing in the K League system as of the 2019 season.
• Italic text is co-winners or co-runnerups.
• s means spring season and a means autumn season.

Professional era (1983–present)

• K League's principle of official statistics is that final club succeeds to predecessor club's history and records.

Titles by city">List of cities in South Korea">city / area

• This is the number of regional championships since the 1987 season, in which the official regional affiliation system was used for the first time.

Titles by province">Provinces of Korea">province

• This is the number of regional championships since the 1987 season, in which the official regional affiliation system was used for the first time.