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The International Sports Research Institute (CIES) under FIFA has revealed the top players in the market value of each professional soccer K League 1 team. Kang Sang-yoon (23) of Jeonbuk Hyundai ranked first overall.
According to the market value of each K League 1 club updated by CIES as of the 20th, Kang Sang-yoon ranked first among the 12 K League 1 clubs with up to 3.6 million euros (about 6.2 billion won).
Kang Sang-yoon, who was born in 2004 and was selected as the best 11 midfielder for Jeonbuk's K League 1 victory last year, ranked first in the CIES K League market value for most of last year.
At Gangwon FC, center back Shin Min-ha (21, Gangwon FC), born in 2005, was evaluated at up to 3.5 million euros (about 6.1 billion won).
In addition, Lee Ho-jae (26) ranked first in each club with up to 3.1 million euros (about 5.4 billion won), Kim Bong-soo (27) with 1.6 million euros (about 2.8 billion won) in Daejeon Hana Citizen, and Sung Jae-kwan (24) with 1.5 million euros (about 2.6 billion won) in Ulsan HD.
At the promotion team Incheon United, Park Seung-ho (23) recorded up to 1.3 million euros (about 2.3 billion won), while Gwangju FC Jung Ji-hoon (22) and Gimcheon Managing Director Hong Yoon-sang (24) had a market value of 1 million euros (about 1.8 billion won).
In FC Seoul, Croatian midfielder Hryboye Babets (27) was the highest at 970,000 euros (about 1.7 billion won) this month. Babets was the only foreign player among the top K League 1 teams in market value.
Kim Ryun-sung (24) ranked first in the market value of each club with 680,000 euros (about 1.2 billion won), Park Hyun-bin (23) ranked 560,000 euros (about 1 billion won), and Chae Hyun-woo (22) ranked first in the market value of each club with 520,000 euros (about 900 million won) in FC Anyang.
Among the top market values of each K League 1 club, Kang Sang-yoon, Shin Min-ha and Jung Ji-hoon are members of the 2026 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-23 (U-23) Asian Cup led by head coach Lee Min-sung. However, Kang Sang-yoon, who was the core of Lee Min-sung, was injured in the first round of the group stage and fell during the tournament.
Meanwhile, in the J1 League of Japanese professional football, Tokuda Hamare (19) of Kashima Antlers was the highest with up to 4.8 million euros (about 8.3 billion won), followed by Yotaro Nakajima (20) of Sanfrecce Hiroshima with 3.9 million euros (about 6.7 billion won). In addition, the top spot for each club was 3.1 million euros (about 5.4 billion won).
Wang Yu-dong (20) of Zhejiang FC in the Chinese Super League was evaluated at 9.4 million euros (about 16.2 billion won), which was far apart from the top players in the market value of other Chinese clubs with 2.8 million euros (about 4.9 billion won).
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