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Jung Seung-won (29), a key winger for FC Seoul who sparked a multi-goal surge to lead his team to victory, was selected as the best player of the K League 1 19th round.
The Korea Professional Football League announced on the 24th that Jung Seung-won has been named the Hana Bank K League 1 2026 19th Round MVP.
Jung started in Seoul's home match against Pohang Steelers at Seoul World Cup Stadium on the 22nd, scoring two goals solo to lead Seoul to a decisive 3-1 victory. With the score tied 1-1 in the second half, Jung scored his team's second goal and the go-ahead goal in the 24th minute of the second half, then added a third goal in the 43rd minute of the second half to secure Seoul's two-goal margin win.
The honor of the 19th Round Best Team also went to Seoul. In the match against Pohang, Seoul secured a 3-1 victory by combining Cleimala's first-half 36th-minute opener with Jung Seung-won's multi-goal performance, who was named the round's MVP. With two consecutive wins included, Seoul has maintained a steep upward trend of six consecutive matches without defeat (five wins and one draw). This victory allowed Seoul to widen the points gap with the second-place group by 10 points, solidifying its lead.
Meanwhile, the 19th Round's Best Match was selected as the game between Bucheon FC1995 and FC Anyang held at Bucheon Stadium on the 22nd. Anyang secured a thrilling 3-2 victory after a fierce battle against Bucheon.
Anyang took the early lead with a first-half 20th-minute goal by Choi Geon-ju, but conceded an equalizer to Bucheon's Gabriel in the 41st minute of the first half. Later, Anyang extended their lead again with consecutive goals from Mateus in the 6th minute and Kang Ji-hoon in the 15th minute of the second half. Although Bucheon pulled back with a consolation goal by Galego in the 25th minute of the second half, they ultimately failed to turn the match around.
The K League Round Best 11 and MVP are determined through quantitative and qualitative evaluations by the Technical Research Group (TSG) under the Korea Professional Football League's Technical Committee. TSG members assigned to each round select the Best 11 and MOM (Man of the Match), followed by a final consensus process that combines committee scores and opinions with official supplementary data from vendor VPRO in the TSG match evaluation meeting. The Round MVP is selected using the same calculation method, with MOMs from each match serving as candidates.
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