Bed soccer - Swamp soccer is impossible...'14 billion won' Gwangju, ACLE quarterfinal team's salary overwhelmingly last → Al Hilal ranked first in '294.8 billion won'
Bed soccer - Swamp soccer is impossible...'14 billion won' Gwangju, ACLE quarterfinal team's salary overwhelmingly last → Al Hilal ranked first in '294.8 billion won'
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It was an impossible battle. Gwangju FC and Al Hilal ranked last and first in total market value of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Champions League Elite (ACLE) quarterfinals.
Japanese media 'Football Channel' reported on the 28th (Korea Standard Time) that "Where is the highest? ACLE Best 8 Club's latest market value ranking is 1st to 8th."
The media ranked the teams based on the total market value of the teams that advanced to the quarterfinals of the tournament in the ongoing 2024-25 season ACLE.
A total of eight teams have advanced to the quarterfinals of the ACLE this season, including Gwangju in the K-League, Al-Hilal, Al-Nasr, Al-Ahli (Saudi Arabia), Al-Sad (Qatar), Kawasaki Frontale, Yokohama F. Marinos (Japan) and Buriram United (Thailand).
According to the media, Gwangju, which has the lowest total market value of 8.6 million euros (about 14 billion won) among the teams that advanced to the ACLE quarterfinals. It is more than 8 billion euros apart from Buriram, who ranked seventh with 13.58 million euros (about 22.2 billion won).
The most expensive player in the Gwangju squad is ace Asani.
"Asani, who joined in January 2023, scored seven goals and three assists in his debut season, but is showing overwhelming performance in ACLE," the media said. "As he has also scored three goals in nine games in the league this season, the market value, which was 550,000 euros (about 900 million won) when he joined, has now risen to 1.2 million euros (about 2 billion won)."
"Gwangju faced Vissel Kobe (Japan) in the round of 16 ACLE, and despite losing 0-2 in the first game, it was memorable to lead the game to overtime in the second game at home," he added.
Asani scored two goals in the second leg of the round of 16 against Kobe to lead the team to a 3-0 complete victory. Thanks to Asani's strong performance, Gwangju overcame a 0-2 defeat in the first leg to win the match with a 3-2 aggregate score to advance to the quarterfinals.
Coincidentally, Gwangju, ranked eighth in the total market value of the team, faced Al Hilal, who was ranked first in the total market value in the quarterfinals.
The total market value of Al Hilal's players is 180 million euros (294.8 billion won). This is the highest amount among the clubs that participated in the ACLE, and the gap is about 21 times that of Gwangju.
Alhilal, who strengthened his power by recruiting players who played in Europe such as Hoobeng Neves, Aleksandar Mitrovic, Sergei Milinkovic-Savic, João Cancelo and Kalidou Koulibaly with oil money, showed off his strength by winning 7-0 in the ACLE quarterfinals against Gwangju.
Al-Hilal displayed overwhelming performance by scoring three goals in the first half and four in the second half in the match against Gwangju. Gwangju once again struggled to achieve a miracle, but it was not a weight class difference that could be filled with tactics or power.
Meanwhile, with Gwangju ranking eighth and Buriram ranking seventh, Japan's Kawasaki ranked sixth with 15.28 million euros in market value. Fifth was Japanese J-League club Yokohama with 17.18 million euros.
From the fourth place, the total amount of players in Qatar will exceed 100 billion euros. Al-Sad from Qatar came in fourth with 82.5 million euros, Al-Ahli from Qatar came in third with 169.93 million euros with 278.3 billion won, and Al-Nasr from Cristiano Ronaldo came in second with 175.68 million euros. 안전놀이터
In the end, East Asian clubs, including Gwangju, failed to overcome the difference in weight class. With the exception of Kawasaki, Gwangju, Buriram and Yokohama were eliminated in the quarterfinals, and three West Asian teams armed with luxury squads advanced to the ACLE semifinals.