Gangwon FC v Jeju United FC — prediction, stats and goal analysis

K League 1 · Sunday, 22 March 2026. Final score 1–1 (half-time 0–1). Rebuilt from the season as it stood that morning, our rating would have been 43% for over 2.5 goals. This match is older than our frozen ratings ledger, which keeps 30 days, so that figure is a reconstruction from pre-match data rather than a number we published at the time — a distinction worth making, because only the frozen ones prove what we actually said beforehand.

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Our ratings for this match

MarketYesNoOur call
Over 2.5 goals43%57%Under
Over 3.5 goals22%78%no pick
Both teams to score51%49%Yes

The result model puts Gangwon FC at 40%, the draw at 31% and Jeju United FC at 29%, from expected goals of 1.11 and 0.9.

How we got this number

The league sets the starting point. K League 1 has produced over 2.5 goals in 47% of its matches, and that is where a team with no record of its own would sit.

Each side's own record. Gangwon FC have 1 in 3 this season (0 of 1 at home), Jeju United FC 2 in 4 (1 of 1 away). Those records are pulled toward the league rate with the weight of about 24 matches — enough that two or three unusual games cannot swing a rating — giving 46% and 48%.

Last season still counts, briefly. With 3 and 4 games played this season, last season's rates are still blended in and fade out entirely by game 40 — the point at which our testing showed they stop adding accuracy. A single season is part luck, so each club's record is first pulled toward the league average by 34 games' weight. That moves the two figures to 43% and 45%.

The mix. Weighted 40% home side, 40% away side and 20% league — the split that beat every alternative across 30,582 matches of testing — that gives 45%.

Head to head. These sides have met 10 times in three years, producing over 2.5 goals in 40%. That nudges the number 5% of the way toward the head-to-head pattern — deliberately small, because fixtures change more than reputations do — landing on 45%.

Goal expectation. Separately a Poisson model built from attack and defence strength — using real expected-goals data where the league has it — puts this match at 33%, from expected goals of 1.11 for Gangwon FC and 0.9 for Jeju United FC. Folding in 30% of that view gives 41%.

Calibration. Tested against 97,729 past matches, our ratings below 55% have run consistently too pessimistic — a figure in the high 30s, for instance, has come in about four points higher. So ratings in that range are lifted part-way back, giving 43%.

This breakdown is generated from the same inputs the rating uses, so it cannot describe a calculation we did not perform. The full model is set out in the methodology.

Season form

TeamGamesO2.5O3.5BTTS
Gangwon FC333%33%67%
Jeju United FC450%0%50%

Head to head

15 Aug 25Jeju United FC 0–0 Gangwon FCU2.5
6 May 25Jeju United FC 0–3 Gangwon FCO2.5
2 Mar 25Gangwon FC 0–0 Jeju United FCU2.5
20 Jul 24Gangwon FC 4–0 Jeju United FCO2.5
2 Jun 24Jeju United FC 1–2 Gangwon FCO2.5
2 Mar 24Gangwon FC 1–1 Jeju United FCU2.5

More: Gangwon FC season stats · Jeju United FC season stats · K League 1 table and form. Ratings are calibrated probabilities, not tips — a 60% call is expected to miss two times in five.