our professional sports teams; a
basketball
team - the
Changwon LG Sakers
of the
KBL; two
association football
clubs -
Gyeongnam FC
of the professional
K-League
(the highest tier of Korean football)
and
Changwon City FC
of the semi-professional
National League
(the second tier of Korean football);
and, starting with the 2012 season, a
baseball
team - the
NC Dinos
of theKorea Professional Baseball
League. Prior to the league awarding
the Dinos to Changwon as an expansion team in 2011, the
Lotte Giants
of the
Korea Professional Baseball
League would play a few series per
season at Masan Baseball Stadium
in
what was then the city of
Masan.
Changwon absorbed Masan in 2010, and Masan Stadium, located in what is now
Changwon's
