They are also a month-plus out from their season starting, but hey.
Actually, FC Seoul were using the Hong Kong tournament as preparation for their first 2017 AFC Champions League game on February 20, only three weeks away. This is followed by a second AFC Champions League game a week later.
So they would have been really fit and quite advanced in their season preparation.
A very good achievement for Auckland in beating the current Korean champions (won the K-League in November) and last year's AFC Champions League semi-finalist (October last year). FC Seoul won the AFC Champions League in 2013.
Most pundits over the last decade would rank the K-League as the second best in Asia after the J-League.
FC Seoul's squad is valued at 12.83 million Euros on tranfermarkt.com. They paid 2 million Euros for some of their players.
Of the current squad, their current Montenegro international striker Dejan Damjanovic was their record signing for 2 million euros in 2008, along with South Korea international left-back Chi-Woo Kim, also signed for 2 million Euros in 2008.
Former Arsenal, Monaco and Celta Vigo striker Park Chu-Young came on against Auckland in the second half. Arsenal signed him for 3.4 million Euros in 2011 after about 100 games in three successful seasons with Monaco in Ligue 1 (who'd bought him from FC Seoul for 2 million Euros in 2008).
Hong Kong champions Kitchee that Auckland beat in the tournament final must be half decent too because they won their qualifying games in the AFC Champions League in the week before playing Auckland and are through to a play-off against Ulsan from Korea next week to reach the main draw.
.