AHOF
AHOF in August 2025 Left to right: Shuaibo, Han, Jeongwoo, JL, Steven, Chih En, Woongki, Juwon, Daisuke
AHOF in August 2025
Left to right: Shuaibo, Han, Jeongwoo, JL, Steven, Chih En, Woongki, Juwon, Daisuke
Background information
Also known asAll-time Hall Of Famer
OriginSeoul, South Korea
GenreK-pop
Years active2025 (2025)โ€“present
LabelsF&F
Members
  • Steven
  • Jeongwoo
  • Woongki
  • Shuaibo
  • Han
  • JL
  • Juwon
  • Chih En
  • Daisuke
WebsiteAHOF

AHOF (Korean: ์•„ํ™‰; RR: Ahop; lit. 'Nine'; backronym for All-time Hall Of Famer) is a South Korean boy band formed through SBS TV's reality competition show Universe League. Managed by F&F Entertainment, the group consists of nine members: Steven, Jeongwoo, Woongki, Shuaibo, Han, JL, Juwon, Chih En, and Daisuke. They debuted on July 1, 2025, with the extended play (EP) Who We Are.

Name

The group's name, 'AHOF' short for All-time Hall Of Famer was conceived by F&F Entertainment to reflect the agency's intent of establishing the group as lasting and influential figures in the K-pop industry, evoking the idea of a "hall of fame".[1] In Korean, the pronunciation of AHOF is similar to the word for the number 9, referencing the group's nine members and implying an ongoing journey rather than a finished state, in line with their emphasis on continued growth.[2][3]

History

Formation through Universe League and other activities

See also: Universe League

AHOF is a nine-member K-pop group formed through SBS's reality competition show Universe League, which aired from November 22, 2024, to January 24, 2025.[4][1] The show featured 42 contestants from South Korea, China, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Australia, and the Philippines, who competed for a spot in a multinational boy group. On January 24, the final lineup was announced: seven members from the winning team, Team Rhythm, and one top-voted contestant from each of the two losing teams, based on global voting.[1][5]

Before appearing on the program, several AHOF members had prior experience in the entertainment industry. In 2019, Steven participated in Mnet's Produce X 101 under his full name as a DS Entertainment trainee and was eliminated in 72nd place.[6] He later debuted in 2021 as a member of Luminous,[7] which officially disbanded on February 9, 2025.[8] That same year, Cha Woong-ki competed in To Be World Klass,[9] where he ranked third and debuted in April 2020 as a member of TOO, which rebranded as TO1 in March 2021.[10][11] He departed from TO1 in June 2022.[12] Zhang Shuaibo participated in iQIYI's Youth With You 3 in 2021 and was eliminated in the first round, ranking between 63rd and 118th place.[13][14] In 2023, Cha Woong-ki and Zhang Shuaibo took part in Mnet's Boys Planet, where they were eliminated in episode 11, ranking 20th and 28th, respectively.[15][16] In March 2023, JL made his debut as a member of the Philippine boy group Pluus.[17]

2025โ€“present: Debut with Who We Are, and The Passage

Following the group's formation on January 24, F&F Entertainment announced that AHOF members would take a short break before beginning preparations for their official debut, initially scheduled for the first half of 2025.[18] The agency later confirmed that the group would debut on July 1 with their first EP, Who We Are, which features six tracks produced by Universe League mentor El Capitxn.[19][20] The title track, "Rendezvous", is a pop rock song with guitar and drum instrumentation and a dreamlike arrangement.[21][22] Lyrically, it conveys themes of anxiety, nostalgia, and emotional longing tied to the pursuit of a dream,[22][23] with member Cha Woong-ki credited as one of the lyricists.[20] AHOF held a showcase at the YES24 Live Hall in Gwangjin District, Seoul to commemorate their debut and the EP's release.[24]

Who We Are sold 369,850 copies in its first week, marking the highest first-week sales for a debut boy group in 2025. It also ranked fifth overall among all boy group debut-week sales in South Korea.[25] Meanwhile, "Rendezvous" earned AHOF their first music show trophy on July 8 through SBS funE's The Show, followed by additional wins on MBC M's Show Champion on July 9 and KBS2's Music Bank on July 12, completing a "triple crown" within 10 days of their debut, marking a significant early milestone in the group's career.[26][27] These achievements led media outlets to describe them as "monster rookies." Their debut also prompted renewed discourse on the viability of idol audition programs, suggesting that such formats may remain effective when supported by strong fan engagement.[3][28]

Ahead of their debut album release, AHOF made their first public stage appearance as a full group at the 2025 MyK Festa on June 19.[29][30] They performed newly arranged versions of three songs from Universe League: "Ignition", "Butterfly", and "Mamma Mia". The setlist was selected through a global fan poll asking which songs audiences most wanted to hear from AHOF.[30] On June 25, the group was also announced as part of the lineup for the 2025 SBS Gayo Daejeon Summer Festival, scheduled for July 26. Their participation was confirmed before their official debut, an inclusion considered unusual given that the event typically invites K-pop artists who already debuted.[31]

After their debut, AHOF conducted a series of release events across Osaka and Tokyo in early August, marking their first overseas promotional tour and signaling early expansion into the Japanese market.[32] They next appeared on their first festival appearance through MBC's Show! Music Core 2025 Ulsan Summer Festival Special, where they performed the title track "Rendezvous" from their debut EP, introducing them to a broader domestic audience.[33][34] Later that month, the group held their first fan concert, Rendezvous in Manila, at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City, Philippines, on August 30.[35] It was reported that tickets sold out within 30 minutes, and the show, attended by about 10,000 fans,[33] was covered by South Korean and Philippine media as AHOF's first large-scale overseas appearance, reflecting the group's strong support in the Philippines and increasing international attention.[36][37]

On September 16, F&F Entertainment announced that AHOF member Chih En would be taking a temporary hiatus from group activities due to health concerns. The agency stated that the decision was made with the artist's health and well-being as the foremost priority. AHOF will continue its activities and promotions as an eight-member group.[38]

On October 14, it was announced that the group's second EP The Passage would be released on November 4, signifying their first comeback since debut. The EP features 5 tracks produced by El Capitxn and VENDORS, with members Steven, Woongki, and Han credited as lyricists. The title track, "Pinocchio" is a pop rock type song with a similar essence to their debut title track "Rendezvous". Lyrically "Pinocchio" conveys themes of coming of age, growing pains, anxiety, confusion, instability, and resilience, using Pinocchio as a projection of their own transition to adulthood. [39][40]

The Passage sold 380,904 copies within its first week, surpassing the group's record for first week sales, and earning the group its first platinum certification for the WITHVUU version of the album.[41][42] Meanwhile, "Pinnochio" earned its first music show trophy through SBS funE's The Show on November 11, followed by additional wins on MBC M's Show Champion on November 12, and KBS2's Music Bank on November 14.

On December 1, F&F Entertainment announced that Chih En, who had previously suspended activities due to health issues, had recovered after a period of medical treatment and rest. The agency stated that his health had sufficiently improved for him to resume daily life and group activities. It further confirmed that, following medical advice and the artist's own decision, Chih En would return to activities beginning with the 2026 AHOF 1st Fan-Con in Seoul, "AHOFOHA: All Time Heartfelt Only FOHA", which took place from January 3 to January 4, 2026.[43][44]

On April 22, F&F Entertainment announced the group's first international tour "The First Spark" with stops in Seoul, Osaka, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Taipei, Bangkok, and Hong Kong. The tour will run from May 2026 until August 2026.[45]

On June 22, F&F Entertainment announced that the group's third EP Run To You would be released on July 8, following the release of pre-release single "Sugar High" on June 12.[46]

Artistry

AHOF has described their artistic direction as focused on continuous growth and experimentation, identifying different K-pop artists as key influence for their versatility in musical styles and concepts. The group has expressed a long-term goal of achieving recognition within K-pop's legacy, aspiring to be among the acts associated with a conceptual "hall of fame".[2][22][47]

Members

  • Steven (์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ธ) โ€“ leader[48][49]
  • Jeongwoo (์„œ์ •์šฐ)
  • Woongki (์ฐจ์›…๊ธฐ)
  • Shuaibo (์žฅ์Šˆ์•„์ด๋ณด)
  • Han (๋ฐ•ํ•œ)
  • JL (์ œ์ด์—˜)
  • Juwon (๋ฐ•์ฃผ์›)
  • Chih En (์ฆˆ์–ธ)
  • Daisuke (๋‹ค์ด์Šค์ผ€)

Timeline

Discography

Extended plays

List of extended plays, showing selected details, selected chart positions, sales figures, and certifications
Title Details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
KOR
[50] 		JPN
[51]
Who We Are
Track listing
  1. "The Little Star"
  2. "The Universe"
  3. "Rendezvous"
  4. "Incompleted"
  5. "Cosmic Underdog"
  6. "AHOF"
 3 โ€”
The Passage
  • Released: November 4, 2025[39]
  • Label: F&F Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Track listing
  1. "Everything is Love"
  2. "Run at 1.5x Speed"
  3. "Pinocchio"
  4. "Never Lose You"
  5. "The Sleeping Diary"
 2 โ€”
Run to You
  • Released: July 8, 2026
  • Label: F&F Entertainment
  • Formats: CD, digital download, streaming
Track listing
  1. "Run to You"
  2. "Sugar High"
  3. "Just Say Yes"
  4. "You're the Reason"
  5. "Our Story"
 4 6

Special albums

List of special albums, showing selected details
Title Details
Day 1
Track listing
  1. "Mamma Mia (Who We Are) (AHOF Ver.)"
  2. "Butterfly (AHOF Ver.)"
  3. "Ignition (AHOF Ver.)"

Singles

List of singles, showing year released, selected chart positions, and name of the album
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
KOR
[55] 		KOR
DL
[56]
"Rendezvous" (๊ทธ๊ณณ์—์„œ ๋‹ค์‹œ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ํ•ด) 2025 114 2 Who We Are
"Pinocchio" (ํ”ผ๋…ธํ‚ค์˜ค๋Š” ๊ฑฐ์ง“๋ง์„ ์‹ซ์–ดํ•ด) 103 4 The Passage
"Sugar High" 2026 โ€” โ€” Run to You
"Mamma Mia (Who We Are)" (AHOF Ver.) โ€” โ€” Day 1
"Butterfly" (AHOF Ver.) โ€” โ€”
"Ignition" (AHOF Ver.) โ€” โ€”
"Run to You" 156 4 Run to You

Other charted songs

List of other charted songs, showing year released, selected chart positions, and name of the album
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
KOR
DL
[57]
"The Little Star" (์†Œ๋…„, ๋ฌด๋Œ€ ์œ„๋กœ ๋„˜์–ด์ง€๋‹ค) 2025 82 Who We Are
"The Universe" (ํŒŒ๋ž‘ ํ•™๊ต, ์ดˆ๋ก ์ž”๋””, ๋นจ๊ฐ„ ์šด๋™ํ™”) 80
"Incompleted" (๋ฏธ์™„์„ฑ์€ ์•„๋‹๊ฑฐ์•ผ) 78
"Cosmic Underdog" (์šฐ์ฃผ ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๊ผด์ฐŒ) 79
"AHOF" (์•„ํ™‰, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆซ์ž) 94
"Everything Is Love" (์•„ํ™‰, ๋น›๋‚˜๋Š” ์ˆซ์ž์˜ ์‹œ์ž‘) 150 The Passage
"Run At 1.5x Speed" (1.5x์˜ ์†๋„๋กœ ๋‹ฌ๋ ค์ค˜) 153
"Never Lose You" (๋‹ค์‹  ๋„ˆ๋ฅผ ์žƒ์ง€ ์•Š๊ฒŒ) 150
"The Sleeping Diary" (์ž ๋“  ์ผ๊ธฐ์žฅ) 158
"Just Say Yes" 2026 105 Run To You
"Youโ€™re The Reason" (๊ทธ๋ƒฅ ๋„ˆ๋ผ์„œ ๊ทธ๋ž˜) 110
"Our Story" 112

Videography

Music videos

List of music videos, showing year released, and name of the director(s)
Title Year Director(s) Ref.
"Rendezvous" 2025 Jan Lee (Ambience) [58]
"The Universe" Guzza (Ambience) [59]
"Pinocchio" Jan Lee (Aedia Studio) [60]
"Run To You" 2026 Lee Ki-suk, Kim Do-yun (LayerZ) [61]

Other videos

Title Year Director(s) Notes Ref.
"The Little Star" 2025 โ€” Intro film
"Rendezvous" Team SIKONIC Performance video [62]
"Never Lose You" 2026 โ€” Live clip
"Sugar High" Performance video

Live performances

Concerts and tours

Date City Country Venue Performed song(s) Ref.
AHOF 1st Philippine Fancon: Rendezvous in Manila
August 30, 2025 Manila Philippines Smart Araneta Coliseum
[63]
2026 AHOF 1st Fan-con <AHOFOHA: All Time Heartfelt Only FOHA>
January 3, 2026 Seoul South Korea Jangchung Arena
  • "Everything Is Love"
  • "Rendezvous"
  • "Cosmic Underdog"
  • "The Sleeping Diary"
  • "Run At 1.5x Speed"
  • "The Universe"
  • "popppop" (NCT Wish cover)[B]
  • Mic Drop (BTS cover)[C]
  • "We Ready"
  • "Ignition/Mamma Mia"[D]
  • "Butterfly" (Universe League covers)
  • "Pinocchio"
  • "Never Lose You"
  • "Incompleted"
  • "The Little Star"
 [64]
January 4, 2026
2026 AHOF 1st Tour: The First Spark[E]
May 30, 2026 Seoul South Korea BlueSquare Woori WON Banking Hall
[45]
May 31, 2026
June 24, 2026 Osaka Japan Zepp Namba
June 27, 2026 Tokyo Zepp Haneda
July 4, 2026 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Jiospace
July 25, 2026 Manila Philippines SM Mall of Asia Arena
July 26, 2026
August 2, 2026 Taipei Taiwan Taipei International Convention Center

Music festivals

Event Date Location[H] Performed song(s) Ref.
MyK Festa 2025 June 19, 2025 KSPO Dome, Seoul, South Korea
[65]
2025 SBS Gayo Daejeon Summer July 26, 2025 KINTEX, Goyang, South Korea
  • "Rendezvous"
 [66]
Andong K-Pop Concert 2025 October 2, 2025 Talchum Park, Andong, South Korea
  • "Rendezvous"
  • "The Universe"
  • "Ignition"
  • "Butterfly"
  • "Mamma Mia" (Universe League covers
ACON 2025 December 7, 2025 Kaohsiung National Stadium, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • "The Little Star"
  • "Rendezvous"
  • "The Universe"
  • "Pinocchio"
 [67]
2025 KBS Song Festival December 19, 2025 Songdo Convensia, Incheon, South Korea
[68]
2025 SBS Gayo Daejeon Winter December 25, 2025 Inspire Arena, Incheon, South Korea
  • "Pinocchio" (Gayo Daejeon ver.)
 [69]
GMA Kapuso New Year Countdown 2026 December 31, 2025 SM Mall of Asia, Pasay, Philippines
[70][71]
K-Style Party 2026 May 10, 2026 K-Arena Yokohama, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
  • "Pinocchio"
  • "Run at 1.5x Speed"
  • "The Universe"
  • "Rendezvous"
  • "Ignition"
  • "Mamma Mia"
  • (Universe League covers)
 [72]
Weverse Con Festival 2026 June 6, 2026 KSPO Dome, 88 Lawn Field, Seoul, South Korea
[73]
NOL Festival 2026 October 18, 2026 KINTEX, Goyang, South Korea TBA

Awards shows

Event Date Venue[H] Performed song(s) Ref.
2025 K-World Dream Awards August 21, 2025 Jamsil Arena, Seoul, South Korea "Rendezvous" [74]
The Fact Music Awards 2025 September 20, 2025 Macao Outdoor Performance Venue, Macau, China
[75]
2025 Korea Grand Music Awards November 15, 2025 Inspire Arena, Incheon, South Korea
[76]
10th Asia Artist Awards December 6, 2025 Kaohsiung National Stadium, Kaohsiung, Taiwan "Rendezvous" [77]
2nd D Awards February 11, 2026 Korea University, Seoul, South Korea
  • "The Little Star"
  • "Pinocchio"
  • "The Sleeping Diary"
 [78]
35th Seoul Music Awards June 20, 2026 Inspire Arena, Incheon, South Korea
  • "Intro"
  • "Pinocchio"
  • "Sugar High"
 [79]
2026 K-World Dream Awards August 27, 2026 KINTEX, Goyang, South Korea
  • "Run To You"
2026 Korea Grand Music Awards November 8, 2026 Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, South Korea TBA

Filmography

Reality shows

Reality shows appearances
Year Title Notes Ref.
2024โ€“25 Universe League Reality competition show determining AHOF's members [1]

Awards and nominations

Name of the award ceremony, year presented, category, nominee of the award, and the result of the nomination
Award ceremony Year Category Nominee / Work Result Ref.
Asia Artist Awards 2025 Best New Artist AHOF Won [80]
Popularity Award โ€“ Group Nominated [81]
Asia Star Entertainer Awards 2026 Fan Choice - 5th Generation Artist Won [82]
Cable TV Broadcasting Awards 2026 K-Culture Star Award Won [83]
D Awards 2026 Best Rising Star (Boy) Won [84]
Discovery of the Year Won
Delights Blue Label (Bonsang) Won
Dreams Silver Label Won
The Fact Music Awards 2025 Hottest Award Won [85]
Global Fan's Choice Awards 2025 Global Rookie of the Year Won [86][87]
Golden Disc Awards 2025 Rookie Artist of the Year Nominated [88]
K-World Dream Awards 2025 Super Rookie Award Won [89]
Korea Grand Music Awards 2025 Best Artist 10 Nominated [90]
Best Dance Performance "Rendezvous" Won [91]
Best Popularity โ€“ Music Day AHOF Nominated [92]
BIGC Global Star Award Nominated [93]
IS Rookie Won [94]
Korea Social Contribution Awards 2025 Global K-Icon (K-POP Artist) Nominated [95]
MAMA Awards 2025 Artist of the Year Nominated [96]
Best New Artist Nominated
Fans' Choice Male Nominated
Newsis K-Expo Cultural Awards 2025 Global Netizen Award Won [97]
Seoul Music Awards 2026 Rookie of the Year Won [98]
Popularity Award Nominated
K-pop World Choice - Group Nominated

Notes

  1. ^ Han & JL
  2. ^ Jeongwoo, Woongki, Shuaibo, JL, Chih En
  3. ^ Steven, Han, Juwon, Daisuke
  4. ^ Ignition was performed on Day 1, while Mamma Mia was performed on Day 2.
  5. ^ The August 8 and 15 stops in Bangkok, Thailand, and Hong Kong were indefinitely postponed due to local production schedules.
  6. ^ a b Woongki, Shuaibo, JL, Chih En
  7. ^ a b Steven, Jeongwoo, Han, Juwon, Daisuke
  8. ^ a b Venue, City, Country
  9. ^ Steven, Park Han, JL, and Park Ju-won
  10. ^ Jeon Min-wook, Ma Jingxiang, Song Seung-ho, Seo Kyoung-bae

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