South Korea national under-17 football team

The **South Korea national under-17 football team** represents South Korea in youth international football completion. They have attended both the FIFA U-17 World Cup and the AFC U-17 Asian Cup. They hosted the 2007 edition on their home ground.

## Competitive record

Champions  Runners-up  Third place Tournament played on home soil

### FIFA U-17 World Cup

|colspan="9"|FIFA U-17 World Cup record||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1985|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1987|Quarter-finals|4|1|1|2|5|6|Squad|
|1989|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|1991|||||||||
|1993|||||||||
|1995|||||||||
|1997|||||||||
|1999|||||||||
|2001|||||||||
|2003|Group stage|3|1|0|2|6|11|Squad|
|2005|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2007|Group stage|3|1|0|2|2|4|Squad|
|2009|Quarter-finals|5|2|1|2|8|7|Squad|
|2011|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2013|||||||||
|2015|Round of 16|4|2|1|1|2|2|Squad|
|2017|_Did not qualify_||||||||
|2019|Quarter-finals|5|3|0|2|6|6|Squad|
|2023|Group stage|3|0|0|3|2|6|Squad|
|2025|_To be determined_||||||||

### AFC U-17 Asian Cup

|colspan="8"|AFC U-17 Asian Cup record|style="width:1px" rowspan="23"||colspan="6"|Qualification record|||||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1985|_Did not qualify_|3|1|0|2|2|6|||||||
|1986|Champions|5|2|3|0|6|0|2|2|0|0|4|0|
|1988|Group stage|4|2|0|2|10|9|3|2|1|0|19|2|
|1990|Group stage|2|0|1|1|1|4|3|2|1|0|5|2|
|1992|_Did not qualify_|3|0|1|2|2|7|||||||
|1994|Group stage|4|1|1|2|2|6|2|1|1|0|13|2|
|1996|Group stage|4|1|1|2|7|8|3|3|0|0|15|2|
|1998|Fourth place|6|3|0|3|10|13|2|1|1|0|6|0|
|2000|_Did not qualify_|3|2|1|0|30|2|||||||
|2002|Champions|6|4|2|0|17|5|3|3|0|0|25|1|
|2004|Quarter-finals|4|3|0|1|12|1|2|2|0|0|28|0|
|2006|Quarter-finals|4|2|0|2|7|5|3|2|1|0|16|1|
|2008|Runners-up|6|4|1|1|21|6|4|3|0|1|28|5|
|2010|_Did not qualify_|5|1|3|1|17|7|||||||
|2012|Quarter-finals|4|3|1|0|8|2|5|3|2|0|23|3|
|2014|Runners-up|6|5|0|1|16|4|4|3|0|1|26|3|
|2016|Group stage|3|1|1|1|4|2|3|3|0|0|27|0|
|2018|Semi-finals|5|4|1|0|14|1|3|3|0|0|13|0|
|~~2020~~|_Cancelled_|3|3|0|0|13|0|||||||
|2023|Runners-up|6|4|0|2|15|7|2|1|0|1|12|3|

### Other competitions

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|2014 Summer Youth Olympics|bgcolor="silver"|Silver medalists|4|2|1|1|16|3||||||||
|2018 EAFF U-15 Championship|—|5|5|0|0|42|0|||||||||
|2023 EAFF U-15 Championship|bgcolor="#c96"|Third place|6|4|1|1|43|5||||||||

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Korea Republic U-17
- **badge size**: 145
- **fifa trigramme**: KOR
- **nickname**: _Taegeuk Warriors_
 _The Red Devils_
 _The Reds_
- **association**: Korea Football Association (KFA)
- **confederation**: Asian Football Confederation, AFC (Asia)
- **sub-confederation**: East Asian Football Federation, EAFF (East Asia)
- **coach**: Byun Sung-hwan
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- **first game**: 1–0
(Doha, Qatar; 15 September 1984)
- **largest loss**: 1–6
(Bangkok, Thailand; 7 November 1988)
 1–6
(Lahti, Finland; 14 August 2003)
- **regional name**: FIFA U-17 World Cup
- **regional cup apps**: 7
- **regional cup first**: 1987
- **regional cup best**: Quarter-finals (1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship, 1987, 2009 FIFA U-17 World Cup, 2009, 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup, 2019)
- **2ndregional name**: AFC U-17 Asian Cup
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 15
- **2ndregional cup first**: 1986 AFC U-16 Championship, 1986
- **2ndregional cup best**: Champions (1986 AFC U-16 Championship, 1986, 2002 AFC U-17 Championship, 2002)