South Korea national football team

The **South Korea national football team** is the national men's football team of South Korea.

## Notable achievements

Korea Republic is the most successful Asian football team in the history of the FIFA World Cup having participated in ten World Cup tournaments, which is the most amount of appearances for any Asian country. Korea Republic became the first and only Asian team to reach the semi-final stages, at the 2002 tournament (Where it achieved 4th place), and also won the first two editions of the AFC Asian Cup.

## Most appearances

|Pos|Player|Apps|Goals|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Hong Myung-Bo|136|10|1990-2002|
|2|Lee Woon-Jae|132|0|1994-2010|
|3|Lee Young-Pyo|127|5|1999-2011|
|4|Yoo Sang-Chul|123|18|1994-2005|
|5|Cha Bum-Kun|121|55|1972-1986|
|6|Kim Tae-Young|104|3|1992-2004|
|7|Hwang Seon-Hong|103|50|1903-2002|
|8|Choi Soon-Hoo|95|30|1980-1991|
|8|Ha Seok-Joo|95|23|1991-2001|
|10|Cho Young-Jeung|92|2|1975-1986|

## Top scorers

|Pos|Player|Goals|Apps|Career|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|Cha Bum-Kun|55|121|1972-1986|
|2|Hwang Seon-Hong|50|103|1993-2002|
|3|Choi Soon-Hoo|30|95|1980-1991|
|4|Huh Jung-Moo|29||1974-1986|
|4|Kim Do-Hoon|29||1994-2003|
|6|Choi Yong-Soo|27||1995-2003|
|6|Lee Tae-Hoo|27||1980-1991|
|8|Lee Young-Moo|24||1974-1982|
|8|Park Sung-Hwa|24||1974-1984|
|10|Ha Seok-Joo|23|95|1991-2001|

## Infobox (national football team)

- **name**: Korea Republic
- **nickname**: _태극전사_ (Taegeuk Warriors)
 _아시아의 호랑이_ (Tigers of Asia)
- **fifa trigramme**: KOR
- **fifa max**: 17
- **fifa max date**: December 1998
- **fifa min**: 69
- **fifa min date**: November 2014 – January 2015
- **elo max**: 15
- **elo max date**: September 1980, June 2002
- **elo min**: 80
- **elo min date**: August 1967
- **sub-confederation**: East Asian Football Federation, EAFF (East Asia)
- **confederation**: Asian Football Confederation, AFC (Asia)
- **coach**: Paulo Bento
- **captain**: Son Heung-min
- **most caps**: Cha Bum-kun (136)
Hong Myung-Bo (136)
- **top scorer**: Cha Bum-kun (58)
- **home stadium**: Seoul World Cup Stadium
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- **first game**: **Non-FIFA international**
 5–1
(British Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 6 July 1948)
**FIFA international**
 5–3
(London, London, United Kingdom; 2 August 1948)
- **largest win**: 16–0
(Incheon, Incheon, South Korea; 29 September 2003)
- **largest loss**: 0–12
(London, London, United Kingdom; 5 August 1948)
- **world cup apps**: 10
- **world cup first**: 1954
- **world cup best**: Fourth Place (2002 FIFA World Cup, 2002)
- **regional name**: AFC Asian Cup, Asian Cup
- **regional cup apps**: 14
- **regional cup first**: 1956 AFC Asian Cup, 1956
- **regional cup best**: Champions (1956 AFC Asian Cup, 1956, 1960 AFC Asian Cup, 1960)
- **2ndregional name**: CONCACAF Gold Cup
- **2ndregional cup apps**: 2
- **2ndregional cup first**: 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2000
- **2ndregional cup best**: Fourth Place (2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup, 2002)
- **confederations cup apps**: 1
- **confederations cup first**: 2001 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2001
- **confederations cup best**: Group Stage (2001 FIFA Confederations Cup, 2001)