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Sports In Seoul
Seoul is a major center for sports in South Korea. Its professional sports teams compete in football (soccer), baseball, basketball, volleyball. Overview Seoul hosted the 1986 Asian Games, commonly known as Asiad, 1988 Olympic Games, and Paralympic Games. It also served as one of the host cities of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Seoul World Cup Stadium hosted the opening ceremony and first game of the tournament. Seoul has greatest number of professional sports teams and facilities in South Korea. In the history of South Korean major professional sports league championships which include the K League, KBO League, KBL, V-League, Seoul had multiple championships in a season 2 times, 1990 K League 1 Lucky-Goldstar FC (currently FC Seoul) and KBO League LG Twins in 1990, K League 1 FC Seoul and KBO League Doosan Bears in 2016 Sports teams in Seoul Football Seoul's most popular football club is FC Seoul. Recently, FC Seoul finished as a runner-up in 2013 AFC Champions League. ...
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Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities by GDP, sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Tokyo Area, Tokyo, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Paris metropolitan area, Paris, and London metropolitan area, London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the Government of South Korea, South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. During the Joseon dynasty, Seoul was officially designated as the capital, surrounded by the Fortress Wall of Seoul. I ...
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2013 AFC Champions League
The 2013 AFC Champions League was the 32nd edition of the top-level Asian club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the 11th under the current AFC Champions League title. The defending champions, Ulsan Hyundai, failed to qualify for the tournament. In the final, Chinese team Guangzhou Evergrande defeated South Korean team FC Seoul on away goals to win their first title, becoming the first Chinese team to win the AFC Champions League (and the second Chinese team to be crowned Asian club champions after Liaoning FC and Third Final of Chinese team after Liaoning F.C. lost against Esteghlal F.C. of Iran at 1990–91 AFC Club Championship, and qualified for the 2013 FIFA Club World Cup. Allocation of entries per association The AFC laid out the procedure for deciding the participating associations and the allocation of slots, with inspection of the associations interested in participating in the AFC Champions League to be done in 201 ...
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Kiwoom Heroes
The Kiwoom Heroes () are a South Korean professional baseball, professional baseball team based in Seoul. They are a member of the KBO League. The Heroes play their home games at Gocheok Sky Dome in Gocheok-dong, a neighborhood located in the southwestern part of Seoul. The Heroes mascot is ''Teokdori'' (; Mr. Jaw). In 2014, the Korea Baseball Futures League, Futures League squad changed its name to Hwaseong Heroes (), differentiating from the first string. In 2019, Hwaseong Heroes renamed as Goyang Heroes (). History The franchise was originally known as the Sammi SuperStars and had subsequent incarnations as the Chungbo Pintos and Pacific Dolphins. The team was renamed the Hyundai Unicorns after being sold to Hyundai Group, Hyundai in 1996, and was relocated from Incheon to Suwon. The Unicorns won the Korean Series, KBO championship four times (1998, 2000, 2003 and 2004). In January 2008, the team was disbanded. After that, Centennial Investments formed a new team called Wo ...
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Jamsil Baseball Stadium
Jamsil Baseball Stadium (), officially the Seoul Sports Complex Baseball Stadium (), is a baseball stadium located at 25 Olympic-ro, Songpa District, Seoul, South Korea. The stadium holds 25,000 people and was built from April 1980 to July 1982. It makes up the Seoul Sports Complex along with the nearby Seoul Olympic Stadium, and hosted the baseball events during the 1988 Summer Olympics. It is the home of the LG Twins and Doosan Bears of the KBO League. The area of Jamsil Baseball Stadium is . It has one basement level. It is three stories high with a center-field distance of and side distances of . The stadium has 59 entrances consisting of 49 inner gates and 10 outer gates. The parking lot allows 2,200 cars to park. The stadium can be reached by Seoul Subway Line 2, Line 9, or by bus. Jamsil Baseball Stadium was renovated in 2007 for about 1.5 billion won. Grass on the field was replaced, drains were installed, and sprinklers were upgraded to prevent heavy rain damage. In ...
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Seoul Olympic Stadium
The Seoul Olympic Stadium (), a.k.a. Jamsil Olympic Stadium (formerly romanised as ''Chamshil''), is a multi-purpose stadium in Seoul, South Korea. It is the main stadium built for the 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1986 Asian Games, 10th Asian Games in 1986. It is the centrepiece of the Seoul Sports Complex in the Songpa District, in the southeast of the city south of the Han River (Korea), Han River. It is the largest stadium in South Korea. Design and construction This multi-purpose stadium was designed by Kim Swoo-geun. The lines of the stadium's profile imitate the elegant curves of a Joseon white porcelain. Spectator seats are distributed on two tiers, half-covered; seating capacity is 69,950. Before its construction, Seoul's largest venues were Dongdaemun Stadium and Hyochang Stadium. Seating 30,000 and 20,000 respectively, they were too small to attract world-class sporting events. Construction on the new stadium began in 1977 with the aim of staging the Asian Games in 198 ...
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Hyochang Stadium
Hyochang Stadium () is a multi-purpose stadium in Hyochang-dong, Yongsan District, Seoul, South Korea. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 15,194 people. It was built in October 1960 for the 1960 AFC Asian Cup. See also *Seoul World Cup Stadium The Seoul World Cup Stadium (), the Sangam Stadium, is a stadium used mostly for association football matches. The venue is located in 240, World Cup-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It was built for the 2002 FIFA World Cup and opened on Nov ... * Jamsil Olympic Stadium * Mokdong Stadium * Dongdaemun Stadium References External links Seoul Sports Facilities Management Center World Stadiums Buildings and structures in Yongsan District Sports venues in Seoul Football venues in South Korea Athletics (track and field) venues in South Korea Multi-purpose stadiums in South Korea Seoul Nowon United FC Sports venues completed in 1960 1960 establishments in South Korea 20th-cent ...
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Seoul WFC
Seoul City Women's Football Club (), also known as Seoul Amazones or Seoul City Hall, is a South Korean women's football club based in Seoul. The club competes in the WK League, the top division of women's football in South Korea, and plays its home games at the auxiliary pitch of the Seoul World Cup Stadium. History In 2003, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its plans to establish both a professional men's football club and a women's works football club in the following year. Seoul City Hall W.F.C. was formally founded in February 2004 with a squad of 22 players, including nine members of the South Korean national women's team at the time. The club's first manager was Seo Jung-ho. The club achieved their first tournament victory in September 2004, beating INI Steel and Daekyo Kangaroos to the top spot in the league-format Unification Cup. The club was one of the founding members of the WK League in 2009. Seoul WFC was at the centre of a controversy in 2013 when r ...
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WK League
The WK League (Hangul: WK리그) is a semi-professional women's football league, run by the Korea Football Association (KFA) and the Korea Women's Football Federation (KWFF), which represents the sport's highest level in South Korea. Icheon Daekyo won the inaugural edition of the WK League in 2009 and won two more titles in 2011 and 2012. Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels are the most successful team in the league, having won eleven consecutive titles between 2013 and 2023. History In 2006, the Korean Women's Football Federation (KWFF) announced their intention to start a semi-professional women's league the following year with four teams playing 12 to 15 games each across four or five rounds. At the end of 2006 discussions were being held over player eligibility rules, in particular the issue of visas for foreign players. In January 2007, the KWFF clarified that the women's league would not be referred to as a professional league, and that official names under consideration ...
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Jungnang Chorus Mustang FC
Seoul Jungnang Football Club () is a semi-professional South Korean football club based in Jungnang-gu, Seoul. The club was founded in 2012 and plays in the K4 League, the fourth tier of football in South Korea. History The Early Years In 1982, Lee Min-geol, an attorney who played football in middle school, started an early morning soccer club in Myeonmok-dong, Seoul. He named the club Aram Football Club, and they participated in the Seoul City Office Workers' Football. In 1992, the 10th anniversary of the club, the name was changed to Mustang Football Club. From the start, the club was focused on the love of football, not on competitive achievements. It was not uncommon for members of the club to use their own money to support other players' participation. In 1997, they started an independent youth club and ran youth tournaments to support youth football development. In 2002 the team started competing in the Puma Cup Footy League, which would later become the Connie Green ...
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Madeul Stadium
Nowon Madeul Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Nowon District, Seoul Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities b ..., South Korea. External links Football venues in South Korea Sports venues completed in 2008 Sports venues in Seoul Seoul Nowon United FC {{SouthKorea-sports-venue-stub ...
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Seoul United FC
Seoul Nowon United Football Club () (known as Seoul United FC until 2018) is a South Korean semi-professional football club based in Nowon District, Seoul. It is a founding member of the K3 League. It last competeted in the fourth tier of the South Korean football league system, the 2024 season of the K4 League, and is currently serving a one season suspension. They will rejoin the league in 2026. History Founding In 2001, following the K League's decision to relocate the then-capital clubs to other cities, there was a desire to bring professional football back to the city of Seoul. Following the 2002 Korea/Japan World Cup, Seoul's World Cup Stadium stood empty, except for the occasional international match. The Seoul Metropolitan government sought to offset not only the maintenance cost, but also the construction cost, by creating a new team in Seoul. Members of the online community, Seoul Citizens' Club Supporters' Group (서울시민구단 서포터 모임), along with th ...
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K3 League Basic
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