Gyeongju Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power FC () or simply Gyeongju KHNP is a South Korean

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team based in

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. They currently compete in the

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. They are run by

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and play their home games at Gyeongju Civic Stadium.

History

The club was originally founded in 1945 as Gyeongseong Electric Football Club () but was dissolved in 1950 due to the

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. They were later re-established in 1962 as the KEPCO Football Club (). From 2001, the team was re-established again, this time as KHNP FC (). Based in

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, the club joined the semi-professional

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, known at the time as the ''K2 League'', in its inaugural season in 2003. As Daejeon KHNP, they were runners-up in the

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National League, losing to Suwon City in the playoff final after finishing the first stage of the league in first place. Ahead of the 2013 season, the club relocated to Gyeongju. Rebranded as Gyeongju KHNP, they were National League runners-up again in 2013 and 2015 before becoming champions for the first time in 2017. They successfully defended their title in 2018 but failed to gain a third in 2019, finishing as runners-up following a 2-0 defeat by Gangneung City in the championship final. Gyeongju KHNP joined the newly relaunched K3 League in its inaugural season after it absorbed the National League in 2020. They finished the 2020 season as runners-up. In 2016, Gyeongju KHNP FC and the mayor of Gyeongju announced that a women's football team would be established alongside the existing men's team. Gyeongju KHNP WFC was formally launched in 2017.

Honours

Domestic competitions

League

**Runners-up (1):

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**Winners (2):

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

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**Runners-up (4):

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Cups

* National League Championship **Winners (3):

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

**Runners-up (2):

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

* National Sports Festival **Gold Medal (1): 1967 **Silver Medal (1): 2009 * National Football Championship **Winners (2): 1962, 1965 **Runners-up (4): 1964, 1967, 1980, 1982 *

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**Winners (1): 1962 **Runners-up (3): 1964, 1967, 1993

Season-by-season records

Current squad

''As of 8 March 2025''

Backroom staff

Coaching staff

* Manager: Seo Bo-won * Head coach: Ha Yong-woo * Goalkeeping coach: Kim Min-gyu * Coaches: Kim Jung-gyum, Seo Dong-hyun * Medical trainer: Lee Seung-bok Source: Official website

References

External links

Official website
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