Seoul City Women's Football Club (), also known as Seoul Amazones or Seoul City Hall, is a South Korean

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club based in

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. The club competes in the

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, the top division of women's football in South Korea, and plays its home games at the auxiliary pitch of the

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History

In 2003, the

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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

in 2009. Seoul WFC was at the centre of a controversy in 2013 when representatives of the other six clubs in the WK League claimed that striker Park Eun-sun was male and threatened to boycott the league if Park did not undergo a gender verification test. The club stood by Park, accusing their rivals of violating her human rights and suggesting the allegations were merely a ploy to gain a competitive advantage by keeping Park, who had scored 19 goals in 22 games, out of the league. Although the National Human Rights Commission advised the

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to punish the coaches of the other teams, neither the KFA nor the WK League acted on the recommendations and as a result, Park left Seoul to join FC Rossiyanka.

Current squad

Coaching staff

*Manager:

Yoo Young-sil Yoo Young-sil (, ; born May 1, 1975) is a retired South Korean football (soccer), football player and coach who is currently the manager of Seoul WFC, Seoul City Amazones WFC. Early life In elementary school, Yoo played competitive badminton, ...

*Head Coach: Yoon Sung-hwi *Coach: Yoo Young-a *Medical trainer: Kang Sul-hee Source: Official website

Honours

*Unification Cup **Winners (1): 2004 *

**Runners-up (1):

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 ...

Season-by-season records

References

External links

* {{WK-League Women's football clubs in South Korea Association football clubs established in 2004 Football clubs in Seoul WK League clubs 2004 establishments in South Korea