South Korea national under-20 football team
National association football team
Korea Republic U-20 Nickname(s) Taegeuk Warriors The Red Devils Tiger of Asia Association Korea Football Association Confederation AFC (Asia)Sub-confederation EAFF (East Asia )Head coach Lee Chang-won FIFA code KOR
South Korea 2–0 Thailand Kuala Lumpur , Malaya ; 19 April 1959)South Korea 28–0 Guam (Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam ; 6 November 2007) Brazil 10–3 South Korea Kuching , Malaysia ; 22 June 1997)Appearances 15 (first in 1979 ) Best result Runners-up (2019 ) Appearances 38 (first in 1959 ) Best result Champions (1959 , 1960 , 1963 , 1978 , 1980 , 1982 , 1990 , 1996 , 1998 , 2002 , 2004 , 2012 )
The South Korea national under-20 football team (Korean : 대한민국 20세 이하 축구 국가대표팀 ; recognized as Korea Republic by FIFA ) represents South Korea in international youth football competitions and also can be managed as under-18 or under-19 team if necessary. South Korean under-20 team won twelve AFC U-20 Asian Cup (AFC Youth Championship) titles and reached the FIFA U-20 World Cup final once, both are the most successful results among Asian teams.
History
Red Fury
South Korea's under-19 team, which finished third in the qualifying tournament, was initially ineligible to play in the final stage of the 1982 AFC Youth Championship . However, the North Korean FA was punished with a two-year suspension for assaulting a referee at the 1982 Asian Games by the Asian Football Confederation , so South Korea advanced to the final stage instead of North Korea , the runners-up.[ 1] 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship as Asian champions. Manager Park Jong-hwan trained his team with tactics that demanded a lot of endurance and teamwork for the World Youth Championship.[ 2]
Drawn in a group with Scotland , Australia and the host Mexico , South Korea lost their first game against Scotland, but they advanced to the knockout stage by defeating the other two teams. In the quarter-finals, they faced Uruguay , and won the game 2–1 with two extra time goals by Shin Yon-ho . The news that they reached the semi-finals for the first time in a FIFA competition became a myth in South Korea,[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] Brazil and Poland ,[ 6] Kim Pan-keun was named in the official All-Star Team.[ 7] Red Devils ", the supporters' group for the South Korean national team, was inspired by this story.[ 8]
Korean unified team
The Inter-Korean Sports Conferences were held on the recommendation of the International Olympic Committee since 1963, but the conferences always broke down until the 1980s because both sides had not seen eye to eye. In February 1991, however, they decided to make Korean unified teams in table tennis and football.[ 9] FIFA World Youth Championship as winners and runners-up of the 1990 AFC Youth Championship , so they urgently made allied under-20 football team for the world championship despite concerns about communication and teamwork.[ 10]
Recent results and fixtures
The following is a list of match results in the last 12 months, as well as any future matches that have been scheduled.
Win0
Draw0
Loss0
Fixture
2024
All-time results
South Korea entered annual AFC Youth Championship from 1959 to 1976 excluding the 1975 tournament and the youth matches of those days were played for 80 minutes.
The FIFA World Youth Championship was founded in 1977 and the AFC Youth Championship became a qualifying tournament of the World Youth Championship. The top two teams (generally finalists) of the AFC Youth Championship could qualify for the World Youth Championship until 1995. The two competitions were held every two years, and introduced 90-minute matches since 1979.
The number of participating teams in the FIFA World Youth Championship was increased from 16 to 24 in 1997, and four Asian countries, generally the semi-finalists in the AFC Youth Championship, has qualified for the competition since then. The FIFA World Youth Championship was renamed the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2007. The AFC Youth Championship was relaunched as the AFC U-19 Championship in 2008 and the AFC U-20 Asian Cup in 2023.
The following is a list of match results in major competitions held by world, continental and regional federations.[ 12]
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Draw0
Loss
Coaching staff
Players
Current squad
The following players were called-up for the 2024 Weinan International Friendly Tournament, held in June 2024.[ 111]
Competitive record
Champions0 Runners-up0 Third place0
FIFA U-20 World Cup
AFC U-20 Asian Cup
AFC U-20 Asian Cup record
Qualification record
Year
Round
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
1959 Champions
4
4
0
0
8
3
Not held
1960 Champions
4
4
0
0
16
4
1961 Fourth place
5
1
3
1
9
6
1962 Runners-up
5
3
1
1
14
2
1963 Champions
6
4
2
0
16
6
1964 Fourth place
4
2
0
2
4
9
1965 Group stage
4
1
0
3
4
5
1966 Quarter-finals
3
1
1
1
5
2
1967 Group stage
3
1
1
1
8
7
1968 Third place
7
5
2
0
18
4
1969 Quarter-finals
4
2
0
2
9
4
1970 Third place
6
4
0
2
11
3
1971 Runners-up
6
2
3
1
8
5
1972 Runners-up
6
4
1
1
8
3
1973 Third place
6
3
2
1
5
1
1974 Third place
6
5
0
1
11
7
1975 Did not enter
1976 Third place
6
3
1
2
8
4
1977 Quarter-finals
4
1
3
0
3
0
1978 Champions
6
3
3
0
12
3
1980 Champions
4
3
1
0
9
3
6
6
0
0
23
4
1982 Champions
3
2
1
0
7
2
6
4
0
2
25
9
1985 Did not qualify
5
3
2
0
10
1
1986 Group stage
3
1
1
1
9
2
1
1
0
0
4
2
1988 Group stage
3
1
1
1
3
2
2
2
0
0
11
0
1990 Champions
5
2
3
0
3
1
4
3
1
0
11
1
1992 Runners-up
6
4
0
2
18
10
2
1
0
1
2
2
1994 Group stage
4
1
2
1
7
6
3
3
0
0
12
0
1996 Champions
6
6
0
0
18
3
Qualified as hosts
1998 Champions
6
4
2
0
12
6
3
3
0
0
16
2
2000 Group stage
4
2
1
1
11
3
4
4
0
0
40
3
2002 Champions
6
5
1
0
13
1
2
2
0
0
26
0
2004 Champions
6
3
2
1
11
7
2
2
0
0
22
0
2006 Third place
6
5
1
0
19
3
2
2
0
0
15
0
2008 Semi-finals
5
3
0
2
7
3
4
4
0
0
39
1
2010 Semi-finals
5
3
1
1
6
4
5
4
0
1
18
3
2012 Champions
6
4
2
0
11
4
4
3
0
1
25
1
2014 Group stage
3
1
1
1
7
2
3
2
0
1
11
4
2016 Group stage
3
2
0
1
6
4
4
4
0
0
26
4
2018 Runners-up
6
4
1
1
12
6
4
4
0
0
22
0
2020 Cancelled
3
3
0
0
18
1
2023 Semi-finals
5
3
2
0
9
1
3
3
0
0
19
2
2025
Qualified
4
4
0
0
18
2
Total
12 titles
190
112
46
32
375
151
76
67
3
6
413
42
Other competitions
Head-to-head record
The following table shows South Korea's head-to-head record in the FIFA U-20 World Cup , AFC U-20 Asian Cup and AFF U-19 Youth Championship , excluding minor competitions and friendlies, as of 29 September 2024 (after the 2025 AFC U-20 Asian Cup qualification ).
^ Including Malaya
^ Including Burma
^ Including Ceylon
^ Including South Vietnam
See also
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