Korea Cup Explained

Korea Cup
Founded:	1971
Abolished:	1999
Region:	International

The Korea Cup (ko|코리아컵 국제축구대회, Korea Cup International Football Tournament) was an international football tournament held annually in South Korea from 1971 to 1999.^[1]

History

The Korea Cup was created with the name President's Cup Football Tournament by the Korea Football Association in 1971,^[2] ^[3] and was contested between South Korea national team and Asian teams to develop them. It changed its name to President Park's Cup Football Tournament in 1976, and invited not only Asian teams, but also teams of other continents since that year.^[4] It was renamed previous President's Cup Football Tournament in 1979,^[5] and President's Cup International Football Tournament in 1987. The latest Korea Cup appeared in 1995.

Summary

Edition	Year	Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Fourth place	Teams
1	1971		—			8
2	1972					8
3	1973		—			6
4	1974		PSMS Medan			7
5	1975			Homa	Japan B	8
6	1976	São Paulo U21	—	South Korea B		10
7	1977	São Paulo U21			—	9
8	1978		Washington Diplomats	South Korea B	AS FAR	15
9	1979	Vitória-ES			South Korea B	10
10	1980			South Korea B	Thailand B	6
11	1981	Racing (C)	—	Vitória-ES	Danubio	12
12	1982	Operário-MS	—	PSV Eindhoven	Hallelujah FC	10
13	1983	PSV Eindhoven				11
14	1984	Bangu	Hallelujah FC		Bayer Leverkusen	8
15	1985		South Korea B	Bangu		12
16	1987			South Korea B	No third place match	12
17	1988	Czechoslovakia XI	Soviet Union XI		Iwuanyanwu Nationale	16
18	1989		Brøndby IF		Benfica	8
19	1991			Soviet Union B	No third place match	8
20	1993			Czechoslovakia XI Romania XI	No third place match	8
21	1995				No third place match	8
22	1997					4
23	1999					4

Statistics

Titles by team

Team	Champions	Runners-up
	12 (1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1997)	4 (1977, 1979,1983, 1993)
	3 (1971, 1972, 1973)	1 (1975)
São Paulo U21	2 (1976*, 1977)	—
	1 (1993)	1 (1991)
	1 (1973*)	—
Vitória-ES	1 (1979)	—
Racing (C)	1 (1981*)	—
Operário-MS	1 (1982*)	—
PSV Eindhoven	1 (1983)	—
Bangu	1 (1984)	—
Czechoslovakia XI	1 (1988)	—
	1 (1989)	—
	1 (1995)	—
	1 (1999)	—
	—	2 (1972, 1980)
PSMS Medan	—	1 (1974)
Washington Diplomats	—	1 (1978)
South Korea B	—	1 (1984)
Hallelujah FC	—	1 (1985)
	—	1 (1987)
Soviet Union XI	—	1 (1988)
Brøndby	—	1 (1989)
	—	1 (1995)
	—	1 (1997)
	—	1 (1999)

Titles by nation

Nation	Champions	Runners-up
	12 (1971, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1991, 1997)	6 (1977, 1979,1983, 1984, 1985, 1993)
	5 (1976, 1977, 1979, 1982, 1984)	—
Burma	3 (1971, 1972, 1973)	1 (1975)
	2 (1988, 1989)	—
	1 (1993)	1 (1991)
Khmer Republic	1 (1973*)	—
	1 (1981*)	—
	1 (1983)	—
	1 (1995)	—
	1 (1999)	—
	—	3 (1972, 1974, 1980)
	—	1 (1978)
	—	1 (1987)
	—	1 (1988)
	—	1 (1989)
	—	1 (1995)
FR Yugoslavia	—	1 (1997)
	—	1 (1999)

All-time table

Team
	23	125	86	25	14	290	77	+213	283
South Korea B	11	51	21	11	19	67	66	+1	74
	6	29	16	7	6	48	21	+27	55
	15	56	12	15	29	70	103	–33	51
	5	22	11	8	3	36	21	+15	41
	9	37	11	6	20	52	78	–26	39
São Paulo U21	3	15	11	3	1	34	4	+30	36
PSV Eindhoven	2	12	10	1	1	39	10	+29	31
Vitória-ES	2	13	9	3	1	30	8	+22	30
	9	37	8	5	24	57	85	–28	29
	2	11	7	4	0	19	5	+14	25
Bangu	2	12	5	7	0	22	9	+13	22
	2	11	6	2	3	27	16	+11	20
	5	21	5	5	11	22	47	–25	20
Czechoslovakia XI	2	10	5	3	2	14	10	+4	18
Hallelujah FC	2	11	5	3	3	17	15	+2	18
Racing (C)	1	7	5	2	0	19	7	+12	17
	3	13	5	2	6	13	15	–2	17
	4	16	4	5	7	14	29	–15	17
Soviet Union XI	1	6	5	0	1	10	2	+8	15
Operário-MS	1	6	4	2	0	13	7	+6	14
	1	5	4	1	0	12	4	+8	13
	1	5	4	1	0	10	4	+6	13
Danubio	1	7	4	1	2	9	7	+2	13
	3	15	3	4	8	19	28	–9	13
Washington Diplomats	1	6	4	0	2	15	12	+3	12
	2	8	3	3	2	10	8	+2	12
Homa	1	6	3	2	1	9	3	+6	11
	2	8	3	1	4	8	14	–6	10
PAS Tehran	1	4	3	0	1	8	4	+4	9
Brøndby	1	5	3	0	2	8	4	+4	9
Saarbrücken	1	5	3	0	2	7	9	–2	9
Hungary XI	2	9	2	3	4	8	11	–3	9
	3	11	3	0	8	14	19	–5	9
	2	8	2	2	4	7	18	–11	8
Malaysia B	3	12	1	5	6	10	28	–18	8
Velež Mostar	1	4	2	1	1	8	6	+2	7
Atlas	1	4	2	1	1	7	5	+2	7
Genoa	1	5	2	1	2	9	10	–1	7
Iwuanyanwu Nationale	1	6	2	1	3	8	9	–1	7
AS FAR	1	6	2	1	3	7	8	–1	7
Thailand B	1	5	2	1	2	7	8	–1	7
	1	5	2	1	2	5	9	–4	7
Japan B	2	9	1	4	4	5	12	–7	7
Mexico XI	1	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
Central Español	1	5	1	3	1	5	4	+1	6
	1	5	2	0	3	6	6	0	6
	1	5	1	3	1	5	5	0	6
	1	5	2	0	3	4	4	0	6
Fortuna Sittard	1	5	1	3	1	5	8	–3	6
Benfica	1	5	2	0	3	6	11	–5	6
	2	6	2	0	4	9	16	–7	6
	2	8	2	0	6	10	23	–13	6
	1	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
	1	3	1	2	0	5	4	+1	5
Romania XI	1	4	1	2	1	7	7	0	5
Deportivo Español	1	5	1	2	2	6	9	–3	5
Chile B	1	5	1	2	2	3	6	–3	5
PSMS Medan	1	4	1	2	1	3	8	–5	5
Bayer Leverkusen	2	9	1	2	6	8	16	–8	5
Indonesia B	2	8	1	2	5	3	21	–18	5
	3	12	1	2	9	6	25	–19	5
	1	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
	1	4	1	1	2	5	5	0	4
Turkey Olympic	1	3	1	1	1	3	4	–1	4
Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP)	1	3	1	1	1	3	4	–1	4
Yukong Elephants	1	4	1	1	2	4	6	–2	4
Soviet Union B	1	4	1	1	2	3	5	–2	4
	1	5	1	1	3	4	8	–4	4
Huracán	1	5	1	1	3	6	12	–6	4
United States Olympic	1	3	1	0	2	7	7	0	3
Alianza Lima	1	3	0	3	0	3	3	0	3
	1	3	1	0	2	3	4	–1	3
Nacional	1	3	1	0	2	2	3	–1	3
Rio de Janeiro XI	1	3	1	0	2	2	5	–3	3
	1	3	1	0	2	1	5	–4	3
Racing Beirut	1	4	1	0	3	8	14	–6	3
Middlesex Wanderers	1	4	1	0	3	4	10	–6	3
	1	4	1	0	3	4	16	–12	3
Mechelen	1	3	0	2	1	3	4	–1	2
Trelleborg	1	3	0	2	1	3	5	–2	2
Queens Park Rangers	1	3	0	2	1	2	5	–3	2
Cercle Brugge	1	3	0	2	1	2	6	–4	2
Warna Agung	1	4	0	2	2	1	5	–4	2
Atlante	1	3	0	2	1	0	4	–4	2
Australia B	1	3	0	1	2	3	5	–2	1
	1	3	0	1	2	2	4	–2	1
Sporting Cristal	1	3	0	1	2	4	7	–3	1
United States Universiade	1	3	0	1	2	4	7	–3	1
	1	3	0	1	2	0	4	–4	1
Shamrock Rovers	1	5	0	1	4	0	4	–4	1
Kilmarnock	1	3	0	1	2	4	9	–5	1
Serie C U21	1	3	0	1	2	3	8	–5	1
Eintracht Frankfurt	1	3	0	1	2	2	7	–5	1
	1	3	0	1	2	1	6	–5	1
Châteauroux	1	5	0	1	4	5	12	–7	1
Perak	1	4	0	1	3	4	11	–7	1
Bahrain B	1	5	0	1	4	3	11	–8	1
Lierse	1	2	0	0	2	5	8	–3	0
	1	4	0	0	4	1	11	–10	0
	1	3	0	0	3	1	13	–12	0
	1	4	0	0	4	0	22	–22	0

Awards

Most Valuable Player

Year	Player	Team
1991	Ha Seok-ju
1993	Ahmed Shobair
1995	Energio Díaz
1997	Ha Seok-ju
1999	Josip Šimić

Top goalscorer

width=15%	Year	width=35%	Player	width=35%	Team	width=15%	Goals
1971	Iswadi Idris		7
1972	Abdul Kadir		6
1973	Kim Jin-kook		3
	Kim Jae-han
	R. Visvanathan
	Cha Bum-kun
1974	Park Lee-chun		6
1975	Unknown
1976	Cha Bum-kun		7
1977	Cha Bum-kun		6
1978	Kim Jae-han		6
1979	João Francisco		8
1980	Chung Hae-won		7
1981	João Francisco		6
1982	Ruud Geels	PSV Eindhoven	7
1983	Jurrie Koolhof	PSV Eindhoven	6
1984	Paulinho Criciúma	Bangu	5
1985	Karim Saddam		6
1987	Frank Farina		4
1988	Milan Luhový	Czechoslovakia XI	4
	Alberto Mariscal	Atlas
	Choi Soon-ho
1989	Pavel Černý		5
1991	Ha Seok-ju		4
1993	Cho Jin-ho	South Korea B	3
1995	Eduardo Hurtado		5
1997	Rade Bogdanović		2
	Choi Moon-sik
	Seo Jung-won
	Slaviša Jokanović
1999	Daniel Osorno		2

References

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External links

President's Cup (South Korea) at RSSSF