Ilhwa Chunma
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| Full name | Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Seongnam 2 Stadium Seongnam, Gyeonggi |
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| Capacity | 16,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Park Kyu-Nam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Kim Hak-Bom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | K-League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| K-League 2004 | 9th (1st:8th, 2nd:9th) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ilhwa Chunma club, founded in 1989, is a professional football team in South Korea. With six league crowns, it is the most successful K-League club in terms of Championship victories. Controversy has followed the club, however, because of ownership by one of Sun Myung Moon's organizations.
The club began life playing at Dongdaemun Stadium in Seoul, but after winning their third consecutive title in 1995 the league officials declared that all of the three teams based in the capital had to leave, so the club moved down to Cheonan.
Several unsuccessful seasons followed, and when they finished at the bottom of the league for the second time in 1999, the club moved up to the Seoul satellite city of Seongnam and renamed themselves Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. The move worked out very well, as the rejuvenated club went on to win the 2001, 2002 and 2003 K-League championships.
A disappointing 2004 campaign saw them meekly relinquish their title, but they reached the final of the Asian Champions League, where despite winning the away leg 3-1, they lost the home leg 5-0 to the Saudi Arabian team Al-Ittihad and lost the tie 6-3 on aggregate.
[edit] Club honors
- Champions: 1993, 1994, 1995, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006
- FA Cup: 1999
- Korean Super Cup: 2002
- Adidas Cup: 1992, 2002
- Hauzen Cup: 2004
- A3 Nissan Cup: 2004
- Asian Champions Cup: 1996
- Asian Super Cup: 1996
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