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| Full name | Daejeon Korail Football Club | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Nickname | Iron horse | ||
| Founded | 1943; 82 years ago (1943) (original) 1961 or 1962 (refounded) | ||
| Ground | Daejeon Hanbat Sports Complex | ||
| Capacity | 17,371 | ||
| Owner | Korail | ||
| Chairman | Jung Chang-young | ||
| Head coach | Kim Seung-hee | ||
| League | K3 League | ||
| 2023 | K3 League, 5th of 15 | ||
| Website | info.korail.com | ||
Daejeon Korail FC (Korean:대전 코레일 FC) is a South Koreanfootball club based inDaejeon that competes in theK3 League, the third tier ofSouth Korean football league system. It is owned and operated byKorea Railroad Corporation, South Korea's national railroad operator. Their home venue isDaejeon Hanbat Sports Complex.
After being founded in 1943[1] by theChosen Government Railway asChosen Government Railway FC (조선총독부 철도국 축구단), the team competed in various semi-professional football competitions throughout decades until they joined theKorea National League in 2003.
In 1948, the club changed its name to Ministry of Transportation FC after Joseon Railways was absorbed intoMinistry of Transportation by theSouth Korean government.
The club was inactive during theKorean War and was re-established in 1961[2] or 1962.[3] It was renamedNational Railroad FC (철도청 축구단) in 1963 andKorea Railroad FC (한국철도 축구단) in 1995. In 2004, to comply with Korea National League's club naming policy, the club added the team's location to its name, changing the name toIncheon Korea Railroad FC (인천 한국철도 축구단). After Korea National Railroad was renamed toKorail, the club's name was also changed again toIncheon Korail FC (인천 코레일 축구단) during the 2007 season. At the end of the 2013 season, the club has been renamed to Daejeon Korail FC after the team's relocation fromIncheon toDaejeon.[4]
The team played in the Korea National League between 2003 and 2019, when the league merged with theK3 League. They won the2005 season with a 4–2 aggregate victory overSuwon City in the final. In theKorean FA Cup, the team reached the quarter-finals in 2001 and the semi-finals in 2005. In the2019 edition, the team reached the final, where they lost 4–0 on aggregate to thetop division sideSuwon Samsung Bluewings.[5]
| Season | Korea National League /K3 League | Korean FA Cup | National Championship | Top scorer (league goals) | Manager | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stage | Teams | P | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Position | |||||
| 1996 | No league | Did not qualify | Not held | No league | |||||||||||
| 1997 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Quarterfinals | ||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Preliminary round | ||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Quarterfinals | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Round of 16 | ||||||||||||||
| 2003 | First stage | 10 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 10 | +4 | 13 | 5th | Round of 32 | Lee Soon-haeng (5) | ||
| Second stage | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 5 | 9th | |||||
| 2004 | First stage | 10 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 9 | 7th | Round of 16 | Group stage | Sung Nak-seon (3) | |
| Second stage | 10 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 5th | |||||
| 2005 | First stage | 11 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 11 | −1 | 13 | 7th | Semifinals | Group stage | Kim Eun-chul (6) | |
| Second stage | 11 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 7 | +7 | 21 | 1st | |||||
| Playoff | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | +2 | — | Champions | |||||
| 2006 | First stage | 11 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 13 | +1 | 15 | 6th | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Kim Heung-seop (9) | |
| Second stage | 11 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 8 | +8 | 18 | 4th | |||||
| 2007 | First stage | 12 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 10 | +6 | 22 | 3rd | Round of 26 | Semifinals | Kim Min-soo (8) | Kim Seung-hee |
| Second stage | 12 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 20 | 18 | +2 | 20 | 3rd | |||||
| 2008 | First stage | 14 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 21 | −9 | 8 | 12th | Round of 32 | Semifinals | Park Chun-sin (5) | |
| Second stage | 14 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 24 | −11 | 12 | 12th | |||||
| 2009 | First stage | 14 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 20 | 13 | +7 | 23 | 3rd | Round of 32 | Group stage | Heo Sin-young (8) | |
| Second stage | 13 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 15 | −4 | 16 | 7th | |||||
| 2010 | First stage | 15 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 23 | 17 | +6 | 26 | 3rd | Round of 32 | Group stage | Kim Hyung-woon (9) | |
| Second stage | 15 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 17 | 21 | −4 | 11 | 13th | |||||
| 2011 | Regular season | 14 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 9 | 29 | 23 | +6 | 39 | 6th | Second round | Semifinals | Park Ju-ho (6) | |
| Playoff | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | −1 | — | Round of 6 | |||||
| 2012 | Regular season | 14 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 8 | 39 | 30 | +9 | 42 | 5th | Round of 32 | Group stage | Kim Tae-wook (7) | |
| Playoff | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | +7 | — | Champions | |||||
| 2013 | Regular season | 10 | 27 | 12 | 9 | 6 | 42 | 32 | +10 | 45 | 2nd | Second round | Winners | Shin Myung-jae (9) | |
| Playoff | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | — | Semifinal | |||||
| 2014 | Regular season | 10 | 27 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 41 | 28 | +13 | 49 | 1st | Round of 16 | Group stage | Kim Byung-oh Moon Byung-woo (both 9) | |
| Playoff | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | −2 | — | Runners-up | |||||
| 2015 | Regular season | 10 | 27 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 36 | 27 | +9 | 33 | 5th | Round of 16 | Winners | Kim Jun (6) | |
| 2016 | Regular season | 10 | 27 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 33 | 41 | –8 | 34 | 7th | Round of 32 | Runners-up | Kwak Chul-ho (16) | |
| 2017 | Regular season | 8 | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 31 | 34 | –3 | 39 | 4th | Round of 32 | Semifinals | Park Jin-seop (11) | |
| 2018 | Regular season | 8 | 28 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 31 | 40 | –9 | 27 | 7th | Round of 32 | Winners | Kwak Chul-ho (6) | |
| 2019 | Regular season | 8 | 28 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 38 | 36 | +2 | 39 | 4th | Runners-up | Semifinals | Lee Gwan-pyo (7) | |
| 2020 | Regular season | 16 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 25 | 12 | +13 | 25 | 6th | Second round | Not held | ||
| Championship round | 8 | 22 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 30 | 18 | +12 | 32 | 7th | |||||
| 2021 | Regular season | 15 | 28 | 8 | 12 | 8 | 32 | 30 | +2 | 36 | 9th | Second round | |||
| 2022 | Regular season | 16 | 30 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 28 | 36 | –8 | 41 | 9th | Round of 16 | |||
| 2023 | Regular season | 15 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 34 | 32 | +2 | 39 | 5th | Second round | |||
