Korea Cup

The Korea Cup International Football Tournament (Korean: 코리아컵 국제축구대회) was an international football tournament held annually in South Korea from 1971 to 1999.

Korea Cup
Organising bodyKorea Football Association
Founded1971
Abolished1999
RegionInternational
Last champions Croatia (1st title)
Most successful team(s) South Korea (12 titles)
Not to be confused with Korean President's Cup National Football Tournament.

The Korea Cup was created with the name "President Park's Cup Asian Football Tournament" (1971–1975; simply known as Park's Cup) by the Korea Football Association in 1971, and was contested between South Korea national team and Asian teams to develop them. It changed its name to "President Park's Cup International Football Tournament" (1976–1979) in 1976, and invited not only Asian teams, but also teams of other continents since that year. It once again changed its name to President's Cup International Football Tournament (1980–1993) after South Korean president Park Chung-hee was assassinated in 1979.

Summary
Edition Year Finalists Semi-finalists Teams
Winners Runners-up Third place Fourth place
1 1971  South Korea
 Burma		 —  Indonesia  Malaysia 8
2 1972  Burma  Indonesia  South Korea  Malaysia 8
3 1973  Burma
 Khmer Republic		 —  South Korea  Malaysia 6
4 1974  South Korea PSMS Medan  Burma  Khmer Republic 7
5 1975  South Korea  Burma Homa Japan B 8
6 1976  South Korea
Paulista U21		 — South Korea B  New Zealand 10
7 1977 Paulista U21  South Korea  Malaysia
 Thailand		 — 9
8 1978  South Korea Washington Diplomats South Korea B ASFAR 15
9 1979 Vitória-ES  South Korea  Bahrain South Korea B 10
10 1980  South Korea  Indonesia South Korea B Thailand B 6
11 1981  South Korea
Racing (C)		 — Vitória-ES Danubio 12
12 1982  South Korea
Operário-MS		 — PSV Eindhoven Hallelujah FC 10
13 1983 PSV Eindhoven  South Korea  Ghana  United States 11
14 1984 Bangu Hallelujah FC  South Korea Bayer Leverkusen 8
15 1985  South Korea South Korea B Bangu  Iraq 12
16 1987  South Korea  Australia South Korea B
 Egypt		 No third place play-off 12
17 1988 Czechoslovakia XI Soviet Union XI  South Korea Iwuanyanwu Nationale 16
18 1989  Czechoslovakia Brøndby IF  South Korea Benfica 8
19 1991  South Korea  Egypt  Australia
Soviet Union XI		 No third place play-off 8
20 1993  Egypt  South Korea Czech Republic XI
Romania XI		 No third place play-off 8
21 1995  Ecuador  Zambia  South Korea
 Costa Rica		 No third place play-off 8
22 1997  South Korea  FR Yugoslavia  Egypt  Ghana 4
23 1999  Croatia  Mexico  South Korea  Egypt 4

    All-time table
    1. Including Czechoslovakia XI
    2. The Olympic team could consist of only non-professional players until 1980, and the United States was having a professional league at that time.

    Top goalscorers
    Year Player Team Goals
    1971 Iswadi Idris  Indonesia 7
    1972 Abdul Kadir  Indonesia 6
    1973 Kim Jin-kook  South Korea 3
    Kim Jae-han  South Korea
    R. Visvanathan  Malaysia
    Cha Bum-kun  South Korea
    1974 Park Lee-chun  South Korea 6
    1975 Unknown
    1976 Cha Bum-kun  South Korea 7
    1977 Cha Bum-kun  South Korea 6
    1978 Kim Jae-han  South Korea 6
    1979 João Francisco Vitória-ES 8
    1980 Chung Hae-won  South Korea 7
    1981 João Francisco Vitória-ES 6
    1982 Ruud Geels PSV Eindhoven 7
    1983 Jurrie Koolhof PSV Eindhoven 6
    1984 Paulinho Criciúma Bangu 5
    1985 Karim Saddam  Iraq 6+
    1987 Frank Farina  Australia 4
    1988 Milan Luhový Czechoslovakia XI 4
    Alberto Mariscal Atlas
    Choi Soon-ho  South Korea

    See also
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