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In 1954, South Korea entered FIFA World Cup qualification for the first time, and qualified for the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland by beating Japan 7–3 on aggregate. [9] South Korea were only the second Asian team to compete at a World Cup after the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in 1938, and the first fully-independent Asian nation to do so.
Ranked 37th in the world [8] in football according to the Men's FIFA World ranking, South Korea is capturing attention from all over the world as the biggest powerhouse in Asia. It is one among the six teams to qualify for the world cup eight consecutive times and now it has qualified for the world cup nine consecutive times. [ 12 ]
The FIFA Men's World Ranking is a ranking system for men's national teams in association football, led by Argentina as of December 2024. [1] The men's teams of the member nations of FIFA, football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.
South Korea: 2025 : Men's Asian Games Football Tournament: 2022: ... FIFA World Rankings. FIFA Men's Rankings (as of 19 December 2024) [22] AFC* FIFA +/-
This template ({{FIFA World Rankings}}) is meant to help quickly update the FIFA World Rankings for all 211 men's national teams of FIFA, displayed in the infobox on each national team article. When given a country code, the template outputs the FIFA World Ranking of a country, along with a movement indicator (increase, decrease, or steady ...
The South Korea national football team have appeared eleven times at the FIFA World Cup, including ten consecutive tournaments from 1986 to 2022.The team made its World Cup debut in 1954, losing both matches and finishing fourth in the group stage.
The team ranking in each tournament is according to FIFA. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The rankings, apart from the top four positions (top two in 1930), are not a result of direct competition between the teams; instead, teams eliminated in the same round are ranked by their full results in the tournament.
Prior to this match, the teams had met once before, being South Korea's 1–0 group stage victory in the 2002 FIFA World Cup (which they co-hosted with Japan). A rotated Portugal side took the lead in the opening five minutes, when Ricardo Horta scored on his World Cup debut with a first-time shot.