North Korea national football team

Korea DPR

Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s)	Chollima
Association	DPR Korea Football Association
Head coach	Han Hyong-Yi
Most caps	?
Top scorer	?
FIFA code	PRK
First colours Second colours
First international
Burma 0 - 0 North Korea (Rangoon, Burma; March 22, 1964)
Biggest win
North Korea 21 - 0 Guam (Taipei, Taiwan; March 11, 2005)
Biggest defeat
Bulgaria 6 - 1 North Korea (Sofia, Bulgaria; May 25, 1974) Poland 5 - 0 North Korea (Montreal, Canada; July 25, 1976)
World Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 1966)
Best result	Quarterfinals, 1966
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances	2 (first in 1980)
Best result	Fourth place, 1980

The national football team of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (recognized as Korea DPR by FIFA) is the national team of North Korea and is controlled by the DPR Korea Football Association. Their shining moment came in the 1966 World Cup, when North Korea upset Italy 1-0 to gain a spot in the quarterfinals. There, they went up 3-0 on Portugal, but the brilliance of Eusébio (and his four goals) stopped the fairy tale run, 5-3. The North Korean team was the first Asian team to progress beyond the first round of the World Cup finals. The documentary film The Game of Their Lives by Dan Gordon is about the seven surviving members in 2002 of the 1966 national team.

World Cup record

• 1930 to 1962 - Did not enter
• 1966 - Quarterfinals
• 1970 - Withdrew
• 1974 - Did not qualify
• 1978 - Withdrew
• 1982 to 1994 - Did not qualify
• 1998 - Did not enter
• 2002 - Did not enter
• 2006 - Did not qualify

Asian Cup record

• 1956 to 1972 - Did not enter
• 1976 - Withdrew after qualifying
• 1980 - Fourth place
• 1984 - Did not enter
• 1988 - Did not qualify
• 1992 - Round 1
• 1996 - Did not enter
• 2000 - Did not qualify
• 2004 - Suspended by AFC
• 2007 - Did not enter

East Asian Cup record

• 2003 - Withdrew
• 2005 - Third place

See also

• List of Korea-related topics