List of international soccer matches between North and South Korea

So far, the national soccer teams of North Korea and South Korea have played 19 international matches for men and 19 for women and against each other. North Korea could only win one game for the men and South Korea for the women. North Korea won almost twice as many games among women as South Korea did among men. The men split the most frequently, with seven goalless draws.

After the two Korean states were founded in 1948, two different football associations - the Korea Football Association (대한 축구 협회) in the south and the DPR Korea Football Association (조선 민주주의 인민 공화국 축구 협회) in the north - were founded. Due to the Korean War and political tensions, there was no official international match between the two teams until 1978. In 1976, however, the two U-20 teams met at the Asian Cup in Thailand, when North Korea won 1-0. On December 20, 1978, the final of the Asian Games between the teams took place again in Thailand. After it was 0-0 to the end and neither extra time nor penalty shoot-outs were planned, both teams were declared winners, with Cha Bum-kun playing on the South Koreans side .

Two years later, the two teams met during the Asian Cup. In the semifinals, North Korea were 1-0 up until the 80th minute, before South Korea won 2-1 with two goals from Hae Won-chung . 1989 and 1993 World Cup qualifiers were played, which the South Koreans could win. In 1989 they won 1-0 thanks to a goal from Seon Hong-hwang , and four years later the South Koreans won 3-0, their biggest victory over their neighbors from the north. North Korea celebrated their only victory on October 11, 1991, when they won 2-1 in front of a record crowd of 150,000 spectators in the May Day Stadium . It is also the only game that has been played in North Korea so far. South Korea, on the other hand, hosted a game six times, eleven games were played in neutral locations.

The draw to qualify for the 2010 World Cup revealed that both teams met in Group 3 of the Asian Association. In the course of this qualification there were clashes between the two associations, because North Korea refused to play the anthem of South Korea and to hoist the flag of South Korea . On March 7, 2008, FIFA therefore decided to move the game scheduled for March 26 in Pyongyang to Shanghai . The game ended in a goalless draw like the second leg in Seoul , both teams prevailed in their group.

The draw for the final round of qualification showed that both teams met again. The home game of North Korea was played again in Shanghai and ended 1: 1, the second leg in Seoul was won by the South Korean team 1: 0. At the end of the qualification, both teams qualified for the finals in South Africa. South Korea won the group ahead of their northern neighbors.

In the 19 international matches between the two women's national teams so far, South Korea has only won once, while North Korea won 15 times, three games - including two of the last three games - ended in a draw. 13 of the 19 matches took place on neutral courts, five in South Korea and only the penultimate one so far within the framework of qualifying for the 2018 Asian Cup took place in North Korea. Since both teams won against the other group opponents without conceding, but the South Koreans scored more goals, the draw against the North Koreans was enough for them to qualify for the Asian Cup. Only the game on August 16, 2005 in Goyang on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of independence from Japan was a friendly game (in the calculations of the FIFA world rankings , the games at the Asian Games and the East Asian Championships are also considered friendly games).

In qualifying for the 2022 World Cup , the two men's teams were drawn into the same group. The first leg in Pyongyang took place on October 15, 2019, completely closed to the public. There were no spectators in the stadium and the game was also not broadcast live on television.

A game scheduled for December 15, 2019 in Busan, South Korea, between the two women's national teams as part of the 2019 Women's East Asian Cup will not take place because North Korea will not participate.

International matches between North and South Korea

Men

date	Venue	team	team	Result	Type of game
December 20, 1978	Bangkok , Thailand	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	0-0	Asian Games Final
September 28, 1980	Kuwait City , Kuwait	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	2: 1 (0: 1)	1980 Asian Football Championship
October 16, 1989	Singapore	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1: 0 (1: 0)	World Cup qualification
July 29, 1990	Beijing , China	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	0: 1 (0: 0)	Friendship tournament in China
November 11, 1990	Pyongyang	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	2: 1 (0: 1)	Friendly match
November 23, 1990	Seoul	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1: 0 (1: 0)	Friendly match
August 24, 1992	Beijing, China	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	1: 1 (1: 0)	Friendship tournament in China
October 28, 1993	Doha , Qatar	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	3: 0 (0: 0)	World Cup qualification
September 7, 2002	Seoul	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0-0	Friendly match
August 4, 2005	Jeonju	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0-0	East Asian Championship in South Korea
August 14, 2005	Seoul	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	3: 0 (0: 0)	Friendly match
February 20, 2008	Chongqing , China	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	1: 1 (0: 1)	East Asian Championship in China
March 26, 2008	Shanghai , China	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	0-0	World Cup qualification
June 22, 2008	Seoul	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0-0	World Cup qualification
September 10, 2008	Shanghai, China	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	1: 1 (0: 0)	World Cup qualification
April 1, 2009	Seoul	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1: 0 (0: 0)	World Cup qualification
August 9, 2015	Wuhan , China	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	0-0	East Asian Championship in China
December 12, 2017	Tokyo , Japan	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	0: 1	East Asian Championship in Japan
October 14, 2019	Pyongyang	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	0-0	World Cup qualification

Balance :

	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.
Korea South South Korea	19th	8th	10	1	17th	+ 11
Korea North North Korea	19th	1	10	8th	06th	- 11

Women

date	Venue	team	team	Result	Type of game
October 1, 1990	Beijing, China	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0: 7	Asian Games 1990
7th December 1993	Kuching , Malaysia	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0: 3	Asian Cup 1993
October 9, 2002	Busan	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0: 2	Asian Games 2002
June 16, 2003	Bangkok, Thailand	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	2: 2	World Cup qualification / Asian Cup 2003
April 26, 2004	Hiroshima , Japan	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1: 5	Olympic qualification
August 4, 2005	Jeonju	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1-0	East Asian Women's Football Championship 2005
August 16, 2005	Goyang	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0: 2	Friendly match (60th anniversary of independence from Japan)
July 24, 2006	Adelaide , Australia	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0: 1	World Cup qualification / Asian Cup 2006
December 7, 2006	ar-Rayyan , Qatar	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1: 4	Asian Games 2006
February 24, 2008	Chongqing, China	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0: 4	2008 East Asian Women's Football Championship
November 20, 2010	Chongqing, China	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1: 3 a.d.	2010 Asian Games, semi-finals
September 5, 2011	Jinan , China	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	2: 3	Olympic qualification
February 15, 2012	Chongqing , China	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	0: 1	Four Nations Tournament 2012
July 21, 2013	Seoul	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1: 2	East Asian Women's Football Championship 2013
29th September 2014	Incheon	Korea South South Korea	Korea North North Korea	1: 2	Asian Games 2014 semi-finals
August 8, 2015	Wuhan , China	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	2-0	2015 East Asian Cup finals in China
February 29, 2016	Osaka , Japan	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	1: 1	Olympic qualification
April 7, 2017	Pyongyang , North Korea	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	1: 1	World Cup qualification / qualification for the 2018 Asian Cup
December 11, 2017	Chiba , Japan	Korea North North Korea	Korea South South Korea	1-0	2017 East Asian Women's Football Championship

Balance :

	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.
Korea North North Korea	19th	15th	3	01	46	+ 34
Korea South South Korea	19th	01	3	15th	12	- 34

Individual evidence

Web links

all men's international games on fifa .com.
all women's international matches on fifa.com.

[1] z.net August 15, 2019: Korean brother duel: No fans, no television, no goals

[2] ws.com: N Korean women team to skip soccer competition in S Korea

[3] Asian Games 1990 (Women's Tournament)

[4] Asian Games 2002 (Women's Tournament)

[5] Asian Games 2006 (Women's Tournament)