Jeonnam Dragons is a South Korean professional football club based in Gwangyang, South Korea, who currently play in the K League 2.
Jeonnam Dragons is a football club founded in 1994 in the Korean city of Gwangyang, Jeonnam province which joined the K League 1 for the 1995 season at the same time as Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, their Jeolla province rivals. Before January 6, 2014, their name was spelled as Chunnam Dragons.
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played with a spherical ball between two teams of eleven players. It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. The game is played on a rectangular field called a pitch with a goal at each end. The object of the game is to score by moving the ball beyond the goal line into the opposing goal.
Gwangyang is a city in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Gwangyang city is the home of POSCO's Gwangyang Steel Works, the largest facility of its kind in the world. The city is also home to K League Classic football side Jeonnam Dragons.
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Jeonnam Dragons haven't won the Asia Champions League not yet, Jeonnam's best performance is runner-up of Asian Cup Winners Cup in 1999. Their most recent participation in the competition was in 2008.
The winners of the 1998–99 Asian Cup Winners' Cup, the association football competition run by the Asian Football Confederation, are listed below.
The 2008 AFC Champions League was the 27th AFC Champions League, the top-level Asian club football tournament, and the 6th under the current AFC Champions League title. It was the last AFC Champions League before the competition expanded to 32 teams.
