Paektusan Prize

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Paektusan Prize
Founded2007
Region North Korea
Most successful club(s)Rimyongsu Sports Club

The Paektusan Prize is an annual association football competition in men's domestic football in North Korea, organised by the DPR Korea Football Association. [1]

Association football Team field sport

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.

Association football in North Korea is governed by the DPR Korea Football Association (KFA), which was established in 1945. Due to the state's secrecy, attendances and popularity for club matches in the country are hard to gauge. Football is the most popular sport in the country.

North Korea Sovereign state in East Asia

North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang the capital and the largest city in the country. The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time, ruling most of the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, parts of the Russian Far East and Inner Mongolia, under Gwanggaeto the Great. To the north and northwest, the country is bordered by China and by Russia along the Amnok and Tumen rivers; it is bordered to the south by South Korea, with the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two. Nevertheless, North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands.

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Results

SeasonChampionRunner-upThird placeFinal
2007 P'yŏngyang City Amrokkang Kyŏnggong'ŏp
2008Unknown
2009Unknown
2010 Rimyŏngsu
2011 Rimyŏngsu
2012 Amrokkang Rimyŏngsu Kigwancha
2013Unknown
2014Unknown
2015 April 25
2016 Hwaebul Sobaeksu P'yŏngyang City 1-0

Sŏsan Stadium

2017 April 25 February 8 Hwaebul 1-0

Sŏsan Stadium

Performance by club

ClubWinnersRunners-upThird placeWinning seasonsRunners-up seasonsThird place seasons
Rimyŏngsu 212010, 20112012
Amrokkang 1120122007
P'yŏngyang City 1120072016
Hwaebul 1120162017
April 25 1120172015
Sobaeksu 12016
February 8 12017
Kyŏnggong'ŏp 12007
Kigwancha 12016

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References

  1. "Paektusan Prize Sports Games Opens". Explore DPRK. 2018-02-02. Retrieved 2019-04-17.