Seoul City Women's Football Club (Korean: 서울시청 여자 축구단), also known as Seoul Amazones or Seoul City Hall, is a South Korean women's football club based in Seoul. The club competes in the WK League, the top division of women's football in South Korea, and plays its home games at the auxiliary pitch of the Seoul World Cup Stadium.

History

In 2003, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced its plans to establish both a professional men's football club and a women's works football club in the following year.[1] Seoul City Hall W.F.C. was formally founded in February 2004 with a squad of 22 players, including nine members of the South Korean national women's team at the time.[2] The club's first manager was Seo Jung-ho.[3] The club achieved their first tournament victory in September 2004, beating INI Steel and Daekyo Kangaroos to the top spot in the league-format Unification Cup.[4] The club was one of the founding members of the WK League in 2009.[5]

Seoul WFC was at the centre of a controversy in 2013 when representatives of the other six clubs in the WK League claimed that striker Park Eun-sun was male and threatened to boycott the league if Park did not undergo a gender verification test.[6] The club stood by Park, accusing their rivals of violating her human rights and suggesting the allegations were merely a ploy to gain a competitive advantage by keeping Park, who had scored 19 goals in 22 games, out of the league.[7] Although the National Human Rights Commission advised the Korea Football Association to punish the coaches of the other teams, neither the KFA nor the WK League acted on the recommendations and as a result, Park left Seoul to join FC Rossiyanka.[8]

Current squad

As of 28 February 2025[9][10]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK South Korea KOR Choi Ye-seul
3 MF South Korea KOR Son Yoon-hee (captain)
5 DF South Korea KOR Kim Eun-sol
6 DF South Korea KOR Kim Mi-yeon
7 FW South Korea KOR Han Chae-rin
8 MF South Korea KOR Gwak Min-young (vice-captain)
9 FW South Korea KOR Kang Tae-gyeong
10 FW South Korea KOR Seo Hyun-min
11 FW South Korea KOR Park Hee-young
12 DF South Korea KOR Baek Do-hye
13 DF South Korea KOR Kim Young-eun
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF South Korea KOR Kim Min-ji
15 FW South Korea KOR Kang Yu-mi
16 DF South Korea KOR Jo Ye-song
17 DF South Korea KOR Lee Ye-eun
18 GK South Korea KOR Woo Seo-bin
19 MF South Korea KOR Kim Eun-mi
20 DF South Korea KOR Shin Bo-mi
21 MF South Korea KOR Jeong Min-young
22 DF South Korea KOR Jeong Hyun-gyeong
23 DF South Korea KOR Jang Yoon-seo
24 GK South Korea KOR Park Hyun-jin

Coaching staff

  • Manager: South Korea Yoo Yeong-sil
  • Head Coach: South Korea Yoon Sung-hwi
  • Coach: South Korea Yoo Young-a
  • Medical trainer: South Korea Kang Sul-hee

Source: Official website[9]

Honours

Season-by-season records

Season WK League regular season Position Playoffs
P W D L GF GA Pts
2009 20 8 5 7 27 25 29 3rd Did not qualify
2010 20 7 2 11 23 32 23 4th Did not qualify
2011 21 5 9 7 19 26 24 6th Did not qualify
2012 21 5 9 7 26 29 24 5th Did not qualify
2013 24 11 7 6 34 26 40 2nd Runners-up
2014 24 10 6 8 29 29 36 3rd Semifinals
2015 24 3 6 15 28 61 15 6th Did not qualify
2016 24 7 5 12 33 48 26 5th Did not qualify
2017 28 12 5 11 40 43 41 4th Did not qualify
2018 28 4 9 15 34 57 21 6th Did not qualify
2019 28 3 6 19 26 63 15 7th Did not qualify
2020 21 3 4 14 20 49 13 7th Did not qualify
2021 21 9 3 9 28 44 30 4th Did not qualify
2022 21 6 4 11 32 43 22 5th Did not qualify
2023 21 4 7 10 22 38 19 7th Did not qualify
2024 28 6 9 13 33 44 27 6th Did not qualify

See also

References

  1. ^ "서울 프로축구팀 내년 창단" [Seoul pro football team to be founded next year]. Kyunghyang Shinmun (in Korean). 3 September 2003. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  2. ^ "서울시, 여자축구팀 창단.. 국제대회 추진" [Seoul City establishes women's football team.. headed for international competitions]. KBS News (in Korean). 23 February 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  3. ^ "서울시 여자축구단 창단감독에 서정호씨" [Seo Jung-ho appointed founding manager of Seoul City WFC]. Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 3 December 2003. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  4. ^ "서울시청, '통일대기 여자종별축구대회' 일반부 리그 우승" [Seoul City WFC league champions in senior division of Unification Cup women's football tournament]. Chosun Ilbo (in Korean). 5 September 2004. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  5. ^ Kim, Sung-won (27 November 2011). 여자축구 실업 WK-리그 출범..올스타전 포함 총 63경기 치르기로 [Women's works football league WK League launched.. 63 matches including all-star game] (in Korean). Chosun Ilbo. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  6. ^ "South Korean teams issue boycott threat in gender test row". BBC Sport. 8 November 2013. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  7. ^ Yoo, Jee-ho (7 November 2013). "Women's football team accuses rivals of violating human rights in gender identity controversy". Yonhap News Agency. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  8. ^ Kwon, Sang-soo; Song, Ji-hoon (21 July 2014). "Amid sex test drama, Park goes to Russia". JoongAng Ilbo. Retrieved 10 March 2025.
  9. ^ a b "선수단 및 스탭 상세소개" [Players and staff] (in Korean). Seoul Sports Council. Retrieved 28 February 2025.
  10. ^ Seoul City Amazones WFC [@amazones_seoul] (13 February 2025). "2025 SQUAD NUMBER" (in Korean). Retrieved 28 February 2025 – via Instagram.
Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_Amazones
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