Chunnam Dragons

Chunnam Dragons
전남 드래곤즈

Full name	Chunnam Dragons Football Club 전남 드래곤즈 축구단
Nickname(s)	Dragons
Founded	1995
Ground	Gwangyang Football Stadium (Dragon Dungeon) (Capacity: 14,284)
Owner	POSCO
Chairman	Lee Kun-Soo
Manager	Jung Hae-Seong
League	K-League
2010 Season	10th
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Chunnam Dragons (전남 드래곤즈) is a football club founded in 1995 in the Korean city of Gwangyang, which joined the K-League for the 1995 season at the same time as Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, their Jeolla province rivals.

History

Chunnam was established on 16 December 1994. Chunnam appointed Jung Byung-Tak, former South Korean international left winger, as their first manager.

25 March 1995, Chunnam played their first ever K-League match. Chunnam's greatest season to date came in 1997 when they finished runners-up, behind Daewoo Royals in the K-League and also lifted the Korean FA Cup. In 1999, Chunnam also came runners-up in the Asian Cup Winners Cup, beating J-League giant Kashima Antlers 4-1. They became Korean FA Cup champions for a second straight year in 2007.

On 27 December 2007, Chunnam appointed Park Hang-Seo as new manager after former manager Huh Jung-Moo was appointed as Korea Republic national football team manager.

Club honors

Domestic

• K-League
  • Runner-up (1) : 1997

• FA Cup
  • Champions (3) : 1997, 2006, 2007
  • Runners-up (1) : 2003

• K-League Cup
  • Runners-up (3) : 1997, 2000, 2008

International

• Asian Cup Winners Cup
  • Runners-up (1) : 1999

Sponsors

Kit Supplier

• 2007-2009: Astore
• 2010- : Jako

Current squad

As of 21 September 2011

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Lee Woon-Jae (captain) 2 DF Lee Sang-Ho 3 DF Yoon Suk-Young 4 DF Ahn Jae-Joon 6 MF Kim Young-Wook 7 FW Kim Myung-Joong 8 MF Lee Hyun-Seung (on loan from Seoul) 11 FW Índio 12 MF Lee Seung-Hee 13 DF Robert Cornthwaite 15 DF Bang Dae-Jong 17 DF Lee Jun-Ki 18 FW Wesley (on loan from Corinthians) 20 MF Javier Reina (on loan from Cruzeiro) 21 GK Ryu Won-Woo 22 DF Lee Wan 23 FW Gong Young-Sun 24 DF Hwang Sun-Pil 25 DF Hwang Do-Yeon 26 DF Kim Jae-Hoon 27 MF Yoo Ji-No

No. Position Player 28 DF Jeong Jun-Yeon 29 FW Kim Hyung-Pil 30 MF Jung Keun-Hee 31 GK Shin Jung-Hwan 32 DF Kim Myung-Sun 33 FW Lee Jong-Ho 34 MF Shin Young-Jun 35 MF Kim Sung-Kyun 36 FW Kim Se-Hun 37 MF Seo Ju-Hang 38 MF Joo Hyun-Woo 39 MF Park Young-Jun 40 DF Baek Jin-Mok 41 GK Kim Kyo-Bin 42 MF Kang Jin-Kyu 43 MF Kwon Hyung-Sun 44 FW Jang Yong-Ik 45 MF Lee Nam-Yong 46 MF Lee Byeong-Yun 50 MF Jung Kyung-Ho

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player FW Ko Cha-Won (to Sangju Sangmu Phoenix for military service)

Managers

Name	Start	End
Chung Byung-Tak	1995	1995
Huh Jung-Moo	1996	1997
Lee Hoi-Taek	1998	2003
Lee Jang-Soo	2004	2004
Huh Jung-Moo	2005	2007
Park Hang-Seo	2008	2010
Jung Hae-Seong	2011

Notable players

Adriano Chuva Índio Itamar Leandrão Mota Selmir Jean-Kasongo Banza Lee Sa-Vik Richard Offiong Adrian Mihalcea Adrian Neaga Yevgeni Kuznetsov Andriy Sidelnikov Serhiy Skachenko

Baek Ji-Hoon Hwang Sun-Hong Ji Dong-Won Kim Chi-Woo Kim Nam-Il Kim Tae-Young Kim Young-Kwang Ko Jong-Soo Kwak Tae-Hwi Lee Chun-Soo Lee Gyu-Ro Roh Sang-Rae Song Jung-Hyun

External links

• (Korean) Chunnam Dragons official site
• (Korean)(English) Chunnam Dragons facebook