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With a final pre-tournament FIFA ranking of 105th in the world, North Korea was the lowest-ranked team to qualify for the World Cup since the rankings began in 1993. 2010 was North Korea's first appearance at the World Cup since 1966. The draw placed North Korea in Group G. They played their first match against five-time winners Brazil on 15 June.
North Korea and Portugal players before their 2010 FIFA World Cup group match, in which North Korea suffered its heaviest-ever defeat. In the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifiers , the Chollimas easily dismissed Mongolia (4–1 and 5–1) then finished second behind South Korea , without any defeats or even conceding a goal in the third round.
The Ivory Coast finished third in the group and North Korea finished bottom. The North Koreans had a goal difference of −11, the worst of any team at the tournament, largely due to the 7–0 defeat they suffered against Portugal; that match was Portugal's biggest-ever World Cup win and North Korea's heaviest-ever defeat.
Group 4 of the 1966 FIFA World Cup consisted of Chile, Soviet Union, Italy, and North Korea.Play began on 12 July 1966 and concluded on 20 July 1966. Soviet Union won the group and North Korea finished as runners-up on their World Cup debut, and both advanced to the quarter-finals.
A familiar foe, a familiar result. The U.S. women lost to North Korea 1-0 in the semifinals of the Under-17 World Cup on Wednesday night. It’s the deepest the Americans have gone in the ...
North Korea and South Korea have been drawn together in an Asian qualifying group as the road to soccer's 2022 World Cup in Qatar became clearer Wednesday. In 2008, North Korea twice played home ...
FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup bracket. The U.S.-North Korea semifinal winner will face the winner of the Japan-Netherlands semifinal (6 p.m. ET on FS2) in the U-20 Women's World Cup final, which ...
The North Korea women's national football team has represented North Korea (Korea DPR) at the FIFA Women's World Cup at four stagings of the tournament; they appeared in every edition from 1999 to 2011.