Asan Mugunghwa FC

Asan Mugunghwa
아산 무궁화

Full name	Asan Mugunghwa Football Club 아산 무궁화 프로축구단
Founded	1996
Ground	Yi Sun-shin Stadium
Capacity	19,283
Manager	Lee Heung-sil
2016	K League Challenge, 1st
Website	Club home page
Home colours Away colours

Asan Mugunghwa Football Club, commonly known as Police FC, is a South Korean football club. Police FC's players comprise Korean professional footballers who are serving their two-year military duty.

Asan Mugunghwa FC have played in the K League Challenge between 2013 and 2016. Starting from the 2017 season, they play their home games in Asan.

History

Originally founded as National Police Department FC in 1961, the club changed its name to Seoul Police Department FC in 1962 then back to its original name in 1967. During its history it won a number of competitions such as the Korean President's Cup National Football Tournament and the Korea Semi-Professional Football League in the 1960s before it was dissolved in November 1967. The club was reinstated in 1996, and it partly consisted of players serving their compulsory two-year military duty, similar to the other military club Sangju Sangmu FC.

In January 2016, the club name was changed to Ansan Mugunghwa FC. Korean word Mugunghwa means hibiscus syriacus and is the symbol of the Korean Police. After the 2016 season, the team was relocated to Asan.

Club Name History

• 1996–2013: Police FC
• 2014–2015: Ansan Police FC
• 2016: Ansan Mugunghwa FC
• 2017–present: Asan Mugunghwa FC

Current squad

As of 14 October 2016^[1][2]

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

No. Position Player 2 DF Jung Da-hwon 5 DF An Jae-jun 6 DF Jo Sung-jin 7 MF Han Ji-ho 9 FW Kim Dong-sub 10 MF Lee Hyun-seung 11 FW Hwang Ji-woong 12 FW Ha Jung-heon 14 MF Kim Eun-sun 15 MF Choi Bo-kyung 16 FW Lim Sun-young 17 MF Kang Seung-jo 18 MF Gong Min-hyun 19 MF Joo Hyun-jae 20 DF Ahn Young-gyu 22 MF Kim Jun-yeop 23 MF Nam Joon-jae

No. Position Player 25 MF Choi Jin-soo 27 DF Park Yo-han 28 MF Lee Joon-ho 29 MF Kim Jae-woong 30 FW Han Hong-kyu 31 GK Kim Dae-ho 32 DF Ha In-ho 33 FW Jung Sung-min 34 GK Son Jeong-hyeon 36 DF Kim Dae-ho 36 DF Hwang Do-yeon — GK Park Hyeong-soon — DF Lee Euddeum — MF Lee Chang-yong — FW Lee Jae-an — FW Han Eui-kwon

Managers

#	Name	From	To	Season	Notes
1	Yu Dong-chun	1996/03/29	2001/03/07	1996–2000	First manager
2	Kim Ki-bok	2001/03/07	?	2001–2005
3	Park Dae-je	2005/11/03	?	2006–2010
4	Cho Dong-hyun	2010/10/12	2015/01/13	2011–2014
5	Lee Heung-sil	2015/01/13	present	2015–present

Honours

Domestic competitions

League

• K League Challenge
  

Winners (1): 2016

Runners-up (2): 2013, 2014

• Korean National Semi-Professional Football League

Winners (1): 2002 (Autumn)

Crest

• 

  ?–2013
• 

  2014–2015
  (Unveiled : 2014-03-16)
  ^[1]
• 

  2016–present
  (Unveiled : 2016-01-14)
  ^[2]

1. ^ 안산경찰청프로축구단 엠블럼, 유니폼, 마스코트 공개 (in Korean). Gukje News. 2014-03-18.
2. ^ 안산 경찰청, 무궁화 축구단으로 명칭 변경 (in Korean). Gukje News. 2016-01-14.

See also

• National Police Agency (Republic of Korea)
• Korean National Police University
• Korean Police Baseball Team
• Sangju Sangmu FC

References

1. "Players Introduction" (in Korean). National Police Agency Official Website.
2. "경찰단 12명 K리그 클래식 복귀...어느 구단이 웃을까" (in Korean). Sportsseoul. 22 September 2013.

External links

• Official website (Korean)