Seongnam FC
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| Full name | Seongnam Football Club 성남시민프로축구단 |
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| Nickname(s) | Magpies |
| Short name | SFC |
| Founded | 1989, as Ilhwa Chunma |
| Ground | Tancheon Sports Complex |
| Capacity | 16,146 |
| Owner | Seongnam Government |
| Chairman | Mayor of Seongnam |
| Manager | Park Kyung-hoon |
| League | K League Challenge |
| 2016 | K League Classic, 11th (relegated) |
| Website | Club home page |
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| Revised Romanization | Seongnam FC |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏngnam FC |
Seongnam FC (Korean: 성남 FC) is a South Korean professional football club, based in Seongnam, South Korea. Seongnam currently plays in the K League Challenge. Founded as Ilhwa Chunma Football Club in 1989, the club is the most successful in Korean football, having won a record seven league titles, three FA Cups, three League Cups, and two AFC Champions League titles.
Seongnam placed fifth in the IFFHS Asian Clubs of the 20th century.
In 2014, the club was bought by the Seongnam City Government and was officially renamed Seongnam FC.
The club was founded on 18 March 1989 as Ilhwa Chunma Football Club with the club based in Seoul. The club was successful from its beginning, winning its first League Cup three years later in 1992 and winning three consecutive league titles from 1993 to 1995 under Park Jong-hwan. Seongnam also won the 1995 Asian Club Championship, which is currently the AFC Champions League, beating Al-Nasr 1–0 in the final. But the club was forced to move in 1996, as part of the K League's decentralization policy. This policy was carried out due to two reasons – the first reason was that the KFA and the K League wanted to build a soccer-specific stadium in Seoul and the second reason was that the KFA and the K League wanted to spread football fever to the provinces. The three clubs based in Seoul – Ilhwa Chunma, LG Cheetahs, Yukong Elephants didn't accept this policy, resulting in the Korean government giving eviction orders to the 3 clubs. However, they guaranteed if the clubs built a soccer-specific stadium in Seoul, they could have a Seoul franchise and then return to Seoul. As a result, three clubs were evicted from Seoul to other cities, Ilhwa Chunma moved to the city of Cheonan and changed its name to Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma.
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