North Korea at the AFC Asian Cup
North Korea has participated in five AFC Asian Cup and finished in fourth place, their best performance to date, during their maiden appearance in 1980.
However, unlike their Southern neighbor, North Korea often struggles to have the best performances, due to poor quality of the national team and their squad, as well as outside sanctions on the nation for its repressive nature. North Korea, after their 1980 appearance, would have to wait for 12 years for their next qualification, and they made further tournament appearances in the 2011, 2015 and 2019 editions. North Korea has not won an Asian Cup match since 1980, a drought of nearly 40 years.
Squads
Template:North Korea squad 1980 AFC Asian Cup Template:North Korea squad 1992 AFC Asian Cup
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1980 Asian Cup
Group A
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 4 | +8 | 6 |
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4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 7 | +2 | 6 |
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4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 5 |
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4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 3 |
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4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 17 | −15 | 0 |
| North Korea | 3–2 | |
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Choi Jae-pil  Kim Jong-man |
Chunnu Salahuddin |
Sabah Al-Salem Stadium, Kuwait City
| North Korea | 2–1 | |
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| Kim Bok-man |
Li Fubao |
Sabah Al-Salem Stadium, Kuwait City
| Iran | 3–2 | |
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| Alidousti Danaeifard Fariba |
Hwang Sang-hoi Pak Jong-hun |
| North Korea | 2–1 | |
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| Suleiman |
Sabah Al-Salem Stadium, Kuwait City
Semi-finals
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| Chung Hae-won |
Pak Jong-hun |
Third place play-off
| Iran | 3–0 | |
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| Fariba Faraki |
1992 Asian Cup
Group A
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 |
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5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 |
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4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | +1 |
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1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 |
| North Korea | 0–2 | |
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| Report | Pious Ghayeghran |
| Japan | 1–1 | |
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| Nakayama |
Report | Kim Kwang-min |
| United Arab Emirates | 2–1 | |
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| K. Saad Bakhit |
Report | Kim Kwang-min |
2011 Asian Cup
Group D
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 9 |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | +1 | 6 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | −2 | 1 |
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3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | −4 | 1 |
| 11 January 2011 | ||
| North Korea | 0–0 | |
| 15 January 2011 | ||
| Iran | 1–0 | |
| 19 January 2011 | ||
| Iraq | 1–0[1] | |
2015 Asian Cup
Group B
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | +2 | 6 | |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 0 |
| 10 January 2015 | |||
| Uzbekistan | 1–0 | | Stadium Australia, Sydney |
| 14 January 2015 | |||
| North Korea | 1–4 | | AAMI Park, Melbourne |
| 18 January 2015 | |||
| China PR | 2–1 | | Canberra Stadium, Canberra |
2019 Asian Cup
Group E
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
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3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | +10 | 9 | Advance to knockout stage |
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | +4 | 6 | |
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 3 | |
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | −13 | 0 |
Source: AFC
| Saudi Arabia | 4–0 | |
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| Lebanon | 4–1 | |
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Record
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| Hosts / year | Result | Position | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | GP | W | D* | L | GS | GA | |
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| Withdrew after qualifying | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | ||||||||
 | Fourth Place | 4th | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | |
 | Did Not Enter | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Did Not Qualify | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||
| Group Stage | 8th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |
| Did Not Enter | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Did Not Qualify | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 7 | ||||||||
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8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 15 | |||||||||
   | Banned | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Group Stage | 12th | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Automatic qualification to win 2010 AFC Challenge Cup | ||||||
.svg.png){kind=small} | Group Stage | 13th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | Automatic qualification to win 2012 AFC Challenge Cup | ||||||
| Group Stage | 24th | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 18 | |
| To be determined | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Total | Fourth place | 5/17 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 40 | 39 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 63 | 48 | |
References
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