Football in North Korea

Prior to 2017, the DPR Korea League winners were not eligible for any Asian Football Confederation club competition.

The North Korea national football team is ranked 112th in the world by the FIFA, as of November 2022.

In 1966, the team managed to make up for a 3–0 loss to the Soviet Union in the first match of the group stages to qualify for the next round in second.

Unlike the men's team, the women's squad consists entirely of North Korea-born Koreans.

[6] They were also disqualified for the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, due to using illegal drugs[citation needed].