It sanctions professional, semi-professional and amateur football in South Korea.

Founded in 1933, the governing body became affiliated with FIFA twenty years later in 1948, and the Asian Football Confederation in 1954.

In 1921, the first All Joseon Football Tournament was held, and in 1933, the Korea Football Association was organized (following the foundation of Joseon Referees' Association in 1928), which created a foundation to disseminate and develop the sport.

[1] Park Seung-bin was the first president of the KFA, charged with the task of promoting and spreading organised football in Korea.

The KFA became a member of FIFA, the international football governing body that same year.