Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dockyard Dolphin was a South Korean football club based in the city of
Ulsan
Ulsan (), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighboring ...
.
They competed in the
National League
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between 2003 and 2016.
[ They were owned and operated by ]Hyundai Mipo Dockyard
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard is one of the largest shipbuilding companies with world share rank 1 (50%) in PC (Product Carrier). Since the 1980s, more than 10,000 ships were repaired and converted until 2005 and 400 newly ordered ships were delivered ...
and played their home games at Ulsan Stadium
Ulsan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Ulsan Sports Complex, Ulsan, South Korea. Originally, there was Ulsan Civic Stadium at the same location which opened in 1970. The original stadium was demolished in 2003 and replaced with Ulsan ...
.
History
The club was founded in 1998 as works team
A works team (sometimes factory team, company team) is a sports team that is financed and run by a manufacturer or other business. Sometimes, works teams contain or are entirely made up of employees of the supporting company.
Association footb ...
of Hyundai Mipo Dockyard
Hyundai Mipo Dockyard is one of the largest shipbuilding companies with world share rank 1 (50%) in PC (Product Carrier). Since the 1980s, more than 10,000 ships were repaired and converted until 2005 and 400 newly ordered ships were delivered ...
, global shipbuilding company, and joined the Korea National League
The Korea National League was a South Korean semi-professional football league held annually from 2003 to 2019. It was considered the second-highest division of the South Korean football league system before the K League 2 was launched in 2013 ...
in 2003. They have won the National League seven times (2007, 2008, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016). In 2016, Hyundai Mipo Dockyard announced that they will not fund the team anymore, and the club was dissolved after the 2016 season.
Honours
Domestic competitions
League
* National League
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::Winners (7): 2007, 2008
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, 2011, 2013
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, 2014
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, 2015, 2016
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Cups
* FA Cup
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::Runners-up (1): 2005
* National League Championship
::Winners (3): 2004, 2011, 2016
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::Runners-up (4): 2006, 2010, 2012
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, 2015
* National Sports Festival
::Gold Medal (1): 2003
* National Football Championship
::Winners (1): 2000
* President's Cup
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::Winners (2): 2005, 2008
Statistics
See also
* Ulsan Hyundai FC
Ulsan Hyundai FC ( ko, 울산 현대 축구단) is a South Korean professional football club based in Ulsan that competes in the K League 1, the top tier of South Korean football. Founded in 1983 as Hyundai Horang-i, they joined the K League in ...
* List of football clubs in South Korea
This is a list of association football clubs in South Korea from 2023 season.
K League
K League 1
12 clubs : in Alphabetical order
* Daegu FC
* Daejeon Hana Citizen
* Gangwon FC
* Gwangju FC
* Incheon United
* Jeju United
* Jeonbuk Hyund ...
References
External links
*
Hyundai Heavy Industries Group
Sport in Ulsan
Korea National League clubs
Association football clubs established in 1998
Association football clubs disestablished in 2016
1998 establishments in South Korea
2016 disestablishments in South Korea
Defunct football clubs in South Korea
Works association football clubs in South Korea
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