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Rodong Sinmun
DPRK Women’s Football Rising to World’s Top

2024.12.9.


The DPRK’s U-20 and U-17 women football teams won four trophies in the international games this year. These successes are amazing the football world.

The DPRK women’s football teams have won U-20 and U-17 Women’s World Cups three times respectively, which showed the status of the DPRK women’s football rapidly rising to the top of the world.

The DPRK U-20 and U-17 women’s football teams won the Third FIFA U-20 Women’s World Championships in 2006 and the First FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2008. They also won FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup and FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup held in 2016 and 2024.

So the DPRK U-20 women’s football team has become one of the three strong teams which won the World Cup three times in the history of the World Cup, and the DPRK U-17 women’s football team the strongest team that won the World Cup three times for the first time.

The DPRK women footballers and coaches are determined to fully display the ever-victorious spirit and prestige of their country with gold medals and trophies in international games by further intensifying training.

Rodong Sinmun