Ansan Hallelujah FC

Ansan Hallelujah
안산 할렐루야
Full name Ansan Hallelujah Football Club
안산 할렐루야 축구단
Founded Original 1980 (Dissolved 1998)
Refounded 1999
Ground Ansan Wa~ Stadium
(Capacity: 35,008)
Chairman Park Chong-sun
Manager Lee Young-Moo
League National League
2011 12th
Home colours
Away colours

Ansan Hallelujah FC are a South Korean soccer team based in Ansan. They currently compete in the Korea National League. They play their games at Ansan Wa~ Stadium.

Hallelujah FC is a religious (Christian) based club, which is a rare case in professional football. There are a few clubs established by a particular religion such as Rangers (Protestant), Celtic (Catholic) and AFC Ajax (Judaism), but most of today's clubs are free from religious colour and trying to globalise themselves. In this sense, Hallelujah is a very unique football club.

The club has had to move its home city twice, once from Iksan, centre of Won Buddhism, for religious conflict with Won Buddhists in 2003, the other caused by having artificial turf in their stadium in 2006.

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History

Hallelujah moved their home base to the city of Iksan and joined the National League for the 2003 season, but participated in only the first of the two championship stages as protests by radical Won Buddhist groups in Iksan forced the Christian side out of their home stadium. For 2004 the club moved to Gimpo and the team's name was changed to Gimpo Hallelujah. From 2007 season, the club moved to Ansan and the team's name was again changed, directly to Ansan Hallelujah.

Current team squad

2011 season squad

As of 2 March 2011

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Choi Im-Gyu
2 DF Yoon Hyung-Tae
3 DF Kim Joon-Sung
6 DF Lee Hyun-Min
7 DF Yoon Dong-Heon
8 MF Shin Jae-Pil
9 MF Lee Joo-Sang
10 MF Lee Do-Sung
11 FW Lim Sung-Ho
13 DF Jang In-Joon
14 MF Kim Han-Byul
15 DF Han Young-Gu
16 MF Lee Jeong-Hwan
17 MF Shin Eun-Seok
No. Position Player
18 FW Hong Sang-Won
19 FW Kim Dong-Hyo
20 DF Jung Jae-Yoon
21 GK Kang Jin-Woong
22 DF Hwang Gyu-Beom
23 FW Lee Sung-Gil
24 MF Hong Pil-Gi
25 MF Byun Ha-Young
26 MF Kim Hyun-Gi
27 DF Jeon Min-Ho
28 FW Lee Jung-Hyo
29 FW Gil Tae-Hyun
30 FW Park Han-Woong

Retired numbers

12 - Club Supporters (the 12th Man)

Honours

Domestic competitions

International competitions

Statistics

Season K-League Korean FA Cup League Cup Top scorer
(League goals)
Manager
Stage Teams P W D L GF GA GD Pts Position
2003 First Stage 10 9 4 3 2 20 15 +5 15 3rd Qualifying Round 2 None Lee Sung-Gil (7) Lee Young-Moo
2004 First Stage 10 9 2 3 4 11 15 –4 9 8th Quarterfinal Group Round Lee Sung-Gil (6)
Second Stage 10 9 0 5 4 7 13 –6 5 10th
2005 First Stage 11 10 5 2 3 11 12 –1 17 5th Round 1 Group Round Lee Sung-Gil (11)
Second Stage 11 10 4 3 3 19 15 +4 15 4th
2006 First Stage 11 10 3 3 4 11 12 –1 12 7th Round 1 Group Round Lee Sung-Gil (8)
Sung Ho-Sang (8)
Na Byung-Soo
Second Stage 11 10 7 2 1 16 8 +8 23 1st
Playoff 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 –2 1 Runner-up
2007 First Stage 12 11 3 3 5 9 15 –6 12 9th Round 1 Group Round Lee Sung-Gil (5)
Second Stage 12 11 3 4 4 16 17 –1 13 7th
2008 First Stage 14 13 4 2 7 18 21 –3 14 10th Round of 16 Runner-up Park Han-Woong (6) In Chang-Soo
Second Stage 14 13 7 4 2 22 15 +7 25 3rd
2009 First Stage 14 13 6 4 3 19 14 +5 22 6th Round of 32 Quarterfinal Jeon Jae-Hee (7)
Kang Tae-Sung (7)
Lee Young-Moo
Second Stage 13 12 4 3 5 11 10 +1 15 8th
2010 First Stage 15 14 3 1 10 14 26 –12 10 13th Round of 32 Quarterfinal Lee Joo-Sang (10)
Second Stage 15 14 6 0 8 21 22 –1 18 10th
2011 14 26 5 8 13 25 42 –17 23 12th Round of 32 None Kim Dong-Hyo (5)

See also

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