Bum-Kun Cha - Century of International Appearances


The outstanding (South) Korean player, who obtained 136 international caps with his National Team, has entered the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with a Century of Caps. He scored 58 goals, entering the symbolic but exclusive circle of players with Two Score Goals for his national team. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.
Cap  Goals    Date	Venue   	Opponent       Score	Competition

  1	     7- 5-72	Bangkok 	Iraq     	0-0 [1]	Asian Nations Cup
  2  1	 1  10- 5-72	Bangkok 	Cambodia	4-1	Asian Nations Cup
  3	 1  12- 5-72	Bangkok 	Kuwait  	1-2	Asian Nations Cup
  4	 1  17- 5-72	Bangkok 	Thailand 	1-1 [2]	Asian Nations Cup
  5	 1  19- 5-72	Bangkok 	Iran    	1-2	Asian Nations Cup
  6	 1  15- 7-72    Kuala Lumpur	Hongkong 	0-0 	Merdeka Cup  
  7	 1  17- 7-72    Kuala Lumpur	Thailand 	2-0 	Merdeka Cup
  8  1	 2  19- 7-72	Kuala Lumpur	Singapore	4-1	Merdeka Cup
  9  1	 3  23- 7-72	Kuala Lumpur	Indonesia	2-0	Merdeka Cup
 10	 3  26- 7-72	Kuala Lumpur	Japan   	3-0	Merdeka Cup
 11  1	 4  29- 7-72	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	2-1	Merdeka Cup
 12	 4  14- 9-72	Tokyo   	Japan   	2-2	
 13  1	 5  20- 9-72	Seoul   	Thailand	3-0	President's Cup
 14	 5  22- 9-72	Seoul   	Cambodia	3-1	President's Cup
 15	 5  24- 9-72	Seoul   	Malaysia	2-0	President's Cup
 16	 5  27- 9-72	Seoul   	Burma   	0-1	President's Cup
 17	 5  30- 9-72	Seoul   	Malaysia	1-0	President's Cup
 18	 5  22-10-72	Seoul   	Australia	1-1	
 19	 5  24-10-72	Seoul   	Australia	0-2	
 20	 5  18-11-72	Bangkok 	Malaysia	4-1	King's Cup
 21  1	 6  22-11-72	Bangkok 	Indonesia B	1-1	King's Cup
 22	 6  24-11-72	Bangkok 	Singapore	2-0	King's Cup
 23	 6  26-11-72	Bangkok 	Thailand	0-1	King's Cup
 24  1	 7  19- 5-73	Seoul   	Thailand	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 25	 7  21- 5-73	Seoul   	Malaysia	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 26	 7  23- 5-73	Seoul   	Israel  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 27	 7  26- 5-73	Seoul   	Hongkong	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
 28  1	 8  28- 5-73	Seoul   	Israel  	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 29	 8  23- 6-73	Seoul   	Japan   	2-0	
 30  2	10  22- 9-73	Seoul   	Cambodia	6-0	President's Cup
 31	10  24- 9-73	Seoul   	Indonesia	3-1	President's Cup
 32	10  28- 9-73	Seoul   	Burma   	0-1	President's Cup
 33  1	11  30- 9-73	Seoul   	Malaysia	2-0	President's Cup
 34	11  28-10-73	Sydney  	Australia	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 35	11  10-11-73	Seoul   	Australia	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
 36	11  13-11-73	Hongkong	Australia	0-1	World Cup Qualifier
 37  1	12  16-12-73	Bangkok 	Cambodia	5-0	King's Cup
 38	12  18-12-73	Bangkok 	Malaysia	0-0	King's Cup
 39  1	13  22-12-73	Bangkok 	Burma   	2-0	King's Cup
 40  1	14  25-12-73	Bangkok 	Malaysia	2-1	King's Cup
 41	14  13- 5-74	Seoul   	Cambodia	0-1	President's Cup
 42	14  15- 5-74	Seoul   	Malaysia	4-0	President's Cup
 43  1	15  18- 5-74	Seoul   	Burma   	3-0	President's Cup
 44	15   4- 9-74	Tehran  	Thailand	1-0	Asian Games
 45	15   6- 9-74	Tehran  	Kuwait  	0-4	Asian Games
 46	15   9- 9-74	Tehran  	Iraq    	1-1	Asian Games
 47	15  11- 9-74	Tehran  	Iran    	0-2	Asian Games
 48	15  13- 9-74 	Tehran  	Malaysia 	2-3 	Asian Games
 49	15  11-12-74	Bangkok 	Indonesia	4-0	King's Cup
 50	15  13-12-74	Bangkok 	Cambodia	2-1	King's Cup
 51	15  15-12-74	Bangkok 	South Vietnam	2-2	King's Cup
 52	15  18-12-74	Bangkok 	Malaysia 	0-0 [3]	King's Cup
 53	15  20-12-74	Bangkok 	Thailand	3-1	King's Cup
 54  1	16  25-12-74	Hongkong	Indonesia	3-1	
 55	16  16- 3-75	Bangkok 	Malaysia	1-2	Asian Cup Qualifier
 56	16  19- 3-75	Bangkok 	South Vietnam	1-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 57	16  22- 3-75	Bangkok 	Indonesia	1-0	Asian Cup Qualifier
 58  1	17  29- 7-75	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	3-1	Merdeka Cup
 59	17   1- 8-75	Kuala Lumpur	Hongkong	1-0	Merdeka Cup
 60	17   3- 8-75	Kuala Lumpur	Burma   	3-2	Merdeka Cup
 61  1	18   7- 8-75	Kuala Lumpur	Thailand	6-0	Merdeka Cup
 62  3	21   9- 8-75	Kuala Lumpur	Japan   	3-1	Merdeka Cup
 63  1	22  11- 8-75	Kuala Lumpur	Indonesia	5-1	Merdeka Cup
 64  1	23  15- 8-75	Kuala Lumpur	Bangladesh	4-0	Merdeka Cup
 65	23  17- 8-75	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	1-0	Merdeka Cup
 66	23   8- 9-75	Seoul   	Japan   	3-0	
 67	23  14-12-75 	Taipei  	Taiwan   	2-0 	Olympic G. Qualifier
 68  2	25  21-12-75	Bangkok 	Burma   	3-1	King's Cup
 69	25  23-12-75	Bangkok 	Thailand	1-2	King's Cup
 70	25  27-12-75	Bangkok 	Indonesia (4)	2-0 [4]	King's Cup
 71	25  30-12-75	Bangkok 	Singapore	5-0	King's Cup
 72	25   4- 1-76	Bangkok 	Burma   	1-0	King's Cup
 73  1	26   6- 3-76	Seoul   	Taiwan   	3-0	Olympic G. Qualifier
 74	26  21- 3-76	Tokyo   	Japan    	2-0	Olympic G. Qualifier
 75  1	27  27- 3-76	Seoul   	Japan    	2-2 	Olympic G. Qualifier
 76 	27   4- 4-76	Seoul   	Israel   	1-3	Olympic G. Qualifier
 77	27  28- 4-76	Tel-Aviv	Israel   	0-0	Olympic G. Qualifier
 78	27   7- 8-76	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	1-2	Merdeka Cup
 79  3	30  10- 8-76	Kuala Lumpur	India   	8-0	Merdeka Cup
 80	30  12- 8-76	Kuala Lumpur	Indonesia	2-0	Merdeka Cup
 81  1	31  15- 8-76	Kuala Lumpur	Burma   	2-2	Merdeka Cup
 82	31  18- 8-76	Kuala Lumpur	Japan   	0-0	Merdeka Cup
 83	31  20- 8-76	Kuala Lumpur	Thailand 	2-0 	Merdeka Cup
 84  3	34  11- 9-76	Seoul   	Malaysia	4-4	President's Cup
 85  1	35  13- 9-76	Seoul   	India   	4-0	President's Cup
 86  2	37  17- 9-76	Seoul   	Singapore	7-0	President's Cup
 87	37  23- 9-76	Seoul   	New Zealand	2-0	President's Cup
 88	37   4-12-76	Tokyo   	Japan   	2-1	
 89	37  15-12-76	Bangkok 	Thailand	1-2	King's Cup
 90	37  17-12-76	Bangkok 	Singapore	4-0	King's Cup
 91  1	38  22-12-76	Bangkok 	Malaysia 	1-1 [5]	King's Cup
 92  1	39  14- 2-77	Singapore	Singapore	4-0	
 93  1	40  18- 2-77	Riffa   	Bahrain  	4-1 
 94	40  20- 2-77 	Riffa   	Bahrain  	1-1 
 95	40  27- 2-77	Tel-Aviv	Israel  	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 96  1	41  20- 3-77	Seoul   	Israel  	3-1	World Cup Qualifier
 97	41  26- 3-77	Tokyo   	Japan   	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
 98  1	42   3- 4-77	Seoul   	Japan   	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
 99	42  15- 6-77	Seoul   	Japan   	2-1	
100  1	43  26- 6-77	Hongkong	Hongkong	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
101	43   3- 7-77	Pusan   	Iran    	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
102  1	44  17- 7-77	Kuala Lumpur	Libya   	4-0	Merdeka Cup
103	44  20- 7-77	Kuala Lumpur	Thailand	4-1	Merdeka Cup
104  1	45  22- 7-77	Kuala Lumpur	Indonesia	5-1	Merdeka Cup
105  1	46  24- 7-77	Kuala Lumpur	Burma   	4-0	Merdeka Cup
106	46  26- 7-77	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	1-1	Merdeka Cup
107	46  28- 7-77	Kuala Lumpur	Iraq    	1-1	Merdeka Cup
108  1	47  31- 7-77	Kuala Lumpur	Iraq    	1-0	Merdeka Cup
109  1	48  27- 8-77	Sydney  	Australia	1-2	World Cup Qualifier
110  1	49   3- 9-77	Seoul   	Thailand	3-1	President's Cup
111  2	51   5- 9-77	Pusan   	India   	3-0	President's Cup
112  1	52  13- 9-77	Seoul   	Malaysia	3-0	President's Cup
113	52   9-10-77	Seoul   	Kuwait  	1-0	World Cup Qualifier
114	52  23-10-77	Seoul   	Australia	0-0	World Cup Qualifier
115  1	53   5-11-77	Kuwait City	Kuwait  	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
116	53  11-11-77	Tehran  	Iran    	2-2	World Cup Qualifier
117	53   4-12-77	Pusan   	Hongkong	5-2	World Cup Qualifier
118	53  12- 7-78	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	3-1	Merdeka Cup
119	53  14- 7-78	Kuala Lumpur	Thailand	3-0	Merdeka Cup
120	53  16- 7-78	Kuala Lumpur	Singapore	2-0	Merdeka Cup
121  1	54  19- 7-78	Kuala Lumpur	Japan   	4-0	Merdeka Cup
122  1	55  22- 7-78	Kuala Lumpur	Iraq    	2-0	Merdeka Cup
123  1	56  25- 7-78	Kuala Lumpur	Indonesia	2-0	Merdeka Cup
124	56  29- 7-78	Kuala Lumpur	Iraq    	2-0	Merdeka Cup
125	56  11- 9-78	Pusan   	Malaysia	2-2	President's Cup
126	56  13- 9-78	Taegu   	Bahrain 	3-1	President's Cup
127  1	57  11-12-78	Bangkok 	Bahrain 	5-1	Asian Games
128	57  13-12-78	Bangkok 	Kuwait  	2-0	Asian Games
129	57  15-12-78	Bangkok 	Japan   	3-1	Asian Games
130  1	58  17-12-78	Bangkok 	China   	1-0	Asian Games
131	58  18-12-78	Bangkok 	Malaysia 	1-0 	Asian Games
132	58  19-12-78 	Bangkok 	Thailand 	3-1 	Asian Games
133	58  20-12-78	Bangkok 	North Korea	0-0	Asian Games
134	58   2- 6-86	Cd. de México	Argentina	1-3	World Cup
135	58   5- 6-86	Cd. de México	Bulgaria	1-1	World Cup
136	58  10- 6-86	Puebla  	Italy   	2-3	World Cup

[1] South Korea lost 2-4 on penalty kicks.
[2] South Korea won 2-1 on penalty kicks.
[3] South Korea won 5-3 on penalty kicks.
[4] Timnas Indonesia Wilayah II (mainly composed of players from Persib and Persija) 
    were the official representatives of the PSSI (FA of Indonesia)
[5] South Korea lost 1-2 on penalty kicks.


Total Record  

Matches  Won Draw Lost  For Against  Points  Percentage
   136    85   32   19  288-  99     202      74.26

Types of Matches

Types of 	     Matches  Goals
Merdeka Cup		34	21
President's Cup		22	15
World Cup Qualifier	20	 7
King's Cup		20	 7
Asian Games		12	 2
Friendlies		11	 3
Olympic Games Qualifier	 6	 2
Asian Nations Cup	 5	 1
Asian Cup Qualifier	 3	 0
World Cup		 3	 0

Total 		       136	58


About this document

Thanks to Hyung-Jin Yoon (janislam@mail.sogang.ac.kr) and Marius Schneider (marius.schneider@fifa.org) for help on earlier version of this file

Prepared and maintained by Roberto Mamrud and Eric Villante for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Roberto Mamrud (roberto.mamrud@gmail.com) and Eric Villante (e_vill14@yahoo.com)
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