FIFA U17 World Cup Held Every Year KFA Operates Two-Track as a Coach...Park Yoon-jung reappointed → Ko Hyun-bok, Kim Hyun-joon, and Lee Da-young were appointed
Jul 17, 2025
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As FIFA hosts the U-17 World Cup every year, both men and women have newly established head coaches for the U-16 national team apart from the existing U-17 national team. As the competition is held every year, the KFA has decided to operate the U-17 and U-16 national teams simultaneously on a two-track basis for more systematic preparations.
Kim Hyun-joon was newly appointed to the men's U-16 national team, Lee Da-young to the women's U-16 national team, and Ko Hyun-bok to the women's U-17 national team, respectively. Coach Park Yoon-jung will serve a second term in the women's U-20 national team.
The appointment of the coach was conducted by the Technology Development Committee (Chairman Lee) for the under-17 national team and the Women's U-20 team by the Power Reinforcement Committee (Chairman Hyun Young-min). Last month, the final candidates were selected after evaluation and interviews, and the appointment was confirmed as the board of directors' approval for the candidate was completed on the 11th.
In addition to the full-time leaders, the Korea Electric Power Reinforcement Committee formed a group of candidates for all domestic and foreign leaders with leadership experience of women's high schools or higher. Coach Park Yoon-jung, who received the highest score among the final candidates, has been decided to serve consecutive terms. Coach Park acknowledged his leadership by advancing his team to the round of 16 at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup held in Colombia last year. He is also the winner of the 2023 AFC Leader of the Year Award.
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The Technology Development Committee appointed full-time leaders with extensive understanding of the association's technical philosophy of 'MIK' and experience in teaching by age through a public offering and evaluation process.
Ko Hyun-bok, the new coach of the women's U-17 national team, will lead the team in the 2025 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup finals in Morocco in October. Coach Ko began his leadership career at Icheon Middle School and has been serving as a full-time leader of the association since 2020 and has devoted himself to fostering youth players.
He has both understanding of players of that age and experience in team management by serving as a temporary coach at this year's Women's U-17 national team convocation training and overseas friendly tournaments. He also participated in the U-20 Women's World Cup and Asian Cup last year as a coach and has extensive experience in international competitions.
Kim Hyun-joon, head coach of the men's U-16 national team, has been a full-time leader of the association since 2022 after coaching Yeungnam University and Gangwon FC, and received six months of German training in 2023 according to the MOU between the association and Bayern Munich. Until recently, he has been a coach for the U-17 national team led by head coach Baek Ki-tae, gaining experience in coaching the national team and youth by age.
Coach Kim temporarily led the U-16 national team in a four-nation friendly tournament in Shenyang, China, on the 9th, winning all three games against his home teams China, Japan and Uzbekistan.
Lee Da-young, head coach of the women's U-16 national team, has been a full-time leader of the association since 2022 based on her coaching career in men's and women's youth teams such as Suwon Samsung U-12, Chungnam Internet High School, and Uduk University. In particular, he consistently coached the women's youth team's convocation training and international competitions from U-13 to U-15 and was recognized for his high understanding and ability to foster female youth players of that age.
Lee will join Ko Hyun-bok's U-17 national team as a coach and experience the U-17 women's World Cup finals.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
