Seoul City Amazones WFC

Seoul City Amazones WFC

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{{short description|South Korean women's football club}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox football club
| clubname = Seoul City Hall
| image = Logo of Seoul, South Korea.svg
| fullname = Seoul City Hall Amazones Women's Football Club
서울 시청 아마조네스 여자 축구단{{web cite|url=https://www.kwff.or.kr/team/team-overview?id=6|title=서울시청 아마조네스 여자축구단|trans-title=Seoul City Hall Amazones Women's Football Club|publisher=Korea Women's Football Federation|language=ko|access-date=6 November 2025}}
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| founded = {{Start date and age|2004}}
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| ground = Seoul World Cup Auxiliary Stadium
| capacity = 1,012
| owner = [[Seoul Metropolitan Government]]
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| manager = [[Yoo Young-sil]]
| league = [[WK League]]
| season = [[2025 WK League|2025]]
| position = Regular season: 2nd of 8
Playoffs: Runners-up
| website = {{URL |1= https://www.seoulsports.or.kr/user/action/playerList.do?sportNo=3 |2=seoulsports.or.kr}}
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'''Seoul City Amazones Women's Football Club''' ({{langx|ko|서울 시청 아마조네스 여자 축구단}}), also known as '''Seoul City Hall''', is a South Korean [[Women's association football|women's football]] club based in [[Seoul]].{{cite web |title=Veteran striker Park Eun-seon wants one more shot at the World Cup |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2023/06/05/sports/football/Park-Eunseon-Veteran-Taeguk-Ladies/20230605061358003.html |website=[[Korea JoongAng Daily]] |access-date=6 November 2025 |date=5 June 2023}} The club competes in the [[WK League]], the top division of women's football in South Korea, and plays its home games at the auxiliary pitch of the [[Seoul World Cup Stadium]].

== History ==
In 2003, the [[Seoul Metropolitan Government]] announced its plans to establish a professional men's football club and a women's works football club the following year.{{Cite web |date=September 3, 2003 |title=서울 프로축구팀 내년 창단 |trans-title=Seoul pro football team to be founded next year |url=https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200309031847181 |access-date=January 23, 2025 |website=Kyunghyang Shinmun |language=ko}} Seoul City Hall W.F.C. was formally founded in February 2004 with a squad of 22 players, including nine members of the [[South Korea women's national football team|South Korean national women's team]] at the time.{{Cite web |date=23 February 2004 |title=서울시, 여자축구팀 창단.. 국제대회 추진 |trans-title=Seoul City establishes women's football team.. headed for international competitions |url=https://news.kbs.co.kr/news/pc/view/view.do?ncd=1066834 |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=[[Korean Broadcasting System|KBS News]] |language=ko}} The club's first manager was Seo Jung-ho.{{Cite web |date=3 December 2003 |title=서울시 여자축구단 창단감독에 서정호씨 |trans-title=Seo Jung-ho appointed founding manager of Seoul City WFC |url=https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2003/11/03/2003110370468.html |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=[[Chosun Ilbo]] |language=ko}} The club won its first tournament in September 2004, beating [[Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels WFC|INI Steel]] and [[Icheon Daekyo WFC|Daekyo Kangaroos]] to the top spot in the league-format Unification Cup.{{Cite web |date=5 September 2004 |title=서울시청, '통일대기 여자종별축구대회' 일반부 리그 우승 |trans-title=Seoul City WFC league champions in senior division of Unification Cup women's football tournament |url=https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2004/09/05/2004090570293.html |access-date=10 March 2025 |website=[[Chosun Ilbo]] |language=ko}} The club was one of the founding members of the [[WK League]] in 2009.{{Cite web |last=Kim |first=Sung-won |date=27 November 2011 |title= |script-title=ko:여자축구 실업 WK-리그 출범..올스타전 포함 총 63경기 치르기로 |trans-title=Women's works football league WK League launched.. 63 matches including all-star game |url=https://www.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/11/27/2008112701892.html |access-date=10 March 2025 |publisher=[[Chosun Ilbo]] |language=ko}}

Seoul was at the centre of a controversy in 2013 when representatives of the other six clubs in the WK League claimed that striker [[Park Eun-sun (footballer)|Park Eun-sun]] was male and threatened to boycott the league if Park did not undergo a gender verification test.{{Cite news |date=8 November 2013 |title=South Korean teams issue boycott threat in gender test row |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/24864223 |access-date=10 March 2025 |publisher=BBC Sport}} The club stood by Park, accusing their rivals of violating her human rights and suggesting the allegations were merely a ploy to gain a competitive advantage by keeping Park out of the league, who had scored 19 goals in 22 games.{{Cite web |last=Yoo |first=Jee-ho |date=7 November 2013 |title=Women's football team accuses rivals of violating human rights in gender identity controversy |url=https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20131107002851315?section=search |access-date=10 March 2025 |publisher=[[Yonhap News Agency]]}} Although the National Human Rights Commission advised the [[Korea Football Association]] to punish the coaches of the other teams, neither the KFA nor the WK League acted on the recommendations, and as a result, Park left Seoul to join [[WFC Rossiyanka|FC Rossiyanka]].{{Cite web |last1=Kwon |first1=Sang-soo |last2=Song |first2=Ji-hoon |date=21 July 2014 |title=Amid sex test drama, Park goes to Russia |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2014/07/21/Baseball/Amid-sex-test-drama-Park-goes-to-Russia/2992324.html |access-date=10 March 2025 |publisher=[[JoongAng Ilbo]]}}

== Current squad ==
{{updated|10 April 2026}}{{cite web |title=선수단 및 스탭 상세소개|trans-title=Players and staff|language=ko|url=https://www.seoulsports.or.kr/user/action/playerList.do?sportNo=3|publisher=Seoul Sports Council|access-date=10 April 2026}}{{Cite Instagram |author=Seoul City Amazones WFC |user=amazones_seoul |postid=DWGTKnfkt1G|date=20 March 2026|title=2026 SEASON SQUAD NUMBER |language=ko |access-date=10 April 2026 |link=https://www.instagram.com/p/DWGTKnfkt1G/}}

{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Bin Hyun-jin|no=2}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=MF|name=Lee Yoo-jung|no=3}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=FW|name=[[Han Chae-rin]]|no=7}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=MF|name=Lee Yoo-jung|no=8}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=FW|name=Kang Tae-gyeong|no=9|other=[[Captain (association football)|captain]]}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=FW|name=Seo Hyun-min|no=10}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=FW|name=Choi Ji-na|no=11}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Baek Do-hye|no=12}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Kim Young-eun|no=13}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=[[Kim Min-ji (footballer)|Kim Min-ji]]|no=14|other=[[Captain (association football)#Vice-captain|vice-captain]]}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=FW|name=[[Kang Yu-mi (footballer)|Kang Yu-mi]]|no=15}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Jo Ye-song|no=16}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Lee Ye-eun|no=17}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=GK|name=[[Kim Jung-mi (footballer)|Kim Jung-mi]]|no=18}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Kang Ye-jin|no=19}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Shin Bo-mi|no=20}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=GK|name=[[Woo Seo-bin]]|no=21}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Jeong Hyun-gyeong|no=22}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Choi Jung-yoon|no=23}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=[[Lim Seon-joo]]|no=26}}
{{Fs player|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Lee Chae-yun|no=27}}
{{Fs end}}

==Coaching staff==
*Manager: {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Yoo Young-sil]]
*Coaches: {{flagicon|KOR}} Yoon Sung-hwi, {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Yoo Young-a]], {{flagicon|KOR}} Ahn Tae-hwa
*Playing coach: {{flagicon|KOR}} Lee Yoo-jung
*Medical trainer: {{flagicon|KOR}} Yang Yoon-mi

Source: Official website

==Honours==
*'''Unification Cup'''
**'''Winners (1):''' 2004
*'''[[WK League]]'''
**Runners-up (2): [[2013 WK League|2013]], [[2025 WK League|2025]]

==Season-by-season records==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
|-
! scope="col" rowspan="2" | Season
! colspan="7" class="unsortable" | WK League regular season
!scope="col" rowspan=2 class="unsortable"| Position
! scope="col" rowspan=2 class="unsortable" | Playoffs
|-
! {{Tooltip|P|Games played}}
! {{tooltip|W|Games won}}
! {{tooltip|D|Games drawn}}
! {{tooltip|L|Games lost}}
! {{tooltip|GF|Goals for}}
! {{tooltip|GA|Goals against}}
! {{tooltip|Pts|Points}}
|-
| [[2009 WK-League|2009]]
| 20||8||5||7||27||25||29
| 3rd
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2010 WK-League|2010]]
| 20||7||2||11||23||32||23
| 4th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2011 WK-League|2011]]
| 21||5||9||7||19||26||24
| 6th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2012 WK-League|2012]]
| 21||5||9||7||26||29||24
| 5th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2013 WK League|2013]]
| 24||11||7||6||34||26||40
| 2nd
| Runners-up
|-
| [[2014 WK League|2014]]
| 24||10||6||8||29||29||36
| 3rd
| Semifinals
|-
| [[2015 WK League|2015]]
| 24||3||6||15||28||61||15
| 6th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2016 WK League|2016]]
| 24||7||5||12||33||48||26
| 5th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2017 WK League|2017]]
| 28||12||5||11||40||43||41
| 4th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2018 WK League|2018]]
| 28||4||9||15||34||57||21
| 6th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2019 WK League|2019]]
| 28||3||6||19||26||63||15
| 7th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2020 WK League|2020]]
| 21||3||4||14||20||49||13
| 7th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2021 WK League|2021]]
| 21||9||3||9||28||44||30
| 4th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2022 WK League|2022]]
| 21||6||4||11||32||43||22
| 5th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2023 WK League|2023]]
| 21||4||7||10||22||38||19
| 7th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2024 WK League|2024]]
| 28||6||9||13||33||44||27
| 6th
| ''Did not qualify''
|-
| [[2025 WK League|2025]]
| 28||15||9||4||48||28||54
| 2nd
| Runners-up
|}

==See also==
* [[Seoul FC]]
* [[Football in Seoul]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{official website|1=https://www.seoulsports.or.kr/user/action/playerList.do?sportNo=3}} {{in lang|ko}}

{{WK-League}}

[[Category:Women's football clubs in South Korea]]
[[Category:Association football clubs established in 2004]]
[[Category:Football clubs in Seoul]]
[[Category:WK League clubs]]
[[Category:2004 establishments in South Korea]]