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Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 성남 일화 천마
Full name	Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma 성남 일화 천마
Nickname(s)	Chunma (Pegasus)
Founded	1989
Ground	Seongnam 2 Stadium Seongnam, Gyeonggi (Capacity 16,000)
Chairman	Park Kyu-Nam
Manager	Kim Hak-Beom
League	K-League
K-League 2007	2nd
Home colours 　 Away colours

The Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma club, founded in 1989, is a professional football team in South Korea. With seven league crowns, it is the most successful K-League club in terms of Championship victories.

The club began life playing at Dongdaemun Stadium in Seoul, but after winning their third consecutive title in 1995 the league officials declared that all of the three teams based in the capital had to leave, so the club moved down to Cheonan.

Several unsuccessful seasons followed, and when they finished at the bottom of the league for the second time in 1999, the club moved up to the Seoul satellite city of Seongnam and renamed themselves Seongnam Ilhwa Chunma. The move worked out very well, as the rejuvenated club went on to win the 2001, 2002 and 2003 K-League championships.

A disappointing 2004 campaign saw them meekly relinquish their title, but they reached the final of the Asian Champions League, where despite winning the away leg 3-1, they lost the home leg 5-0 to the Saudi Arabian team Al-Ittihad and lost the tie 6-3 on aggregate.

The club bounced back to the forefront of Korean football in style as they claimed their seventh K-League championship in 2006, defeating Suwon Samsung Bluewings 3-1 on aggregate in the championship playoff final.

Before they were defeated by Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2-1 on 15th July, 2007, they had not lost for 22 consecutive league matches. It was the third longest streak in the history of the K-league.

In the championship playoff final, they were defeated by Pohang Steelers 4-1 agg. Despite finishing first place in the K-League, they were not the champion in the playoffs.

As of December 16, 2007

No. Position Player 1 GK Kim Hae-Woon 2 DF Park Jin-Seop 3 DF Cho Yong-Hyung 5 DF Cho Byung-Kuk 6 MF Son Dae-Ho 7 FW Choi Sung-Kuk 8 MF Kim Do-Hyun 9 FW Kim Dong Hyun 10 FW Itamar 11 FW Mota 12 FW Nam Ki-Il 13 MF Seo Dong-Won 14 DF Kim Sang-Sik 15 FW Han Dong-Won 16 MF Lee Jung-Yong 17 MF Kim Chul-Ho 18 DF Park Jae-Yong 19 MF Sin Young-Chul 20 DF Kim Young-Chul

No. Position Player 21 GK Park Sang-Chul 23 DF Park Woo-Hyun 24 FW Kim Min-Ho 26 MF Choi Sang-Hyun 27 MF Kim Sang-Duk 28 MF Do Jae-Joon 29 DF Go Bum-Soo 30 MF Ryu Gwang-Ha 31 GK Jeon Sang-Wook 32 DF Sin Sang-Woo 33 DF Jang Hak-Young 34 MF Jin Min-Ho 36 DF Park Sung-Joo 37 MF Cha Byung-Min 39 DF Kwon O-Kyu 41 MF Park Min-Young - MF Jeon Kwang-Jin - MF Dudu

In

No. Position Player MF Jeon Kwang-Jin (Transferred from Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix) FW Dudu (Transferred from FC Seoul)

Out

No. Position Player 4 DF Kim Tae-Yoon (Transferred to Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix) 38 MF Park Gwang-Min (Transferred to Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix) 40 GK Kim Yong-Dae (Transferred to Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix) 42 MF Sin Dong-Geun (Transferred to Gwangju Sangmu Phoenix)

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Preceded by POSCO Atoms	K-League Champions 1993-1995	Succeeded by Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i
Preceded by Thai Farmers Bank FC	Champions of Asia 1996	Succeeded by Pohang Steelers
Preceded by Anyang LG Cheetahs	K-League Champions 2001-2003	Succeeded by Suwon Samsung Bluewings
Preceded by Ulsan Hyundai Horang-i	K-League Champions 2006	Succeeded by Incumbent