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Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors Football Club(Supporters prefer to call as Jeonbuk F.C.-전북축구클럽)is a Korean Football Club based in Jeonju, Jeonbuk. The club was formed as Wansan Puma F.C. on September, 1991. It was the first club that using home's name as club's name in Korea and the club was founded by consortium. (The other clubs started out as company sponsored football clubs and used their sponsored company's name until 1996) Image File history File links Jbfc. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This is a list of major football (soccer) stadiums, grouped by country and ordered by capacity. ... The Korea Professional Soccer League, more commonly known today as the K-League was founded in 1983 with five member clubs, and is the oldest professional football league in Asia. ... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links Kit_shorts. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links left arm of kit template File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... body of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... rightarm of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football... Image File history File links Kit_shorts. ... socks of kit template File links The following pages link to this file: Arsenal F.C. Ajax Amsterdam AZ Alkmaar A.S. Roma Torino Calcio A.C. Milan ACF Fiorentina Bristol City F.C. Charlton Athletic F.C. Chievo Verona Chelsea F.C. England national football team Wikipedia:WikiProject Football...

However, Wansan F.C. went into bankruptcy before joining Korean Football League. The club was taken over by Bobae Ltd. that is a local alcohol manufactures. After changing the name as Jeonbuk Buffalo F.C., the club joined Korean Football League in 1994 and it was getting worse. Finally, Jeonbuk Buffalo was entrusted to KPFL(The Korean Professional Football League) and Hyundai Motors took over Jeonbuk F.C. in 1994.

Jeonbuk lifted the Korean FA Cup in 2000 and became the first side to win the trophy a second time with their 2003 victory. They would win the trophy again in 2005.

Club honors

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See also

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