According to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), quoted by the South Korean media, the .25 team and my hometown team won the North Korean men's and women's first division soccer league championships on April 7, 41, respectively, and the North Korean men's and women's national soccer teams at all levels are expected to return to participating in various competitions.
In the 2021-22 season, the DPRK First Division League adopted a centralized system.In the 2021-22 season, the third stage of the DPRK Men's First Division League was held in September this year, and the final round of the tournament was held on October 27th at May Day in Pyongyang. The result was that the 4.25 team won the championship and the Lee Myungsu team was the runner-up . Trainers finished third.
The women's first division soccer league started almost on the same day as the men's first division, but the final round of matches ended on October 30, with all matches scheduled to be played at the Kim Il Sung Stadium. My hometown team finally won the league title, while the 4.25 women's soccer team won the second place, and the third place went to the Yalu River team.
In addition to the First Division League, the Korean men's and women's leagues also have the Second Division League and the Third Division League. Among them, there are more teams in the women's first division league than in the men's first division league. This is mainly because North Korean women's soccer is much better than men's soccer at the intercontinental level, so they pay relatively more attention to women's soccer.
North Korea's Central News Agency reports that the country has fully resumed sporting events in the second half of this year to show the full effect of controlling the epidemic. Since the national women's soccer team will only lift the Asian women's soccer qualifier for the Olympics in the second half of 2023, the DPRK women's soccer team is likely to re-emerge on the intercontinental stage at least in the second half of next year. As for the men's soccer team, it will miss the final stage of next year's Asian Cup because both youth teams did not participate in the U17.U20 qualifiers. Perhaps the DPRK men's national soccer team will be in the next World Cup qualifiers to be held in the second half of next year.
