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Ryongnamsan Sports Club

football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ3786371 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ryongnamsan Sports Club (Korean: 룡남산체육단; Hancha: 龍南山體育團) is a North Korean multi-sports club based in Pyongyang and affiliated with Kim Il Sung University. They formerly competed in the DPR Korea Premier Football League.

It is named after Ryongnamsan (룡남산), a mountain in Pyongyang near Kim Il Sung University which is often equated.

History

The Ryongnamsan Sports Club was founded in 1900.

Sports teams

The men's football team of Ryongnamsan SC competed in the 2011 DPR Korea Premier Football League season.

The club also has handball teams.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1900, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Ryongnamsan, Sports and Club can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3786371. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1900 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ryongnamsan Sports Club” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.