Ri Chol-myong

Ri Chol-myong (Korean: 리철명, born 18 February 1988) is a North Korean international football player. He plays for Pyongyang City in the DPR Korea League.

Ri Chol-myong
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-02-18) February 18, 1988
Place of birth Pyongyang, North Korea
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
Pyongyang City
Number 8
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006– Pyongyang City ? (?)
National team
2007– Korea DPR 47 (7)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of November 17, 2015
Ri Chol-myong
Chosŏn'gŭl
리철명
Revised RomanizationI Cheolmyeong
McCune–ReischauerRi Ch'ŏlmyŏng

He has played on 44 occasions for the North Korean national team, scoring a goal in the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup against Kyrgyzstan. He has been called up to their 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Ri Chol-myong was a part of the squad in the 2010 Asian Games. Korea DRR lost 8–9 in a penalty shoot-out in the hands of UAE in the quarter-finals. Korea DPR lost because of the penalty Ri missed.

International goals

#DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
110 November 2010Aden, Yemen Yemen1-1DrawFriendly
224 December 20106th of October City, Egypt Kuwait1-21–2Friendly
313 March 2012Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Kathmandu, Nepal India4-04–02012 AFC Challenge Cup
413 November 2014Taipei Municipal Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan Hong Kong1–02–12015 EAFF East Asian Cup


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