BREAKING Korean Football Beats Japan 1-0…Achieves Historic First '4-Peat' in Asian Games

South Korea's U-23 men's national football team won an Asian Games gold medal for the fourth consecutive time, a historic first achievement, rewriting Asian football history.

The South Korean national football team, led by Coach Lee Min-seong, defeated longtime rival Japan 1-0 in the men's football final of the 2026 Aichi·Nagoya Asian Games held at Toyota Stadium in Japan on the 3rd, clinching the championship.

Both teams maintained an evenly matched flow throughout the first half, ending goalless at 0-0. However, South Korea broke the balance in the second half. In the 16th minute of the second half, forward Um Ji-sung scored the opening and decisive goal, which became the final winning point. South Korea maintained its one-goal victory by solidly defending against Japan's offensive pressure for the remainder of the match.

With this victory, South Korean men's football achieved the feat of claiming the top spot at the Asian Games for four consecutive times: the 2014 Incheon Games, the 2018 Jakarta·Palembang Games, the 2022 Hangzhou Games (held in 2023), and now the 2026 Aichi·Nagoya Games.