South Korea vs. Czech Republic: Head-to-head record and past meetings ahead of World Cup 2026 clash

South Korea and the Czech Republic volition play their opening World Cup 2026 fixture connected Thursday nighttime successful Guadalajara.

Both are successful Group A of the recently expanded 48-team tournament, with lone the apical 2 successful each radical guaranteed to spell through.

Ahead of their latest contest, Sports Mole takes a look astatine the head-to-head grounds and erstwhile meetings betwixt the 2 nations.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 1

South Korea wins: 1

Draws: 1

Czech Republic wins: 1

South Korea and the Czech Republic person faced each different conscionable 3 times successful elder planetary football, with each gathering truthful acold spanning coming successful friendlies.

As things stand, they person recorded 1 triumph apiece and 1 draw, though it has been a decennary since the brace past convened.

Five years aft the Czech Republic dissolved its national with Slovakia, the caller federation met South Korea successful Seoul, where Hwang Sun-hong and Choi Yong-soo scored second-half goals to cancel retired earlier strikes by Jiri Nemec and Vratislav Lokvenc.

Lokvenc was connected people again 3 years later, arsenic the Czechs strode to a broad 5-0 location win; legendary midfielder Pavel Nedved had started the scoring, while Miroslav Baranek bagged a hat-trick aft the break. 

Another 15 years would walk earlier the 2 sides met again, with South Korea winning the teams' astir caller brushwood successful June 2016.

The Taegeuk Warriors led 2-0 by fractional clip successful Prague - done goals from Yoon Bit-garam successful the 27th infinitesimal and Suk Hyun-jun successful the 40th - earlier their Czech counterparts replied via Marek Suchy soon aft the interval.

Previous meetings

June 05, 2016: Czech Republic 1-2 South Korea (Friendly)

Aug 14, 2001: Czech Republic 5-0 South Korea (Friendly)

May 26, 1998: South Korea 2-2 Czech Republic (Friendly)