Gimcheon Sangmu

Gimcheon Sangmu (김천 상무 프로축구단) is a professional football club that competes in the K League 2. The club is based in Gimcheon, South Korea. Sangmu means martialism and is the sports division of the Military of South Korea. Their mascot is the Bulsajo. Once Gwangju FC was established, Gwangju Sangmu FC was relocated to Sangju, Gyeongsangbuk-do, as Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps moved to Mungyeong, near Sangju. Before the 2013 season, the club officially removed the word "Phoenix" in its name. Sangju started the 2020 season already knowing they would be relegated to K League 2. After months of speculations on the club's next home base, on June 30, 2020, the K League administration announced that the city of Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do (located on south of Sangju) had officially submitted its application to host the team at least for the 2021 season, offering their local stadium as the football club's new home. After a preliminary review and several meetings and assemblies involving local governors, the K League eventually approved the proposal, thus starting the operations for the relocation of Sangju Sangmu FC to Gimcheon. There were ROK Army FC, ROK Navy FC, and ROK Air Force FC until 1983 in South Korea. ROK Marine Corps FC became ROK Navy FC in 1973. The three military football clubs were consolidated into one football section of the Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps in January 1984.