Group
Finish probabilities
1st 0%
2nd 0%
3rd place 100.0% Qualified from 3rd 0% Eliminated in 3rd 100.0%
4th 0%
Group A
South Korea
Son Heung-min's final World Cup in all likelihood, and a nation that treats every tournament as a collective emotional event. High energy, technically skilled, tactically disciplined. The physical limitations against aerial opponents are genuine and the squad depth beyond the first eleven is thin. But they make themselves very difficult to play against.
This profile summarizes South Korea's World Cup 2026 simulation path from the latest current-state snapshot: group outlook, finish distribution, possible knockout routes, opponent pools, squad context, and title chances.
Champion 0%
Group qualification 0%
Squad market €142.3m
Avg age 28.3
Avg height 1.820m
Manager Hong Myung-bo
Current-state snapshot
This profile is based on 10k current-state simulations using the WC26 simulator engine. The numbers are a model snapshot, not a guarantee. Team ratings, squads and injury updates may change over time.
Latest result included: France 0-2 Spain
Guide
How to read this team profile
Group finish and stage reach values are model outputs from the latest current-state team profile snapshot. Path sections show how South Korea's route changes by group finish, while opponent pools summarize the teams most often appearing in each round.
This page uses Knockout-phase current-state snapshot using latest committed Match Updates, official locked results, current ratings, and fixed knockout bracket state as of 15 Jul 2026 1:47 PM UTC+3. Other public forecast pages may still use root compatibility datasets until they are updated separately, and custom Team Strength settings can change future tournament paths in the live simulator.
Tournament
Stage reach probabilities
R32 0%
R16 0%
QF 0%
SF 0%
Final 0%
Champion 0%
Conditional path
Path by group finish
| Finish | Sample | R32 | R16 | QF | SF | Final | Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | No longer possible | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2nd | No longer possible | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3rd | 100.0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
Overall opponent pool
Most common opponents by round
If reached shows the opponent split among this team's matches in that round. All sims shows how often the matchup happens across the latest current-state snapshot.
R32
No opponent samples.
R16
No opponent samples.
QF
No opponent samples.
SF
No opponent samples.
Final
No opponent samples.
Finish 1st
South Korea opponent pool if finishing 1st
For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.
R32
No longer possible
R16
No longer possible
QF
No longer possible
SF
No longer possible
Final
No longer possible
Finish 2nd
South Korea opponent pool if finishing 2nd
For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.
R32
No longer possible
R16
No longer possible
QF
No longer possible
SF
No longer possible
Final
No longer possible
Finish 3rd
South Korea opponent pool if finishing 3rd
For group-finish paths, If reached is measured within that finish path and round. Path sims shows how often the matchup happens among simulations where the team finished in that position.
R32
Not enough samples.
R16
Not enough samples.
QF
Not enough samples.
SF
Not enough samples.
Final
Not enough samples.
Squad
Current squad
| Pos | Player | Age | Height | Club | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GK | Bum-keun Song | 28 | 1,94m | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | €1.0m |
| GK | Hyeon-woo Jo | 34 | 1,89m | Ulsan HD FC | €650k |
| GK | Seung-gyu Kim | 35 | 1,89m | FC Tokyo | €600k |
| CB | Min-jae Kim | 29 | 1,90m | Bayern Munich | €20.0m |
| RB | Young-woo Seol | 28 | 1,83m | Red Star Belgrade | €5.0m |
| CB | Han-beom Lee | 23 | 1,90m | FC Midtjylland | €3.0m |
| LB | Tae-seok Lee | 23 | 1,74m | Austria Vienna | €2.0m |
| CB | Yu-min Cho | 29 | 1,85m | Sharjah FC | €1.7m |
| CB | Gi-hyuk Lee | 25 | 1,84m | Gangwon FC | €800k |
| RB | Moon-hwan Kim | 30 | 1,73m | Daejeon Hana Citizen | €750k |
| CB | Tae-hyeon Kim | 25 | 1,87m | Kashima Antlers | €700k |
| DM | In-beom Hwang | 29 | 1,77m | Feyenoord Rotterdam | €7.0m |
| DM | Jin-seob Park | 30 | 1,82m | Zhejiang FC | €1.0m |
| CM | Jens Castrop | 22 | 1,77m | Borussia Mönchengladbach | €10.0m |
| CM | Seung-ho Paik | 29 | 1,82m | Birmingham City | €2.0m |
| CM | Jin-gyu Kim | 29 | 1,77m | Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors | €1.2m |
| RW | Hyun-jun Yang | 24 | 1,76m | Celtic FC | €5.0m |
| AM | Kang-in Lee | 25 | 1,73m | Paris Saint-Germain | €28.0m |
| AM | Jun-ho Bae | 22 | 1,80m | Stoke City | €4.0m |
| AM | Jae-sung Lee | 33 | 1,80m | 1.FSV Mainz 05 | €2.0m |
| AM | Dong-gyeong Lee | 28 | 1,76m | Ulsan HD FC | €1.6m |
| CF | Hyeon-gyu Oh | 25 | 1,87m | Besiktas JK | €15.0m |
| CF | Hee-chan Hwang | 30 | 1,77m | Wolverhampton Wanderers | €8.0m |
| CF | Gue-sung Cho | 28 | 1,88m | FC Midtjylland | €2.5m |
| LW | Heung-min Son | 33 | 1,83m | Los Angeles FC | €17.0m |
| LW | Ji-sung Eom | 24 | 1,78m | Swansea City | €1.8m |
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