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S. Korea Beat Japan for 4th Straight Men's Football Gold

Summary by The Korea Times
TOYOTA, Japan — South Korea edged out the host country Japan 1-0 to win their fourth straight Asian Games gold medal in men's football on Saturday. Eom Ji-sung's 61st minute goal stood as the title winner for South Korea at Toyota Stadium in Toyota, some 30 kilometers east of the main host city, Nagoya. South Korea have now defeated Japan in three consecutive Asiad men's football finals.

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TOYOTA, Japan — South Korea edged out the host country Japan 1-0 to win their fourth straight Asian Games gold medal in men's football on Saturday. Eom Ji-sung's 61st minute goal stood as the title winner for South Korea at Toyota Stadium in Toyota, some 30 kilometers east of the main host city, Nagoya. South Korea have now defeated Japan in three consecutive Asiad men's football finals.

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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Um Ji-sung's decisive blow decided the match. Head Coach Lee Min-sung also restored his honor with the team's fourth consecutive Asian Games title. The South Korean U-23 national football team, led by Coach Lee Min-sung, won 1-0 in the football final of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held at Toyota Stadium in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on the 3rd. South Korea... 2014 Incheon

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[Toyota = Sports Chosun Reporter Park Chan-jun] 'Wildcard' Lee Ki-hyuk (Gangwon) has returned to the starting lineup. The South Korean national football team for the Asian Games will face Japan in the final of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games at Toyota Stadium in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, at 7:30 PM on the 3rd. Japan is a country that is close yet distant; coexistence is impossible due to a painful past. Even if its significance has faded consid…

(Toyota, Japan = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Song-a = Lee Young-jun (Grasshopper), Um Ji-sung (Swansea City), Bae Jun... in the Korea-Japan match for the fourth consecutive Asian Games men's football title

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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The South Korean U-23 national football team defeated Japan to achieve their fourth consecutive Asian Games victory.

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The Japan U-21 national football team lost 0-1 to South Korea in the men's football final at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture on October 3rd (at Toyota Stadium), missing out on the gold medal...

·Osaka, Japan
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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Saturday, October 3, 2026.
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