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The 2024 Special Olympics Korea-K League Unified Cup, co-hosted by K-League Association and Special Olympics Korea and sponsored by Hyundai Motor Group, Community Chest of Korea, Ringti, Dongwon Spring Water and Papa John’s, will be held in Chungju for two nights and three days from the 8th.
The Unified Cup, which marks its fourth anniversary this year, is an integrated soccer-based competition in which athletes with developmental disabilities and non-disabled partners play as a team. Integrated soccer aims to help the developmentally disabled and non-disabled understand each other through sports, and further realize the value of social inclusion and equality for the developmentally disabled.
About 260 people from 11 integrated soccer teams under each K-League club (Federation, Gyeongnam, Daegu, Daejeon, Busan, Bucheon, Seongnam, Incheon, Jeonnam, Jeju and Pohang) will participate in this competition.
All participating teams will enter the accommodation on the 8th and complete the registration of players, and then hold the competition over two days from the 9th to the 10th. 토토사이트 The tournament will be held in the form of a full league by dividing each team into groups A, B and C. The group was organized based on the results of the Unified International Cup in September, and Daegu, Daejeon, Federation, and Jeonnam were assigned to Group A, Gyeongnam, Busan, Jeju, B, Bucheon, Seongnam, Incheon, Pohang, and Group C to Daegu, Daejeon, Pohang, and Jeonnam.
All games are based on 11-man soccer, with six developmentally disabled players and five partner players from each team playing for 25 minutes each in the first and second half. All games will be played only in the group stage, where there is no burden of winning or losing, and the awards ceremony will be awarded from the “first winner” (first place) to the “fourth winner” (fourth place) of each group, not the winning team.
In addition, the tournament has a variety of events, including soccer training sessions hosted by former K-League players Lee Yoon-pyo, Lee Sang-hyeop and Lee Joon-hee, filming Lee Geohae-won-hee-type content with Cho Won-hee, recreation involving the entire team, and education to improve awareness of the disabled.