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| Full name | Daegu Football Club 대구시민프로축구단 | ||
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| Founded | 2002 | ||
| Ground | DGB Daegu Bank Park | ||
| Capacity | 12,415 | ||
| Owner | Daegu Government | ||
| Chairman | Hong Joon-pyo (Daegu mayor) | ||
| Head coach | Park Chang-hyun | ||
| League | K League 1 | ||
| 2023 | K League 1, 6th of 12 | ||
| Website | www | ||
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Daegu FC (Korean: 대구 FC) is a South Korean professional football club based in Daegu. The club was founded as a community club at the end of 2002, and made their K League 1 debut in 2003. Daegu has played mostly in the K League 1 but was relegated at the end of the 2013 season to the K League 2. They were promoted back to the top tier for the 2017 season and went on to win the Korean FA Cup in 2018, which qualified them for the 2019 AFC Champions League. The club's best season in K League 1 was in 2021, when they finished third out of twelve teams. The same year, they were also runners-up in the Korean FA Cup and progressed to the round of 16 in the 2021 AFC Champions League.