Past winners of the Amateur Football Championship

Founded in November 1945 to resume organised league football after the end of the second world war, the Amateur Adult Football Championship became the main competition for Korean sides until the creation of the K-League in 1983. In the early years the Championship was dominated by the military sides as most competitions were at the time, however the company and university sides soon started to emerge as strong forces. Hallelujah were the unluckiest team in the history of the tournament, finishing runners-up five times during the 1990s but never actually managing to go the whole way to lift the trophy.
From 2001 the competition became a qualifier for the Korean FA Cup.