Hunters FC Mongolia
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| Full name | Hunters Football Club Mongolia | ||
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| Nickname | The Hunters | ||
| Ground | MFF Football Centre, Ulaanbaatar | ||
| Capacity | 5,000 | ||
| Owner | Kim Dong-geun[1] | ||
| President | Choi Do-kwon | ||
| Manager | Mo Jeung-Il | ||
| League | Mongolian Premier League | ||
| 2025–26 | 5th | ||
| Website | Website | ||
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Hunters FC Mongolia (Mongolian: Хантерс ФК Монгол), or simply Hunters FC, is a Mongolian professional association football club from Ulaanbaatar that currently competes in the Mongolian Premier League.[2]
History
[edit]Hunters FC was established in 2019 and has been competing in the Mongolian league system since that time.[3] Prior to the 2022/23 season, the club was purchased by Dong-geun Kim of South Korea and was placed under the Mongolia Korea Economy Support Conference umbrella. The group purchased the club for the purpose of Christian evangelization in Mongolia.[4]
The club won the 2022/2023 Second League with an undefeated season and were automatically promoted for the following campaign.[2] The club then finished its first season in the First League undefeated, earning its second consecutive promotion and qualifying to compete in the Mongolia Premier League for the first time for the 2024/2025 season.[5] Hunters FC played its first-ever top flight match on 17 August 2024, losing 0–3 to Deren FC. The defeat was the club's first loss in a league fixture since 2022.[4] Hunters FC finished in fifth place for the 2025–26 season, the club's best-ever finish in the top flight. That season, the offense was led by Min Ki-tae who tallied twenty four goals and eleven assists and was the league's top scorer. In the process, Ki-tae became the first Hunters FC player and the first player from South Korea to win the award.[6][3]
Domestic history
[edit]- Key
Champion Runners-up 3rd Place
| Season | League | Domestic Cup | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Div. | Pos. | Pl. | W | D | L | P | |||
| 2019[7] | 4th | 8th |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | Promoted to Second League | |
| 2019[7] | 3rd | 7th |
8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | Relegated to National Amateur Cup | ||
| 2020[8] | 4th | 2nd |
7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | Promoted to Second League | |
| 2020[8] | 3rd | Promoted to First League | |||||||
| 2021[9] | 2nd | 4th |
9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 17 | ||
| 2021/2022[10] | 2nd | 9th |
17 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 20 | Relegated to Second League | |
| 2022/2023[11] | 3rd | 1st |
18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 48 | Promoted to First League | |
| 2023/2024[12] | 2nd | 1st |
18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 48 | Promoted to Premier League | |
| 2024/2025[13] | 1st | 7th |
27 | 8 | 5 | 14 | 29 | ||
| 2025/2026[14] | 1st | 5th |
20 | 11 | 3 | 6 | 36 | ||
| 2026 | 1st | ||||||||
References
[edit]- ↑ "몽골 헌터스 FC, 2023-2024 국가1부리그 우승" (in Korean). newsnnet.com. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- 1 2 Grimm, Justin. "Hunters FC Win 2022/23 Second League". Mongolian Football Central. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- 1 2 Jung-woo, Yoo. "몽골 프로축구 최상위 리그 득점왕에 한국 선수 첫 등극" (in Korean). Mania Report. Retrieved 15 September 2026.
- 1 2 Grimm, Justin. "Club Spotlight: Hunters FC". Mongolian Football Central. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
- ↑ Grimm, Justin. "The 2023/2024 Mongolian Football Calendar Wraps Up". Mongolia Football Central. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ↑ Grimm, Justin. "Hunters FC's Ki-tae Looks to Repeat Success in Second Season". Mongolian Football Central. Retrieved 16 September 2026.
- 1 2 Grimm, Justin; Stokkermans, Karel. "Mongolia 2019". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- 1 2 Grimm, Justin; Stokkermans, Karel. "Mongolia 2020". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ↑ Grimm, Justin; Stokkermans, Karel. "Mongolia 2021". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ↑ Grimm, Justin; Stokkermans, Karel. "Mongolia 2021/22". RSSSF. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ↑ Grimm, Justin; Stokkermans, Karel. "Mongolia 2022/23". RSSSF. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ↑ Grimm, Justin; Stokkermans, Karel. "Mongolia 2023/24". RSSSF. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
- ↑ Grimm, Justin; Stokkermans, Karel. "Mongolia 2024/25". RSSSF. Retrieved 26 July 2025.
- ↑ Grimm, Justin; Stokkermans, Karel. "Mongolia 2025/26". RSSSF. Retrieved 29 September 2025.