Ri Chol-myong

Ri Chol-myong
Chosŏn'gŭl	리철명
Revised Romanization	I Cheolmyeong
McCune–Reischauer	Ri Ch'ŏlmyŏng

Ri Chol-myong
Personal information
Date of birth	February 18, 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth	Pyongyang, North Korea
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Pyongyang City
Number	8
Senior career*
Years	Team
2006–	Pyongyang City
International career‡
2007–	Korea DPR
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of November 17, 2015

Ri Chol-myong (Korean: 리철명, born 18 February 1988) is a North Korean international football player. He plays for Pyongyang City in the DPR Korea League.

He has played on 44 occasions for the North Korean national team, scoring a goal in the 2010 AFC Challenge Cup against Kyrgyzstan. He has been called up to their 23-man squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Ri Chol-myong was a part of the squad in the 2010 Asian Games. Korea DRR lost 8–9 in a penalty shoot-out in the hands of UAE in the quarter-finals. Korea DPR lost because of the penalty Ri missed.

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	10 November 2010	Aden, Yemen	Yemen	1-1	Draw	Friendly
2	24 December 2010	6th of October City, Egypt	Kuwait	1-2	1–2	Friendly
3	13 March 2012	Dasarath Rangasala Stadium, Kathmandu, Nepal	India	4-0	4–0	2012 AFC Challenge Cup
4	13 November 2014	Taipei Municipal Stadium, Taipei, Taiwan	Hong Kong	1–0	2–1	2015 EAFF East Asian Cup