North Korea has been sanctioned by world football (soccer) association FIFA, leading Daniel W Drezner to ponder:

… which country in the world has been the most popular target of sanctions approved by an international organization?
As someone who’s written a bit about economic sanctions, I confess to not having a definitive answer — to my knowledge, no one has ever researched this question. Certainly North Korea has been moving up in the ranks — the UN (back during the Korean War), the IAEA in 1994, and now FIFA.
However, I’d still be willing to bet that the answer to this question is apartheid-era South Africa. At one point or another, the United Nations, Organization for African Unity, European Economic Community, South African Development Community, and the Commonwealth imposed sanctions — not to mention the International Olympic Committee and FIFA.