Tainan City F.C.
{{Short description|Association football club in Chinese Taipei}}
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| clubname = Tainan City
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| fullname = Tainan City Football Club
| nickname = The Eagles
| founded = {{start date and age|2016}}
| ground = Tainan Municipal Football Field
Kaohsiung Nanzih Football Stadium (selected matches)
| capacity = 2,000
1,200
| owner = Tainan City Government
Taiwan Steel Group
| manager = Raphaël Blanchon
| league = Taiwan Football Premier League
| season = 2024
| current = 2024 Tainan City FC season
| position = Taiwan Football Premier League, 1st of 8 (champions)
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Tainan City Football Club (for sponsorship reasons currently known as Taiwan Steel and Tainan City TSG; {{zh|t=台灣鋼鐵足球隊}}) is a Taiwanese professional football club based in Tainan City, which currently competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League.
Tainan City has won a record 5 league titles in the club history. In 2024, they become the first club in the league to win a record five consecutive league titles.
History
Tainan City Football Club was established with the support of the Tainan City Government and the Football Committee of the Tainan City Sports Federation, Hongxin Enterprise and Taiwan Steel Group. The team joined the Taiwan Football Premier League, under the name Tainan City in 2017, which most of the players came from Tianmu Campus, University of Taipei. Tainan City structure and its players changed, since Taiwan Steel Group acquired the club and renamed it as Tainan City Taiwan Steel in 2019, importing national team players such as Wu Chun-ching.
= 2019 to present - as Tainan City Taiwan Steel =
Ahead of the 2020 season, Tainan City added national team players like Pan Wen-chieh, Chen Wei-chuan, 2019 'Best Player' award winner Marc Fenelus, and 2019 'Golden Boot' award winner Benchy Estama.{{Cite web|title=台企甲4月12日開幕,台灣鋼鐵補強後來勢洶洶 |url=https://www.foootball.cc/blog/read/taiwanfootballpremierleague2020_broadcast?fbclid=IwAR2_t_fLd8WSaRkubdUpzGKMSVub728JGsJKJVP7rVlMdMCKKIRy8zhE96g|date=10 April 2020 |language=zh-HK }} Tainan City went on to win the 2020 season league title, receiving the club's first major piece of silverware and direct qualification to the 2021 AFC Cup.
Tainan City won the league title in the next three seasons, becoming the first Taiwanese club to win four consecutive times.
=Performance in Asian competitions=
At the 2021 AFC Cup, Tainan City won their first ever AFC Cup match against Mongolian club Athletic 220, ultimately finishing third in the group and exiting the tournament.
In the inaugural 2024–25 AFC Challenge League they came second in their group, including a win against Laotian team Young Elephants. At the quarter-finals stage in March 2025, they will be facing off against Indonesian club Madura United.
Current squad
{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no=1 |nat=TWN|pos=GK|name=Pan Wen-chieh}}
{{Fs player|no=2 |nat=TWN|pos=DF|name=Chen Wei-chuan}}
{{Fs player|no=3 |nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Kim Sung-kyum}}
{{Fs player|no=4 |nat=TWN|pos=DF|name=Fong Shao-chi}}
{{Fs player|no=5 |nat=TWN|pos=DF|name=Wang Ruei}}
{{Fs player|no=6 |nat=JPN|pos=DF|name=Soh Narita}}
{{Fs player|no=7 |nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Yao Ko-chi}}
{{Fs player|no=8 |nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Tsai Cheng-ju}}
{{Fs player|no=9 |nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Yu Chia-huang}}
{{Fs player|no=10|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=Matheus Porto}}
{{Fs player|no=11|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Wu Chun-ching}}
{{Fs player|no=12|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Chen Jui-chieh}}
{{Fs player|no=13|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Kuo Bo-wei}}
{{Fs player|no=14|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Liu Ho-han}}
{{Fs player|no=15|nat=JPN|pos=DF|name=Reo Kunimoto}}
{{Fs player|no=16|nat=TWN|pos=FW|name=Liu Chien-wei}}
{{fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=17|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Chen Wei-jen}}
{{Fs player|no=18|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Wei Chih-chuan}}
{{Fs player|no=19|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Lin Ming-wei}}
{{Fs player|no=20|nat=TWN|pos=FW|name=Jhon Benchy}}
{{Fs player|no=21|nat=TWN|pos=FW|name=Chen Po-yu}}
{{Fs player|no=22|nat=TWN|pos=GK|name=Hung Shih-cheng}}
{{Fs player|no=23|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Lin Wei-chieh}}
{{Fs player|no=24|nat=TWN|pos=FW|name=Lin Chun-kai}}
{{Fs player|no=25|nat=BRA|pos=FW|name=Antônio Gamaroni}}
{{Fs player|no=26|nat=FRA|pos=FW|name=Mouhamed Sakkouh}}
{{Fs player|no=27|nat=KOR|pos=DF|name=Kim Sang-jun}}
{{Fs player|no=28|nat=TWN|pos=GK|name=Tsai Shuo-che}}
{{Fs player|no=29|nat=GAM|pos=FW|name=Salifu Jatta}}
{{Fs player|no=30|nat=TWN|pos=GK|name=Jiang Zhi-xian}}
{{Fs player|no=31|nat=TWN|pos=MF|name=Lin Kai-en}}
{{Fs end}}
Continental record
class="wikitable" |
Season
! Competition ! Round ! Opponent ! Home ! Away ! Aggregate |
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rowspan=3|2021
|rowspan=3|AFC Cup |rowspan=3|Group J |{{flagicon|MNG}} Athletic 220 |colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"| 3–0 |rowspan="3" style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|3rd out of 4 |
{{flagicon|HKG}} Lee Man
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"| 1–4 |
{{flagicon|HKG}} Eastern
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"| 0–1 |
rowspan=2|2022
|rowspan=2|AFC Cup |rowspan=2|Group J |{{flagicon|HKG}} Lee Man |colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"| 1–3 |rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|3rd out of 3 |
{{flagicon|HKG}} Eastern
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"| 1–3 |
rowspan=3|2023–24
|rowspan=3|AFC Cup |rowspan=3|Group I |{{flagicon|MNG}} Ulaanbaatar |style="text-align:center; background: #dfd;" | 3–0 |style="text-align:center; background: #fdd;" | 1–3 |rowspan="3" style="text-align:center; background:#fdd;"|3rd out of 4 |
{{flagicon|MAC}} Chao Pak Kei
|style="text-align:center; background: #dfd;" | 4–2 |style="text-align:center; background: #fdd;" | 1–4 |
{{flagicon|TPE}} Taichung Futuro
|style="text-align:center; background: #dfd;" | 5–1 |style="text-align:center; background: #fdd;" | 1–2 |
rowspan="3" |2024–25
| rowspan="3" |AFC Challenge League |rowspan=2|Group D |{{flagicon|MYA}} Shan United |colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"| 2–2 |rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#dfd;"|2nd out of 3 |
{{flagicon|LAO}} Young Elephants
|colspan=2 style="text-align:center; background: #dfd;" | 3–2 |
Quarter-finals
|{{flagicon|IDN}} Madura United |rowspan="2" style="text-align:center; background:#ffd;"| 0–0 |style="text-align:center; background: #fdd;" | 0–3 |style="text-align:center; background: #fdd;" | 0–3 |
Honours
= Domestic =
References
{{Taiwan Football Premier League}}
{{Chinese Taipei National Football League}}
{{Football in Taiwan}}
{{Tainan Sports}}
Category:Football clubs in Taiwan
Category:Works association football clubs in Taiwan
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