Tainan City F.C.

Association football club in Chinese Taipei

Football club

Tainan City

Full name| Tainan City Football Club
Nickname(s)| The Eagles
Founded| 2016; 9 years ago (2016)
Ground| Tainan Municipal Football Field
Kaohsiung Nanzih Football Stadium
Taipei Municipal Stadium (selected matches)
Capacity| 2,000
1,200
20,000
Owner| Tainan City Government
Taiwan Steel Group
Manager| Raphaël Blanchon
League| Taiwan Football Premier League
2024| Taiwan Football Premier League, 1st of 8 (champions)
Website| https://tsgfc.com.tw/

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Tainan City Football Club (for sponsorship reasons currently known as Taiwan Steel and Tainan City TSG; Chinese: 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

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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

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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.[1] 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

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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

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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1  | GK |  TAI | Pan Wen-chieh
2  | DF |  TAI | Chen Wei-chuan
3  | DF |  KOR | Kim Sung-kyum
4  | DF |  TAI | Fong Shao-chi
5  | DF |  TAI | Wang Ruei
6  | DF |  JPN | Soh Narita
7  | MF |  TAI | Yao Ko-chi
8  | MF |  TAI | Tsai Cheng-ju
9  | MF |  TAI | Yu Chia-huang
10  | FW |  BRA | Matheus Porto
11  | MF |  TAI | Wu Chun-ching
12  | MF |  TAI | Chen Jui-chieh
13  | MF |  TAI | Kuo Bo-wei
14  | MF |  TAI | Liu Ho-han
15  | DF |  JPN | Reo Kunimoto
16  | FW |  TAI | Liu Chien-wei
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17  | MF |  TAI | Chen Wei-jen
18  | MF |  TAI | Wei Chih-chuan
19  | MF |  TAI | Lin Ming-wei
20  | FW |  TAI | Jhon Benchy
21  | FW |  TAI | Chen Po-yu
22  | GK |  TAI | Hung Shih-cheng
23  | MF |  TAI | Lin Wei-chieh
24  | FW |  TAI | Lin Chun-kai
25  | FW |  BRA | Antônio Gamaroni
26  | FW |  FRA | Mouhamed Sakkouh
27  | DF |  KOR | Kim Sang-jun
28  | GK |  TAI | Tsai Shuo-che
29  | FW |  GAM | Salifu Jatta
30  | GK |  TAI | Jiang Zhi-xian
31  | MF |  TAI | Lin Kai-en
-- | FW |  MAS | Aliff Izwan

## Continental record

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Season  | Competition  | Round  | Opponent  | Home  | Away  | Aggregate

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2021  | AFC Cup | Group J |  Athletic 220 | 3–0  | 3rd out of 4
Lee Man | 1–4
Eastern | 0–1
2022  | AFC Cup | Group J |  Lee Man | 1–3  | 3rd out of 3
Eastern | 1–3
2023–24  | AFC Cup | Group I |  Ulaanbaatar | 3–0  | 1–3  | 3rd out of 4
Chao Pak Kei | 4–2  | 1–4
Taichung Futuro | 5–1  | 1–2
2024–25  | AFC Challenge League | Group D |  Shan United | 2–2  | 2nd out of 3
Young Elephants | 3–2
Quarter-finals |  Madura United | 0–0  | 0–3  | 0–3
2025–26 | AFC Challenge League | Preliminary stage |  Khangarid | –

## Honours

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### Domestic

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* Taiwan Football Premier League
* Champions (5): 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
* Taiwan President FA Cup
* Champions (1): 2025

## References

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1. ^ "台企甲4月12日開幕，台灣鋼鐵補強後來勢洶洶" (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 10 April 2020.

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Former clubs|

* CPC Corporation
* Land Home NTUS
* NSTC
* Royal Blues
* Taipei Dragons
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Football in Taiwan

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Home Stadiums|

* Taipei Municipal Stadium
* Kaohsiung National Stadium

Men Leagues|

* Taiwan Football Premier League
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* Intercity Football League (2007–2016)
* Enterprise Football League (defunct)

Women Leagues|

* Chinese Taipei women's football championship (2006–2014)
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* Taiwan President FA Cup

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Sports teams in Tainan

3x3 basketball|

Challengers
Tainan Beast

American football|

TAFL
Tainan Ants

Baseball|

CPBL
Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions
Popcorn League
Tainan City
TWBL
Tainan Good Chance
Tainan Lightning

Basketball|

PLG
Tainan TSG GhostHawks

Football|

TFPL
Tainan City TSG

Rugby union|

Taiwan Rugby League
CJCU Hai Yang
Tainan Kaier

Volleyball|

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