Tainan City F.C.
| Full name | Tainan City Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Eagles | ||
| Founded | 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 | ||
| 2024 | Taiwan Football Premier League, 1st of 8 (champions) | ||
| Website | https://tsgfc.com.tw/ | ||
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| Departments of Taiwan Steel Group | ||||||||||||
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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
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.[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
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
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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Continental record
| 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 | – | |||
Honours
Domestic
References
- ^ "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.