Tainan City F.C.

Tainan City
Full nameTainan City Football Club
NicknameThe Eagles
Founded2016; 10 years ago (2016)
GroundTainan Municipal Football Field
Kaohsiung Nanzih Football Stadium
Taipei Municipal Stadium (selected matches)
Capacity2,000
1,200
20,000
Owner(s)Tainan City Government
Taiwan Steel Group
ManagerCarlos García Fernández
LeagueTaiwan Football Premier League
2024Taiwan Football Premier League, 1st of 8 (champions)
Websitehttps://tsgfc.com.tw/
Current season

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.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK  TAI Pan Wen-chieh
3 DF  KOR Kim Sung-kyum
4 DF  TAI Fong Shao-chi
5 DF  TAI Wang Ruei
6 DF  ARG Esteban Gómez
7 MF  TAI Yao Ko-chi
8 MF  TAI Tsai Cheng-ju
9 FW  TAI Jhon Benchy
10 MF  BRA Matheus Porto
11 MF  TAI Wu Chun-ching
12 DF  KOR Kim Sang-jun
13 DF  TAI Kuo Po-wei
14 DF  TAI Liu Ho-han
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 FW  KOR Oh Se-sim
17 MF  TAI Chen Wei-jen
18 MF  FRA Diocounda Gory
19 MF  TAI Lin Ming-wei
20 MF  FRA Mouhamed Sakkouh
21 FW  TAI Chen Po-yu
22 GK  TAI Hung Shih-cheng
24 DF  TAI Dai Ya-cheng
25 MF  TAI Li Bo-you
26 MF  KOR Kim Young-geun
27 FW  TAI Li Kuan-yi
30 GK  TAI Tsai Shuo-che
31 GK  TAI Wang Po-hang

Continental record

Season Competition Round Opponent Home Away Aggregate
2021 AFC Cup Group J Mongolia Athletic 220 3–0 3rd
Hong Kong Lee Man 1–4
Hong Kong Eastern 0–1
2022 AFC Cup Group J Hong Kong Lee Man 1–3 3rd
Hong Kong Eastern 1–3
2023–24 AFC Cup Group I Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 3–0 1–3 3rd
Macau Chao Pak Kei 4–2 1–4
Chinese Taipei Taichung Futuro 5–1 1–2
2024–25 AFC Challenge League Group D Myanmar Shan United 2–2 2nd
Laos Young Elephants 3–2
Quarter-finals Indonesia Madura United 0–0 0–3 0–3
2025–26 AFC Challenge League Preliminary stage Mongolia Khangarid 4–1
Group E Myanmar Shan United 2–1 3rd
Indonesia Dewa United Banten 0–4
Cambodia Phnom Penh Crown 2–3

Honours

Domestic

References

  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.