Taiwan Football Premier League

Taiwan Football Premier League

Founded	2017; 7 years ago (2017)
Country	Taiwan
Confederation	AFC
Number of teams	8
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Taiwan Second Division Football League
International cup(s)	AFC Cup (prior to 2024) AFC Challenge League (from 2024 onwards)
Current champions	Taiwan Steel (4th title) ( 2023 )
Most championships	Taiwan Steel (4 titles)
Top goalscorer	Marc Fenelus (149 goals)
TV partners	Sportcast
Current: 2024 Taiwan Football Premier League

Taiwan Football Premier League (TFPL; Chinese: 台灣企業甲級足球聯賽) is the top-ranked division in the Taiwanese football league run by Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA).

History

The Taiwan Football Premier League was founded in 2017 after the folding of the then highest-ranked National First Division Football League (Intercity Football League).^[1]

Under the serious epidemic COVID-19 in 2020, TFPL due to light situation in Taiwan, became one of the few football leagues in the world to start the season as usual.^[2]

Competition format

The Taiwan Football Premier League's schedule usually runs from April to November. It contains 8 teams that compete in a series of three round-robin tournaments, each composed of seven games. After the 21 game schedule is complete, the top team wins the league title and an automatic berth in the following year's AFC Cup.

Since 2020, a system of promotion and relegation exists between the Premier League and the Taiwan Football Challenge League (Chinese: 台灣企業甲級升降足球聯賽) . The lowest placed team in the Premier League is relegated to the Challenge League, and the top team from the Challenge League promoted to the Premier League. The runners-up of the Challenge League will play in a qualification tournament with the 7th in the Premier League, which the winner stays in the first Division.^[3]

Teams

Teams (2024)

Team	Chinese	Based in	Seasons in TFPL	First season in TFPL
AC Taipei	台北競技	Taipei City	3	2022
Futuro	Futuro	Taichung City	6	2019
Leopard Cat	臺灣石虎	Taipei City	8	2017
Ming Chuan University	銘傳大學	Taoyuan City	6	2017
New Taipei Hang Yuen	新北航源	New Taipei City	8	2017
Tainan City	南市台鋼	Tainan City	8	2017
Taipower	台灣電力	Kaohsiung City	8	2017
Taipei Vikings	臺北Vikings	Taipei City	1	2024

Former teams

• NSTC F.C. (國家儲訓 F.C. ) (2017-2018)
• Royal Blues F.C. (皇家蔚藍 F.C. ) (2017–2018)
• Land Home NTUS F.C. (璉紅臺體 F.C. ) (2017–2021)
• CPC F.C. (台灣中油 F.C. ) (2021)
• Taipei Dragons (臺北龍 ) (2018–2021, 2023)

Timeline

Current team Former team Second division

Stadiums

Stadiums (2024)

Stadium	Chinese	Location	Capacity	Map
Fu Jen Catholic University Stadium	輔仁大學足球場	New Taipei City	3,000	FJU Nanzih MCU NTPU Tainan Taipei Taiyuan Yilan
Kaohsiung Nanzih Football Stadium	高雄市立楠梓足球場	Kaohsiung City	4,200
Ming Chuan University Taoyuan Campus	銘傳大學龜山校區	Taoyuan City	5,000
National Taipei University	國立臺北大學	New Taipei City	300
Tainan Municipal Football Field	臺南市立足球場	Tainan City	15,000
Taipei Municipal Stadium	臺北田徑場	Taipei City	20,000
Taiyuan Football Field	太原足球場	Taichung City	600
Yilan Sports Park Multipurpose Stadium	宜蘭運動公園複合式運動場	Yilan County	15,000

Former stadiums

Stadium	Chinese	Location	Capacity
Hsinchu County Second Stadium	新竹縣第二運動場	Hsinchu County	2,500
National Stadium	國家體育場	Kaohsiung City	55,000
National Taiwan Sport University Football Field	國體人工足球場	Taoyuan City	3,000
National Taiwan University Zhubei Branch Football Field	臺大竹北校區足球場	Hsinchu County	500
National Yilan Senior High School Football Field	宜蘭高中足球場	Yilan County	0
Siao-Long Football Stadium	蕭壠足球場	Tainan City	752
Tainan Municipal Stadium	臺南市立體育場	Tainan City	20,000
Tainan Municipal Xinying Stadium	臺南市立新營體育場	Tainan City	30,000
Yingfeng Riverside Park Football Pitch	迎風河濱公園足球場	Taipei City	100

Champions

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Third place
2017	Tatung F.C.	Taipower F.C.	Hang Yuen F.C.
2018	Tatung F.C.	Taipower F.C.	Hang Yuen F.C.
2019	Tatung F.C.	Taipower F.C.	Hang Yuen F.C.
2020	Tainan City F.C.	Taipower F.C.	Taichung Futuro F.C.
2021	Tainan City F.C.	Taipower F.C.	Taichung Futuro F.C.
2022	Tainan City F.C.	Taichung Futuro F.C.	Taipower F.C.
2023	Tainan City F.C.	Leopard Cat F.C.	Taipower F.C.

Performance by clubs

Club	Winners	Runners-up	Winning years
Tainan City F.C.	4	0	2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023
Tatung F.C. / Leopard Cat F.C.	3	1	2017 , 2018 , 2019
Taipower F.C.	0	5
Taichung Futuro F.C.	0	1

Awards

Best Player

Season	Winner	Team
2019	Marc Fenelus	Tatung
2020	Wu Chun-ching	Tainan City
2021	Wu Chun-ching	Tainan City
2022	Ange Kouamé	Tainan City
2023	Ange Kouamé	Tainan City

Golden Boot

Season	Winner	Team	Goals
2017	Marc Fenelus	Tatung F.C.	35
2018	Marc Fenelus	Tatung F.C.	27
2019	Benchy Estama	Hang Yuen F.C.	25
2020	Ange Kouamé	Tatung F.C.	20
2021	Marc Fenelus	Tainan City F.C.	11
2022	Marc Fenelus	Tainan City F.C.	20
2023	Huang Wei-chieh	AC Taipei	13

Golden Glove

Season	Winner	Team
2018	Chiu Yu-Hung	Taipower
2019	Pan Wen-Chieh	Tatung
2020	Tuan Yu	Taichung Futuro
2021	Pan Wen-Chieh	Tainan City
2022	Pan Wen-Chieh	Taichung Futuro
2023	Pan Wen-Chieh	Tainan City

Best Manager

Season	Winner	Team
2017	Chiang Mu-tsai	Tatung F.C.
2018	Chiang Mu-tsai	Tatung F.C.
2019	Chiang Mu-tsai	Tatung F.C.
2020	Lo Chih-Tsung	Tainan City F.C.
2021	Lo Chih-Tsung	Tainan City F.C.
2022	Lo Chih-Tsung	Tainan City F.C.
2023	Lo Chih-Tsung	Tainan City F.C.

Fair Play Award

Season	Team
2017	NSTC
2018	Tainan City
2019	Tatung
2020	Land Home NTUS
2021	Land Home NTUS

Multiple hat-tricks

Rank	Country	Player	Hat-tricks
1		Marc Fenelus	6
2		Angel Samuel Kouamé	5
3		Jhon Miky Benchy Estama	4
4		Joo Ik-seong	3
5		Hsu Fan-shao	2
6		Lin Chang-lun	1
		Lin Cheng-hsun
		Chu En-le
		Lee Hsiang-wei
		Chiu I-huan
		Li Mao
		Chen Po-yu
		Huang Wei-chieh
		Wu Yen-shi
		Z Yicheng
		Shohei Yokoyama
		Ko Yu-ting

See also

• Intercity Football League
• Enterprise Football League

References