Taichung Futuro FC (Chinese: 台中Futuro) is a professional football club based in Taichung, Taiwan which currently competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League.

Taichung Futuro
Full nameTaichung Football Academy Futuro
Short nameFuturo
Founded2016; 8 years ago (2016)
GroundTaiyuan Football Field (primarily)
Capacity600
OwnerYoshitaka Komori
Head coachFang Ching-ren
LeagueTaiwan Football Premier League
2023TFPL, 5th of 8
Current season

History

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Taichung Futuro Football Academy was founded in 2016 by Japanese footballer Yoshitaka Komori. The men's team was established in 2018.[1] A second-place finish in 2022 meant qualification to next season's AFC Cup play-offs. They secured a group stage place in the 2023-24 AFC Cup after beating Macanese side Monte Carlo 2–1 in the East Asia Zone play off, and managed to secure progression to the Inter-zone play-off semi-finals by virtue of goal difference over Mongolia's FC Ulaanbaatar.

Kits

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Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

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Period Kit manufacturer Shirt sponsor (chest)
2019 Yonex Sweeten Real Estate Development
2020
2021–2022 MIE Lihpao Resort
2023 Changhua County Government
2024–present Joma Hota-Gear

Players

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Current squad

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As of 5 August 2024

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   TAI Lee Ming-wei
3 DF   TAI Chen Ting-yang (captain)
4 FW   TAI Tseng Te-lung
5 FW   TAI Cheng Hao
6 MF   TAI Tsai Chieh-hsun
7 DF   JPN Keisuke Ogawa
8 DF   TAI Yoshitaka Komori
9 MF   TAI Chen Hung-wei
10 MF   JPN Shohei Yokoyama
12 MF   TAI Wen Chih-hao
14 DF   TAI Chen Chun-fu
17 FW   TAI Hsu Heng-pin
18 FW   TAI Li Mao
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 DF   TAI Li Ya-she
21 GK   TAI Tuan Yu
22 MF   JPN Takuro Uehara
23 MF   JPN Kaoru Takayama
24 DF   JPN Koji Wada
27 MF   JPN Toshio Shimakawa
34 DF   TAI Lin Che-yu
42 DF   TAI Liu Wei-che
43 DF   TAI Liang Meng-hsin
50 GK   JPN Kenya Matsui
88 DF   JPN Nagisa Sakurauchi
99 GK   TAI Lin Chun-hua

Managers

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Manager Nat. Tenure
Juang Ming-yen[2]   Taiwan 2019
Toshiaki Imai[3]   Japan 2020
Vom Ca-nhum[4]   Taiwan 2020–2022
Juang Ming-yen[5]   Taiwan 2023
Jun Hirabayashi   Japan 2023
Pen Wu-sung   Taiwan 2023–2024 (AFC Cup)
Fang Ching-ren[6]   Taiwan 2024–present

Records

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Year-by-year

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Season League Position International/Continental Top goalscorer(s)
Div League Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts PPG Name(s) Goals
2019 1 TFPL 21 8 4 9 37 26 +11 28 1.33 5th DNQ   Chen Sheng-wei
  Li Mao
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2020 TFPL 21 12 3 6 33 17 +16 39 1.86 3rd   Joo Ik-seong 19
2021 TFPL 14 8 2 4 20 11 +9 26 1.86 3rd   Shohei Yokoyama 5
2022 TFPL 18 10 7 1 36 11 +25 37 2.06 2nd   Benchy Estama 18
2023 TFPL 21 8 4 9 33 31 +2 28 1.33 5th AFC Cup IZSF   Benchy Estama 9
2024 TFPL
Total 95 46 20 29 159 96 +63 158 1.66   Benchy Estama 28

^ 1. Top goalscorer(s) includes all goals scored in League, AFC Cup, and other competitive continental matches but excludes goals in their qualifying matches.

International competition

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Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2023–24 AFC Cup Play-off round   Monte Carlo 2–1
Group I   Chao Pak Kei 1–0 1–0 1st out of 4
  FC Ulaanbaatar 1–2 2–0
  Taiwan Steel 2–1 1–5
Inter-zone play-off semi-finals   Abdysh-Ata Kant 1–3 0–5 1–8

References

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  1. ^ SPORTSPON (18 April 2019). "台中足球的「未來進行式」:2019年台企甲新軍-台中Futuro". SPORTS VISION (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  2. ^ 謝, 孟儒 (11 April 2019). "台灣國腳、日本U23代表入陣 台中FUTURO盼建金字塔青訓 (in Chinese)". ETtoday.net. Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  3. ^ Ko, Brandon (28 July 2020). "那些年,我們一起看的臺灣男足外籍教練[近5年]". SPORTS VISION (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  4. ^ Pan, Jason (28 July 2020). "Futuro's Vom wins battle of national team coaches". The Taipei Times. Taipei: The Liberty Times Group. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  5. ^ 張, 克銘 (23 March 2023). "台中Futuro本季雙線作戰 球隊預計另請教練執教亞協盃 (in Chinese)". GoGoal 勁球網. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  6. ^ 張, 克銘 (8 April 2024). "本季不必雙線作戰 但傷兵影響台中FUTURO開季 (in Chinese)". GoGoal 勁球網. Retrieved 9 April 2024.