Taiwan Power Company F.C.

Taiwan Power Company Football Club (Chinese: 台灣電力公司足球隊), often shortened to Taipower (Chinese: 台電) or (Chinese: 高市台電), is a Taiwanese professional football club based in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung City which currently competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League. The club was founded in 1978 and is affiliated with Taiwan Power, the country's national utility company.

Taipower
Full nameTaipower Company F.C.
台灣電力公司足球隊
Nickname(s)Nan-Ba-Tien
(南霸天, Southern Overlord)
Founded1978; 46 years ago (1978)
GroundKaohsiung Nanzih Football Stadium
Capacity55,000
OwnerTaiwan Power Company
ChairmanChen Kui-Ming
ManagerHuang Che-Ming
LeagueTaiwan Football Premier League
2023TFPL, 3rd of 8
Current season

Nicknamed Nan-Ba-Tien (Chinese: 南霸天, lit. Southern Overlord), Taipower[1] are the most successful football club in Taiwan, having won 14 league titles, notably in 10 consecutive seasons from 1994 to 2004. With the exits of Flying Camel and Taipei City Bank F.C. in the late 1990s, Taipower and Tatung F.C. are the only two remaining football clubs never relegated from Taiwan Football Premier League. Taipower became the first Taiwanese club to win a major Asian title when they won the 2011 AFC President's Cup at home in Kaohsiung.

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 Chiu Yu-hung
2 GK   TAI Huang Chiu-lin
3 DF   TAI Huang Tzu-ming
4 DF   TAI Hung Tzu-kuei
5 DF   TAI Chao Ming-hsiu
6 MF   TAI Yen Ho-shen
7 DF   TAI Lin Cheng-yi
9 MF   TAI Gao Wei-jie
10 FW   TAI Lee Hsiang-wei
11 MF   TAI Hsu Po-chieh
12 DF   TAI Liao Yi-sheng
13 MF   TAI Chen Po-hsun
15 MF   TAI Wu Yu-fan
16 MF   TAI Chang Cheng-yang
17 DF   TAI Tseng Yun-hao
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 GK   TAI Tsai Yu-hsiang
19 MF   TAI Huang Han-sheng
20 MF   TAI Wang Sheng-han
22 DF   TAI Tu Shao-chieh
23 MF   TAI Tseng Chih-wei
25 DF   TAI Lee Chun-chia
27 FW   TAI Yang He-chiang
28 DF   TAI Lee Jian-liang
29 FW   TAI Lai Wei
31 GK   TAI Chang Hsiang-chun
33 DF   TAI Hsieh Po-an
34 FW   TAI Chen Chao-an (captain)
66 DF   TAI Chen Yu-lin
77 MF   TAI Lai Chih-hsuan
99 DF   TAI Chiu Po-jui

Continental record

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Season Competition Round Club Home Away Position
2005 AFC President's Cup Group A   Three Star Club 1–1 3rd
  Regar-TadAZ 0–3
  Transport United 1–0
2008 AFC President's Cup Group B   Nagacorp FC 2–2 3rd
  Dordoi-Dynamo 0–3
2009 AFC President's Cup Group A   Nepal Police Club 3–2 3rd
  Regar-TadAZ 1–3
  WAPDA 1–3
2011 AFC President's Cup Group C   Balkan 1–1 1st
  WAPDA 3–0
  Nepal Police Club 1–0
Final stage
Group A
  Istiqlol 2–0 1st
  Balkan 4–3
Final   Phnom Penh Crown 3–2 Champions
2012 AFC President's Cup Group A   Erchim 1–0 1st
  KRL 0–0
Final Stage
Group B
  Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari 1–1 2nd
  KRL 3–1
2013 AFC President's Cup Group A   Erchim 0–0 3rd
  Abahani Limited Dhaka 1–1
  Three Star Club 2–2
2020 AFC Cup Preliminary round 2   Ulaanbaatar City N/A N/A N/A

Honours

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Domestic

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  • CTFA Cup
    • Champions (3): 1997, 2000, 2002
  • Enterprise Football League is formerly known as National Men's First Division Football League.

Continental

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References

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