Taiwan Football Premier League (TFPL; ) is the top-ranked division in the

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

ese football league run by

Chinese Taipei Football Association Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA) is the governing body for football in the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan). Its official name in Chinese is the Republic of China Football Association, but due to the political status of Taiw ...

(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 Intercity Football League () was the top-ranked division in the Taiwanese football (soccer) league run by Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA), run from 2007 until 2016. From 2017, it was replaced by the Taiwan Football Premier League. His ...

). Under the serious epidemic

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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.

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

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exists between the Premier League and the

Taiwan Football Challenge League Taiwan Second Division Football League (sometimes called Taiwan Football Challenge League) is the second-ranked division in the Taiwanese People, Taiwanese Association football, football league run by Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA). ...

() . 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.

Teams

Former teams

* NSTC (國家儲訓) (2017-2018) * Royal Blues (皇家蔚藍) (2017–2018) * Land Home NTUS (璉紅臺體) (2017–2021) *

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(台北展逸天行者) (2018-2021) * CPC (台灣中油) (2021)

Timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:1200 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:2017 till:2023 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:100 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 #> to display a count on left side of graph, use "left:20" to suppress the count, use "left:20"<# Colors = id:barcolor id:line value:pink id:bg value:white id:Full value:rgb(0.742,0.727,0.852) # Use this color to denote a team that is a current team id:Former value:rgb(0.4,0.80,0.67) # Use this color to denote a team that is a former team id:Other value:rgb(0.996,0.996,0.699) # Use this color to denote when team played in Taiwan Football Challenge League PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:Full from:2017 till:end text:Hang Yuen (2017–present) bar:2 color:Full from:2017 till:2018 text:Ming Chuan (2017) bar:2 color:Full from:2019 till:2021 text:Ming Chuan (2019–present) bar:2 color:Other from:2021 till:2022 text: bar:2 color:Full from:2022 till:end text: bar:3 color:Former from:2017 till:2019 text:NSTC (2017–2018) bar:4 color:Former from:2017 till:2018 text:NTUS (2017) bar:4 color:Former from:2018 till:2019 text:Hasus TSU (2018) bar:4 color:Former from:2019 till:2020 text:NTUS (2019) bar:4 color:Former from:2020 till:2022 text:Land Home NTUS (2020–present) bar:4 color:Other from:2022 till:end text: bar:5 color:Former from:2017 till:2019 text:Royal Blues (2017–2018) bar:6 color:Full from:2017 till:2019 text:Tainan City (2017–2018) bar:6 color:Full from:2019 till:end text:Tainan City TSG (2019–present) bar:7 color:Full from:2017 till:end text:Taipower (2017–present) bar:8 color:Full from:2017 till:2022 text:Tatung (2017–2021) bar:8 color:Full from:2022 till:end text:Leopard Cat (2022–present) bar:9 color:Former from:2018 till:2019 text:Taicheng Lions (2018) bar:9 color:Former from:2019 till:2020 text:Taipei Red Lions (2019) bar:9 color:Former from:2020 till:2021 text:Red Lions (2020) bar:9 color:Former from:2021 till:2022 text:Flight Skywalkers (2021-present) bar:9 color:Other from:2022 till:end text: bar:10 color:Full from:2019 till:end text:Taichung Futuro (2019–present) bar:11 color:Other from:2020 till:2021 text:CPC (2020–2021) bar:11 color:Former from:2021 till:2022 text: bar:12 color:Other from:2020 till:2022 text:Andy Chen Academy (2020–2021) bar:12 color:Full from:2022 till:end text:AC Taipei (2022–present) ScaleMajor = gridcolor:line unit:year increment:1 start:2017 TextData = fontsize:L textcolor:black pos:(0,30) tabs:(400-center) text:

Stadiums

Former stadiums

Champions

Awards

Best Player

Golden Boot

Golden Glove

Best Manager

Fair Play Award

References

{{AFC leagues 2017 establishments in Taiwan Football leagues in Taiwan Professional sports leagues in Taiwan Recurring events established in 2017