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F.C. Vikings
FC Vikings, also known as Taipei Vikings ( zh, 臺北Vikings), are a Taiwanese professional football club based in Taipei. They are currently playing in the Taiwan Challenge League. They previously played in the top-flight Taiwan Football Premier League during the 2024 season. History Danish coach Johnni Nielsen and his family moved to Taiwan in 2009 for his daughter's healthcare. He is married to a Taiwanese woman. He is a UEFA B Licence and was a yough coach for Slagelse B&I. He would find Taiwanese clubs too old-fashioned and focused on intense fitness training for his son. He decided to teach his son himself in a local park which also enticed other underprivilege youth. Eventually this led to the establishment of FC Vikings as a non-profit football academy in 2010. Nielsen provided coaching ''pro-bono''. He named the organization "Vikings" as a reference to his roots. FC Vikings became the official football academy of Tatung FC (now Leopard Cat FC). From 2020, the team com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan Second Division Football League
The Taiwan Second Division Football League (sometimes called the Taiwan Football Challenge League) () is the second-ranked Taiwanese football league run by the Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA). This League is directly below the Taiwan Premier League. Competition format The Taiwan Football Second Division League's schedule usually runs from July to November, after the initial qualifiers where new entries play own tournament, with top 2 playing last 2 from previous Challenge League season. It currently contains 8 teams that compete in a double leg round-robin tournament, each composed of seven games. After the 14-game schedule is completed, the top team wins the league title and an automatic berth in the following year's Taiwan Football Premier League. Since 2020, a system of promotion and relegation exists between the Premier League and the Taiwan Football Challenge League (). The top team from the Second Division league is promoted to Premier League and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Taiwan Football Premier League
The 2024 Taiwan Football Premier League was the eighth season of Taiwan Football Premier League, the top-flight association football competition in Taiwan under its current format. The season began on 14 April and finished on 8 December 2024. Teams Promotions and relegations There are 8 teams in the league, including 7 teams from the 2023 Taiwan Football Premier League, 2023 season and 1 team promoted from the 2023 Taiwan Second Division Football League, 2023 second division. Teams relegated to the second division Taipei Elite SC, Taipei Dragons was the only team relegated after finishing last place in the previous season, ending their one year stay in the top tier. Taipei Dragons was renamed to Taipei Elite SC in 2024. Teams promoted from the second division Vikings–PlayOne, the champions of the second division in 2023 earned automatic promotion and was the only team promoted after Inter Taoyuan had lost 2–3 to Ming Chuan University F.C., Ming Chuan University in the promoti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main geography of Taiwan, island of Taiwan, also known as ''Formosa'', lies between the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It has an area of , with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its Urbanization by country, highly urbanized population is concentrated. The combined Free area of the Republic of China, territories under ROC control consist of list of islands of Taiwan, 168 islands in total covering . The Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area, largest metropolitan area is formed by Taipei (the capital), New Taipei City, and Keelung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries. Tai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taipei
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Taiwan Football Premier League
The Taiwan Football Premier League (TFPL; ) is the top-ranked Taiwanese Association football, football league run by the 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). During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, it was one of the few football leagues in the world to begin and proceed without disruption, due to the relatively light situation in Taiwan compared to most other countries. 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 Challenge League. Since 2020, a system of promotion and relegation exists between the Premier League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slagelse B&I
Slagelse Boldklub & Idrætsforening, commonly known as Slagelse B&I, is a football club based in Slagelse, Denmark, that competes in the Denmark Series, the fifth tier of the Danish football league system. Founded in 1887, making it the fifth oldest club in the country, it is affiliated to DBU Zealand. The team plays its home matches at Slagelse Stadium, which has a capacity of 10,000. Between 2008 and 2015, the club's first team went under the name of FC Vestsjælland. History The original club, Slagelse Boldklub, was formed on 23 May 1887, originally featuring cricket and later also association football. On 27 August 1919, it merged with Slagelse Idræts-Forening (founded 29 January 1907 at a meeting in the then "Schweitzer-Kaféen" on Schweizerpladsen with exclusively athletics on the program) under the current club name, Slagelse Boldklub & Idrætsforening (Slagelse B&I), but the new joint board decided to keep the founding date of Slagelse Boldklub.Cf. "Slagelse Boldklub og I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatung FC
Leopard Cat Football Club (), formerly known as Tatung Football Club, is a Taiwanese professional football club based in Taipei, that competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League. The club, affiliated with the electronics-producing Tatung Company, was founded in 1963 by a group of Tatung employees favoring football activities. They are among the first clubs to be owned by private enterprise on Taiwan. History The club has a long-standing rivalry with Taipower, as both are the most successful and most popular clubs in the country. In recent years, Leopard Cat has proved to be the dominant force on the island by winning the Taiwan Football Premier League three consecutive times. In 2006 AFC President's Cup, Tatung reached the semi-finals. In 2022, they announced a rebranding, following the consequences of Tatung Company's refusal from supporting the Tatung FC operations. They changed their name from ''Tatung FC'' to ''Leopard Cat'', changed their crest, and their official colours ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shih Hsin University
Shih Hsin University (SHU; ) is a university in Taipei, Taiwan. SHU is best known for its media and mass communication departments in Taiwan, founded in Muzha, Taipei in 1956. History Shih Hsin University was re-established in Taiwan in 1956 as Shih Hsin School of Journalism by the journalists and publishers Cheng Shewo and Yeh Ming-hsun. Originally an institution devoted to training professional journalists, the school became a full-fledged university in August 1997. Now it has four colleges, including the College of Journalism and Communication, the School of Management, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, and the School of Law, and with an enrollment of around 10,000 students. In Chinese, shih means "the world", and hsin means "new" or "news". In October 2023, the university decided to close down its Chinese Literature Department within two years due to the declining enrollment of its students. Schools and programs With four colleges, Shih Hsin University h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippines Football League
The Philippines Football League (PFL) is a men's professional association football, football league in the Philippines. Sanctioned by the Philippine Football Federation (PFF) and organized by Liga Futbol Inc., it is the country's Football in the Philippines, primary football competition. The 2024–25 Philippines Football League, 2024–25 season was contested by 10 clubs from September 28, 2024 to April 13, 2025. The league does not have a system of promotion and relegation. All PFL clubs also take part in the Copa Paulino Alcantara, the annual domestic cup competition. Founded in 2017, the PFL supplanted the Metro Manila-based United Football League (Philippines), United Football League (UFL), which was the ''de facto'' top-tier league in the country from 2009 to 2016. Since then, 11 clubs have competed in the PFL. United City F.C., United City (formerly Ceres–Negros) is the most successful club, with four consecutive titles. Aside from them, the only other club to have won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maharlika F
The ''maharlika'' (Baybayin pre-virama: ᜋᜑᜎᜒᜃ meaning freeman or freedman) were the feudal warrior class in ancient Tagalog society in Luzon, the Philippines. They belonged to the lower nobility class similar to the ''timawa'' of the Visayan people. In modern Filipino, however, the word has come to refer to aristocrats or to royal nobility, which was actually restricted to the hereditary ''maginoo'' class. Overview The ''maharlika'' were a martial class of freemen. Like the ''timawa'', they were free vassals of their ''datu'' who were exempt from taxes and tribute but were required to provide military service. In times of war, the ''maharlika'' were obligated to provide and prepare weapons at their own expense and answer the summons of the ''datu'', wherever and whenever that might be, in exchange for a share in the war spoils (''ganima''). They accompanied their ruler in battles as comrades-at-arms and were always given a share. 1/5 of the spoils goes to the Ginoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 Establishments In Taiwan
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
