The 2024 Taiwan Football Premier League was the eighth season of

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, the top-flight

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competition in

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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 season and 1 team promoted from the 2023 second division.

Teams relegated to the second division

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

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had lost 2–3 to

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in the promotion/relegation playoffs.

Teams and locations

Venues

teams currently don't play all their home games in a specific home ground. Some venues may hold more than one different matchups in a single matchday.

Foreign players

Dual citizenship/ naturalised / heritage players

Personnel and sponsorship

Managerial changes

League table

Results

Promotion/relegation playoffs

, finishing 7th in 2023 TPBL season, was required to play in the promotion/relegation playoffs. Land Home NTUS finished 2nd in 2023 second division and was expected to play in the playoffs. However,

, finishing 3rd in 2023 second division took over the opportunity due to the Land Home NTUS failed to qualify the CTFA club licensing, which is required for playing in the

Regular season

Each team plays a total of 21 games, playing the other teams three times.

Statistics

Scoring

*First goal of the season:

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for Taipower against AC Taipei (14 April 2024)

Top goalscorers

Hat-tricks

Clean Sheets

Discipline

Player

*Most yellow cards: 5 ** Chen Yao-ming (Taipei Vikings) ** Lee Pin-hsien (Leopard Cat) **

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(Futuro) *Most red cards: 1 ** Chen Wei-chuan (Tainan City TSG) ** Chen Yao-ming (Taipei Vikings) ** Lee Pin-hsien (Leopard Cat) ** Ma Liang-cheng (Ming Chuan University) ** Peng Chia-en (Taipei Vikings) ** Tuan Hsuan (Sunny Bank AC Taipei)

Team

*Most yellow cards: 31 **Taipower *Fewest yellow cards: 21 **Tainan City TSG **Taipei Vikings *Most red cards: 2 **Taipei Vikings *Fewest red cards: 0 **Futuro **New Taipei Hang Yuen **Taipower

Attendances

References

External links

Chinese Taipei Football Association
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