Leopard Cat Football Club (), formerly known as Tatung Football Club, is a Taiwanese professional

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club based in

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, that competes in the

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. The club, affiliated with the

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, 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

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, 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

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, to avoid exclusion, or relegation of the

. After sufficient funds were raised to enable the team to play the next season in the TFPL, a realization of an election of supervisors and directors, and a general meeting successfully completed,

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was named the club's chairman.

Current squad

Technical staff

Continental record

Honours

Domestic

**Champions (3):

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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 ...

**Champions (2):

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Enterprise Football League The Enterprise Football League (), formerly known as the National Football League () or the National First Division Football League (), was the highest-ranked Association football, football league in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was governe ...

**Champions (2):

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

*CTFA Cup **Champions (3): 1990, 1996, 2005 *President's Cup **Champions (2): 1997, 1998 * Enterprise Football League is formerly known as National Men's First Division Football League.

Invitational

*Peace Invitational Challenge Cup: 2006 *World Chinese Cup Invitational Championship: 2005 *Hawaii Challenge Cup: 2005

References

External links

Tatung at AFC President's Cup 2007 official siteTatung official siteTatung F.C.
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