Taichung Futuro FC () is a professional

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club based in

Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: '), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality (Taiwan), special municipality in central Taiwan. Taichung is Taiwan's second-largest city, with more than 2.85 million residents, making it the largest city in Ce ...

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which currently competes in the

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History

Taichung Futuro Football Academy was founded in 2016 by Japanese footballer

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. The men's team was established in 2018. A second-place finish in

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

meant qualification to next season's AFC Cup play-offs. They secured a group stage place in the 2023-24 AFC Cup after beating Macanese side

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2–1 in the East Asia Zone play off, and managed to secure progression to the Inter-zone play-off semi-finals by virtue of goal difference over Mongolia's FC Ulaanbaatar.

Kits

Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

Players

Current squad

Management

Coaching staff

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Records

Year-by-year

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, and other competitive continental matches but excludes goals in their qualifying matches.

International competition

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Head coaches

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Captains

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References

2016 establishments in Taiwan Football clubs in Taiwan Association football clubs established in 2016 Sport in Taichung Long stubs with short prose {{Taiwan-footyclub-stub