Tainan City Football Club (for sponsorship reasons currently known as Taiwan Steel and Tainan City TSG; zh, t=台灣鋼鐵足球隊) is a Taiwanese professional

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club based in

Tainan City Tainan (), officially Tainan City, is a special municipality in southern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on its western coast. Tainan is the oldest city on the island and commonly called the " prefectural capital" for its over 260-year histo ...

, which currently competes in the

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 ...

. Tainan City has won a record 5 league titles in the club history. In 2024, they become the first club in the league to win a record five consecutive league titles.

History

Tainan City Football Club was established with the support of the

Tainan City Government The Tainan City Government () is the municipal government of Tainan, Taiwan. It was formed after the merger of Tainan County and Tainan City in December 2010. Its chief administrator is the directly elected Mayor of Tainan. Administration ...

and the Football Committee of the Tainan City Sports Federation, Hongxin Enterprise and Taiwan Steel Group. The team joined the

, under the name Tainan City in 2017, which most of the players came from

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. Tainan City structure and its players changed, since Taiwan Steel Group acquired the club and renamed it as Tainan City Taiwan Steel in 2019, importing

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players such as

Wu Chun-ching Wu Chun-ching () is a Taiwanese footballer who plays as a midfielder for Taiwan Steel and the Chinese Taipei national football team Club career On 19 December 2014, Wu transferred to China League One side Hunan Billows Hunan Billows Footbal ...

2019 to present - as Tainan City Taiwan Steel

Ahead of the 2020 season, Tainan City added national team players like Pan Wen-chieh, Chen Wei-chuan,

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'Best Player' award winner

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, and 2019 'Golden Boot' award winner Benchy Estama. Tainan City went on to win the 2020 season league title, receiving the club's first major piece of silverware and direct qualification to the

2021 AFC Cup The 2021 AFC Cup was the 18th edition of the AFC Cup, Asia's secondary club football tournament organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The winners of the tournament automatically qualified for the 2022 AFC Champions League, enterin ...

. Tainan City won the league title in the next three seasons, becoming the first Taiwanese club to win four consecutive times.

Performance in Asian competitions

At the

, Tainan City won their first ever AFC Cup match against Mongolian club Athletic 220, ultimately finishing third in the group and exiting the tournament. In the inaugural

2024–25 AFC Challenge League The 2024–25 AFC Challenge League was the eleventh edition of the Asia's third-tier continental club association football, football competition, organized by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), and the first season since it was rebranded fr ...

they came second in their group, including a win against Laotian team Young Elephants. At the quarter-finals stage in March 2025, they will be facing off against Indonesian club

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Current squad

Continental record

Honours

Domestic

** Champions (5):

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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 ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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** Champions (1):

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

References

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