2024 Taiwan Football Premier League

Taiwan Football Premier League
Season	2024
Dates	14 April – 8 December
Champions	Tainan City TSG
Relegated	FC Vikings
Challenge League	Tainan City TSG
Matches played	60
Goals scored	183 (3.05 per match)
Top goalscorer	Li Mao; (9 goals)
Biggest home win	Sunny Bank AC Taipei 5–0 Ming Chuan University; (30 June 2024)
Biggest away win	FC Vikings 1–6 Futuro; (4 August 2024); Leopard Cat 0–5 Tainan City TSG; (14 September 2024)
Highest scoring	FC Vikings 1–6 Futuro; (4 August 2024)
Longest winning run	Futuro; Tainan City TSG; (6 matches)
Longest unbeaten run	Futuro; Tainan City TSG; (11 matches)
Longest winless run	FC Vikings; (15 matches)
Longest losing run	FC Vikings; (7 matches)
Highest attendance	667; Leopard Cat 2–0 AC Taipei; (5 May 2024)
Lowest attendance	78; New Taipei Hang Yuen 1–1 Ming Chuan University; (23 June 2024)
	← 2023 2025 → All statistics correct as of 26 August 2024.

The 2024 Taiwan Football Premier League is 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 2024 and scheduled to finish 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 Inter Taoyuan had lost 2–3 to Ming Chuan University in the promotion/relegation playoffs.

Promoted from 2023 second division	Relegated from 2023 TFPL
Vikings–PlayOne	Taipei Dragons

Teams and locations


Team	Chinese	Based in	Seasons in TFPL	First season in TFPL
Futuro	Futuro	Taichung City	6	2019
Leopard Cat	臺灣石虎	Taipei City	8	2017
Ming Chuan University	銘傳大學	Taoyuan City	6	2017
New Taipei Hang Yuen	新北航源	New Taipei City	8	2017
Sunny Bank AC Taipei	陽信北競	Taipei City	3	2022
Tainan City TSG	南市台鋼	Tainan City	8	2017
FC Vikings	臺北Vikings	Taipei City	1	2024
Taipower	台灣電力	Kaohsiung City	8	2017

Venues

Taiwan Football Premier League 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.

Tainan

Yilan

Location of venues in 2024 Taiwan Football Premier League

Stadium	Chinese	Location	Capacity
Fu Jen Catholic University Stadium	輔仁大學足球場	New Taipei City	3,000
Kaohsiung Nanzih Football Stadium	高雄市立楠梓足球場	Kaohsiung City	1,200
Ming Chuan University Taoyuan Campus	銘傳大學龜山校區	Taoyuan City	5,000
National Taipei University	國立臺北大學	New Taipei City	300
Tainan Municipal Football Field	臺南市立足球場	Tainan City	2,000
Taipei Municipal Stadium	臺北田徑場	Taipei City	20,000
Taiyuan Football Field	太原足球場	Taichung City	600
Yilan Sports Park Multipurpose Stadium	宜蘭運動公園複合式運動場	Yilan County	15,000

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8	Former Player
Futuro	Kenya Matsui	Keisuke Ogawa	Nagisa Sakurauchi	Toshio Shimakawa	Kaoru Takayama	Takuro Uehara	Koji Wada	Shohei Yokoyama
Leopard Cat FC	Elias Argueta	Garrydo	Taiyo Izumi	Nichodemus Malika	Nathan Rilloraza	Naoyuki Yamazaki
Ming Chuan University	Matías Godoy	Yamato Kumagai	Shinshu Minamitani	Haru Tanaka
New Taipei Hang Yuen	Benchy Estama	Naoki Kaneko	Shingo Koreeda	Kwon Seung-seong	William López	Kentaro Sato	Genki Tateiwa
Sunny Bank AC Taipei	Gustavo Garcia	Yugo Ichiyanagi	Ryosei Kamada	Kenshin Katata	Tsuyoshi Kusuyama	Jun Uchida
Tainan City	Maurício Cortés	Kim Sang-jun	Kim Sung-kyum	So Narita	Matheus Porto	Mohamed Sakkouh	Seo Chan-wook	Toninho
Taipower
Jensen Viking	Yunosuke Fukasawa								Benchy Estama Garrydo Matías Godoy Ben Ouédraogo Jamal Ely Rousseau Shunkun Tani Justin Wilson

Dual citizenship/ naturalised / heritage players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3
New Taipei Hang Yuen	Emilio Estevez	Jhon Benchy	William López
Taichung Futuro	Yoshitaka Komori
Leopard Cat	Onur Dogan

Personnel and sponsorship

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main kit sponsor
Futuro	Fang Ching-ren	Chen Ting-yang	Joma	Hota-Gear
Leopard Cat	Chiang Mu-tsai	Nichodemus Malika	MIE	—
Ming Chuan University	Tseng Tai-lin	Matias Godoy		—
New Taipei Hang Yuen	Hung Chin-hwai	Huang Yung-chun	Tor Star	—
Sunny Bank AC Taipei	Chen Sing-an	Yugo Ichiyanagi	Ucan	Sunny Bank
Tainan City TSG	Raphaël Blanchon	Wu Chun-ching	Kelme	Taiwan Steel Group
FC Vikings	Hao Yuan-shuo	Yu Chun-hsiang	Joma	—
Taipower	Huang Che-ming	Chen Chao-an	MIE	Taipower

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Futuro	Jun Hirabayashi	Signed by Hanoi	23 January 2024	Pre-season	Fang Ching-ren	23 January 2024
Tainan City TSG	Lo Chih-tsung	Resigned	12 March 2024	Pre-season	Raphaël Blanchon	12 March 2024
FC Vikings	Oliver Harley	Mutual consent	5 May 2024	7th	Hao Yuan-shuo	5 May 2024

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Tainan City TSG (C, Q)	21	15	4	2	60	16	+44	49	Qualification for the AFC Challenge League qualifying play-off
2	Futuro	21	13	4	4	41	19	+22	43
3	New Taipei Hang Yuan	21	12	3	6	33	19	+14	39
4	Sunny Bank AC Taipei	21	11	3	7	35	23	+12	36
5	Taipower	21	9	3	9	36	26	+10	30
6	Leopard Cat	21	6	4	11	24	35	−11	22
7	Ming Chuan University (Q)	21	5	3	13	23	47	−24	18	Qualification for the Taiwan Challenge League relegation play-off
8	FC Vikings (R)	21	0	2	19	17	84	−67	2	Relegation to the Taiwan Challenge League

Source: TFPL
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-Head points; 3) Head-to-Head goal difference; 4) Head-to-Head goals scored; 5) Goal difference; 6) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (Q) Qualified for the phase indicated; (R) Relegated

Results

Promotion/relegation playoffs

Ming Chuan University, 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, Inter Taoyuan, 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 Taiwan Football Premier League.^[1]

27 December 2023 Promotion/relegation playoffs	Inter Taoyuan	2–3	Ming Chuan University	New Taipei
18:00 (UTC+8)	Hsu Han 36', 57' Hsieh Huang-an 63' Chen Han-pin 79' Dominguez 90+7' Garcia 90+7'	Recap	Kumagai 39' (pen.) Li Po-yu 44' Chen Shih-hsun 59' Yu Yao-hsing 86' 90+7' Kuo Ping-sheng 90+7' Li Yung-sheng 90+8' Hsu Yu-jen 90+8'	Stadium: Fu Jen Catholic University Referee: Yu Ming-hsun

Regular season

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

Home \ Away	FTR	HY	TLC	MCU	SAC	TSG	TV	TPC	FTR	HY	TLC	MCU	SAC	TSG	TV	TPC	FTR	HY	TLC	MCU	SAC	TSG	TV	TPC
Futuro	—	1–0	1–1	4–0	0–2	1–0	5–1	2–1	—	—	—	Oct 20	Nov 3	—	4–0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
New Taipei Hang Yuan	0–1	—	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–2	Nov 24	—	2–0	Nov 3	1–2	—	Sep 29	—	—	—	Oct 20	—	—	—	—	—
Leopard Cat	1–2	—	—	—	2–0	0–3	3–3	Nov 3	Sep 22	—	—	—	—	0–5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Ming Chuan University	0–4	0–3	0–1	—	1–2	0–3	2–1	3–1	—	—	3–2	—	Dec 1	0–1	—	1–2	—	—	Sep 29	—	—	—	—	—
Sunny Bank AC Taipei	0–1	0–2	0–1	5–0	—	1–1	4–0	1–1	—	—	Oct 27	—	—	—	Oct 20	Sep 29	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tainan City TSG	1–1	4–2	3–0	Nov 24	1–0	—	3–1	1–0	Sep 29	Dec 1	—	—	Sep 22	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
FC Vikings	1–6	0–4	2–3	0–2	2–4	2–4	—	0–4	—	—	Dec 1	Sep 22	—	Dec 8	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Taipower	0–2	1–2	1–0	5–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	—	Dec 1	Sep 22	4–0	—	—	Oct 20	Oct 27	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Updated to match(es) played on 25 August 2024. Source: TFPL
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Statistics

Scoring

First goal of the season:
Gao Wei-jie for Taipower against AC Taipei (14 April 2024)

Top goalscorers

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Li Mao	Futuro	9
2	Gao Wei-jie	Taipower	8
3	Benchy Estama	New Taipei Hang Yuen	7
3	Matias Godoy	Ming Chuan University	7
5	Maurício Cortés	Tainan City TSG	6
6	Chen Jui-chieh	Tainan City TSG	5
	Kaoru Takayama	Futuro
	Jun Uchida	Sunny Bank AC Taipei
	Naoyuki Yamazaki	Leopard Cat
10	Chen Po-hao	Leopard Cat	4
	Cheng Hao	Futuro
	Yamato Kumagai	Ming Chuan University
	Wu Yu-fan	Taipower
	Shohei Yokoyama	Futuro

Hat-tricks

Player	For	Against	Score	Date	Round
Jun Uchida	Sunny Bank AC Taipei	Ming Chuan University	5–0 (H)	30 June 2024	10
Toninho	Tainan City TSG	Leopard Cat	5–0 (A)	14 September 2024	15

Clean Sheets

Rank	Player	Club	Shutouts
1	Kenya Matsui	Futuro	7
1	Pan Wen-chieh	Tainan City TSG	7
3	Huang Chiu-lin	Taipower	3
3	Odo Jacobs	New Taipei Hang Yuen	3
5	Chang Po-feng	New Taipei Hang Yuen	2
	Kenshin Katata	Sunny Bank AC Taipei
	Tuan Yu	Futuro
	Wang Po-han	Leopard Cat
9	Chang Hsiang-chun	Taipower	1
	Chen Yu-chen	Taipei Vikings
	Huang Hao-kai	Ming Chuan University
	Shih Hsin-an	Leopard Cat
	Tuan Hsuan	Sunny Bank AC Taipei
	Wang Huai-chih	Ming Chuan University

Discipline

Player

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

#	Football club	Average attendance
1	Leopard Cat FC	439
2	Taiwan Power Company FC	269
3	Ming Chuan University FC	229
4	AC Taipei	184
5	Tainan City	159
6	FC Vikings	131
7	Taichung Futuro	130
8	Hang Yuan FC	118

References

^ "2024台灣企業甲級足球聯賽升降賽銘傳大學游耀興準絕殺3：2擊退桃園國際保級成功" (Press release). Chinese Taipei Football Association. 27 December 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2024.

External links

Chinese Taipei Football Association

[1] "2024台灣企業甲級足球聯賽升降賽銘傳大學游耀興準絕殺3：2擊退桃園國際保級成功" (Press release). Chinese Taipei Football Association. 27 December 2023. Retrieved 24 August 2024.

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