Taiwan Football Premier League

Taiwan Football Premier League (TFPL; Chinese: 台灣企業甲級足球聯賽) is the top-ranked division in the Taiwanese football league run by Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA).

Taiwan Football Premier League
Founded2017 (2017)
CountryTaiwan
ConfederationAFC
Number of teams 8
Level on pyramid1
Relegation toTaiwan Football Challenge League
International cup(s)AFC Cup
Current championsTaiwan Steel (1st title)
(2020)
Most championshipsTatung (3 titles)
TV partnersVideoland Television Network
CTFA.TV (YouTube)
Websitehttps://www.facebook.com/tfpl2020/
Current: 2021 Taiwan Football Premier League

History

The Taiwan Football Premier League was founded in 2017 after the folding of the then highest-ranked National First Division Football League (Intercity Football League).[1]

Under the serious epidemic COVID-19 in 2020, TFPL due to light situation in Taiwan, became one of the few football leagues in the world to start the season as usual.[2]

Competition Format

The Taiwan Football Premier League's schedule runs from April to November. It contains 8 teams that compete in a series of three round-robin tournaments, each composed of seven games. After the 21 game schedule is complete, the top team wins the league title and an automatic berth in the following year's AFC Cup.

Since 2020, a system of promotion and relegation exists between the Premier League and the Taiwan Football Challenge League (Chinese: 台灣企業甲級升降足球聯賽) . The lowest placed team in the Premier League is relegated to the Challenge League, and the top team from the Challenge League promoted to the Premier League. The runners-up of the Challenge League will play in a qualification tournament with the 7th in the Premier League, which the winner stays in the first Division.[3]。

Teams
Locations of the 2020 Taiwan Football Premier League teams
Taipei based clubs:

Red Lions FC
Tatung

Taichung based clubs:

Taichung Futuro
NTUS

Teams (2020)
Team Chinese Based in Stadium Capacity Seasons in TFPL First Season in TFPL
Hang Yuen 航源FC New Taipei Fu Jen University Football Field 3,000 4 2017
Ming Chuan University 銘傳大學 Taoyuan City Ming Chuan University 3 2017
NTUS 臺灣體大 Taichung Taichung Taiyuan Football Pitch 500 4 2017
Red Lions FC 紅獅FC Taipei Various 3 2018
Taichung Futuro 台中FUTURO Taichung Taichung Taiyuan Football Pitch 500 2 2019
Taiwan Steel 台南市台灣鋼鐵 Tainan Tainan South District Football Pitch 15,000 4 2017
Taipower 高市台電 Kaohsiung Kaohsiung National Stadium 55,000 4 2017
Tatung 北市大同 Taipei Taipei Municipal Stadium 20,000 4 2017

Past Teams

Champions
Season Champion Runner-up Third Place
2017 Tatung Taipower Hang Yuen
2018 Tatung Taipower Hang Yuen
2019 Tatung Taipower Hang Yuen
2020 Taiwan Steel Taipower Taichung Futuro

Awards

Best Player
season winner team
2019 Marc Fenelus Tatung

Golden Boot
season winner team goals
2017 Marc Fenelus Tatung 38
2018 Marc Fenelus Tatung 27
2019 Benchy Estama Hang Yuen 25

Golden Glove
season winner team
2018 Chiu Yu-hung Taipower
2019 Pan Wen-chieh Tatung

Best Manager
season winner team
2017 Chiang Mu-tsai Tatung
2018 Chiang Mu-tsai Tatung
2019 Chiang Mu-tsai Tatung

Fair Play Award
season team
2017 NSTC
2018 Tainan City F.C.
2019 Tatung

See also

References
  1. "城市聯賽不辦　明年舉行台灣甲級企業足球聯賽". ETtoday. 2016-09-16.
  2. "Baseball, soccer seasons get underway in Taiwan". Reuters. 2020-04-13.
  3. "2020台企甲資格賽明天開戰，未來企甲升降級制怎麼玩？" (in Chinese). Retrieved 2019-03-07.
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