Taichung Futuro F.C.

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Taichung Futuro
Full nameTaichung Football Academy Futuro
Short nameFuturo
Founded2016; 8 years ago (2016)
GroundTaiyuan Football Field (primarily)
Capacity600
OwnerYoshitaka Komori
Head coachFang Ching-ren
LeagueTaiwan Football Premier League
2023TFPL, 5th of 8
Current season

Taichung Futuro FC (Chinese: 台中Futuro) is a professional football club based in Taichung, Taiwan which currently competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League.

History[edit]

Taichung Futuro Football Academy was founded in 2016 by Japanese footballer Yoshitaka Komori. The men's team was established in 2018.[1] A second place finish in 2022 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 Monte Carlo 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.

Players[edit]

Main article: List of Taichung Futuro players

Current squad[edit]

As of 12 April 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Taiwan TAI Lee Ming-wei
3 DF Taiwan TAI Chen Ting-yang (captain)
4 DF Taiwan TAI Tseng Te-lung
5 DF Taiwan TAI Cheng Hao
6 MF Taiwan TAI Tsai Chieh-hsun
7 DF Japan JPN Keisuke Ogawa
8 MF Taiwan TAI Yoshitaka Komori
9 MF Taiwan TAI Chen Hung-wei
10 MF Japan JPN Shohei Yokoyama
12 MF Taiwan TAI Wen Chih-hao
14 DF Taiwan TAI Chen Chun-fu
17 MF Taiwan TAI Hsu Heng-pin
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW Taiwan TAI Li Mao
19 DF Taiwan TAI Li Ya-she
21 GK Taiwan TAI Tuan Yu
22 DF Japan JPN Takuro Uehara
23 MF Japan JPN Kaoru Takayama
34 DF Taiwan TAI Lin Che-yu
36 FW Taiwan TAI Lin Yuan-tai
42 DF Taiwan TAI Liu Wei-che
43 MF Taiwan TAI Liang Meng-hsin
50 GK Japan JPN Kenya Matsui
88 DF Japan JPN Nagisa Sakurauchi

Managers[edit]

Manager Nat. Tenure
Juang Ming-yen[2]  Taiwan 2019
Toshiaki Imai[3]  Japan 2020
Vom Ca-nhum[4]  Taiwan 2020-2022
Juang Ming-yen[5]  Taiwan 2023
Jun Hirabayashi  Japan 2023
Pen Wu-sung  Taiwan 2023-2024
Fang Ching-ren[6]  Taiwan 2024-

Records[edit]

Year-by-year[edit]

Season League Position International/Continental Top goalscorer(s)
Div League Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts PPG Name(s) Goals
2019 1 TFPL 21 8 4 9 37 26 +11 28 1.33 5th DNQ Taiwan Chen Sheng-wei
Taiwan Li Mao 		7
2020 TFPL 21 12 3 6 33 17 +16 39 1.86 3rd South Korea Joo Ik-seong 19
2021 TFPL 14 8 2 4 20 11 +9 26 1.86 3rd Japan Shohei Yokoyama 5
2022 TFPL 18 10 7 1 36 11 +25 37 2.06 2nd Haiti Benchy Estama 18
2023 TFPL 21 8 4 9 33 31 +2 28 1.33 5th AFC Cup IZSF Haiti Benchy Estama 9
2024 TFPL
Total – – 95 46 20 29 159 96 +63 158 1.66 – – – Haiti Benchy Estama 27

^ 1. Top goalscorer(s) includes all goals scored in League, AFC Cup, and other competitive continental matches but excludes goals in their qualifying matches.

International competition[edit]

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2023–24 AFC Cup Play-off round Macau Monte Carlo 2–1
Group I Macau Chao Pak Kei 1–0 1–0 1st out of 4
Mongolia FC Ulaanbaatar 1–2 2–0
Chinese Taipei Taiwan Steel 2–1 1–5
Inter-zone play-off semi-finals Kyrgyzstan Abdysh-Ata Kant 1–3 0–5 1–8

References[edit]

  1. ^ SPORTSPON (18 April 2019). "台中足球的「未來進行式」：2019年台企甲新軍－台中Futuro". SPORTS VISION (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
  2. ^ 謝, 孟儒 (11 April 2019). "台灣國腳、日本U23代表入陣 台中FUTURO盼建金字塔青訓 (in Chinese)". ETtoday.net. Archived from the original on 13 October 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  3. ^ Ko, Brandon (28 July 2020). "那些年，我們一起看的臺灣男足外籍教練[近5年]". SPORTS VISION (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  4. ^ Pan, Jason (28 July 2020). "Futuro's Vom wins battle of national team coaches". The Taipei Times. Taipei: The Liberty Times Group. Archived from the original on 29 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  5. ^ 張, 克銘 (23 March 2023). "台中Futuro本季雙線作戰 球隊預計另請教練執教亞協盃 (in Chinese)". GoGoal 勁球網. Archived from the original on 15 April 2023. Retrieved 23 March 2023.
  6. ^ 張, 克銘 (8 April 2024). "本季不必雙線作戰　但傷兵影響台中FUTURO開季 (in Chinese)". GoGoal 勁球網. Retrieved 9 April 2024.


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