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AC Taipei
Full nameAthletic Club Taipei
Founded2010; 14 years ago (2010)
OwnerChen Sing-an
CoachChen Sing-an
LeagueTaiwan Football Premier League (2022)
20211st of 8, champions, and promoted
Websitehttps://actaipei.chelseafcsstw.com/

Athletic Club Taipei (Chinese: 台北競技; pinyin: Táiběi jìngjì), previously known as Andy Chen Academy, Is a professional football club based in Taipei, Taiwan that competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League, starting in 2022.

History

In 2010, the club started as a football academy, Little Peacock Club, and was later renamed as Andy Chen Academy.[1]

In 2017, the academy collaborated with Chelsea F.C. Hong Kong Soccer School to introduce Chelsea F.C.'s youth training system to the academy. The academy committed $2 million NTD to build five artificial turf pitches.[1] Academy's owner, Chen Sing-an, planned to make the club to be the first Asian Football Confederation qualified Taiwanese football club.[2] Their youth players can also play for their respective schools, colleges, or university in youth tournaments, to enable competitive football experience since their players' youth.[3]

In 2020, their first-team was formed, with the self-proclaimed long and short-term ambitions of playing on Taiwan's top-flight league; representing Taiwan at the AFC Cup; and introducing their academy players to the first-team matches,[4] as they were granted a Taiwan Club License, debuted in the 2020 Taiwan Challenge League.

They made their official debut on July 18, 2020, when they lost 5–2 away to CPC Corporation. During the season, they earned 28 points in 14 matches. But, they still were unable to be promoted to the first division, as they finished in 3rd place. Despite having a 14 positive goal difference advantage, they finished 3 points behind second-placed Inter Taoyuan that season.[5]

Their efforts were rewarded in 2021, winning the Taiwan Challenge League title by a tight margin, sitting above second-placed Ming Chuan University by just 2 points. With this 35-point campaign, they were successfully promoted without playing the promotion play-offs.[6]

The club was rebranded and modernised as in the club's identity, including a name change. They changed their name from Andy Chen Academy to AC Taipei, on 31 March 2022.[7][8]

AC Taipei debuted in the 2022 season of Taiwan's top-flight league[9][10] against Taipower, when they lost 4–1, with Tsai Meng-cheng scoring their lone goal.[11]

AC Taipei's reserve team has yet to win a place at the Taiwan Challenge League, the national football 2nd tier league, for the 2022 season. They will play a single-leg qualification match against a team assigned to them by a draw conducted by the CTFA in 7 May. If they successfully conclude the knockout match as winners, they will be playing the 2022 Challenge League.[12]

Current squad

Updated as of 19 April 2022.[13]

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 Chinese Taipei TPE Huang Hao-kai
5 DF Japan JPN Yugo Ichiyanagi
6 MF Chinese Taipei TPE Tsai Cheng-meng
7 MF Chinese Taipei TPE Wen Chan-yi
8 DF South Korea KOR Oh Yong-myung
9 MF Chinese Taipei TPE Lee Meng-che
10 FW Chinese Taipei TPE Huang Wei-chieh
12 MF Chinese Taipei TPE Lee Tsung-yang
13 DF Chinese Taipei TPE Liao Mao-lin
14 DF Chinese Taipei TPE Tian Kai-wen
17 MF Chinese Taipei TPE Chen Yi-yan
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 GK Chinese Taipei TPE Lin Po-cheng
20 MF Chinese Taipei TPE Jeffrey Ma
27 MF Chinese Taipei TPE Fu Yung-fu
28 MF Chinese Taipei TPE Huang Sheng-chieh
29 GK Japan JPN Kenshin Katata
31 DF Chinese Taipei TPE Wu Meng-chi
32 MF Japan JPN Tsuyoshi Kusuyama
33 MF Japan JPN Jun Uchida
34 MF South Korea KOR Chang Jeong-bin
35 MF Hong Kong HKG Ang Pui-hei

References

  1. ^ a b 中時新聞網. "200萬建足球場 陳信安要打造台灣首個職業俱樂部 - 體育". 中時新聞網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  2. ^ "給台足一個希望 陳信安足球學校引進切爾西青訓系統 | ETtoday運動雲 | ETtoday新聞雲". sports.ettoday.net (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  3. ^ "AC Taipei Basic Info" (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  4. ^ "AC Taipei Basic Info" (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  5. ^ "AC Taipei Philosophy" (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  6. ^ "ACA were the 2022 TCL champions". Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  7. ^ "足球》ACA升上企甲變身台北競技 新隊徽新陣容展現企圖". tw.news.yahoo.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  8. ^ "ACA changed its name to AC Taipei, and Chen Sing-an lead the team" (in Chinese). Yahoo! Taiwan. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  9. ^ "Taipower vs AC Taipei match report by CTFA". CTFA. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  10. ^ "TPFL's 7 teams kick-off the top-flight season in Taiwan". 4 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  11. ^ "Chen Sing-an praises his team after Taipower clash despite losing" (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Challenge League". CTFA. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  13. ^ "AC Taipei Squad list" (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 March 2022.


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