Taiwan Football Premier League

Taiwan Football Premier League

Founded	2017 (2017)
Country	Taiwan
Confederation	AFC
Number of teams	8
Level on pyramid	1
Relegation to	Taiwan Second Division Football League
International cup(s)	AFC Cup
Current champions	Tatung (3rd title)
Most championships	Tatung (3 titles)
TV partners	Videoland Television Network CTFA.TV (YouTube)
Website	https://www.facebook.com/tfpl2020/
Current: 2020 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).

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).

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

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.。

Teams

Hang Yuen

Ming Chuan

Taiwan Steel

Taipower.

Taipei

Taichung

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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

• Royal Blues F.C.(皇家蔚藍)(2017-2018)
• National Sports Training Center football team(國家儲訓)(2017-2018)

Champions

Season	Champion	Runner-up	Third Place
2017	Tatung	Taipower	Hang Yuen
2018	Tatung	Taipower	Hang Yuen
2019	Tatung	Taipower	Hang Yuen

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

• Intercity Football League
• Enterprise Football League
• Chinese Taipei Football Association