Taiwan Power Company Football Club (), often shortened to Taipower () or (), is a Taiwanese professional football club based in Fongshan District, Kaohsiung City which currently competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League. The club was founded in 1978 and is affiliated with Taiwan Power, the country's national utility company.
Nicknamed Nan-Ba-Tien (, lit. Southern Overlord), Taipower are the most successful football club in Taiwan, having won 14 league titles, notably in 10 consecutive seasons from 1994 to 2004. With the exits of Flying Camel and Taipei City Bank F.C. in the late 1990s, Taipower and Tatung F.C. are the only two remaining football clubs never relegated from Taiwan Football Premier League. According to the Taipei Times, in the middle of the 1990s Taipower and Tatung reigned supreme in Taiwanese football. Taipower became the first Taiwanese club to win a major Asian title when they won the 2011 AFC President's Cup at home in Kaohsiung.
The team rented the field of for practices in 2018.
Current squad
Continental record Season Competition Round Club Home Away Position 2005 AFC President's Cup Group A Three Star Club1–13rd Regar-TadAZ 0–3 Transport United1–0 2008 AFC President's Cup Group B Nagacorp FC2–23rd Dordoi-Dynamo 0–3 2009 AFC President's Cup Group A Nepal Police Club3–23rd Regar-TadAZ1–3 WAPDA1–3 2011 AFC President's Cup Group C Balkan1–11st WAPDA3–0 Nepal Police Club1–0 Final stageGroup A Istiqlol2–01st Balkan4–3 Final Phnom Penh Crown3–2Champions 2012 AFC President's Cup Group A Erchim1–01st KRL0–0 Final StageGroup B Markaz Shabab Al-Am'ari1–12nd KRL3–1 2013 AFC President's Cup Group A Erchim0–03rd Abahani Limited Dhaka1–1 Three Star Club2–2 2020 AFC Cup Preliminary round 2 Ulaanbaatar CityN/AN/AN/A
Honours Domestic Taiwan Football Premier League / Intercity Football League / Enterprise Football League* Champions (21): 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015-16
CTFA Cup Champions (3): 1997, 2000, 2002
Enterprise Football League is formerly known as National Men's First Division Football League.
Continental AFC President's Cup Champions: 2011
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