Leopard Cat FC

Leopard Cat Football Club (Chinese: 台灣石虎足球隊; pinyin: Táiwān Shíhǔ Zúqiú Duì), formerly known as Tatung Football Club, is a Taiwanese professional football club based in Taipei,^[2][3] that competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League.^[4][5] The club, affiliated with the electronics-producing Tatung Company, was founded in 1963 by a group of Tatung employees favoring football activities. They are among the first clubs to be owned by private enterprise on Taiwan.

Leopard Cat
北市大同

Full name	Leopard Cat Football Club 台灣石虎足球隊
Nickname(s)	Shihu
Founded	1963; 61 years ago (1963) (as Tatung Football Club) 2022; 2 years ago (2022) (as Leopard Cat Football Club) ^[1]
Ground	Taipei Municipal Stadium
Capacity	20,000
Owner	Tatung Company
Chairman	Miao Bo-Ya
Manager	Chiang Mu-tsai
League	Taiwan Football Premier League
2023	Taiwan Football Premier League, 2nd of 8
Current season

History

The club has a long-standing rivalry with Taipower, as both are the most successful and most popular clubs in the country. In recent years, Leopard Cat has proved to be the dominant force on the island by winning the Taiwan Football Premier League three times in a row.^[6] In 2006 AFC President's Cup,^[7] Tatung reached the semifinals.^[8] In 2022, they announced a rebranding, following the consequences of Tatung Company's refusal from supporting the Tatung FC operations. They changed their name from Tatung FC to Leopard Cat, changed their crest, and their official colours, to avoid exclusion, or relegation of the Taiwan Football Premier League. After sufficient funds were raised to enable the team to play the next season in the TFPL, a realization of an election of supervisors and directors, and a general meeting successfully completed, Miao Boya was named the club's chairman. ^[9]

Current squad

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   TAI Shih Shin-an 3 DF   TAI Lin Chih-syuan 5 DF   TAI Huang Wei-min 6 DF   KEN Nichodemus Onyango (captain) 7 FW   TAI Onur Dogan 8 MF   TAI Hung Shih-cheng 9 MF   TAI Lan Hao-yu 10 MF   JPN Naoyuki Yamazaki 11 MF   HON Elias Argueta 12 MF   TAI Ro Ji-xian 13 MF   TAI Hsu Fan-shao 15 GK   TAI Li Guan-pei 16 DF   TAI Wei Pei-lun 17 DF   TAI Lee Pin-hsien

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 DF   TAI Huang Bo-jin 21 FW   TAI Chang Hao-wei 23 GK   TAI Wang Po-han 24 FW   TAI Lo Chih-en 25 MF   PHI Nathan Rilloraza 29 FW   TAI Chen Po-hao 30 FW   TAI Lo Chih-an 31 DF   TAI Chao Wei-chieh 32 GK   TAI Chen Yu-chang 35 DF   TAI Shih Cheng-hsi 37 MF   JPN Taiyo Izumi 39 GK   TAI Hung Wei-hsiang 41 DF   TAI Lai Yu-an 45 MF   TAI Huang Guo-fu

Technical staff

Name	Nationality	Position(s)
Technical staff
Chiang Mu-tsai		Head coach
Wang Chun-lung		Assistant coach
Kao Hao-chieh		Assistant coach
Hung Shih-cheng		Assistant coach

Continental record

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Position
2006	AFC President's Cup	Group A	Pakistan Army Football Club	4–1	2nd
			Khemara Kelia FC	1–5
			Transport United	5–0
		Semifinal	FC Khatlon	1–3
2007	AFC President's Cup	Group B	Mahendra Police Club	0–0	4th
			Khemara Kelia FC	0–1
			Dordoi Dynamo	0–5
2014	AFC President's Cup	Group B	HTTU Ashgabat	0–2	4th
			Ceres-Negros FC	0–2
			Rimyongsu Sports Club	0–5
2017	AFC Cup	Qualifying Group C	F.C. Tertons	0-0	2nd
			Sheikh Russell KC	1–1
2020	AFC Cup	Group I	Chao Pak Kei			2nd
			Tai Po
			Winners of Play-off East Asia

Honours

Domestic

• Taiwan Football Premier League
  • Champions (3): 2017, 2018, 2019
• Intercity Football League
  • Champions (2): 2007,^[10] 2013
• Enterprise Football League^[11]
  • Champions (2): 2005, 2006
• CTFA Cup
  • Champions (3): 1990, 1996, 2005
• President's Cup
  • Champions (2): 1997, 1998
• Enterprise Football League is formerly known as National Men's First Division Football League.

Invitational

• Peace Invitational Challenge Cup: 2006
• World Chinese Cup Invitational Championship: 2005
• Hawaii Challenge Cup: 2005

References

1. "Team info: Tatung F.C." globalsportsarchive.com. Global Sports Archive. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
2. "Taipei Tatung vs Kaohsiung County". besoccer.com. from the original on 21 April 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
3. C., Nicole (25 December 2020). . blueandgoldonline.org. THE BLUE & GOLD. Archived from the original on 9 November 2021. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
4. 台灣企甲、木蘭足球聯合開賽記者會圓滿落幕 本周末台北、新竹、台中三地開踢，精彩可期 (in Chinese). ctfa.com.tw.
5. "Taiwan Football Premier League". Soccerway. Retrieved 12 April 2020.
6. Club profile: Tatung F.C.. WorldFootball.net. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
7. . Asian Football Confederation. Archived from the original on February 18, 2009.
8. . the-afc.com. Asian Football Confederation. Archived from the original on 25 January 2013. Retrieved 28 March 2022.
9. "Tatung FC changed their name to Leopard Cat". Retrieved 16 April 2022.
10. (in Chinese). Chinese Taipei Football Association. Archived from the original on 2007-12-19.
11. (in Chinese). Chinese Taipei Football Association. November 25, 2008. Archived from the original on January 3, 2009.

External links

• Tatung at AFC President's Cup 2007 official site
• Tatung official site
• Tatung F.C. at Sofascore