Club: | Taichung Futuro |
Season: | 2023 |
Owner: | Yoshitaka Komori |
Mgrtitle: | Head coach |
Manager: | Jun Hirabayashi (TMFL) Pen Wu-sung (AFC Cup) |
League: | TFPL |
League Result: | 5th |
Cup1: | AFC Cup |
Cup1 Result: | Inter-zone play-off semi-finals |
League Topscorer: | Benchy Estama (9) |
Season Topscorer: | Benchy Estama (9) |
Prevseason: | 2022 |
Nextseason: | 2024 |
The 2023 Taichung Futuro season was the club's 5th season and their 5th season in Taiwan Football Premier League. Taichung Futuro also participated in the AFC Cup as they were the 2022 Taiwan Football Premier League runner-up.[1] [2]
On 14 December 2023, Taichung Futuro advanced to the 2023–24 AFC Cup knockout stage in 2024, becoming the first Taiwanese team to clinch a spot in the AFC Cup knockout stage.[3]
N | Pos. | Nat. | Name | Age. | Since | ||
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Goalkeepers | |||||||
1 | GK | Lee Ming-wei | 26 | 2020 | |||
21 | GK | Tuan Yu | 29 | 2019 | |||
31 | GK | Tian Syuan-jin | 25 | 2023 | |||
50 | GK | Kenya Matsui | 38 | 2023 | |||
51 | GK | Taiki Itsukaichi | 25 | 2023 | |||
Defenders | |||||||
3 | DF | Chen Ting-yang (captain) | 31 | 2019 | |||
4 | DF | Tseng Te-lung | 21 | 2023 | |||
5 | DF | Cheng Hao | 26 | 2022 | |||
7 | DF | Keisuke Ogawa | 37 | 2019 | |||
8 | DF | Yoshitaka Komori | 36 | 2019 | |||
13 | DF | Shunya Suganuma | 33 | 2023 | |||
20/14 | DF | Chen Chun-fu | 22 | 2023 | |||
34 | DF | Lin Che-yu | 30 | 2023 | |||
42 | DF | Juang Ming-yan | 34 | 2023 | |||
Midfielders | |||||||
6 | MF | Tsai Chieh-hsun | 20 | 2023 | |||
9 | MF | Chen Hung-wei | 26 | 2021 | |||
10 | MF | Shohei Yokoyama | 30 | 2021 | |||
14 | MF | Naoki Kaneko | 23 | 2023 | |||
15 | MF | Kazuya Kojima | 24 | 2023 | |||
18 | MF | Li Mao | 31 | 2019 | |||
19 | MF | Genki Takatera | 28 | 2023 | |||
23 | MF | Kaoru Takayama | 35 | 2023 | |||
25 | MF | Kakeru Gunji | 22 | 2023 | |||
43 | MF | Liang Meng-hsin | 20 | 2021 | |||
Forwards | |||||||
11 | FW | Amari Oki | 23 | 2022 | |||
17 | FW | Hsu Heng-pin | 30 | 2019 | |||
27 | FW | Fang Ching-ren | 42 | 2023 | |||
33 | FW | Kotaro Nakajima | 25 | 2023 | |||
36 | FW | Carlo Finotti | 17 | 2023 | |||
99 | FW | Benchy Estama | 29 | 2022 | |||
No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
Preseason | ||||
4 | DF | Tseng Te-lung | Land Home NTUS | [4] |
6 | DF | So Narita | Angkor Tiger | |
14 | DF | Naoki Kaneko | – | |
15 | MF | Kazuya Kojima | Kheanlao United | |
19 | MF | Genki Takatera | – | |
23 | MF | Kaoru Takayama | Sagamihara | [5] |
25 | MF | Kakeru Gunji | Sloboda Mihovljan | |
27 | FW | Fang Ching-ren | – | |
31 | GK | Tian Syuan-jin | – | |
33 | FW | Kotaro Nakajima | Sportfreunde 04 | |
34 | DF | Lin Che-yu | – | |
37 | MF | Chang Yi-wei | – | |
38 | MF | Wan Hsien-Yi | – | |
39 | MF | Pai Chia-lun | – | |
40 | MF | Shao Shou-yue | – | |
41 | MF | Chao Yang-chun | – | |
42 | DF | Chao Yang-chen | – | |
50 | GK | Kenya Matsui | Blaublitz Akita | [6] |
Midseason | ||||
6 | MF | Tsai Chieh-hsun | – | |
13 | DF | Shunya Suganuma | – | [7] |
20 | DF | Chen Chun-fu | Land Home NTUS | |
36 | FW | Carlo Finotti | – | |
42 | DF | Juang Ming-yan | – | |
51 | GK | Taiki Itsukaichi | Niedernhausen | |
No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
Preseason | ||||
1 | GK | Pan Wen-chieh | Tainan City | [8] |
2 | DF | Takeo Miyazaki | Retired | |
4 | DF | Wang Ruei | Tainan City | |
6 | MF | Tu Shao-chieh | Taipower | |
10 | FW | Chen Hao-wei | – | [9] |
11 | MF | Wu Chun-ching | Tainan City | |
13 | MF | Koki Narita | Rajpracha | [10] |
19 | MF | Seiji Fujiwara | Retired | |
23 | DF | Juang Ming-yan | – | |
77 | FW | Onur Dogan | Leopard Cat | [11] |
80 | FW | Chen Sheng-wei | Leopard Cat | |
81 | GK | Jun Kochi | Viengchanh | [12] |
Midseason | ||||
6 | DF | So Narita | Tainan City | [13] |
20 | MF | Matias Godoy | Vikings PlayOne | |
35 | FW | Takayuki Morimoto | – | [14] [15] |
37 | MF | Chang Yi-wei | – | |
38 | MF | Wan Hsien-Yi | – | |
39 | MF | Pai Chia-lun | – | |
40 | MF | Shao Shou-yue | – | |
41 | MF | Chao Yang-chun | – | |
42 | DF | Chao Yang-chen | – | |
See main article: 2023–24 AFC Cup.
See main article: 2023–24 AFC Cup qualifying play-offs.
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width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=150 | Player | width=120 | TMFL | width=140 | AFC Cup | width=120 | Total | ||||
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1 | 99 | FW | Benchy Estama | 9 | — | 9 | |||||||||
2 | 18 | MF | Li Mao | 6 | — | 6 | |||||||||
23 | MF | Kaoru Takayama | 4 | 2 | |||||||||||
4 | 10 | MF | Shohei Yokoyama | 3 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
17 | FW | Hsu Heng-pin | 1 | 3 | |||||||||||
6 | 6 | MF | Tsai Chieh-hsun | 2 | — | 2 | |||||||||
7 | 5 | DF | Cheng Hao | 1 | — | 1 | |||||||||
11 | FW | Amari Oki | 1 | — | |||||||||||
20 | MF | Matias Godoy | 1 | — | |||||||||||
25 | MF | Kakeru Gunji | 1 | — | |||||||||||
34 | DF | Lin Che-yu | 1 | — | |||||||||||
35 | FW | Takayuki Morimoto | 1 | — | |||||||||||
36 | FW | Carlo Finotti | 1 | — | |||||||||||
43 | FW | Liang Meng-hsin | 1 | — | |||||||||||
13 | DF | Shunya Suganuma | — | 1 | |||||||||||
Own goals (from the opponents) | — | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Totals | 33 | 8 | 41 |
width=15 | width=15 | width=15 | width=175 | Player | width=120 | TFPL | width=140 | AFC Cup | width=120 | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 50 | Kenya Matsui | 3 | 3 | 6 | ||||||||
2 | 21 | Tuan Yu | 2 | — | 2 | ||||||||
3 | 1 | Lee Ming-wei | 0 | — | 0 | ||||||||
51 | Taiki Itsukaichi | 0 | — | ||||||||||
31 | Tian Syuan-jin | — | — | ||||||||||
Totals | 5 | 3 | 8 |
Name | TFPL | AFC Cup | Total | ||||||||||||||
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width=35 | width=35 | width=35 | width=35 | width=35 | width=35 | width=35 | width=35 | width=35 | |||||||||
18 | MF | Li Mao | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||||||||||
5 | DF | Cheng Hao | 4 | 4 | |||||||||||||
7 | DF | Keisuke Ogawa | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||
13 | DF | Shunya Suganuma | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||||
17 | FW | Hsu Heng-pin | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
23 | MF | Kaoru Takayama | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||
4 | DF | Tseng Te-lung | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
6 | DF | So Narita | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
8 | DF | Yoshitaka Komori | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
10 | MF | Shohei Yokoyama | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
11 | FW | Amari Oki | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
34 | DF | Lin Che-yu | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
36 | FW | Carlo Finotti | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
43 | MF | Liang Meng-hsin | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
99 | FW | Benchy Estama | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
50 | GK | Kenya Matsui | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
Coach | Juang Ming-yan | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Staff | Yuto Kabasawa | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Totals | 21 | 1 | 9 | 30 | 1
References |