Chinese Taipei national football team or Taiwan has participated in two AFC Asian Cup since it was founded.
During their participation, the team was known as Republic of China due to that time, they were recognized as the only real China, since the People's Republic of China was not a member of FIFA or AFC until 1978. Being one of Asia's most powerful teams back to 1960s, they had won third place in 1960 edition, and it was their best performance in the history of their participancy. Since 1968, Chinese Taipei had not qualified to the AFC Asian Cup.
See main article: 1960 AFC Asian Cup.
All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9)
| Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | +8 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | −10 | 0 |
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See main article: 1968 AFC Asian Cup.
| Team | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | −7 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 1 |
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| Year | Round | Position | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1956 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 1960 | Third place | 3rd | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
 1964 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| 1968 | Fourth place | 4th | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | |
 1972 to  2023 | Did not qualify | ||||||||
| Total | Third place | 2/18 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | |