Clubname: | Leopard Cat 北市大同 |
Upright: | 0.7 |
Fullname: | Leopard Cat Football Club 台灣石虎足球隊 |
Nickname: | Shihu |
Founded: | (as Tatung Football Club) (as Leopard Cat Football Club) [1] |
Capacity: | 20,000 |
Chairman: | Miao Poya |
Manager: | Chiang Mu-tsai |
Season: | 2023 |
Current: | 2024 Leopard Cat FC season |
Position: | Taiwan Football Premier League, 2nd of 8 |
Kit Alt1: | Home kit |
Kit Alt2: | Away kit |
Leopard Cat Football Club, 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.
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 Poya was named the club's chairman. [9]
Name | Nationality | Position(s) | |
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Technical staff | |||
Chiang Mu-tsai | ![]() | Head coach | |
Wang Chun-lung | ![]() | Assistant coach | |
Kao Hao-chieh | ![]() | Assistant coach | |
Hung Shih-cheng | ![]() | Assistant coach |
Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Position |
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2006 | AFC President's Cup | Group A | ![]() | 4–1 | 2nd | |
![]() | 1–5 | |||||
![]() | 5–0 | |||||
Semifinal | ![]() | 1–3 | ||||
2007 | AFC President's Cup | Group B | ![]() | 0–0 | 4th | |
![]() | 0–1 | |||||
![]() | 0–5 | |||||
2014 | AFC President's Cup | Group B | 0–2 | 4th | ||
Ceres-Negros FC | 0–2 | |||||
![]() | 0–5 | |||||
2017 | AFC Cup | Qualifying Group C | ![]() | 0-0 | 2nd | |
![]() | 1–1 | |||||
2020 | AFC Cup | Group I | ![]() | cancelled | ||
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Winners of Play-off East Asia |