Taiwan Football Premier League ( TFPL ; Chinese : 台灣企業甲級足球聯賽 ) is the top-ranked division in the Taiwanese football league run by Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA).
7-512: The Taiwan Football Premier League was founded in 2017 after the folding of the then highest-ranked National First Division Football League ( Intercity Football League ). Under the serious epidemic COVID-19 in 2020, TFPL due to light situation in Taiwan, became one of the few football leagues in the world to start the season as usual. The Taiwan Football Premier League's schedule usually runs from April to November. It contains 8 teams that compete in
14-539: A series of three round-robin tournaments, each composed of seven games. After the 21 game schedule is complete, the top team wins the league title and an automatic berth in the following year's AFC Challenge League . Since 2020, a system of promotion and relegation exists between the Premier League and the Taiwan Football Challenge League ( Chinese : 台灣企業甲級升降足球聯賽 ) . The lowest placed team in
21-534: The Premier League is relegated to the Challenge League, and the top team from the Challenge League promoted to the Premier League. The runners-up of the Challenge League will play in a qualification tournament with the 7th in the Premier League, which the winner stays in the first Division. Current team Former team Second division Intercity Football League Intercity Football League ( Chinese : 城市足球聯賽 ; pinyin : Chéngshì zúqiú liánsài )
28-427: The competition. CTFA announced new league regulations again in 2009. Each participating team should have name relating to one administrative region and more than 2/3 players having their households registered to that place for more than one month. Promotion and relegation were also introduced. However, the new regulations did not continue to the next league season. The 2010 league season adopted similar regulations as
35-488: The first league season, several magistrates served as team leaders, including Chou Hsi-wei ( Taipei County ), Chen Ming-wen ( Chiayi County ), and Lu Kuo-hua ( Yilan County ). Nevertheless, in 2008, CTFA opened the league participation to non-administrative division teams. Taipower and several college teams, such as National Taiwan College of Physical Education (as Taichung County Chia Cheng Hsin) and Taipei Physical Education College (as Tainan County Hun Shin), joined
42-460: The later, registered players were initially grouped by their places of residence , such as Tainan City , rather than specialized football teams, such as Taiwan Power Company (Taipower). The only exception was Tatung FC , who represented Taipei City to compete in the league. By Intercity Football League's establishment, CTFA hoped to root football into each area in Taiwan and also seed supports from local governments, councilors, and enterprises. In
49-540: Was the top-ranked division in the Taiwanese football (soccer) league run by Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA), run from 2007 until 2016. From 2017, it was replaced by the Taiwan Football Premier League . The Intercity Football League was founded in 2007 after the transformation of then highest-ranked National First Division Football League (later Enterprise Football League ). Different from
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