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Chinese Taipei
Association	Chinese Taipei Football Association
Confederation	AFC (Asia)
Head coach	Toshiaki Imai
Captain	Cheng Yung-jen (鄭勇仁)
Home stadium	Chungshan Soccer Stadium
FIFA code	TPE
FIFA ranking	163
Highest FIFA ranking	144 (August 2006)
Lowest FIFA ranking	180 (May 1996)
Elo ranking	191
First kit 　 Second kit
First international China 2 - 3 Philippines  (Philippines; February 1, 1913) Republic of China (Taiwan) 3 - 2 South Vietnam  (Philippines; May 1, 1954)
Biggest win Chinese Taipei 10 - 0 Guam  (Macau, China; June 17, 2007)
Biggest defeat  Kuwait 10 - 0 Chinese Taipei (Al Ain City, UAE; November 9, 2006)
AFC Asian Cup
Appearances	2 (First in 1960)
Best result	Third place, 1960

The Chinese Taipei national football team is the official name given by FIFA to the national football team of the Republic of China (Taiwan) (see Chinese Taipei for team naming issue.)

Contents 1 Last and next games 2 History 3 Stadium 4 Competition history 4.1 World Cup record 4.2 Asian Cup record 4.3 AFC Challenge Cup record 4.4 East Asian Cup record 5 Last and next game 6 Current squad 6.1 Recent callups 7 Personnel 8 Former managers 9 Notable former players 10 Trivia 11 References 12 See also 13 External links

• Last game:  Chinese Taipei 0-2 Uzbekistan  - Taipei, Taiwan - 28 October 2007. (FIFA World Cup 2010)

• Next game: No fixtures announced yet.

The Chinese Taipei Football Association (CTFA), was founded in mainland China as the China Football Association in 1924 and relocated to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. Affiliated with FIFA in 1932 as China, it rejoined FIFA in 1954, first under the name Taiwan, then Republic of China, and later Chinese Taipei.

The team's greatest success came when, playing as Taiwan, they finished third in the Asian Cup in 1960. However, the players in the team originally came from Hong Kong since the reputation of the Hong Kong national football team was not as good as the Republic of China's.

Main article: Chungshan Soccer Stadium

Most of the team's home matches are played in the Chungshan Soccer Stadium, located in Taipei. The stadium's capacity is slightly above 20000 and is a football specific stadium.

• 1930 to 1950 - Did not enter: was part of Japan until 1945
• 1954 - Withdrew
• 1958 - Withdrew
• 1978 to 2010 - Did not qualify

• 1956 - Did not qualify
• 1960 - Third place
• 1964 - Did not enter
• 1968 - Fourth place
• 1972 to 1988 - Did not enter
• 1992 to 2007 - Did not qualify

• 2006 - Quarter Finals

• 2003 - Did not qualify (2nd place in qualifiers)
• 2005 - Did not qualify (3rd place in qualifiers)
• 2008 - Did not qualify (3rd place in qualifiers)

October 28, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan -  Chinese Taipei 0 - 2 Uzbekistan  World Cup 2010 qualifier

(No fixtures announced for the next game)

The following players were called up for the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification.

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club 1 GK Lu Kun-chi (呂昆錡) February 6, 1985 15 0 Grulla Morioka 2 DF Hsieh Meng-hsuan (謝孟軒) May 12, 1986 ? + 2 0 Chinese Taipei Olympic (East Asian Cup 2008) - DF Kao Hao-chieh (高豪傑) July 24, 1980 12 0 Tatung 3 DF Chen Chang-min (陳昌民) 1 0 NSTC 4 DF Kuo Chun-yi (郭俊毅) May 9, 1982 ? + 1 1 Taipower 5 MF Cheng Yung-jen (鄭勇仁) (captain) January 24, 1977 ? + 1 0 Taipower 6 MF Feng Pao-hsing (馮保興) August 18, 1982 ? + 4 1 Taipower 7 MF Huang Cheng-tsung (黃正宗) October 11, 1985 ? + 3 0 Taiwan PE College 8 MF Liang Chien-wei (梁建偉) June 24, 1983 ? + 3 0 Taiwan PE College 9 MF Lo Chih-an (羅志安) December 28, 1988 5 1 Pingtung Uni. of Education 10 MF Chen Po-liang (陳柏良) February 11, 1988 10 2 Taiwan PE College 11 MF Lo Chih-en (羅志恩) December 28, 1988 5 6 Pingtung Uni. of Education 13 FW Huang Wei-yi (黃瑋儀) September 11, 1985 12 5 Tatung (East Asian Cup 2008) 12 GK Hsu Jen-feng (許人丰) April 28, 1979 7 0 Tatung - DF Chen Yu-lin (陳俞霖) October 21, 1985 ? + 1 0 Taiwan PE College - MF Wu Pai-ho (吳百和) November 29, 1987 1 0 Fu Jen University 14 FW Wu Chun-ching (吳俊青) December 18, 1988 0 0 (East Asian Cup 2008) 15 MF Chen Yi-wei (陳毅維) March 27, 1987 ? + 2 0 Taiwan PE College 16 MF Lin Tsung-jen (林聰仁) January 3, 1983 ? 0 NSTC 17 FW Huang Po-hao (黃柏豪) 1989-02-10 0 Fu Jen University 18 DF Chen Wei-hua (陳維華) Fu Jen University - GK Pan Wei-chih (潘威誌) 13 July 1982 3 0 NSTC

The following players have all recently been called up to the Chinese Taipei squad. Bracket shows last call-up time.

Goalkeepers

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club 46 GK Chung Kuang-tien (鍾光田) August 13, 1989 0 0 Tatung (2007 AFC Asian Cup qual. v. Korea Republic, August 16, 2006)

Defenders

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club 3 DF Tsai Sheng-an (蔡聖安) January 18, 1985 Chinese Taipei Olympic (2007 AFC Asian Cup qual. v. Korea Republic, August 16, 2006) 44 DF Lee Tai-lin (李泰麟) February 28, 1985 Taipower (2007 AFC Asian Cup qual. v. Korea Republic, September 6, 2006) 13 DF Wu Mung-tsung (吳孟宗) October 28, 1984 (unknown) (2007 AFC Asian Cup qual. v. Syria, November 15, 2006) 18 DF Lee Meng-chian (李盟乾) December 5, 1981 Taipower (2007 AFC Asian Cup qual. v. Syria, November 15, 2006) 17 DF Wu Cheng-hsien* (吳政憲) 1 0 Chinese Taipei U-23 (friendly v. Uzbekistan, March 24, 2007) 18 DF Chen Shan-fu (陳善富) August 07, 1987 0 0 Taipower (friendly v. Uzbekistan, March 24, 2007) 3 DF Tu Chu-hsien (涂居賢) February 10, 1979 7 0 Taipower (East Asian Cup 2008) 26 DF Chang Kai-hsiang (張凱翔) August 02, 1989 0 (East Asian Cup 2008)

Midfielders

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club 25 MF Huang Kai-chun (黃楷峻) March 4, 1987 Chinese Taipei Olympic (2007 AFC Asian Cup qual. v. Korea Republic, September 6, 2006) 22 MF Yu Chih-hung (游志宏) January 6, 1985 ? 0 Tatung (friendly v. Uzbekistan, March 24, 2007) 23 MF Tsai Hui-kai (蔡暉鎧) April 29, 1977 ? + 2 ? + 1 Tatung (East Asian Cup 2008)

Forwards

No. Pos. Player DoB/Age Caps Goals Club 19 FW Chuang Wei-lun (莊偉倫) March 17, 1982 7 2 Tatung (2007 AFC Asian Cup qual. v. Syria, November 15, 2006) 11 FW Chiang Shih-lu (江世祿) December 16, 1982 10 3 Taipower 24 FW Wu Chun-ching (吳俊青) December 18, 1988 0 (East Asian Cup 2008)

• Head Coach

  Toshiaki Imai

• Assistant Coaches

  Chang Wu-yeh
  Chen Jiunn-ming

• Lee Wei Tong (李惠堂), 1954-1958?
• Lo Bak(羅北), 1977-1981
• Chiang Chia (江洽), 198?-1985
• Lo Chih-tsung (羅智聰), 198?-1988
• Huang Jen-cheng (黃仁成), 19??－1993
• Chiang Mu-tsai (強木在), 1994-2000
• Lee Po-houng (李博洪), 2001-2005
• Dido, 2005

• Lee Wei Tong (李惠堂)
• Cheung Chi Doy (張子岱)
• Spencer Lam (林尚義) 1958(?)-1973(?)
• Chang Wu-yeh (張武業)

• During a CTFA Discipline Committee meeting in December 2006, Tai Hung-hsu, Lin Che-min, and Lee Yu-shan were banned for refusing to play in the 2007 AFC Asian Cup qualification game against Iran in October due to study problems and are not allowed to play in any local and international competitions for two years.^[1]

• Chinese Taipei national under-23 football team
• Chinese Taipei women's national football team
• Chinese Taipei national futsal team
• List of Taiwanese footballers

• Chinese Taipei Football Association (Chinese)
• Chinese Taipei national team squad at CTFA official site (Chinese)
• Chinese Taipei at 2006 FIFA World Cup official site

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