CHINESE TAIPEI NATIONAL FOOTBALL TEAM

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

History

Stadium

Competition history

World Cup record

Asian Cup record

AFC Challenge Cup record

East Asian Cup record

Recently played and upcoming matches

Current squad

Recent callups

Personnel

Former managers

Notable former players

Trivia

References

See also

External links

History

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.

Stadium

Main articles: 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.

Competition history

World Cup record

★ 1930 to 1950 - ''Did not enter'': was part of Japan until 1945

★ 1954 - ''Withdrew''

★ 1958 - ''Withdrew''

★ 1978 to 2006 - ''Did not qualify''

Asian Cup record

★ 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''

AFC Challenge Cup record

★ 2006 - Quarter Finals

East Asian Cup record

★ 2003 - ''Did not qualify'' (2nd place in qualifiers)

★ 2005 - ''Did not qualify'' (3rd place in qualifiers)

★ 2008 - ''Did not qualify'' (3rd place in qualifiers)

Recently played and upcoming matches

September 6, 2006, Suwon, South Korea - '8 - 0' Continental Qualifier
October 11, 2006, Taipei, Taiwan - '0 - 2' Continental Qualifier
November 15, 2006, Damascus, Syria - '3 - 0' Continental Qualifier
March 24, 2007, Taipei, Taiwan - '0 - 1' Friendly
June 17, 2007, Macau, Macau - '0 - 10' East Asian Cup 2008 preliminary round
June 19, 2007, Macau, Macau - '1 - 1' East Asian Cup 2008 preliminary round
June 24, 2007, Macau, Macau - '2 - 7' East Asian Cup 2008 preliminary round

Current squad

The following players were called up for the East Asian Cup 2008 preliminary round held in Macau, China.

Recent callups

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

Personnel

★ 'Head Coach'

★ : Toshiaki Imai

★ 'Assistant Coaches'

★ : Chang Wu-yeh
Chen Jiunn-ming

Former managers

★ Lee Wei Tong (), 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

Notable former players

★ Lee Wei Tong ()

★ Cheung Chi Doy ()

★ Spencer Lam () 1958(?)-1973(?)

★ Chang Wu-yeh ()

Trivia

★ 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]

References

1. 95年第四次紀律委員會議決定事項

See also

★ Chinese Taipei national under-23 football team

★ Chinese Taipei women's national football team

★ Chinese Taipei national futsal team

★ List of Taiwanese footballers

External links

★ Chinese Taipei Football Association

★ Chinese Taipei at 2006 FIFA World Cup official site