# Taichung Futuro F.C.

Taichung Futuro FC (Chinese: 台中Futuro) is a professional football club based in Taichung, Taiwan which currently competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League.

## History

Taichung Futuro Football Academy was founded in 2016 by Japanese footballer Yoshitaka Komori. The men's team was established in 2018. A second-place finish in 2022 meant qualification to next season's AFC Cup play-offs. They secured a group stage place in the 2023-24 AFC Cup after beating Macanese side Monte Carlo 2–1 in the East Asia Zone play off, and managed to secure progression to the Inter-zone play-off semi-finals by virtue of goal difference over Mongolia's FC Ulaanbaatar.

## Kits
### Kit manufacturers and shirt sponsors

| Period | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor (chest) |
| 2019 | Yonex | Sweeten Real Estate Development |
| 2020 | — | — |
| 2021–2022 | MIE | Lihpao Resort |
| 2023 | MIE | Changhua County Government |
| 2024–present | Joma | Hota-Gear |

## Players
### Current squad

    As of 30 January 2025
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | TAI | Lee Ming-wei |
| 3 | DF | TAI | Chen Ting-yang (captain) |
| 4 | FW | TAI | Tseng Te-lung |
| 5 | FW | TAI | Cheng Hao |
| 6 | MF | TAI | Tsai Chieh-hsun |
| 7 | DF | JPN | Keisuke Ogawa |
| 8 | DF | TAI | Yoshitaka Komori |
| 9 | MF | TAI | Chen Hung-wei |
| 12 | MF | TAI | Wen Chih-hao |
| 14 | DF | TAI | Chen Chun-fu |
| 17 | FW | TAI | Hsu Heng-pin |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 18 | FW | TAI | Li Mao |
| 19 | DF | TAI | Li Ya-she |
| 21 | GK | TAI | Tuan Yu |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Kaoru Takayama |
| 34 | DF | TAI | Lin Che-yu |
| 42 | DF | TAI | Liu Wei-che |
| 43 | DF | TAI | Liang Meng-hsin |
| 50 | GK | JPN | Kenya Matsui |
| 88 | DF | JPN | Nagisa Sakurauchi |
| 99 | GK | TAI | Lin Chun-hua |

## Managers

| Manager | Nat. | Tenure |
| Juang Ming-yen | Taiwan | 2019 |
| Toshiaki Imai | Japan | 2020 |
| Vom Ca-nhum | Taiwan | 2020–2022 |
| Juang Ming-yen | Taiwan | 2023 |
| Jun Hirabayashi | Japan | 2023 |
| Pen Wu-sung | Taiwan | 2023–2024 (AFC Cup) |
| Fang Ching-ren | Taiwan | 2024–present |

## Records
### Year-by-year

| Season | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | Position | International/Continental | International/Continental | Top goalscorer(s) | Top goalscorer(s) |
| Season | Div | League | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | PPG | Position | International/Continental | International/Continental | Name(s) | Goals |
| 2019 | 1 | TFPL | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 37 | 26 | +11 | 28 | 1.33 | 5th | DNQ | DNQ | Chen Sheng-wei Li Mao | 7 |
| 2020 | 1 | TFPL | 21 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 33 | 17 | +16 | 39 | 1.86 | 3rd | DNQ | DNQ | Joo Ik-seong | 19 |
| 2021 | 1 | TFPL | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 11 | +9 | 26 | 1.86 | 3rd | DNQ | DNQ | Shohei Yokoyama | 5 |
| 2022 | 1 | TFPL | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 36 | 11 | +25 | 37 | 2.06 | 2nd | DNQ | DNQ | Jhon Benchy | 18 |
| 2023 | 1 | TFPL | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 28 | 1.33 | 5th | AFC Cup | IZSF | Jhon Benchy | 9 |
| 2024 | 1 | TFPL | 21 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 41 | 19 | +22 | 43 | 2.05 | 2nd | AFC Cup | IZSF | Li Mao | 10 |
| Total | – | – | 116 | 59 | 24 | 33 | 200 | 115 | +85 | 201 | 1.73 | – | – | – | Jhon Benchy Li Mao | 28 |
^ 1. Top goalscorer(s) includes all goals scored in League, AFC Cup, and other competitive continental matches but excludes goals in their qualifying matches.

### International competition

| Season | Competition | Round | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
| 2023–24 | AFC Cup | Play-off round | Monte Carlo | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 |
| 2023–24 | AFC Cup | Group I | Chao Pak Kei | 1–0 | 1–0 | 1st out of 4 |
| 2023–24 | AFC Cup | Group I | FC Ulaanbaatar | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1st out of 4 |
| 2023–24 | AFC Cup | Group I | Taiwan Steel | 2–1 | 1–5 | 1st out of 4 |
| 2023–24 | AFC Cup | Inter-zone play-off semi-finals | Abdysh-Ata Kant | 1–3 | 0–5 | 1–8 |