# 2023 Taichung Futuro season

The 2023 Taichung Futuro season was the club's 5th season and their 5th season in Taiwan Football Premier League. Taichung Futuro also participated in the AFC Cup as they were the 2022 Taiwan Football Premier League runner-up.
On 14 December 2023, Taichung Futuro advanced to the 2023–24 AFC Cup knockout stage in 2024, becoming the first Taiwanese team to clinch a spot in the AFC Cup knockout stage.

## Kits

* Supplier: MIE Jersey
* Main Sponsor: Changhua County Government (TFPL) / Hota-Gear (AFC Cup)

## Players

| N | Pos. | Name | Age. | Since |
| Goalkeepers ||||||
| 1 | GK | Lee Ming-wei | 26 | 2020 |
| 21 | GK | Tuan Yu | 29 | 2019 |
| 31 | GK | Tian Syuan-jin | 25 | 2023 |
| 50 | GK | Kenya Matsui | 38 | 2023 |
| 51 | GK | Taiki Itsukaichi | 25 | 2023 |
| Defenders ||||||
| 3 | DF | Chen Ting-yang (captain) | 31 | 2019 |
| 4 | DF | Tseng Te-lung | 21 | 2023 |
| 5 | DF | Cheng Hao | 26 | 2022 |
| 7 | DF | Keisuke Ogawa | 37 | 2019 |
| 8 | DF | Yoshitaka Komori | 36 | 2019 |
| 13 | DF | Shunya Suganuma | 33 | 2023 |
| 20/14 | DF | Chen Chun-fu | 22 | 2023 |
| 34 | DF | Lin Che-yu | 30 | 2023 |
| 42 | DF | Juang Ming-yan | 34 | 2023 |
| Midfielders ||||||
| 6 | MF | Tsai Chieh-hsun | 20 | 2023 |
| 9 | MF | Chen Hung-wei | 26 | 2021 |
| 10 | MF | Shohei Yokoyama | 30 | 2021 |
| 14 | MF | Naoki Kaneko | 23 | 2023 |
| 15 | MF | Kazuya Kojima | 24 | 2023 |
| 18 | MF | Li Mao | 31 | 2019 |
| 19 | MF | Genki Takatera | 28 | 2023 |
| 23 | MF | Kaoru Takayama | 35 | 2023 |
| 25 | MF | Kakeru Gunji | 22 | 2023 |
| 43 | MF | Liang Meng-hsin | 20 | 2021 |
| Forwards ||||||
| 11 | FW | Amari Oki | 23 | 2022 |
| 17 | FW | Hsu Heng-pin | 30 | 2019 |
| 27 | FW | Fang Ching-ren | 42 | 2023 |
| 33 | FW | Kotaro Nakajima | 25 | 2023 |
| 36 | FW | Carlo Finotti | 17 | 2023 |
| 99 | FW | Jhon Benchy | 29 | 2022 |
Source:

### Notes

* ↑ Worn number 20 in domestic league and number 14 in AFC Cup.

## Transfers
### In

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred from |
| Preseason |||||
| 4 | DF | Tseng Te-lung | Land Home NTUS |
| 6 | DF | So Narita | Angkor Tiger |
| 14 | DF | Naoki Kaneko | – |
| 15 | MF | Kazuya Kojima | Kheanlao United |
| 19 | MF | Genki Takatera | – |
| 23 | MF | Kaoru Takayama | Sagamihara |
| 25 | MF | Kakeru Gunji | Sloboda Mihovljan |
| 27 | FW | Fang Ching-ren | – |
| 31 | GK | Tian Syuan-jin | – |
| 33 | FW | Kotaro Nakajima | Sportfreunde 04 |
| 34 | DF | Lin Che-yu | – |
| 37 | MF | Chang Yi-wei | – |
| 38 | MF | Wan Hsien-Yi | – |
| 39 | MF | Pai Chia-lun | – |
| 40 | MF | Shao Shou-yue | – |
| 41 | MF | Chao Yang-chun | – |
| 42 | DF | Chao Yang-chen | – |
| 50 | GK | Kenya Matsui | Blaublitz Akita |
| Midseason |||||
| 6 | MF | Tsai Chieh-hsun | – |
| 13 | DF | Shunya Suganuma | – |
| 20 | DF | Chen Chun-fu | Land Home NTUS |
| 36 | FW | Carlo Finotti | – |
| 42 | DF | Juang Ming-yan | – |
| 51 | GK | Taiki Itsukaichi | Niedernhausen |

### Out

| No. | Pos. | Player | Transferred to |
| Preseason |||||
| 1 | GK | Pan Wen-chieh | Tainan City |
| 2 | DF | Takeo Miyazaki | Retired |
| 4 | DF | Wang Ruei | Tainan City |
| 6 | MF | Tu Shao-chieh | Taipower |
| 10 | FW | Chen Hao-wei | – |
| 11 | MF | Wu Chun-ching | Tainan City |
| 13 | MF | Koki Narita | Rajpracha |
| 19 | MF | Seiji Fujiwara | Retired |
| 23 | DF | Juang Ming-yan | – |
| 77 | FW | Onur Dogan | Leopard Cat |
| 80 | FW | Chen Sheng-wei | Leopard Cat |
| 81 | GK | Jun Kochi | Viengchanh |
| Midseason |||||
| 6 | DF | So Narita | Tainan City |
| 20 | MF | Matias Godoy | Vikings PlayOne |
| 35 | FW | Takayuki Morimoto | – |
| 37 | MF | Chang Yi-wei | – |
| 38 | MF | Wan Hsien-Yi | – |
| 39 | MF | Pai Chia-lun | – |
| 40 | MF | Shao Shou-yue | – |
| 41 | MF | Chao Yang-chun | – |
| 42 | DF | Chao Yang-chen | – |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| TFPL | 16 April 2023 | 10 December 2023 | Matchday 1 | 5th | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 038.10 |
| AFC Cup | 23 August 2023 | 13 March 2024 | Play-off round | Inter-zone semi-finals | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 9 | +1 | 071.43 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 28 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 43 | 40 | +3 | 046.43 |
Last updated: 13 March 2024 Source: TFPL AFC Cup

### Taiwan Football Premier League
#### League table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Tainan City TSG (C) | 21 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 47 | 14 | +33 | 52 | Qualification for the AFC Challenge League qualifying play-offs |
| 2 | Leopard Cat | 21 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 40 | 22 | +18 | 41 | |
| 3 | Taipower | 21 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 38 | 24 | +14 | 33 | |
| 4 | AC Taipei | 21 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 25 | 19 | +6 | 31 | |
| 5 | Futuro | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 33 | 31 | +2 | 28 | |
| 6 | New Taipei Hang Yuen | 21 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 25 | 33 | −8 | 27 | |
| 7 | Ming Chuan University | 21 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 44 | −25 | 19 | Transfer to 2024 Taiwan Football Premier League qualifiers |
| 8 | Taipei Dragons (R) | 21 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 18 | 58 | −40 | 8 | Relegation to Taiwan Second Division Football League |

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 |
| Result | W | D | W | L | L | L | D | L | W | L | W | W | D | W | L | L | L | W | W | L | D |
| Position | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 |

#### Matches
### AFC Cup
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | FUT | ULA | TAI | CPK |
| 1 | Taichung Futuro | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 12 | Inter-zone play-off semi-finals | — | 1–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| 2 | Ulaanbaatar | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 12 | | 0–2 | — | 3–1 | 1–0 |
| 3 | Taiwan Steel | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 15 | 12 | +3 | 9 | | 5–1 | 3–0 | — | 4–2 |
| 4 | Chao Pak Kei | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 3 | | 0–1 | 0–1 | 4–1 | — |
* 1 2 Ranked on head-to-head goal difference: Taichung Futuro +1, Ulaanbaatar –1

## Statistics
### Squad statistics

| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Total | TMFL | TMFL | AFC Cup | AFC Cup |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Goalkeepers ||||||||||
| 1 | GK | TAI | Lee Ming-wei | 1 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | GK | TAI | Tuan Yu | 12 | 0 | 9+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | GK | TAI | Tian Syuan-jin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | GK | JPN | Kenya Matsui | 18 | 0 | 11+1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 51 | GK | JPN | Taiki Itsukaichi | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders ||||||||||
| 3 | DF | TAI | Chen Ting-yang | 20 | 0 | 12+2 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 4 | DF | TAI | Tseng Te-lung | 17 | 0 | 7+9 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 5 | DF | TAI | Cheng Hao | 25 | 1 | 17+2 | 1 | 1+5 | 0 |
| 7 | DF | JPN | Keisuke Ogawa | 22 | 0 | 14+3 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 8 | DF | TAI | Yoshitaka Komori | 24 | 0 | 15+3 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 13 | DF | JPN | Shunya Suganuma | 10 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| 20/14 | DF | TAI | Chen Chun-fu | 13 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0+6 | 0 |
| 34 | DF | TAI | Lin Che-yu | 26 | 1 | 10+10 | 1 | 3+3 | 0 |
| 42 | DF | TAI | Juang Ming-yan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders ||||||||||
| 6 | MF | TAI | Tsai Chieh-hsun | 7 | 2 | 5+1 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 |
| 9 | MF | TAI | Chen Hung-wei | 14 | 0 | 4+10 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | MF | JPN | Shohei Yokoyama | 23 | 4 | 15+2 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 14 | MF | JPN | Naoki Kaneko | 5 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | MF | JPN | Kazuya Kojima | 4 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | MF | TAI | Li Mao | 24 | 6 | 16+2 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| 19 | MF | JPN | Genki Takatera | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Kaoru Takayama | 24 | 6 | 14+4 | 4 | 6 | 2 |
| 25 | MF | JPN | Kakeru Gunji | 6 | 1 | 5+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 | MF | TAI | Liang Meng-hsin | 24 | 1 | 16+3 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| Forwards ||||||||||
| 11 | FW | JPN | Amari Oki | 7 | 1 | 4+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | FW | TAI | Hsu Heng-pin | 18 | 4 | 7+5 | 1 | 6 | 3 |
| 27 | FW | TAI | Fang Ching-ren | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | FW | JPN | Kotaro Nakajima | 4 | 0 | 3+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | FW | TAI | Carlo Finotti | 6 | 1 | 4+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 99 | FW | HAI | Jhon Benchy | 18 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 4+1 | 0 |
| Players who left during the season but made an appearance ||||||||||
| 6 | DF | JPN | So Narita | 8 | 0 | 7+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | MF | CHI | Matias Godoy | 4 | 1 | 1+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | FW | JPN | Takayuki Morimoto | 9 | 1 | 4+5 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Own goals (0) ||||||||||

#### Notes

* ↑ Qualifying-playoff stats were excluded.
* ↑ Worn number 20 in domestic league and number 14 in AFC Cup.

### Goalscorers

| Rank | No. | Pos. | Nat. | Player | TMFL | AFC Cup | Total |
| 1 | 99 | FW | | Jhon Benchy | 9 | — | 9 |
| 2 | 18 | MF | | Li Mao | 6 | — | 6 |
| 2 | 23 | MF | | Kaoru Takayama | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 10 | MF | | Shohei Yokoyama | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 4 | 17 | FW | | Hsu Heng-pin | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | 6 | MF | | Tsai Chieh-hsun | 2 | — | 2 |
| 7 | 5 | DF | | Cheng Hao | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 11 | FW | | Amari Oki | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 20 | MF | | Matias Godoy | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 25 | MF | | Kakeru Gunji | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 34 | DF | | Lin Che-yu | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 35 | FW | | Takayuki Morimoto | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 36 | FW | | Carlo Finotti | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 43 | FW | | Liang Meng-hsin | 1 | — | 1 |
| 7 | 13 | DF | | Shunya Suganuma | — | 1 | 1 |
| Own goals (from the opponents) | Own goals (from the opponents) | Own goals (from the opponents) | Own goals (from the opponents) | Own goals (from the opponents) | — | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 33 | 8 | 41 |

#### Notes

* ↑ Qualifying-playoff stats were excluded.

### Hat-tricks

| Player | Against | Result | Date | Competition | Ref |
| Li Mao | Ming Chuan University | 6–0 | 4 June 2023 | Taiwan Football Premier League | |

### Cleansheets

| Rank | No. | Nat. | Player | TFPL | AFC Cup | Total |
| 1 | 50 | | Kenya Matsui | 4 | 3 | 7 |
| 2 | 21 | | Tuan Yu | 6 | — | 6 |
| 3 | 1 | | Lee Ming-wei | 1 | — | 1 |
| 4 | 51 | | Taiki Itsukaichi | 0 | — | 0 |
| 4 | 31 | | Tian Syuan-jin | — | — | 0 |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 11 | 3 | 14 |

### Disciplinary record

| No. | Pos. | Nat. | Name | TFPL | TFPL | AFC Cup | Total | Total |
| 18 | MF | | Li Mao | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
| 5 | DF | | Cheng Hao | 4 | | | 4 | |
| 7 | DF | | Keisuke Ogawa | 2 | | 1 | 3 | |
| 13 | DF | | Shunya Suganuma | 1 | | 2 | 3 | |
| 17 | FW | | Hsu Heng-pin | 1 | | 1 | 2 | |
| 23 | MF | | Kaoru Takayama | 1 | | 1 | 2 | |
| 4 | DF | | Tseng Te-lung | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 6 | DF | | So Narita | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 8 | DF | | Yoshitaka Komori | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 10 | MF | | Shohei Yokoyama | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 11 | FW | | Amari Oki | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 34 | DF | | Lin Che-yu | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 36 | FW | | Carlo Finotti | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 43 | MF | | Liang Meng-hsin | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 99 | FW | | Jhon Benchy | 1 | | | 1 | |
| 50 | GK | | Kenya Matsui | | | 1 | 1 | |
| Coach | Coach | | Juang Ming-yan | 1 | | | 1 | |
| Staff | Staff | | Yuto Kabasawa | 1 | | | 1 | |
| Totals | Totals | Totals | Totals | 21 | 1 | 9 | 30 | 1 |
Source: Ordered by , and = Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

#### Notes

* ↑ Qualifying-playoff stats were excluded.