AC Taipei
Athletic Club Taipei (), previously known as Andy Chen Academy, Is a professional football club based in Taipei, Taiwan that competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League, starting in 2022. History. In 2017, the club was created with the goal of bring local youth talents to their academy, in order to promote the professional football development in Taiwan. Their youth players can also play for their respective schools, colleges, or university in youth tournaments, to enable competitive football experience since their players' youth. In 2020, their first-team was formed, with the self-proclaimed long and short-term ambitions  of playing on Taiwan's top-flight league; representing Taiwan at the AFC Cup; and introducing their academy players to the first-team matches, as they were granted a Taiwan Club License, debuted in the 2020 Taiwan Challenge League. They made their official debut on July 18, 2020, when they lost 5–2 away to CPC Corporation. During the season, they earned 28 points in 14 matches. But, they still were unable to be promoted to the first division, as they finished in 3rd place. Despite having a 14 positive goal difference advantage, they finished 3 points behind second-placed Inter  Taoyuan that season. Their efforts were rewarded in 2021, winning the Taiwan Challenge League title by a tight margin, sitting above second-placed Ming Chuan University by just 2 points. With this 35-point campaign, they were successfully promoted without playing the promotion play-offs. The club was rebranded and modernised as in the club's identity, including a name change. They changed their name from Andy Chen Academy to AC Taipei, on 31 March 2022. AC Taipei debuted in the 2022 season of Taiwan's top-flight league against Taipower, when they lost 4–1, with Tsai Meng-cheng scoring  their lone goal. AC Taipei's reserve team is yet to win a place at the Taiwan Challenge League, the national football 2nd tier league, for the 2022 season. They will play a single-leg qualification match against a team assigned to them by a draw conducted by the CTFA in 7 May. If they successfully conclude the knockout match as winners, they will be playing the 2022 Challenge League. Current squad. Updated as of 19 April 2022.