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Sunny Bank AC Taipei

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Sunny Bank AC Taipei
Full nameSunny Bank Athletic Club Taipei
NicknameThe Tigers
Founded2010; 16 years ago (2010)
GroundXizhi Sports Field
Capacity466[1]
OwnerChen Sing-an
Head coachChen Sing-an
LeagueTaiwan Football Premier League
2025–26TFPL, 3rd of 8
Websitehttps://actaipei.com/

Athletic Club Taipei (Chinese: 陽信台北競技; pinyin: Táiběi jìngjì), previously known as Andy Chen Academy and known as Sunny Bank Athletic Club Taipei (abbreviated as A. C. Taipei) for commercial reasons, is a professional football club based in Taipei, Taiwan that competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League.

History

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In 2010, the club started as a football academy Little Peacock Club, and was later renamed as Andy Chen Academy.[2] In 2017, the academy collaborated with Chelsea F.C. Hong Kong Soccer School to introduce Chelsea F.C.'s youth training system to the academy. The academy committed $2 million NTD to build five artificial turf pitches.[2] Academy's owner, Chen Sing-an, planned to make the club to be the first Asian Football Confederation qualified Taiwanese football club.[3] 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.[4]

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,[4] 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.[5]

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.[6]

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.[7][8]

AC Taipei debuted in the 2022 season of Taiwan's top-flight league[9][10] against Taipower, when they lost 4–1, with Tsai Meng-cheng scoring their lone goal.[11]

AC Taipei's reserve team has yet to win a place at the Taiwan Challenge League, the national football 2nd tier league, for the 2022 season. They played a single-leg qualification match against Kaohsiung F.C. by a draw conducted by the CTFA in 7 May, losing with a score of 0–2. Therefore, they did not secure a spot in the 2022 Challenge League.[12]

On June 13, 2023, the club was renamed to Sunny Bank AC Taipei after receiving sponsorship from Sunny Commercial Bank.[13]

Current squad

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First team

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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 Tuan Hsuan
3 DF  TAI Hsieh Ming-you
4 DF  JPN Tsuyoshi Kusuyama
6 MF  TAI Tsai Meng-chen
8 MF  JPN Jun Uchida
9 FW  TAI Huang Wei-chieh
12 DF  TAI Yang Chia-pao
16 MF  TAI Chen Yan-ruei
17 MF  TAI Chen Yih-yan
20 GK  TAI Hsu Cheng-chan
22 FW  TAI Mu Hsuan-kai
23 MF  GUA Gustavo Arreaga
No. Pos. Nation Player
25 MF  TAI Lee Tsung-yang
28 FW  TAI Hsu Yi-le
29 DF  TAI Martin Chen
30 DF  TAI Wang Hsiang-yi
45 MF  TAI Wu Tung-hsun
47 MF  TAI Lien Chia-hsing
48 GK  TAI Tang Ya-jung
60 MF  TAI Hayato Takayama
64 DF  TAI Wu Jia-wei
— DF  JPN Yamato Kumagai
— MF  CHI Matias Godoy

Reserves team

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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
18 MF  TAI Chang Yung-po
22 FW  TAI Mu Hsuan-kai
24 DF  TAI Lee Shih-yu
28 FW  TAI Hsu Yi-le
31 GK  JPN Kenshin Katata
36 DF  TAI Liao Mao-lin
37 DF  TAI Liu Yung-fu
39 DF  TAI Tsai Meng-tzu
40 FW  TAI Chen Yu-heng
41 FW  TAI Li Shih-ying
42 MF  TAI Chang Chen-jui
46 DF  TAI Tian Kai-wen
47 MF  TAI Lien Chia-hsing
49 MF  GUA Rodrigo Calderon
No. Pos. Nation Player
50 DF  TAI Tsai Meng-kuang
52 GK  TAI Hou Po-yen
53 DF  TAI Jang Jeh-ming
55 FW  TAI Yang Hsuan-anU19
56 FW  GUA Jose Gallardo
57 MF  TAI Hsieh Fei-hsuU19
60 MF  TAI Hayato Takayama
61 DF  TAI Chen Ching-shengU19
64 DF  TAI Wu Jia-wei
65 MF  TAI Huang Chang-tao
66 FW  TAI Lin Ren-chieh
69 FW  TAI Liu Chi-chao
70 FW  KOR Lee Jeong-cheol
77 MF  TAI Yang Tsan-wu

Records

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1st section 2nd section 3rd section
1 Taipower 4–1 AC Taipei 1 AC Taipei 0–1 Taipower 1 Taipower 2–1 AC Taipei
2 AC Taipei 2–6 Tainan City 2 Tainan City 2–2 AC Taipei 2 AC Taipei 0–7 Tainan City
3 AC Taipei 1–4 Taichung Futuro 3 Taichung Futuro 3–3 AC Taipei 3 AC Taipei 1–2 Taichung Futuro
4 AC Taipei 1–2 Hang Yuen 4 Hang Yuen 3–1 AC Taipei 4 AC Taipei Hang Yuen
5 Leopard Cat 2–0 AC Taipei 5 AC Taipei 2–2 Leopard Cat 5 Leopard Cat AC Taipei
6 Ming Chuan 1–2 AC Taipei 6 AC Taipei 1–1 Ming Chuan 6 Ming Chuan AC Taipei

References

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  1. ↑ "汐止區綜合運動場". 全國運動場館資訊網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-07-09.
  2. 1 2 中時新聞網. "200萬建足球場 陳信安要打造台灣首個職業俱樂部 - 體育". 中時新聞網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  3. ↑ "給台足一個希望 陳信安足球學校引進切爾西青訓系統 | ETtoday運動雲 | ETtoday新聞雲". sports.ettoday.net (in Traditional Chinese). 28 June 2017. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  4. 1 2 "AC Taipei Basic Info" (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  5. ↑ "AC Taipei Philosophy" (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  6. ↑ "ACA were the 2022 TCL champions". 26 December 2021. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  7. ↑ "足球》ACA升上企甲變身台北競技 新隊徽新陣容展現企圖". tw.news.yahoo.com (in Chinese). 31 March 2022. Retrieved 2022-07-29.
  8. ↑ "ACA changed its name to AC Taipei, and Chen Sing-an lead the team" (in Chinese). Yahoo! Taiwan. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  9. ↑ "Taipower vs AC Taipei match report by CTFA". CTFA. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  10. ↑ "TPFL's 7 teams kick-off the top-flight season in Taiwan". 4 April 2022. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  11. ↑ "Chen Sing-an praises his team after Taipower clash despite losing" (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 March 2022.
  12. ↑ "Challenge League". CTFA. Retrieved 29 April 2022.
  13. ↑ "受陽信銀行冠名贊助，今日起俱樂部更名為「陽信台北競技俱樂部」" (Press release) (in Chinese). Sunny Bank Athletic Club Taipei. 13 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
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