Hang Yuan FC

Hang Yuan

Full name	Hang Yuan Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Stingray
Short name	Hang Yuan
Founded	2012; 12 years ago (2012)
Ground	Fu Jen University Football Stadium
Capacity	3,000
Owner	Fu Jen University
Chairman	Lin Yong-Cheng
Head coach	Hong Qing-Huai
League	Taiwan Football Premier League
2023	TFPL, 6th of 8
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Hang Yuan Football Club (Chinese: 航源足球俱樂部; pinyin: Háng Yuán Zúqiú Jùlèbù; also spelled Hang Yuen) is a professional football club based in New Taipei, Taiwan that competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League. The club was previously known as Air Source Development and is currently affiliated with Fu Jen Catholic University. Hang Yuan was the first Taiwanese team to take part in the AFC Cup group stage.

History

Intercity Football League era

The club formed as Air Source Development FC and first entered the Intercity Football League in 2013. The club struggled in its early years, regularly having to play in qualification rounds in order to preserve its top flight status. In 2013, the club finished 7th of 8 teams, picking up only 7 points. Though it won the next season's qualification tournament, it still finished with the same points tally next season, albeit at an improved 6th place due to Chiayi County F.C. finishing rock bottom with 0 points. They avoided the preliminary round for the 2015–16 season, but it proved to be their least successful season yet, as they followed Chiayi County in finishing bottom of the table with 0 points.

Taiwan Football Premier League

For the newly revamped 2017 Taiwan Football Premier League, Air Source Development changed their name to Hang Yuan F.C. and enlisted the help of Fu Jen Catholic University to improve the team's standard. This saw an immediate improvement, as Hang Yuan finished 4th in the league phase of the new top-flight structure in Taiwan. This finish allowed them to compete in the 3rd place play-off against Hasus TSU F.C. Over two legs, Hang Yuan ran out 5-2 aggregate winners to finish 3rd in the inaugural TFPL season.

Due to the failures of Taipower and Tatung to obtain AFC Club Licences, Hang Yuan were granted Taiwan's place in the 2018 AFC Cup Group Stage, the first club from the country to do so. Signing Haiti international and former Major League Soccer midfielder Jean-Marc Alexandre, the team entered into a group with Benfica de Macau, and North Korean clubs April 25 Sports Club and Hwaebul. A close fought 3-2 defeat to Benfica de Macau was swiftly followed by a heavy 5-1 loss to April 25.

Current squad

As of 12 April 2024

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  TAI Odo Jacobs 2 DF  TAI Huang Yung-chun (captain) 3 DF  SLV William López 4 DF  KOR Kwon Seung-seong 5 MF  TAI Fang Li-peng 6 MF  TAI Liu Cheng-en 7 MF  TAI Chang Ssu-yu 8 MF  JPN Kentaro Sato 9 MF  JPN Genki Tateiwa 10 MF  TAI Chou Yu-chieh 11 FW  TAI Chen Pao-chun 13 DF  TAI Wu Po-sheng 14 FW  TAI Lin Tsung-hung

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 FW  TAI Huang Yu-wei 16 MF  TAI Hsu Hung-chieh 17 DF  TAI Huang Chun-lin 18 GK  TAI Chang Po-feng 19 FW  TAI Lin Chen 20 FW  TAI Pan Yen-hung 21 MF  TAI Wu Shun-an 22 GK  TAI Lin Chun-hua 23 FW  TAI Liu Jhih-wen 24 MF  TAI Yeh Po-hen 25 MF  TAI Wang Hao-lin 26 MF  JPN Naoki Kaneko 80 FW  TAI Benson Lin

Continental record

• Hang Yuan's score listed first

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Position
2018	AFC Cup	Group I	Benfica de Macau	1–4	2–3	4th
			April 25	1–5	1–5
			Hwaebul SC	0–1	1–6
2019	AFC Cup	Group I	April 25	0–3	0–5	4th
			Tai Po	1–1	2–4
			Kitchee	1–2	0–3

See also

• Fu Jen Catholic University

External links

• Air Source Development FC logo Archived 2018-12-05 at the Wayback Machine

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