National Sports Training Center football team

NSTC
Full nameNational Sports Training Center
Founded1960
GroundTainan County Stadium
Capacity30,000
ChairmanChang Chia-Kuang
ManagerPeng Wu-Song

National Sports Training Center is a football team based in Tainan, and is the football club for Taiwan's National Sports Training Center. It was merged in 2003 with the Lukuang football team, Taiwan's land army football team, after the option of alternate service in the Taiwanese militia. It participated in Taiwan Football Premier League.

History

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Formerly known as the Lukuang football team (Chinese: 陸光足球隊; pinyin: Lùguāng zúqiúduì) or Taiwan Army football team, the NTSC football team belonged to the Republic of China Army and competed in the Chinese Taipei National Football League.

Since the Republic of China has the policy of conscription for all male citizens, qualified footballers could choose to join the Lukuang football team instead of the regular militia service after passing the tryouts. It helped the players to keep their form and provided additional selection and management to the Chinese Taipei national football team. As a result, most national team members have played for Lukuang.

In 2000, Lukuang quit the league due to military reform, but returned in 2003 under the new name of Taiwan National Sports Training Center football team and are affiliated with Taiwan's National Sports Training Center.

Naming Scheme

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The Taiwan NSTC football team entered the Enterprise Football League with a different name almost every year.

  • 2006: Fubon Financial Holding Co. (富邦金控)
  • 2007: Chateau Beach Resort Kenting (墾丁夏都沙灘酒店)
  • 2008: National Sports Training Center (國家運動選手訓練中心)

Current squad

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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 Taiwan TAI Chu Liang-yi (朱良毅)
2 DF Taiwan TAI Lin Yu-ting
3 MF Taiwan TAI Lin Jian-ting
4 DF Taiwan TAI Chou Chen-chung
6 MF Taiwan TAI Dai Hung-hsu
7 FW Taiwan TAI Huang Chu-hsuan
8 MF Taiwan TAI Wang Tzu-min
9 MF Taiwan TAI Lo Chih-an (羅志安)
10 MF Taiwan TAI Cheng Ching-hsua
11 MF Taiwan TAI Wu Kuo-chi
12 GK Taiwan TAI Shih Hsin-an
14 MF Taiwan TAI Hsieh Meng-hsuan
15 MF Taiwan TAI Kuo Tsu-hao
No. Pos. Nation Player
16 FW Taiwan TAI Chen Ting-wei
17 DF Taiwan TAI Chen Wei-chuan (陳威全)
18 FW Taiwan TAI Hsu Heng-pin
19 MF Taiwan TAI Chen Chia-kun
20 DF Taiwan TAI Chen Wei-chou
21 DF Taiwan TAI Peng Hung-wei
22 DF Taiwan TAI Wu Yueh-hwa
23 MF Taiwan TAI Wei Ting-hsiang
24 MF Taiwan TAI Yang Chia-huang
25 MF Taiwan TAI Chen Yi-hung
26 MF Taiwan TAI Chen Hung-hao
27 MF Taiwan TAI Yang Chao-hsun (楊朝勛)
28 MF Taiwan TAI Sa Yi-chun (薩宜軍)
30 GK Taiwan TAI Kuo Chen-wei (郭宸瑋)

* Name spellings of some players have yet been confirmed. See zh:台灣國訓足球隊 for their Chinese names.

Achievements

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As Lukuang
    • Runners-up (2): 1984, 1991
As NSTC
    • Runners-up (1): 2007

Managers

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See also

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