Tainan City Football Club was established with the support of the
Tainan City Government and the Football Committee of the Tainan City Sports Federation, Hongxin Enterprise and Taiwan Steel Group. The team joined the
Taiwan Football Premier League, under the name
Tainan City in 2017, which most of the players came from
Tianmu Campus, University of Taipei. Tainan City structure and its players changed, since Taiwan Steel Group acquired the club and renamed it as
Tainan City Taiwan Steel in 2019, importing
national team players such as
Wu Chun-ching.
2019 to present - as Tainan City Taiwan Steel Ahead of the 2020 season, Tainan City added national team players like
Pan Wen-chieh,
Chen Wei-chuan,
2019 'Best Player' award winner
Marc Fenelus, and 2019 'Golden Boot' award winner
Benchy Estama. Tainan City went on to win the
2020 season league title, receiving the club's first major piece of silverware and direct qualification to the
2021 AFC Cup. Tainan City won the league title in the next three seasons, becoming the first Taiwanese club to win four consecutive times.
Performance in Asian competitions At the
2021 AFC Cup, Tainan City won their first ever AFC Cup match against Mongolian club
Athletic 220, ultimately finishing third in the group and exiting the tournament. In the inaugural
2024–25 AFC Challenge League they came second in their group, including a win against Laotian team
Young Elephants. At the quarter-finals stage in March 2025, they will be facing off against Indonesian club
Madura United. ==Current squad==