Hang Yuen FC

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 which currently competes in the Taiwan Football Premier League. The club were 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.

Hang Yuan

Full name	Hang Yuan Football Club
Founded	2012 (2012)
Ground	Fu Jen University Football Stadium
Capacity	3,000
Chairman	Lin Yong-Cheng
Coach	Hong Qing-Huai
League	Taiwan Football Premier League
2019	Taiwan Football Premier League, 3rd of 8
Home colours Away colours

History

Intercity Football League era

The club formed as Air Source Development F.C. 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 heave 5-1 loss to April 25.

Current squad

As of 11 April 2020

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	TPE	Huang Chiu-lin (黃秋霖)
3	DF	TPE	Lai Ya-sa (賴亞薩)
4	FW	TPE	Wu Bing-hsun (吳秉勳)
5	DF	TPE	Huang Shih-yuan (黃士源)
6	DF	TPE	Wo Pu-han (吳柏翰)
7	FW	TPE	Lin Ming-wei (林明偉)
8	MF	TPE	Lin Shih-kai (林世凱)
9	FW	TPE	Chen Ching-hsuan (陳慶煊)
10	MF	TPE	Chou Yu-chieh (周宇杰) (captain)
11	MF	TPE	Liu Yung-fu (劉泳賦)
13	MF	TPE	Kao Ssu-han (高嗣漢)
14	MF	TPE	Lo Chi-hsien (羅吉賢)
15	MF	USA	Michael Casey O'Gorman
16	DF	BRA	Luan Anderson
17	FW	TPE	Wu Rong-chueh (吳榮珏)

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	DF	TPE	Yang Jia-bao (楊佳宝)
19	MF	TPE	Ma Liang-cheng (馬良氶)
20	MF	TPE	Fang Li-peng (方立芃)
21	MF	TPE	Chiang Yu-cheng (江有成)
22	GK	TPE	Lai Po-lun (賴柏綸)
23	MF	TPE	Su Hsi-te (蘇喜德)
24	MF	TPE	Hsu Han (徐 漢)
25	DF	JPN	Atsushi Shimono
28	DF	TPE	Liu Chia-ming (劉家銘)
30	DF	TPE	Yang Chia-hung (楊佳宏)
32	MF	SLV	William Isaac Lopez Esquivel
33	MF	TPE	Wu Yen-shu (吳彥澍)
34	MF	HAI	Louis Emmanuel
35	MF	TPE	Hsu Yi (徐 翊)
66	MF	TPE	Liu Chih-wen (劉智文)
90	MF	TPE	Chang Ching-hsiang (張景翔)

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