Taipei Times
Date: Dec 26, 2016
By: Jason Pan / Staff reporter

Taiwan’s Taipower FC and Tatung FC are to play for club glory in the East Asia qualifiers for next year’s Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Cup, soccer officials said.

Kaohsiung-based Taipower and Taipei-based Tatung qualified for the tournament under new format changes approved by AFC members and executives, as the two clubs last season finished first and second in the nation’s top-tier Intercity League, Chinese Taipei Football Association secretary-general Chen Wei-jen said.

“They will compete under the revamped AFC Cup format,” Chen said.

“It is a historic first for Taiwan’s soccer clubs,” he added.    [FULL  STORY]