Tseng City Tigers

Tseng City Tigers Football Club (Chinese: 曾中市老虎足球俱樂部; pinyin: Zēngzhōng shì lǎohǔ zúqiú jùlèbù) is a professional football club based in Tseng City, Tseng. They play in the National Association for Football (NAF) and are owned by multi-millionaire Charles Guang.

The Tigers are the most successful team in the NAF, with 14 championships as of 2024. Many of the teams players end up on the Tseng national football team. They have a famous and heated rivalry with Hillsborough F.C. called the 42KM Derby, because of the distance between the two teams' stadiums.

History
The Tigers were founded on October 10, 1965, by footballers John Wu-jing, Shota Watanabe, and Chen Hsing. Their inaugural game was on May 5, 1966, a 1-0 win against the Pushan Biscuit Company F.C.. They entered the playoffs that year, but lost to Hillsborough F.C. with an aggregate score of 8-1.

The Tigers' first championship was in 1974. From 1993 to 2000, with star players like Adam Wu, Yuan Jianwei, Kim Dong-hyun, and Jason Tseng, the team were always in the finals, winning 6 out of 7 championships. After experiencing a slump in the 2000s, the Tigers won another championship in 2011. Their most recent championship was in 2018.

Crest and colours
The Tigers' crest is an polygonal outline of a tiger. It was designed by George Zhang, a 19-year old, in 2012. The new crest replaced the former crest, which was a face of a roaring tiger.

The Tigers' colour is blue, which was inspired by who John Wu-jing, one of the founders, was a fan of.

42km Derby
The 42KM Derby refers to the rivalry between the Tseng City Tigers and Hillsborough F.C. The "42KM" is a reference to the distance between the two teams stadiums'.

The derby is one of the most famous and heated in the NAF, with both teams vying for dominance in the Tseng City region, and has resulted in violence outside the sport as well. The most bitter era of the rivalry was during the 1990s, when the two teams met in the NAF Finals five consective times from 1994 to 1999. While the Tigers won most of them, the upset by Hillsborough in penaltes in 1998 resulted in riots all over the capital, resulting in 7 deaths and as much as 100 injuries.

League titles

 * Jorge Ka Championship Trophy
 * Winners (14): 1974, 1980, 1986, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018

Contiential competitions

 * Qualifiers:
 * Group stage:
 * Group stage:
 * Group stage: