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| Full name | Football Club Vikings | ||
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| Founded | 2010; 15 years ago (2010) | ||
| Owner | Johnni Nielsen | ||
| Head coach | Hope Tsai | ||
| League | Taiwan Challenge League | ||
| 2024 | TFPL, 8th of 8 (relegated) | ||
| Website | www | ||
Football Club Vikings, also known asTaipei Vikings (Chinese:臺北Vikings), are aTaiwanese professionalfootball club based inTaipei. They are currently playing in theTaiwan Challenge League. They previously played in the top-flightTaiwan Football Premier League during the 2024 season.
Danish coach Johnni Nielsen and his family moved toTaiwan in 2009 for his daughter's healthcare. He is married to a Taiwanese woman.[1] He is a UEFA B Licence and was a youth coach forSlagelse B&I. He would find Taiwanese clubs too old-fashioned and focused on intense fitness training for his son. He decided to teach his son himself in a local park which also enticed other underprivilege youth. Eventually this led to the establishment of FC Vikings as a non-profit football academy in 2010. Nielsen provided coachingpro-bono.[2][3][4][5] He named the organization "Vikings" as a reference to his roots.[2]
FC Vikings became the official football academy ofTatung FC (now Leopard Cat FC).[3]
From 2020, the team competed in the Taiwanese second division after the formation of a professional adult team called Vikings PlayOne.[6] It was formed fromShih Hsin University students, with international players being added later.[1] It won the 2023 second division title, and was promoted to theTaiwan Football Premier League for the2024 season.[6][7] However the team got relegated.
In January 2025, FC Vikings completed the acquisition ofPhilippines Football League side,Maharlika F.C.[8]
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