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International Taipei Football Club, commonly known as Inter Taipei is a football club based in Taipei, Taiwan Republic of China. The club currently competes in the second division of football in Taiwan, the T2 Liga. The club was founded in 2003 as International Soccer Club Taipei (ISCT) and adopted its current name Inter Taipei FC in 2012.

The club was developed in response to a lack of proper coaching for young foreign nationals and local players in northern Taipei. Inter Taipei has focused on youth development and remains one of the only clubs in the country to have a youth academy and a senior team. The clubs youth system focuses on promoting attractive and technical football and has developed numerous projects to help develop youth talent both in the club and in the community.

The club was given the name Inter Taipei largely due to the fact that the population of its' players and coaching staff are from many different countries. The club has been home to players from countries such as Taiwan, Japan, England, Canada, United States, France, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Germany, Netherlands, Finland, Mexico, Malaysia, South Africa, Austrailia, New Zealand, The Gambia, Swaziland, Jamaica, Belize among others.

History
In 2003, the Painter Family, a family of American expatriates decided to find proper coaching for their three footballing sons. They enlisted the help of a local Dutch player and coach, Bernard Pol, who was also a teacher at the Taipei American School. Interest grew quickly in the training sessions and as Bernard Pol was preparing to leave Taiwan, he asked for the help of another local expat coach and co-worker, Richie Fisher. The club was at this time name International Soccer Club Taipei, which was more commonly known in the Taipei footballing community as ISCT.

Richie Fisher, an expat of English heritage, had played locally and abroad and was a football enthusiast. He believed that the club should be a place for the serious and committed soccer player who strives to develop themselves in all the areas of the game in order to perform at a highly competitive level. There should also be a pursuit of high performance through patient training and an attempt to see the beauty of thinking together as a team and discover beautiful experiences within the game.

He began to structure the club youth player development program and organized the clubs based on a variety of coaching methods. In accordance with his liberal yet strict teaching methods, he arranged an open learning situation among the coaches of the club where all coaches would learn from each other and have input into the coaching structure. The method is still used at the club today where all coaches learn, observe and study from each other but follow a standardized system. During his 9 years span at the club, the club developed its playing style and made a name for itself in the footballing environment of Taiwan with teams in U10, U12, U14, U16 and U18 competing in local and national tournaments.

In 2004, with the clubs number of youth players rising quickly due to its use of the Taipei American School Field and visibility to its students, With Bernard Pol leaving Taiwan, Richie Fisher invited another coach to join the club, Oliver Harley, a Jamaican national who was living and playing in Taipei. Upon Richie Fishers' departure in 2009, Oliver Harley inherited leadership of the club as has been the club's tradition.

The clubs youth teams have won the northern division of the Taiwan Youth League in the U12 category in 2013 and placed second nationally in 2011.

The season of 2007-2008 saw the club field it's first senior team in the Taipei Businessman's League or BML. The team was made up largely of U18 players who had come up through the club. The won many important games and finished the season in 5th place.

With most of the senior players leaving to university the club failed to field a team for the following years. In 2015 the club was invited to join qualification for the 2015–16 Intercity Football League. The club lost one game and tied two games finishing third and narrowly missing qualification for the next round.

Youth development and initiatives
Due to the lack of regular competitive matches for youth players in Taiwan the club developed the International Premier League or IPL. The IPL began in 2005 and provided league play for U8, U10, U12 and U14. The focus of the league was player development and all team played small-sided games based on a Dutch youth model. The league ran successfully from 2005 to 2011 providing 26 weekends of football for over 200 local youth players. The league was stopped after development of the Taiwan Youth League or TYL by the Chinese Taipei Football Association. Teams migrated towards this league as it was held on a national level and thus interrupted the operation of the IPL. The clubs teams now participate in the TYL and other youth tournaments.

In 2013, the club launched the Inter Taipei Football Festival which is a training tournament for U16, U18 and Mens divisions. The tournament is held annually and invites a U18 teams from abroad to play a full day of football with local university and mens team as a way for local teams to gain experience playing high pressure football. There are no trophy or placements at the tournament, games are strictly for training. The games also provide exciting high paced matches for the public to watch.

The club now has a sister club,the Hitachi High School Football Club in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. Players and teams go to Japan once a year for training and to play games in order to gain experience and experience a different training environment.

The club has also produced many talented expat and local players who have gone on to play in top youth clubs as well as national teams.

Current technical staff

 * Head Coach: 🇯🇲 Oliver Harley
 * Assistant Coach: 🇨🇮 David Adjei Ouaratta
 * Trainer: Mamadi Colley
 * Goalkeeper Coach: Chen Jian Tze

Managerial history
Below is a list of Inter coaches and trainers from 2003 until the present day.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" !Name !Nationality !Years
 * align=left|Bernard Pol
 * 🇳🇱
 * align=left|2003
 * align=left|Richie Fisher
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
 * align=left|2003–2009
 * align=left|Oliver Harley
 * 🇯🇲
 * align=left|2004-present
 * align=left|Donkor Mohammed Ibrahim
 * 🇬🇭
 * align=left|2005-2007
 * align=left|Ousman Jatta
 * align=left|2006-2013
 * align=left|Henry Von
 * align=left|2007-2015
 * align=left|David Adjei Ouaratta
 * 🇨🇮
 * align=left|2010-present
 * align=left|Jean-Louis Lima
 * 🇫🇷
 * align=left|2012-2014
 * align=left|Mamadi Colley
 * align=left|2013-present
 * align=left|David Adjei Ouaratta
 * 🇨🇮
 * align=left|2010-present
 * align=left|Jean-Louis Lima
 * 🇫🇷
 * align=left|2012-2014
 * align=left|Mamadi Colley
 * align=left|2013-present
 * align=left|Mamadi Colley
 * align=left|2013-present
 * align=left|2013-present
 * align=left|2013-present