| ¡¹ CURRENT STATUS |
| Games | 300 games are scheduled as each team play 100 games for the season of 2003. With the season split to two half-seasons, the winners of the each half-season play the best-of-seven championship series. Shall one club takes both half-season titles, it is granted an one-game advantage in the Championship Series against the club with second highest winning percentage. |
| Venue | Currently ELEVEN (11) stadiums are being used for professional games including: Taipei City (Tienmu), Taipei County (Hsinchuang), Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayee City, Chiayee County, Tainan, Kaohsiung County (Cheng Ching Lake), Pingtung, Yilan and Hualien. |
| Players | A 25-man roster is maintained by each club while less than 13 players are allowed to be registered under substitution list. Each club can register up to three (3) foreign players on the 25-man roster while allowing maximum of two (2) foreign players on the field simultaneously. |
| Draft | Two (2) draft sessions are held per season. Players with Amateur Level A experience are not required to join the tryout prior to the draft. |
| ¡¹ CLUBS |
BROTHER
Elephants | After fourteen years of development currently there are six (6) clubs registered with the League. Alphabetically listed are as below:
The Brother organization is one of the four founding clubs of CPBL. The club, backed up by the Bother Hotel Inc., is recognized as the club with the strongest fan support throughout the island. The club clinched the title three years in a row from 1992 to 1994. After several years without appearing in the playoff, the Brother organization again won the championship in 2001 and repeated in 2002.
Total Record until 2002 (13 seasons): 589W - 573L - 53D Championship: 5
 Official Website of Brother Elephants |
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CHINA- TRUST
Whales | Backed by the Chinatrust Entertainment Co., Ltd. (a branch of the Koo¡¦s Group), the Chinatrust organization joined the League in 1997. Before the club turned professional, it broke the record previously held by the Brother organization for the most consecutive wins in an amateur season by winning 16 in a row. The Whales played in the championship series in 1999 and 2002 but were not able to win the title.
Total Record until 2002 (6 seasons): 284W - 266L - 12D
Official Website of Chinatrust Whales |
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| La New Bears | Formally known as the Agan club was purchased by the La New Group in 2004 and renamed the club to "La New Bears" as the newest member of the CPBL. The franchise also purchased the operational rights of the Cheng-Ching Lake Stadium as its home field. Though the management is new to the industry, its managerial style is showing its enthusiasm and energy to the League.
Official Website of La New Bears |
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| MACOTO COBRAS | After years of supporting the Gida club in both TML & CPBL era, the Macoto Banks officially acquires the operation rights of the franchise in 2004 and renamed the club to "Macoto COBRAS." Led by famous former NPB star Kuo Tai-yuen (Kaku), the COBRAS is ready to a brand new start in the season of 2004 and beyond.
Official Website of MACOTO COBRAS |
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| SINON Bulls | The Sinon Group completed the takeover of the franchise from Jungo organization in 1996 and changed the club¡¦s mascot from Bear to Bull. Based in Taichung area, the Bulls organization is the most popular team in the heartland of Taiwan. The Bulls appeared in the playoff twice in 1998 and 2000 but only to lose the decisive game 7 in both series.
Total Record until 2002 (7 seasons): 290W - 350L - 17D
Official Website of Sinon Bulls |
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UNI- PRESIDENT
Lions | The Lions are one of the four founding members of the League. Based in Tainan, it is widely recognized as a successful model of professional baseball operations. The organization adopted Tainan Municipal Stadium and turned it into one of the most advanced stadiums in Taiwan. The Lions have won four championships in 1991, 1995, 1996 and 2000.
Total Record until 2002 (13 seasons): 644W-520L-50D Championship: 4
Official Website of Uni-President Lions |
| ¡¹ DEFUNCT CLUBS |
Chinatimes
Eagles | In the fourteen years history of CPBL a total of seven franchises have registered with the League. Three of them withdrew from the League as the other was sold to Sinon Group. Alphabetically listed are the now defunct clubs:
Joined the Leauge in 1993 with the Jungo organization, the Eagles quickly established itself as a power-hitting club. With the support of media guru Chinatimes Inc., the Eagles became one of the most popular and attractive clubs in CPBL. The Eagles clinched their first half-season title in 1997 (first half) but the team was almost disbanded (in the second half) due to the investigation related to possible game-fixing scandal that shock the nation. As the result the 1997 Championship Series was played by the Dragons and substituted Eagles club.
The Chinatimes organization was ordered to suspend all operations related to baseball according to the Board of Trustee of CPBL. The club withdrew from the League about one year after serving the suspension. The Eagles remained as the most hurt franchise and victim of the gangster-related game-fixing scandal.
Total Record in 5 seasons: 228W - 237L - 11D |
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| Jungo Bears | Joined the League in 1993 following the successful staging of team Chinese Taipei in Barcelona Olympics, the construction giant in Taichung area recruited most of the national team members to form the heroic team of the Bears. However the star-filled lineup never made it to the playoff during the Jungo franchise era.
Jungo organization first sold its 55% share to the Sinon Group, the agricultural-based enterprise based also in Taichung, in 1995 and released all its share later in 1996 by transferring the ownership to Sinon Group. The sale of the franchise was the first and remained the only case in Taiwan's professional sports history.
Total Record in 3 seasons: 109W - 164L - 7D |
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Mercuries
Tigers | One of the four founding clubs of CPBL. The Mercuries organization is the first franchise to clinch the title (first half-season in 1990) in CPBL's history. Backed by Mercuries & Associates, one of the biggest chain store web in Taiwan, the Tigers were known as a business-oriented franchise. The famous three-day celebration sale of its first title shaped a successful model for running profitable professional baseball in Taiwan in the early days of CPBL.
However, citing long time deficit for operating the club as well as ever-decreasing audience effected by the gambling scandal, the Mercuries organization announced its withdrawal from the League during the Championship Series of 1999. The Tigers club remained as the only founding club that never won a championship in its ten years of operation.
Total Record in 10 seasons: 414W - 485L - 45D |
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Wei Chuan
Dragons | Backed by the famous Wei Chuan Food Corp., it is one of the four founding clubs that turned professional after years of successful running in the amateur circle. The Dragons team is also known as one of the most successful run clubs in CPBL's history. Winner of four championships (then a record for most championships won) was said to be the only club with the ability to compete with the Brother organization with fan support. In the early years of CPBL, games between the Dragons and the Elephants are the most watched match among all matches.
The Wei Chuan organization withdrew from the League in 1999 immediately after clinching their third-in-a-row title due to the change of ownership.
Total Record in 10 seasons: 476W - 431L - 35D Championship: 4 |
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