How to buy CPBL baseball tickets in Taipei and choose your side

At a CPBL game the entire infield belongs to one team, and the ticket you buy decides which team's songs you will be standing up for. The noise is not spontaneous either: it is organised from a stage, the cheer squad has its own block of reserved seats, and the standing happens on a schedule — while your team is batting, and not while the other one is.

That is the part no seating map explains in English. CTBC Brothers state it plainly for their own ground: at Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium in 2026, weekday or weekend, the club operates the infield as 內野全主場 — all home-team territory — and the visiting side's cheer squad zone is out in left field (職棒37年中信兄弟主場比賽售票資訊, checked 11 September 2026). Fubon Guardians publish the same architecture at Xinzhuang and at the Taipei Dome, and Weichuan Dragons publish it at Tianmu. Buy the wrong seat and you are not in a bad seat; you are in the wrong fandom.

This guide covers first-team (一軍) regular-season tickets and what a visitor actually needs to get through the gate. It does not cover second-team (二軍) games, postseason ticketing, or season-ticket products.

Why does your seat pick a side?

Every CPBL stadium has designated standing cheering zones, and the league's own ticket terms tell you to avoid them if you do not want to be part of them. The clause appears word for word on both the Uni-Lions and TSG Hawks ticket pages: every stadium has standing cheering areas, the zones are announced by each club, and anyone worried about sightlines should buy a seat away from them (統一7-ELEVEn獅 票務資訊 and TSG Hawks 購票須知與注意事項, both checked 11 September 2026).

What each club publishes on top of that is where the mechanism becomes visible. Fubon Guardians list, among their "obstructed view" warnings at Xinzhuang, that row 4 of infield zones A7 and B7 is the 應援團 area — the cheer squad's own block — and that rows 5 and 6 behind it may be affected by it, in sightline and in volume (2026年富邦悍將主場例行賽售票辦法, checked 11 September 2026). That is an official club page warning you, in a seating note, that you may be sitting directly behind the people running the noise.

The timing is published too. Fubon state that at Xinzhuang every zone except C3, C4, D3 and D4 may stand and cheer while the home team is batting, and that at the Taipei Dome zones B1_107–111 and 115–119 may stand while the home team bats. Rakuten Monkeys put it in one line on their own ticket page: across the whole infield of their home ground, standing to cheer is permitted when the team is on offence (購票須知, checked 11 September 2026). You sit down when your team takes the field. That alternation, not constant volume, is the thing that feels unfamiliar.

Then there is the escalation. Both Fubon and Weichuan Dragons describe a 嗆司曲 — a chance song — played when the home team has runners in scoring position, at which point the standing rule widens to the entire stadium. The Dragons carve out one exception and label it explicitly: at Tianmu, zone A1 is the non-standing zone, the 本質看球區, which their own page glosses as the section for people who came to watch the baseball (購票辦法, checked 11 September 2026). A league that needs a named seat category for "watching quietly" tells you what the default is.

The cheerleading squads are official club units, not third parties. The Dragons file their squad under a site category literally titled 啦啦隊/應援團 and name Lee Da-hye (李多慧) as the 2026 Captain leading the cheering (啦啦隊/應援團, checked 11 September 2026). The Uni-Lions site carries a navigation entry for 吉祥物/應援團長 — mascot and cheer squad leader — alongside its UniGirls page. CTBC Brothers link the Passion Sisters from their own site. What none of these clubs publish is an explanatory page telling a newcomer how the system works; the structure is documented through ticketing rules and seating notes, which is why this guide is built from those.

Which team plays at which stadium?

Six clubs make up the CPBL, and their home grounds are spread across five cities, so "going to a game in Taipei" is a much narrower proposition than "going to a game in Taiwan". The table sets each club against its principal home ground, the transit the league or club publishes for it, and the platform that sells its tickets.

Transit and capacity figures come from the league's own stadium pages, all checked 11 September 2026. Tianmu holds 10,000, all of it infield, at 77 Zhongcheng Road Section 2, Shilin District; the league page routes you to Zhishan Station on the Tamsui line, where a dedicated stadium bus runs from outside the station, or to Shilin Station for the Red 12 connector. Xinzhuang holds 12,100 at 66 Hexing Street and is a twelve-minute walk from MRT Xinzhuang on the Zhonghe-Xinlu line. Taichung Intercontinental holds 20,000 at 835 Chongde Road Section 3; the league page lists only buses, no rail. Rakuten Taoyuan holds 20,000 and is the easiest of all by rail — five minutes from A19 on the Airport MRT. Chengcinghu holds 20,000 in Niaosong District, Kaohsiung. The Tainan Asia-Pacific main stadium, completed in January 2025 and used for first-team regular-season games from the 2026 season, holds 25,000, the largest outdoor baseball stadium in Taiwan.

The venue that changes the arithmetic is the Taipei Dome (台北大巨蛋), at 515 Zhongxiao East Road Section 4, capacity 40,486 by the league's count, a three-minute walk from exits 4 and 5 of Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall Station on the Blue line. It is not any single club's home. In the 2026 season the league's own schedule shows Dome home games staged by Fubon Guardians, CTBC Brothers, Weichuan Dragons and TSG Hawks, which means that on a given week in Taipei the team hosting at the Dome may not be a Taipei club at all. Check the fixture, not the city.

Which platform sells your ticket?

The league does not sell tickets; each club does, through a platform it chooses, and the platforms behave differently. Three clubs — CTBC Brothers, Fubon Guardians and Weichuan Dragons — run branded ticket sites on the same underlying system, and all three login pages carry the identical line: 帳號為身分證字號 或 護照號碼, the account is a national ID number or a passport number (tix.ctbcsports.com, guardians.fami.life and tix.wdragons.com, all checked 11 September 2026). That single sentence is the most useful fact in this guide for a foreign visitor, because it says in the platform's own words that a passport is an accepted account identifier.

Uni-Lions and Rakuten Monkeys sell exclusively through ibon, the 7-ELEVEN ticketing system. The Monkeys state that their 2026 home-game tickets are sold exclusively on ibon; the Lions list the ibon website and in-store ibon kiosks as their only advance channels, with sales closing at 23:59 the day before the game. ibon's own explanation of logins states that the site is entered through Google, uniopen or LINE, that social login requires mobile SMS verification, and that one social identity can bind only one mobile number (登入方式說明, checked 11 September 2026). The same page ends with a line in English addressed to foreign buyers: they should purchase by credit card on the ibon website, and overseas cards are accepted only as VISA, MasterCard or JCB, with Diners Club, UnionPay and American Express excluded. ibon's interface also offers English, Japanese and Korean.

TSG Hawks run a fourth kind of platform: their own site at ticket.tsghawks.com, whose purchase notes state that you must register and log in as a member of the Hawks ticket site before you can buy anything, and that unverified registrations cannot purchase (購票須知與注意事項, checked 11 September 2026).

Convenience-store collection is real, and it is cheap but not free. The Dragons charge TWD 30 per order to collect at a FamiPort machine in FamilyMart, and nothing at all if you buy at the FamiPort machine itself. CTBC Brothers charge TWD 30 per transaction to print at a 7-ELEVEN ibon machine, with the ticket produced at the counter within ten minutes of the receipt. TSG Hawks charge TWD 25 per collection code at FamilyMart, cap each code at four tickets, and require the code plus your mobile number at the machine, with the fee paid in cash. Fubon note that FamiPort collection carries a fee while buying at FamiPort does not, and that the machines cannot sell special seating or special packages.

What works without a Taiwanese phone?

Your constraint decides your route, and the routes are genuinely different rather than interchangeable. This table sets the situation you are in against what the clubs and platforms actually publish.

Two rows need the caution spelled out. On the SMS row, none of the three club sites that accept a passport number publishes the rest of its registration form where we could read it, so whether they also demand a local mobile at the verification step is not something we can confirm from their own pages — see the final section. And on the cash row, the box office rules are not the same everywhere, which matters more than it sounds.

The Dragons state that on-site sales at their venues accept cash, 全支付, LINE Pay and 悠遊付 only, with no seat selection offered. Uni-Lions state their box office takes cash only. Rakuten Monkeys accept cash, a physical credit card, LINE Pay and 街口支付. Fubon accept cash, a physical credit card, Apple Pay and Samsung Pay. CTBC Brothers are the most restrictive: cash, the CTBC Brothers co-branded card, or a physical CTBC credit card at 鼎極 tier or above — which in practice means a foreign card will not work at their window. If you are relying on turning up, carry New Taiwan dollars in cash.

The box office also closes off if the game sold out in advance. Both Fubon and TSG Hawks state that when the advance allocation is gone, no same-day window sales take place at all. Rakuten and the Dragons say the same about their on-site and standby tickets. Walking up is a plan for a midweek game, not for a weekend theme day.

What does a ticket cost?

CPBL tickets are inexpensive by the standards of any comparable league, and the published 2026 prices below were read on the clubs' own pages on 11 September 2026. Prices are per person in New Taiwan dollars unless the row says otherwise, and clubs separate weekday from weekend and holiday pricing.

Taipei Dome pricing is a separate scale, and Fubon publish three price columns rather than two: Tuesday and Wednesday, Friday, then Saturday and Sunday. Their B1 outfield zones 131–137 and 140–146 run TWD 400 midweek, 600 on Friday and 800 at the weekend; B1 general zones 102–106 and 120–124 run 600, 900 and 1,600 for a full ticket; the B1 rock power zone in the front fourteen rows of 108–110 and 116–118 runs 1,500, 1,800 and 2,500. The upper L4 and L5 general zones open only at weekends, at TWD 1,000 full and 800 half.

Elsewhere in the league, Uni-Lions publish their Chiayi home prices as TWD 350 full and 250 half for reserved infield, and a single-price TWD 200 for the unreserved outfield. Rakuten Monkeys publish TWD 300 on a weekday and 400 at the weekend for the unreserved lawn area of their left-field Fun Zone, and TWD 600 and 1,000 for a single Royal Seat behind home plate. Their pet zone ticket, which admits one person and one dog, is TWD 350 and 500.

Half-price tickets exist and are widely available, but every club requires documentary proof at the gate. The consistent categories across Fubon, the Dragons, Rakuten, the Brothers and TSG Hawks are: students with a student card, children over 115cm, and people aged 65 and over. Children under 115cm accompanied by an adult enter free but may not occupy a seat. Rakuten, the Dragons and the Lions all add that a half-price holder who cannot show the document pays the difference at the window before entry.

Two discounts are worth knowing because they are local in a way visitors rarely encounter. The Dragons offer a half-price ticket to residents of eighteen named Tianmu-area neighbourhoods, purchasable only at the ground; Rakuten do the same for eleven named neighbourhoods in Zhongli and Dayuan districts; TSG Hawks do it for designated neighbourhoods near Chengcinghu. And both the Dragons and Rakuten sell a 星光票, a starlight ticket, at half the zone price to anyone buying after the game has started — one hour after first pitch for the Dragons, after the fifth inning for Rakuten, on weekdays only, in person only, with no seat choice.

What is banned inside the stadium?

The same ticket conditions appear on multiple club pages, which suggests a league-level standard rather than club policy, and two of the clauses will surprise visitors. Cameras first: the terms published by both Uni-Lions and TSG Hawks prohibit bringing telephoto lenses of 300mm and above into the stadium, including tripods, gimbals and selfie sticks in the Lions' wording, and prohibit flash photography outright because of the effect on players. A phone or a compact camera is fine; a long lens is not.

Second, and less intuitive, the noise you are allowed to make is regulated. The same clause bans musical instruments, gas horns, firecrackers, any cheering equipment liable to make noise, large flags and banners, flagpoles, and throwing paper streamers. Political slogans are banned outright and staff may remove anyone displaying them. In other words the continuous organised sound is produced by the club's own cheer apparatus, and spectators are not expected to bring their own.

The rest of the standard conditions: no pets except on club-designated theme days, no behaviour intended to contact players or interfere with play, no offensive banners, smoking only in designated areas, and re-entry only with an exit stamp. The league's insurer for public liability is named as Mingtai Fire and Marine Insurance, and claims must be raised with staff on the day. Ticket holders also grant broad image rights for broadcast footage.

On outside food and drink, we could not verify a rule. The Taipei Dome's own FAQ covers pets, lockers, nursing rooms, shuttles and taxis but says nothing about bringing your own food, and no club ticket page read for this guide addresses it either. The Dome does publish lockers on B1 near gates 2 to 4 — forty small ones at TWD 40 per three hours fitting a 20-inch case, and twenty large ones at TWD 60 fitting a 29-inch case — plus free shuttles during events from Guangfu South Road and Zhongxiao East Road, and wheelchair loan on request.

One structural rule that catches people out at two grounds: the infield and the outfield are not connected. Fubon state that at Xinzhuang an infield ticket cannot enter the outfield and an outfield ticket cannot enter the infield, including the food counters; CTBC Brothers state the same for their home games and add that you cannot pay a supplement to upgrade. Decide before you buy which side of that wall the food you want is on.

What could not be verified?

Three things in this guide are open, and saying so is more useful than smoothing them over.

We could not verify whether the three club ticket sites that accept a passport number also require a Taiwanese mobile for verification. Their login pages state the account format clearly, and we read those pages; we could not read the full registration forms behind them without creating accounts. For ibon the position is the opposite and clearer: the platform's own page states that social login requires mobile SMS verification, but it does not state whether a non-Taiwanese number is accepted, and we make no claim either way. If your plan depends on it, the safe sequence is to try a club site first, and keep the box office as the fallback that needs no account at all.

We could not verify the league's postseason qualification rules. The CPBL's own schedule carries separate categories for the 一軍季後挑戰賽 and the 一軍總冠軍賽, and the standings page splits 2026 into 上半季 and 下半季 with six teams ranked in each, so the two-half structure and the two postseason rounds are certain. The regulations document that would define how a half-season title converts into a playoff berth is published as a PDF we could not open. Nor could we verify 2026 postseason dates, which had not been scheduled at the time of checking.

We could not verify any stadium's rule on outside food, and we could not verify the away-supporter zones at every ground. Three clubs publish theirs: CTBC Brothers place the visiting cheer squad in left field at Taichung and at the Dome; Fubon place away supporters in left field at Xinzhuang and in Dome zone 134; the Dragons place them in the first-base-side economy zone at Tianmu — and they moved it mid-season, from E4 in the first half to E2 in the second. Uni-Lions and TSG Hawks publish standing-zone language but we found no equivalent away-zone statement on their pages.

That mid-season move is the clearest illustration of what changes by season, and it is worth internalising. Zone letters, standing areas, prices and theme-day surcharges are all set per half-season, not per year. The Dragons' Tianmu prices above are explicitly the 下半季 schedule. Rakuten put their first-half tickets on sale on 4 March 2026 and their second-half tickets on 4 June, in staged waves by membership tier before general sale. CTBC Brothers list twenty-five first-half home games at Taichung between 29 March and 19 June and twenty-two second-half games between 3 July and 28 September. Home venues themselves migrate: the Lions moved into the new Tainan Asia-Pacific stadium for 2026, and the Dome's tenants change from series to series. Anything you read about CPBL seating that is more than one half-season old should be treated as a description of a system, not as a fact about a zone.

If you want one sequence: pick the fixture from the league schedule rather than the city, check on that club's own ticket page which zone is the home side and which is the away side, buy on the club platform if it accepts a passport account, and if it does not, take cash to the window of a midweek game.