On the afternoon of January and April, with shandong Taishan and dark horse Changchun Yatai drawing 1-1, the season's Chinese Super League also ended.
All the suspense has been revealed, but this season's Chinese Super League has also brought everyone more thinking. This season, the Chinese football industry in the cold winter is experiencing a series of problems such as the wage arrears crisis, the problem of stock reform, the format arrangement, the impact of the epidemic, etc., which will give the league next season full of unknowns.
The suspense is revealed
This season's Chinese Super League has been affected by the national football team's world preliminary round, and the schedule has been seriously compressed. In the end, in the championship group, Shandong won the championship again after a gap of 11 years. Shandong's victory can be said to be "favorable to people at all times and places". As early as the beginning of the season, in the case of a relatively depressed transfer throughout the season, Shandong still attracted reinforcements with high profile. In the first stage of the Chinese Super League, they ranked first in guangzhou with 33 points, 5 points more than the first place in Suzhou. In the second stage, with the decline in the competitiveness of the championship opponents, the advantages of the Shandong team became more and more obvious. In the end, they won the championship by six points ahead of second-placed Harbor. In addition, Shandong team also qualified for the AFC Champions League with Haigang and Guangzhou, and Changchun qualified for a AFC Champions League play-off.
In the relegation group, Dalian and Qingdao entered the play-offs together. According to the schedule, the two-legged Super League play-off will be played on January 8 and 12, with the winner winning the Chinese Super League seat and the loser participating in the Chinese First Division next season. Dalian will play against Chengdu Rongcheng, and Qingdao will play against Zhejiang.
In addition, with the end of the league, the league awards were also released, Changchun foreign aid Junior won the league Golden Boot with 14 goals, Kaldek and Axon ranked second with 11 goals, and Axon became the homegrown top scorer.
Harbor's Oscar was re-elected league assists after 2 years with 11 assists. Yan Dinghao, a young player in guangzhou, was elected the local assist king with 6 assists.
Next season is full of unknowns
The 2021 season of the Chinese Super League officially came to an end. Next season, the Chinese Super League will expand its historic expansion to 18 teams, and the long-awaited changes for fans have finally landed. However, chinese football in the cold winter is experiencing a series of problems such as the wage arrears crisis, the problem of stock reform, the format arrangement, the impact of the epidemic, etc., which will give the league next season full of unknowns.
The expansion of the league means opportunities for the new season, but also means the unknown.
First of all, the Chinese Super League, which consists of 16 teams, has 30 league rounds per year according to the usual schedule, with a total of 240 games. After expanding to 18 teams, the league will increase to 34 rounds with a total of 306 games. The number of games has increased significantly, and the most direct promotion of the Chinese Super League is the expansion of commercial value, and it also provides more opportunities for young players to exercise, of course, fans can also enjoy more games. In addition, the expansion of the army will certainly give more small and medium-sized teams more living space.
However, the premise of all this is that China's professional football is encountering an unprecedented cold wave. In recent years, the evil consequences of Jinyuan football have begun to appear, a large number of small and medium-sized clubs have withdrawn from Chinese football, and Chinese Super League teams have generally encountered a huge financial crisis. In particular, behind most of the teams in the Chinese Super League are real estate companies, superimposed on the epidemic and policy impact, whether it is the "eight champions" Guangzhou team that once had unlimited scenery, or the small and medium-sized teams such as Chongqing team and Qingdao team, the survival problem has been put in front of them.
Since the 2019 season, there have been continuous withdrawals from the three professional leagues. And in the 2022 season, will this happen again? Will the 18-team Chinese Super League be more exciting? These are still big question marks.