What is the use of Guangzhou Evergrande's consecutive championships? This soulful question is thought-provoking - if Evergrande does not win consecutive championships, or if the Chinese Super League champions are seated, will Chinese football go up from now on? The answer came quickly.
I don't know if fans and friends have found that the Chinese Super League has been a champion for 4 consecutive years, and there are 4 teams in the past 4 years: Shanghai SIPG in the 2018 season, Guangzhou Evergrande in the 2019 season, Jiangsu Suning in the 2020 season, and Taishan Shandong in the 2021 season.
Since the 2011 season, Guangzhou Evergrande has been out of control, winning the Chinese Super League championship for 7 consecutive seasons. In 2018, it was broken by SIPG, but was recaptured by Cannavaro's team the following year.
Ka Shuai's dream of winning consecutive championships has been shattered! In 2020, due to the epidemic, the format of the Chinese Super League has changed, especially the second stage has become a elimination mode, which has also become an eternal pain in The heart of Ka Shuai.
In the 2020 season, even if the format of the 2021 season is adopted, the champion is Evergrande, because in the standings, The lead of Ka Shuai's team is too large. However, the 2020 season championship group adopted the elimination mode, and in the final final, Evergrande lost everything and lost the opportunity to regain the championship.
In the 2021 season, it was supposed to be an opportunity for Guangzhou to make a comeback, but the team was helplessly in a lot of difficulties, and the main lineup was seriously incomplete in the second stage, relying only on the all-Chinese class. Even so, the Guangzhou team still handed over the surprise answer sheet of the third place.
Since Chen Shuyuan took office in 2019, what changes have taken place in the Chinese Super League? Do not discuss the tide of club dissolution, nor do we say that wages are owed, just as far as the Chinese Super League champion ecology is concerned, evergrande's monopoly has been completely broken, allowing the laurel to change its master three times.
That's right! In the past 3 years of Chen Shuyuan's tenure, the Chinese Super League champion has changed its master three times, completely eliminating the consecutive championship mode.
The Chinese Super League no longer has Evergrande consecutive championships, the champions have also taken turns to sit, has Chinese football gone up?
On the contrary, Chinese football is even more bleak, whether it is at the level of national brand or the level of the league, all of them are not as good as when Evergrande won consecutive championships!
The Chinese women's football team failed to reach the qualifying goal at the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the Chinese men's football team was almost out of the round of 12, leaving only the theoretical possibility of qualifying, which was much worse than the belt and ball period in the last round of 12. The Chinese Super League, which was sacrificed for gambling on the World Cup, is also struggling at present, and both clubs and the Football Association have seen a sharp decline in revenue.
Income decreased, but expenditure did not decrease with it. For example, the national football team competes in the top 12, the huge travel team and logistical consumption, as well as the charter flight round-trip and the high national football winning prize, etc., are all costs.
According to the latest news, the Football Association has lost money for two consecutive years: 40 million in 2019 and 10 million in 2020.
Reporter Fei Li looked for the 2017 and 2018 FA revenue and expenditure data (below), showing that the FA alone made a net profit of 200 million yuan in the past two years.
This shows that after Chen Shuyuan took office, although Evergrande's consecutive championships were broken, the Football Association also changed from profit to loss.
Why? Personally, I think there are four major reasons: one is that the epidemic has made the home stadium disappear and let the fans stay away from the stadium; the second is that the club name is neutral and the enthusiasm of investors is greatly reduced; the third is the serious loss of foreign aid and foreign teachers, and the level of the league has seriously declined, resulting in a great reduction in the attention of fans; the fourth is that the national football game has divided the league into pieces, and it has been an abnormal league.
The combination of the above four major factors has led to a sharp decline in league naming fees + broadcast fees + sponsorship fees + market revenue.
Sacrificing the league to protect the national football to play the World Cup, this move is very harmful to the healthy development of the league, not to mention in the case of high-stakes failure.
Did Chinese football go up when Evergrande won consecutive championships? The benevolent see the wise! But in the last 3 years, when the Chinese Super League champions were sitting in the round, Chinese football not only did not go up, but it deteriorated. What does this mean? Whether a country's top league championship is monopolized by a team is not necessarily related to whether the country's football goes up.