This evening, the final chapter of the 2021 Chinese Football Professional League season was staged, and the second leg of the promotion and relegation play-offs began. Zhejiang won the first leg, Qingdao and Dalian, with and Chengdu Rongcheng with Sun Guowen's goal and Romulo's long-range shot, respectively, 1-0 and 2-1 on aggregate.
At this point, Wuhan Three Towns, Meizhou Hakka, Zhejiang Team and Chengdu Rongcheng, a total of 4 Chinese League A teams will appear in the 2022 Chinese Super League! This unprecedented scene can also be regarded as a special surprise in the era of the expansion of the Chinese Super League!
In the past season, almost everyone in the Chinese Super League team is in danger, and although the Chinese First Division is not as eye-catching as the top league, it is carried out with a board and an eye. Previously, we played in the second division last year, and this year we want to rush to surpass, the key is that the team's financial situation is also ideal! The road to promotion of the three towns in Wuhan has been analyzed. For the city of Chengdu, they waited 10 years for the Chinese Super League again, but for the Chengdu Rongcheng team, they only took 4 years.
In March 2018, Chengdu Xingcheng Football Club appeared in that year's Chinese Champions League and successfully broke through the second division as the runner-up. The following year, the team successfully broke through the first division as the champion of the Southern Division, completing the triple jump in two years. In 2020, Chengdu Xingcheng grabbed the next place in the super group early, but it lacked stamina and did not have the opportunity to upgrade.
2018 season
Successfully punched B
2020 season
It is only one step away from the Chinese Super League
In the 2021 season, after changing its name to Chengdu Rongcheng, the team "made up for it", invited the South Korean champion coach Xu Zhengyuan, introduced foreign aid such as Felipe, and summoned Chinese Super League players such as Liu Ruovan, Xiang Baixu, and Li Jianbin.
It was only the ups and downs of the state that once again affected the team, allowing them to only finish fourth in the Chinese League One, but fortunately, in the Chinese Super League, Chengdu Rongcheng entered the play-offs and finally won a ticket to the Chinese Super League in the hands of Dalian.
Helping the team score the winning goal in the second leg of the play-offs was foreign aid Romulo, and the goal came from the assist of Shenhua loan youngster Liu Ruovan.
Liu Ruovan, who was loaned to his hometown team in the 2021 season, has a bright stats, including the two-legged promotion and relegation play-offs, making a total of 28 appearances, scoring 13 goals and assisting four times. His performance has also been recognized by the coaching staff of the national football team, and in the 52-man training list, Liu Ruovan is the only player to play in the Chinese First Division, which is also the first time in his career that he has been selected for the Chinese national team.
Shenhua's purpose of renting Liu Ruovan must be to hope that he can improve his skills and regain self-confidence. In one season, Liu Ruovan survived the injury period and broke through his own world in the Chinese League A, which mainly relied on foreign aid to attack. Such a report card is enough for Shenhua to reintegrate him into the future team planning.
Another team that officially entered the Chinese Super League from today, Zhejiang, has a lot of experience in the Chinese Super League and the experience of rushing. In the decade since the 2006 season, they have been firmly in the Chinese Super League, and the unexpected relegation in the 2016 season has made it difficult for them to rush the road thereafter. The final round of the 2018 season was blocked by Meizhou Hakka, and the 2020 and 2021 seasons have participated in consecutive promotion and relegation play-offs, but there is no result. Fortunately, the kung fu paid off, and after 5 seasons, this time they did not let the opportunity slip away.
There are also many familiar Chinese Super League faces in the Zhejiang team, Gu Chao, Gao Di, Yao Junsheng... They will also return to the Chinese Super League with the team.
When the Chinese Super League was expanding, some voices said that this would make the promotion and relegation format meaningless. After watching today's two "below-system" matches, will anyone think that this is meaningless?
For Chinese football, this is a floodgate, dividing the top and sub-top football. With this floodgate, there will be people who want to open and climb over, and only then will someone scramble to prove where they should stand, whether to look up at the top of the mountain or to see the mountains.