Today (January 13) afternoon, the first meeting of the 10th Member Congress of Shanghai Football Association was held in the Oriental Sports Building. According to the requirements of epidemic prevention, the Municipal Football Association has specially formulated relevant epidemic prevention plans and set up sub-venues. The meeting summarized the work of the Shanghai Football Association in the past 4 years, and discussed and deployed the next stage of work; the meeting voted to pass the amendment to the "Constitution", elected a new leadership team and board of supervisors of the Municipal Football Association, Liu Haiguang was elected as the chairman of the Shanghai Football Association, and 10 people, including Lin Yi and Fan Zhiyi, were elected as vice chairmen.
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Xu Bin, secretary of the party group and director of the Municipal Sports Bureau and chairman of the Municipal Sports Federation, attended the meeting and made a speech; Li Yaping, deputy director of the Civil Affairs Bureau, delivered a speech at the meeting. At the same time, Xu Bin expressed warm congratulations to the newly elected leadership team of the Shanghai Football Association and affirmed the work of the leadership team of the previous association. On behalf of the Civil Affairs Bureau, Li Yaping extended warm congratulations to the newly elected leaders of the Shanghai Football Association.
The conference expanded the Executive Committee, with more representatives from government departments, professional clubs, football celebrities and social enterprises as fresh blood to enrich the 29-member Executive Committee. At the first executive committee of the tenth session of the Municipal Football Association, liu Haiguang was elected as the chairman of the Shanghai Football Association, and 10 people, including Lin Yi and Fan Zhiyi, were elected as vice chairmen.
Since the change of term in September 2017, the Municipal Football Association has been in accordance with the requirements of the five modernizations (socialization, materialization, standardization, specialization and internationalization) of the reform and development of sports associations in the city, and under the premise of normalizing the prevention and control of the epidemic, it has been determined to reform and innovate, lead with science and technology, gather wisdom, overcome difficulties, and achieve positive results in various work. Continue to promote the reform of the city's football management system, strengthen the efficiency of governance, and issue the "Shanghai Football Association Adjustment and Reform Plan", "Shanghai Football Medium and Long-term Development Plan (2016-2050)", "Shanghai Football Venue Facilities Construction Plan (2016-2020)" and other documents, which clarified the goals and paths for promoting the reform of the Football Management System in Shanghai. The former Shanghai Football Sports Management Center and the Shanghai Football Association completed the decoupling reform, realized the separation of management and office, and served professional football clubs in an all-round way, highlighting the leading role.
In the past four years, Shanghai Shenhua has won the FA Cup twice in 2017 and 2019, Shanghai Harbour won the Chinese Super League championship in 2018, and Shanghai Shengli won the second place in the Women's Super League and the FA Cup in 2019 and the third place in the Women's Super League in 2020 and 2021. At the Shaanxi National Games, four football teams of Shanghai men and women participated in all 4 minor events, and finally achieved a result of 2 gold and 1 silver.
In the cultivation of youth strength, in 2018, the Shanghai Football Association was selected as one of the first 15 "Youth Training Centers of the Chinese Football Association" named by the Chinese Football Association, and the association continued to play the role of competition leverage, adhering to the principle of "training by competition, promoting training by competition", founding events such as the Youth Club League, and completing the listing and transaction of the Youth Club League through the property rights trading market, providing a demonstration template for promoting football reform and the development of the sports industry. At the same time, a new tournament brand was created for the City Football Association Super League, The First Division and the Champions League. The Shanghai Super League and the Shanghai League One and the Chinese Football Association's four-tier league (Chinese Super League, Chinese First Division, Chinese Second Division, and Chinese Champions) have formed a connection and become the fifth and sixth level competitions in the country. In addition, the Champions League of the Municipal Football Association has formed a run-through of competitions at the municipal and district levels.
In the past four years, the Shanghai Football Association has taken the initiative to go deep into campuses, professional clubs and enterprises and institutions to hold coach orientation training courses, providing a diversified learning platform, with a total of about 5,000 people trained; a total of 1,766 registered referees, including 6 international referees and 18 national referees, are at the leading level in the country.
It is reported that in the next stage, the Municipal Football Association plans to focus on six directions, such as going all out to do a good job in the preparation of the Asian Cup, scientifically creating a rich and diversified competition system, persistently consolidating the youth training work, effectively strengthening the internationalization of professional teams, improving the service construction of members and professional talents, and realizing the self-hematopoietic function of the association. Liu Haiguang, the new chairman of the Municipal Football Association, said in an interview after the meeting that he thanked everyone for their trust, and in a new round of cycles, the leading group of the Shanghai Football Association will continue to improve its political position, strengthen its ideals and beliefs, strengthen unity and cooperation, put the football association's association in the first place, have the courage to make innovations and breakthroughs, improve the service level of the association, do a good job in football work with a strong sense of political responsibility and historical mission, create a new situation in the development of Shanghai football, and strive to achieve the goal of building a world-famous sports city in Shanghai.
Members of the Ninth Executive Committee of the Municipal Football Association, heads of district-level member associations, professional clubs, member units and media representatives attended the meeting.