On January 15, Beijing time, Beijing Youth Daily said that the Chinese Super League did not rule out the possibility of starting in late June.
Football News received information that the Chinese Super League will start on April 23. However, reporter Yuan Ye believes that the start of the tournament on April 23 is unlikely, because the AFC Champions League East Asian group stage will be held from April 15 to May 1 in a centralized format, and the Chinese Super League team cannot collectively give up the AFC Champions League again
Because of the collective abandonment last season, the Chinese Super League only scored 0.8 points, and the quota of the Chinese Super League in the 2023 AFC Champions League has changed from "3+1" to "2+2". If you continue to line up to play in the echelon, it is likely that you will be overtaken by Thailand in the future, and there will be only "2+1+1" places left.
"Beiqing Daily" and reporter Yuan Ye's idea, considering the schedule of the AFC Champions League group stage, it is unlikely that the Chinese Super League will start in late April. The AFC Champions League group stage ended on May 1, and when the players returned from quarantine, it was almost mid-term, and then from the end of May to the middle of June, there was an international match day. Therefore, "Beiqing Daily" believes that in order to ensure the integrity of the league, the Chinese Super League does not rule out the possibility of starting in late June.
In the 2020 season, the Chinese Super League only started in late July; and last season began in late April, but in order to make way for the national football team, the league was fragmented, and the first stage and the second stage were separated by 4 months. Such an arrangement not only increases the risk of injury to players, but also the quality of the game is also very poor, which is a kind of harm to both sponsors and investors.
Of course, now we must also consider the problem of stock reform, and the decision makers of the Chinese Super League are also headaches. If the tournament starts on April 23, there is really not much time left for stock reform, and clubs need to submit professional clubs to submit admission materials in mid-to-late March. If you really make way for the AFC Champions League and the national football team at the same time, start the tournament in late June, and end before the Start of the World Cup, then it is really three consecutive seasons to cope with the completion, many fans bluntly say that it is better not to do it.