In the early morning of February 18, Beijing time, Ma Dexing, a well-known domestic reporter, posted that the AFC technical points ranking of the Chinese Super League has fallen from "Asia's first" to "Asia's tenth". In the article, it is pointed out that in the latest issue of the "Technical Points Ranking of Member Associations" in 2022, the domestic Chinese Super League has changed from "Asia's first" more than a year ago to the current "Asian tenth", and the results have even been surpassed by the Hong Kong Super League in Hong Kong, China.
The ranking introduced by the AFC was fully implemented after the reform of the AFC Champions League in 2009, and his scoring rule is based on the results of the past four years belonging to the AFC member associations in Asian club competitions and the ranking points of their respective national teams in FIFA, which are converted into technical points and discharged from the rankings of the AFC member associations. In other words, in addition to the club results of their respective countries, they also include the results of the national team.
Generally speaking, the results of the national team's technical points are scored by fifa's national team rankings published once a month. The AFC is responsible for the club's points, which are mainly based on the results of the member associations in the AFC Champions League and the AFC Cup in the past four years to obtain the final points for ranking. In general, such a ranking situation, the most direct impact is the AFC Champions League quota of their respective clubs.
Before the pandemic, Chinese Super League clubs achieved good results in the AFC Champions League, and we were able to top the ranking again. However, as the achievements of the AFC Champions League and national team football continue to refresh the lower limit, our technical points ranking is also declining. From the first place in Asia more than a year ago, it has become the latest Asian tenth.
Ma Dexing said that the most incredible thing in this ranking is that the chinese super league ranking is overtaken by the Hong Kong Super League in Hong Kong, China, and the advantage over Vietnam, Thailand and other countries is not obvious. In the latest edition of the rankings, we see that Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea and Uzbekistan are in the top 4, and their places in the AFC Champions League are also "3+1". If we can't move on to this list in the following time, the AFC Champions League place may even become 3. After all, from the current list, we are the lowest ranking country with 4 places.
It is worth mentioning that in the recent news, due to the conflict with the Chinese Super League in terms of time, the 4 teams participating in the AFC Champions League will most likely continue to send youth teams to play. In the last season, the Chinese Super League symbolically sent 3 teams to participate in the AFC Champions League due to various reasons, and the results were dismal.
The AFC's previous news determined that from 2023, the technical point rankings of member associations "will be reformed, and only the AFC Champions League results of the previous year will be allocated." This means that once the Chinese Super League teams continue to abandon the AFC Champions League next year, they are likely to fall out of the top 24 in the table and thus miss the 2024-25 AFC Champions League.