The 2022 season has not yet officially begun, and some teams have already sent out not-so-good signals, such as the Chinese Super League powerhouse Guangzhou team with a staggering salary cut, the Wuhan team publicly encouraging players to reduce salaries, and the investors in the Jiangbei gate of the Chinese First Division are close to launching. Some fans analyzed that perhaps before the official start of the league, there will be teams that will be dissolved due to the inability of investors to continue to operate.
For the teams of the Chinese professional football league, the inability of the investor to continue to operate is equivalent to "capital punishment", and the team will often face the fate of dissolution and complete withdrawal from the professional league. Before the start of the 2020 season, Tianjin Tianhai, which had played in the AFC Champions League and achieved a good record, was dissolved; at the beginning of the 2021 season, the Jiangsu team, which had just won the Chinese Super League championship, became the history of Chinese football. Further ahead, Dalian Shide also announced its withdrawal in 2012. If you flip through the list of the Chinese League One, the Chinese Second League and even the Chinese Champions League, the situation is even more shocking, because almost every season more than one team will bid farewell to professional football.
There are so many teams that disband every year, so that some teams have no worries after relegation, because there is a high probability that they will be eligible to make up for it. However, what breaks the hearts of fans who disband teams is that in Chinese football, a team's bankruptcy often means farewell. For example, after the dissolution of the Jiangsu team, Jiangsu fans did not have their own home team until now.
However, in contrast, even if some European club teams suffer bankruptcy, the "incense" will not be interrupted, but will continue in a "start over" way. In March 2015, Parma, who were relegated to Serie B, were declared bankrupt because they were struggling to sustain themselves and could not find a receiver. Founded in 1913, Parma has achieved good results in Italy and Europe in its early years, and is one of the "Seven Sisters of Serie A". Towards the end of the 2014/2015 season, the 102-year-old veteran, mired in an economic crisis, suffered perhaps its biggest threshold since its inception: bankruptcy. After the bankruptcy, Parma's Serie A points were cleared and the team fell to the amateur league.
However, the bankrupt Parma did not give up, the team brought in new investors, formed a new management, and then began to play in the amateur league the following season. That season, Parma was promoted to Serie C. After that, the team was like a rocket, and the performance improved rapidly. In May 2018, Parma beat Spezia in the final round of Serie B and finally returned to Serie A. From bankruptcy to re-landing in Serie A, Parma took only 3 years. Among them, there is not only the support of investors, the influence of a century-old heritage, but also the tireless persistence and all-out efforts of Parma from fans to players to management.
Many teams in Chinese football, once bankrupt, the management and investors will go away, and they rarely have the patience to clean up the original stalls, keep the original spark, and slowly start over from the amateur league.
Some fans say that one is for football, one is for profit, so it will be different.