The Chinese Football Association, which once claimed to build the Chinese Super League into the "sixth largest league in the world", now does not know how to feel in the face of the football environment that has fallen into the freezing point, wage arrears, salary demand, on the verge of dissolution, punished by FIFA, a bunch of problems are in front of them, and recently the AFC's 2022 first phase of the "Technical Points Ranking of Member Associations" has fallen from the first place in Asia more than a year ago to the tenth, and even surpassed by the Hong Kong Super League in Hong Kong, China, while the Vietnam League ranks 12th, which can be described as following China. If you take into account the development momentum of the Vietnamese league in recent years, if the Chinese Super League is still degenerate, then I believe it is also a matter of time to be surpassed by Vietnam...
According to the AFC's statistical method of technical points for Asian member associations, the points of clubs in Asian competitions in the past four years are calculated, for example, the reason why the Chinese Super League can still rank seventh in the list at the end of last year is because the years of calculating points are 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and when it enters 2022, the points in 2018 will be excluded. Then looking back at 2018, several teams in the Chinese Super League have a decent record in the AFC Champions League, and even some teams have reached the quarterfinals, although it is already the end of the "Golden Yuan Era", but at that time, Chinese football still has a big name like the earth and the flow of domestic aid with high transfer fees, but unfortunately, after excluding the points in 2018, the performance of Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League in recent years has declined year by year, especially in the past two years, due to problems such as schedule conflicts, the Chinese Super League teams have abandoned the AFC Champions League, and sending two teams to participate in the game has also led to a dismal status quo.
In January this year, the AFC has determined that the future AFC Champions League quota will be a certain year, which is not a good thing for the Chinese Super League teams that are gradually slipping in the ranking, the biggest impact is that the number of places for Chinese Super League teams to participate in the AFC Champions League will be reduced in the future, because at the end of last year, the Chinese Super League has fallen to seventh in the "technical points ranking of member associations", so the current 2023 AFC Champions League seat is only given to the Chinese Super League "2+2", and considering that the Chinese Super League, which has now slipped to the tenth, In the future, it is likely to continue to reduce the number of places for Chinese Super League teams to participate in the AFC Champions League.
Then this year's AFC Champions League is very important for the current Chinese Football Association, but if it is carried out according to last year's schedule, I am afraid that several Chinese Super League clubs still cannot send all the main players to participate in the game, and if they continue to perform dismal and participate in the AFC Champions League in a state of confrontation, it may be waiting for 1 place per year for Chinese football in the future. So considering the face of Chinese football, this year's Chinese Super League may make way for the AFC Champions League, so that several teams can win a little in future games, at least to ensure that the 2024 AFC Champions League quota will not really become 1, for several Chinese Super League teams that have the opportunity to participate in the AFC Champions League, their pressure will also increase sharply, especially after watching the 2022 AFC Champions League grouping, the harbor pressure is small, and Shandong Taishan facing Urawa Red Diamonds is not without opportunities, but it is difficult to say that there is full certainty. In this way, the Chinese Football Association must not turn a blind eye to the pressure from the AFC, and all kinds of things about the start of the Chinese Super League cannot be ignored, so it seems that the Chinese Super League in 2022 may have a difficult schedule again...