Beijing time on February 25 news, the AFC officially announced that from the 2023/24 season, the number of foreign aid places increased from "3+1" to "5+1", and the format was changed to a new year's system.
Specific content, the AFC decided to expand the number of foreign aid in the next AFC Champions League, previously "3 + 1" 3 unlimited nationality players and 1 Asian player, which is also the AFC Champions League for many years of policy, and after the AFC official announcement of this news, but also let many people see the determination of the AFC to move closer to the world football developed league. Enhance the overall competitiveness of the ornamental!
Not long ago, the Japanese media also came to the news that the J League is discussing the restoration of the club's corporate title, in order to help the club tide over the difficulties. It is worth mentioning that Japan's J League foreign aid policy is even more forward-looking than the AFC, the number of foreign aides per team in the J League is "5 + N", that is, 5 players with unlimited nationality, and no limit on the number of players from the promotion country, "the promotion country includes players from eight countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Qatar" In theory, the J League every game, the starting 11 players of each team can not be Japanese players.
Here to mention, in the past few years, the Chinese Super League policy has changed, at the beginning of the 2017 season, the Chinese Football Association made a decision, after the Chinese Super League foreign aid "3 + 1" policy changed to "3", 3 players of unlimited nationality and 1 player of Asian status changed, so since that season, some Asian players we are very familiar with have left the team, including Zhang Xianxiu, Zheng Yourong and so on.
In the last season, the Chinese Super League also ushered in the most stringent policy, "neutral name", the participating teams of China's professional leagues at all levels will not be allowed to use corporate names associated with the club, so we have seen the familiar Guangzhou Evergrande, Shandong Luneng, Guangzhou R&F and other teams have made neutral names changes, and this policy has also hit the confidence of club investors.
After experiencing the cold winter of football, coupled with the fact that many teams have fallen into the problem of unpaid wages this season, the Chinese Super League has been in jeopardy, and even a number of international players have "denounced" the club, which shows that in recent seasons, the Chinese Super League policy is driving backwards, not only did not make the league competition level and ornamental improvement, but also let the investment confidence of the enterprise decrease, and the players also suffered a serious wage arrears crisis.
Now, the AFC officially announced, in recent seasons the Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League competition has fallen into the inferior, often stopped in the quarterfinals, it is already very rare, and now when the AFC relaxed the number of foreign aid appearances, this and that, the strength of other countries in the AFC Champions League will increase day by day, on the contrary, the competitiveness of Chinese Super League teams is not as good as before, and it is more difficult to win the championship.
The Chinese Football Association previously announced the investment restriction order, so that the investment of each team is limited, assuming that the Chinese Football Association develops in accordance with the official direction of the AFC, that is, the number of foreign aides from the four Chinese Super League teams participating in the AFC Champions League reaches 6, then the salary of the team will definitely increase, but the original planned investment restriction standard is obviously not enough, so it seems that the Chinese Football Association was caught off guard by the sudden official announcement of the AFC.