Since the 1994 A-League, The top league of Chinese football has produced a total of 9 championship teams, of which Guangzhou Evergrande and Dalian Shide (Wanda) have achieved the most brilliant results, and both have achieved the hegemony of the "Eight Champions". But now it seems that no team is willing to cross this mountain.
"8" is an auspicious number in the eyes of Chinese, but this number does not seem to fit in Chinese football.
Dalian Shide began to decline after winning the eighth top league title, barely relegated in the last season before withdrawing (14th in the league). The 2012 season of the Chinese Super League finale was dalian Shide's last game, and in the 2013 season, it directly abandoned registration and completely left Chinese football. By now, the championship team has long been lost in the dust of history, and there is nothing left.
Guangzhou Evergrande fell from the clouds overnight in its third year after winning its eighth Chinese Super League title. As the champion of the Chinese Super League, the champion of the FA Cup, the champion of the Super Cup and the champion of the Asian Cup, Guangzhou Evergrande has achieved the "Grand Slam" from the domestic to the continental arena, and is the only Chinese Super League team that can truly be called a "giant" in Asian football. Nowadays, the main players in the team will all be gone, and they can only take the young players of the football school as the team, and truly compete in the league with the "all-Chinese class". Such a squad would be difficult to relegate and will probably not be in the top flight next season.
The metaphysics of the "championship useless theory", winning the championship not only did not make Chinese football rise, but also fell into crisis itself.
In addition to Dalian Shide and Guangzhou Evergrande, Jiangsu Suning, the champion of the Chinese Super League in the 2020 season, refreshed the fans' cognition, and just won the championship and withdrew, staging a tragic drama of "peak is the end". Disbanded after winning the championship in the top flight, it is rare in world football, at least in the impression of the vast majority of fans, such a thing does not appear, perhaps can be described as "Antarctic cold joke".
After Jiangsu Suning withdrew, the championship members were divided up by the teams and did not spend a penny on the transfer fee. After Guangzhou Evergrande encountered difficulties, the 14 international players actively in the service (there are 10 people who still belong to the Guangzhou team in the latest national football list, and 4 naturalized players who were previously terminated) and other main players have all left, which also allowed the teams to eat a free meal.
Jiangsu Suning, like Dalian Shide, completely bid farewell to Chinese football, not even a hair was left, and the Guangzhou team could survive only with the students of the football school and the annual expenditure of 15 million yuan. Even if Evergrande Group recovers its vitality, the Guangzhou team is not short of money, and I am afraid that it does not want to compete for any championships.
Three championship teams, two disbanded and withdrawn, one survived in name only, and the Chinese Super League champions were in a bad condition.
Shanghai Shenhua (A A champion, the predecessor of the Chinese Super League) and Shenzhen, which have won the Chinese Super League championship, are also in a bad situation, these two teams were once considered to be rich and had unpaid wages that many people did not expect. Shanghai Shenhua has not yet begun to assemble training, and it must have encountered no small problem. Shenzhen's core players such as Kaldek, Achim Peng and Dai Weijun are about to leave the team, and most of them are not empty.
Most of the Chinese Super League teams have a hard time, and not all teams have a hard time, but the identity of these teams as Chinese Super League champions is somewhat sensitive. However, for two consecutive years, a free "champion supermarket" has been opened, which makes people feel that the "Chinese Super League champion" is a bit metaphysical.
Someone's "champion useless theory" seems to be a slur, perhaps, he summed up and foresaw the current situation of Guangzhou Evergrande and Jiangsu Suning through the encounter of Dalian Shide. If there is a free "champion supermarket" opening next year, this person is really good!
Of course, Xuan and not Xuan, everyone should be clear, this is pure entertainment!