Affected by the international epidemic and the bursting of the "Golden Dollar Football" bubble, the last two seasons of domestic professional football leagues at all levels have encountered unprecedented difficulties. In this context, many clubs have been unsustainable, and team salary arrears seem to have become commonplace.
Therefore, this year's domestic league entry qualification judgment at all levels has also received a lot of attention from fans and the media. Everyone wants to know how many clubs will not be able to participate in the league in the new season.
The Chinese Football Association has also recently officially determined the access qualifications of clubs in the domestic three-tier leagues such as the Chinese Super League, the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division. Judging from the official announcement of the Football Association, the situation of the clubs this year has obviously exceeded the expectations of fans and the media, and all 18 teams in the Chinese Super League have obtained the league admission qualification for the new season.
As we all know, the most serious wage arrears last season were in the Chinese Super League, except for Shandong Taishan, Shanghai Haigang and Henan Songshan Longmen, the other 15 clubs have different situations of wage arrears. The most serious of these are the Qingdao team, the Chongqing team and the Hebei team.
However, according to the special circumstances of the past 2 years, the Football Association has also relaxed the qualification for the Chinese Super League in the new season to the greatest extent, as long as there is no new salary arrears problem in the clubs this season, they can participate in the Chinese Super League. The problem of unpaid wages in the past 2 years is not within the criteria for judging the qualifications of the Chinese Super League.
Compared with the Chinese Super League, the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second League are not so lucky. The Guizhou team of the Chinese League A has not been resolved due to the overdue problem of international wage arrears, and has lost the qualification to participate in the new season of the Chinese League One. The Sichuan Minzu Football Team of the Chinese Second League was also disqualified from participating in the new season of the Chinese Second Division because it failed to submit the club's access information according to the date stipulated by the Football Association.
As the saying goes, some people rejoice and some people worry. Guizhou, the former super league powerhouse, has now lost its qualification for the Chinese League A due to long-term arrears in foreign aid wages. If they want to return to the domestic professional league next year, they must start over from the amateur Champions League.
This also makes a team that just fell from the middle division to the second division last season qualify for the return to the middle division, they are the university team North Polytechnic.
As the only campus team in the current domestic professional league, Beijing Polytechnic has been hovering between the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division. They had just been promoted to the Central League last season, and after only one season, they fell back to the second-to-last league.
After guizhou lost the qualification for the Chinese League A, Beijing Polytechnic also got the opportunity to return to the Chinese First Division, which is also a windfall for this college team.
It's just not known whether the Beijing Polytechnic team, which has just fallen into the Chinese Second League, is ready to qualify for the Chinese First League again so quickly, which is indeed a bit of a surprise to them.
And this is also a true portrayal of the current situation of professional leagues at all levels in China, a team can announce dissolution or relegation at any time, and they can also unexpectedly qualify for promotion at any time.
I have to say that now the domestic professional leagues at all levels are so smoky, the management of the Football Association headed by Chen Shuyuan must bear a large part of the responsibility, if we do not make adjustments in time, then our professional leagues will really be destroyed.