Reporter Chen Yong reported that there are many troubles in the league, and whether to make up for it or not is counted as one. For the three-tier professional league in the 2022 season, the biggest difficulty at present is that the start time is difficult to determine, because of the epidemic, the start time is inevitable, not only can not start before May Day, but also half a month after May Day may be very difficult.
In the process of waiting for the start of the tournament, the access of the three professional leagues has also become the focus, and the focus of the current focus is: are the chinese second division and the central championship team allowed to be relegated to the middle division and the middle division?
A few days ago, four champions teams Zibo Qisheng (sixth in the chinese championship, lost in the play-offs), Shaoxing Shangyu Yilong (seventh in the central championship), Zhuhai Qin'ao (eighth in the chinese championship), ningxia Haixi (tenth in the chinese championship) jointly sent a letter to the Chinese Football Association, expressing their desire to enter the chinese second division, and said that if they are not replaced, "it will hurt the foundation of Chinese football", "hurt the confidence and determination of many clubs and investors to invest in football", "a large number of players are unemployed", "Chinese football policy has no continuity", and so on.
For a time, whether to make up for it became a hot topic.
4 Chinese champions clubs proposed to make up for it, and the background was the withdrawal of a number of Chinese First Division and Middle Division B clubs. At present, 18 Chinese Super League clubs are basically stable, including Hebei team have confirmed that they will participate in the 2022 season of the league.
The original 18 clubs, Guizhou team did not get the admission qualification, although the Qingdao team relegated from the Chinese Super League obtained the access qualification, but many sources show that Qingdao team has no intention of continuing to compete in the professional league, set up a new club to engage in youth training, so far, there are only 16 clubs left in the Chinese League A.
In the second division, the Sichuan civil football team did not qualify for admission, while Xiamen Ludao recently decided to withdraw, xiamen Ludao was the fifth place in the Chinese Second League last season.
The current situation is: 18 clubs in the Chinese Super League, 16 clubs in the Chinese First Division (theoretically it should be 18 clubs), and 21+1 teams are left in the Chinese Second Division (theoretically it should be 23 clubs plus 1 national youth team, now it is 21 clubs and the U19 national team to compete in the Chinese Second Division, which is 22 teams).
According to the practices and rules of previous seasons, in the 2022 season, there should be 2 Chinese B clubs that will make up for the Middle Division, and 4 Chinese Champions League clubs will enter the Chinese Second Division, in theory, the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League is 18 teams, the Chinese First Division is 18 teams, and the Chinese Second Division is 24 teams.
The Chinese Football Association has been operating in accordance with the rules of substitution for the past two or three years, but there is news that the Chinese Football Association and the Preparatory Group of the Chinese Football Federation have no intention of continuing the previous replacement policy, at least the current news shows that the Chinese League A is likely to shrink from 18 teams to 16 teams, which is the reason for the "appeal" of the four Chinese champions and four clubs.
The reason why the Chinese Football Association considers not making up for the league is that if it continues to make up for it, some teams will not be relegated no matter how bad they play.
If the previous supplementary rules are made up, then Beijing Polytechnic, which was relegated from the Middle Division to the Second Division last season, can return to the Chinese First Division, and if the Chinese Super League relegated Ma Qingdao team does not participate in the end, then the Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopards, which were relegated from the Middle Division last year, will also return to the Chinese First Division.
But in the past many years, Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopards have been relegated many times: in the 2018 season of the Chinese League A, Xinjiang was relegated 4 rounds in advance, but in the 2019 season they finally returned to the Chinese First Division; in the 2019 season, the Xinjiang team successfully relegated; in the 2020 season, they were relegated again; in the 2021 season, they returned to the Chinese First Division again, but their performance in the 2021 season still did not improve, and they were relegated again. In the 2022 season, if they make up again, it will be the third time in 4 years to return to the middle division and become a "central league team that will never be relegated".
Although the situation of the Xinjiang team is only a special case, for the Chinese Football Association and the China Football Federation, another problem they face is more embarrassing: some professional clubs are actually in a lying state, which is actually the same nature as some clubs in the process of stock reform. Therefore, this phenomenon is what worries the Football Association and the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation.
Also some investors and clubs hope that the league can be stricter, hope that the league is more healthy, some investors said that the annual phenomenon of making up for the work is also harmful to investors who do things in a down-to-earth manner.
In terms of rules alone, if the Football Association allows the 2022 season to make up, there is no problem, after all, for a normal league, major rule changes involving promotion and relegation (including the rules of relegation) need to be announced in advance, so "respect the rules" is also one of the main demands of the above 4 champions clubs that call for replacement.