On April 12, the Department of Science and Education of the State General Administration of Sport issued the "Announcement on the Recommended List of Outstanding Athletes for Undergraduate Escort in 2022", and a total of 873 athletes passed the review and obtained the recommended qualifications for guaranteeing them to university. This included 145 footballers (87 men's and 58 women's).
In terms of men's football, Qiu Lingfeng, Liu Heng, Zhu Zhengyu, Tong Lei and 24 others entered Beijing Sport University, the highest institution of chinese sports.
Lin Liangming, Yan Dinghao, Liao Lisheng, Yang Minjie, and Huo Shenping were sent to South China University of Technology.
Jin Jingdao, Zhou Haibin, Chen Zhechao, and Wang Tong enrolled in Qufu Normal University. Former international Zhou Haibin was born in July 1985 and was 37 years old by the time he entered the university. However, Zhou Haibin is not yet the oldest freshman, and the 42-year-old table tennis veteran Hou Yingchao is also on the list, and he will be enrolled in the Capital Institute of Physical Education.
Zhou Haibin
Tongji University, a 985 school in Shanghai, admitted 12 male football players, namely Chen Chunxin, Zhang Yi, Ge Wei, Yang Shiyuan, Li Songyi, Zhang Xiaobin, Feng Boyuan, Gao Huaze, Wang Haijian, Zhang Wei, Chen Wei and Yin Hui.
Many football stars are studying at Tongji University, in 2017, Wu Lei, Yan Junling, Jiang Ning, Dewey, Cao Yunding and other seven players were admitted to Tongji without exams and studied administrative management; in the summer of 2019, Wu Lei also wished everyone a smooth final exam through video; in 2021, Wu Lei, Yan Junling and others successfully graduated.
In terms of women's football, this time the international footballer Xiao Yuyi was escorted to Shanghai Donghua University. Beijing Normal University selected Zhan Linfei, Zhao Xinyue, Zheng Huiwen and Mei Jingyan. Wang Shuang, the number one star of Chinese women's football, graduated from Beijing Normal University in 2019 and is now pursuing graduate studies at the school's School of Physical Education and Sports.
The most notable of this batch of athletes' undergraduate guarantee list is that the table tennis Olympic champion Fan Zhendong will enter Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and the men's basketball stars Wang Zhelin and Zhang Zhenlin will enter the school at the same time. Guan Chenchen, the women's balance beam champion in gymnastics at the Tokyo Olympics, entered Zhejiang University, the diving Olympic champion Zhang Jiaqi entered Beijing Sport University, and the figure skating women's singles zhu Yi was sent to Peking University.