Affected by multiple factors such as the bursting of the "Golden Dollar Football" bubble, the international epidemic and the poor performance of the Chinese men's football team in the World Preliminary Tournament, Chinese football has fallen into a new bottom period.
Although in the past 2 years, the Football Association has introduced a series of policies such as salary limits for players and limited investment by clubs, which have reduced the burden on the operation of clubs at all levels in domestic leagues. But there are still many clubs that are unsustainable, especially at the level of the Chinese Super League.
As we all know, due to the slump in the Chinese Super League in the past two years, many clubs have different degrees of salary arrears, the most serious of which are Hebei, Chongqing and Qingdao, which has been relegated to the Middle League last season.
Recently, Qingdao Club has also officially applied to the relevant departments to withdraw from the new season of the Chinese League One, which has caught the Chinese Football Association somewhat unprepared. Fortunately, after the Qingdao team withdrew, there are still teams that can come up to fill their vacancies. It is reported that the North Polytechnic team, which was just relegated to the Second Division last season, will return to the Chinese First League as a substitute.
Compared with the Chinese First League, the situation in the Chinese Super League is not much better. In order to ensure that the league can be carried out normally, the Football Association has also acquiesced to the wage arrears of these clubs, and said that as long as they do not have new wage arrears, they can obtain qualification for this season's Chinese Super League.
And those clubs that have not experienced unpaid wages also have their troubles, that is, the burden of these clubs is too heavy. You know, the top 4 teams in the Chinese Super League need to participate in the AFC Champions League in the new season.
Because the international epidemic is still very serious, coupled with the overlap between the AFC Champions League schedule and the Chinese Super League. These AFC Champions League-qualifying teams don't really want to play in this season's AFC Champions League at all. Previously, 3 teams submitted applications to the Chinese Football Association to withdraw from the AFC Champions League, but all of them were rejected by the Football Association.
Under such circumstances, these teams can only passively send the club's reserve team to participate in the AFC Champions League, and it is conceivable what kind of results such teams can achieve in the AFC Champions League.
In the recent AFC Champions League group stage, the performance of Shandong Taishan and Guangzhou also proved this, after two rounds of group matches, they have conceded a total of 25 goals, and the successive "tragedies" have become a joke in domestic and international football.
In the past year or so, there have been many unprecedented strange phenomena in Chinese football, and it has to be said that this has a lot to do with a series of policies and regulations issued by the Chinese Football Association headed by Chen Shuyuan.
Many people think that today's Chinese football has fallen to the lowest point, but if the Football Association does not change their operational thinking and continues to mess around like this, Chinese football will probably continue to fall until it can no longer climb up, right?