The Chinese Football Association announced the matters of the new season of the three-tier league this afternoon, but when the new season will start has not yet been announced, according to relevant media reports, following the withdrawal of many places from the competition for the venue of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese Football Association and the Preparatory Group of the Chinese Football Federation will go to Rizhao City, Shandong Province for inspection.
In the first release of the three-tier league list, the 18 teams in the Chinese Super League have not changed, Qingdao, which was relegated to the Chinese First Division last season, withdrew from the professional league with Guizhou, and Beijing Institute of Technology and Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopards entered the Chinese First Division, it is worth mentioning that this is the third time that the Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopards have returned to the Chinese First Division in four years. In the second division, Shanghai team Shanghai Jiading Huilong is still on the list, and Sichuan Minzu and Xiamen Ludao are withdrawn.
Although the schedule of the three-tier league and other specific matters have not yet been announced, the promotion and relegation policy has been officially announced today, determining that the promotion and relegation of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division in the new season will implement the "promotion, 3, 3" policy, that is, the 16th, 17th and 18th places of the Chinese Super League will be directly relegated to the Chinese First League, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places of the Chinese First League will be directly promoted to the Chinese Super League, and the same is true for the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division. However, the Central B and the Central Champions will implement the "up 4 down 2" policy, and will complete the expansion next year.
For the promotion and relegation policy, the Chinese Super League has been almost a year in recent years. Before the 2019 season, the relegation rules of the Chinese Super League were basically stable at 2, and in the 2020 season, the Football Association changed the promotion and relegation places to 1.5, that is, the second to last place will play a play-off match with the second place in the Chinese First Division, and last season, the rules were modified again, and the Chinese Super League, which planned to expand the army, was changed to "up 4 down 2" and 0.5 + 0.5 relegation places, that is, the two bottom two of the Chinese Super League will play play-offs with the top two in the Chinese First Division, and the final top four teams in the Chinese First Division will all advance, and the scene is also quite spectacular.
And this year, the Football Association once again revised the promotion and relegation policy, the expanded Chinese Super League suddenly changed the promotion and relegation quota to "up 3 down 3", is bound to affect the nerves of many teams, do not think that the promotion horse that has just been promoted to the Chinese Super League is "good bully", it is reported that the four promotion horses in Wuhan Three Towns, Meizhou Hakka, Zhejiang, Chengdu Rongcheng have been equipped with 5 foreign aides, the new season has been fully prepared, and the situation in Guangzhou and Shenzhen is not very clear, In addition, Shanghai Shenhua, which has just been banned by FIFA from registering, must also be one of the most affected teams this season...
Although this afternoon the Football Association also officially announced the relevant policies of this season's Chinese Super League and Chinese League U-23 players, saying that at least 1 U-23 player is present in each game, and some players who are selected for the U23 national football team can not implement this policy, but for Shenhua, who has many U23s in the squad who are the main force of the team and the national team, it is somewhat worse.
It can be said that the sudden increase in the number of promotion and relegation places and the absence of play-offs will inevitably make the task of relegation this season extremely arduous, and under the existing background of Chinese football, the relegation situation in the new season will be more complicated than ever compared to the championship.