Affected by multiple factors, today's Chinese football has fallen into an unprecedented trough. Following the defeat of the Chinese men's football team in the World Preliminary Round, it is now unknown whether the Chinese Super League, The Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division Football Professional League can be carried out normally as scheduled this season.
Recently, the Chinese Football Association has completed the evaluation of the qualifications of clubs in the domestic tertiary leagues. The 10 clubs in the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division, including Qingdao, Guizhou, Xi'an Junwolf and Yi Teng, have failed to pass the league admission qualification review and regretfully bid farewell to the 2022 season.
In the past few years, there have been cases of club withdrawals in the three leagues in the country, but there has never been a situation like this year when as many as 10 clubs have withdrawn from their leagues for various reasons. From this point of view, Chinese football has indeed entered a very difficult period.
Shortly after the above-mentioned clubs had confirmed that they would bid farewell to the big stage of the Chinese professional league, another club officially announced that it would withdraw from the league, that is, the Kunming Zheng he Boatmen's Club from the Central B.
Recently, Kunming Zhenghe Boatmen's Club officially posted a notice on social media, announcing its withdrawal from this season's Chinese Second League and will also leave Chinese football.
Next, the club will put more energy into football youth training, hoping that through their efforts, they can cultivate more available talents for Chinese football. The club's youth echelon will continue to participate in national youth leagues, which also leaves some seeds for the re-emergence of the club in the future.
As we all know, affected by the epidemic, the life of domestic league clubs at all levels in the past 2 years has been very difficult, except for Chinese Super League clubs with large state-owned enterprise backgrounds such as Shandong Taishan and Shanghai Haigang, most private clubs have experienced losses to varying degrees.
Of course, as the helmsman of Chinese football, the Chinese Football Association also needs to bear a lot of responsibility. Since Chen Shuyuan took office in the Football Association, a series of policies led by him have not only not helped Chinese football get back on track, but have become worse and worse.
In order to make way for the world preliminary round of the national football team, the schedule of the Chinese Super League was cut to pieces. Despite this, the Chinese national football team still lost in the round of 12, and the league has entered a new winter period.
It can be said that the FA's reform of the domestic league was well intentioned, but the policy was introduced too quickly and too violently, which played a counterproductive role. This not only did not reduce the burden on the club, but also made many investors lose interest in investing in football, so that many clubs did not have the financial support behind the money.
For these reasons, domestic leagues at all levels have struggled. The withdrawal of many professional clubs this year is only the beginning. If the Football Association does not introduce a new policy to save the market, I believe that there will be more clubs withdrawing in the future.
You know, the problem of wage arrears in many Chinese Super League clubs has not been solved, although this Ray has not yet exploded, but no one can guarantee that one day in the future there will be a bigger outbreak. At that point, China's professional football league may really end up collapsing completely!