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On the afternoon of April 25, the Chinese Football Association intensively announced a series of notification documents, announcing the relevant policies of the Chinese professional football league in the new season of 2022, as well as the list of participating clubs at all levels of professional leagues. The release of the league policy for the new season, as well as the physical testing and training of competition officials organized by the Chinese Football Association in recent times, have shown that the new season is getting closer and closer. However, as the opening of the league draws nearer, so does the pressure on all sides.
The "Notice of the Chinese Football Association on the Relevant Policies of the 2022 Season Professional League" first clarified that the size of the Chinese Super League in the 2022 season is 18 teams, the size of the Chinese League A is also 18 teams, and the Chinese Second League is 20 teams, including the U19 national men's football team. The Chinese Football Association announced the list of clubs that have qualified for the 2022 third-level professional league, which also announced that Qingdao and Guizhou, which were relegated to the Central League last season, officially withdrew from the professional league, and Beijing Institute of Technology and Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopards entered the Middle Division, especially worth mentioning that this is the third time in four years that the Xinjiang Tianshan Snow Leopards have returned to the Chinese First Division.
In terms of the Central B, the size of the 24 teams in the Chinese Second Division last season has become the 20 teams it is today, in addition to the Sichuan Minzu Football Team, which has previously withdrawn, Xiamen Ludao, the fifth place in the Chinese Second Division, and Shanxi Longjin, the sixth place in the Chinese Second Division, who missed the promotion last season, have also withdrawn from the league. The 10th Hebei Zhuo'ao, the 14th Xi'an Junwolf, and the 18th Kunming Zheng He shipwright were not allowed. Among the 3 teams that have been relegated to the Central Championship, Shaoxing Keqiao Yuejia and Shaanxi Warriors have given up the replacement, and only Quanzhou Yaxin has returned to the Central B. The 7th place in the central crown outside the promotion zone, Shaoxing Shangyu Yilong, and the 8th place Zhuhai Qin'ao, have also been eligible for replacement. Zibo Qisheng, who previously lost the promotion play-off, also made up for the promotion.
Judging from the number of teams in various leagues, the Chinese Super League expanded to 18 teams according to the plan on the basis of 16 teams in the 2021 season; the Chinese First Division continued to maintain the size of 18 teams; although the Chinese Second Division was reduced to 20 teams in the new season due to multiple substitutions and withdrawals, the pyramid "Taki" was still there. However, the expansion of the Chinese Super League will bring unprecedented fierce competition to the teams of the Chinese Super League. Because according to the professional league policy, the promotion and relegation policy of "up, 3 down, 3" is implemented between the Chinese Super League and between the Chinese League B, that is, the 16th, 17th and 18th places of the Chinese Super League are directly promoted to the Chinese First League, and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places of the Chinese League A are directly promoted to the Chinese Super League; the last three of the Chinese First Division and the Chinese Second Division are directly relegated to the lower leagues, while the top three of the lower leagues will be directly promoted to the high-level leagues. However, according to the design of the Chinese Football Association, the chinese second division and non-professional league champions will implement the "up, 4 down, 2" policy, which is also for the chinese second league to complete the expansion next year.
Of course, under such a promotion and relegation policy, teams in the middle and lower reaches of professional leagues at all levels must strive for points in the regular league cycle if they want to complete the relegation task, and there is no longer a buffer opportunity for promotion and relegation play-offs. It is worth noting that the promotion and relegation policy of the Chinese Super League in the past two years has changed almost every year, before the 2019 season, the relegation quota of the Chinese Super League is basically stable at 2, and in the 2020 season, the Football Association will change the promotion and relegation places to 1.5, and last season, the Chinese Super League, which plans to expand, was changed to "up 2 down 0.5 + 0.5", that is, the top two in the Chinese First Division were directly upgraded, and the two bottom two in the Chinese Super League played play-offs with the third and fourth places in the Chinese First Division. In the end, the top four teams in the Chinese League, Wuhan Sanzhen, Meizhou Hakka, Chengdu Rongcheng and Zhejiang all advanced, and the Chinese Super League completed a shuffle.
Of course, under the special conditions of the epidemic, when formulating the promotion and relegation policy for the 2021 season, the Chinese Football Association has given more consideration to achieving the purpose of expanding the league in the next year while maintaining the stability of the Chinese Super League. Today, the Chinese Super League has completed the expansion of the army, and the promotion and relegation policy for the new season in 2022 can be regarded as a return to the survival of the fittest mechanism. Because the 3 direct relegation places will undoubtedly greatly intensify the competition within the Chinese Super League, and the 3 direct promotion places will also protect the enthusiasm of the upstream teams in the Chinese League A to attack the top league, the new season will be more complicated than the past compared to the championship. The return of competition will improve the competitiveness and ornamentation of the league to a certain extent, and it is also beneficial to the recovery of Chinese football level in the long run.
In the 2022 season, the U23 player policy will continue to apply in the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division, and clubs should maintain at least 1 U23 player on the field at least every game. Considering that the 2022 Chinese U23 men's national football team has the task of asian games and East Asian Cup matches, the Chinese Football Association has also formulated the corresponding U23 player reduction policy after players are selected for the U23 national football team. According to the "Notice of the Chinese Football Association on the Relevant Policies for U-23 Players in the 2022 Professional League", overage players selected for the U23 national football team will also enjoy the U23 player reduction policy. While providing policy relief and compensation for the clubs where the national brand recruited players are located, the new season of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division has also increased the protection policy for young players to stay in the ocean, such as Guo Tianyu, who has been selected for the U23 national football team from 2021 to 2022 and stayed in the 2022 season, and the clubs he plays in China have also enjoyed the policy reduction of U23 players playing.
In addition, the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division foreign aid registration and appearance requirements, as well as naturalized player registration rules are the same as last season, it is worth noting that in the registration of naturalized players, if the naturalized players do not meet the two conditions of naturalization for 5 years and have the official national team competition qualifications, they must register as domestic players, but occupy the foreign aid registration quota. It is worth noting that at present, Shandong Taishan already has 5 foreign aides such as Jia Desong, Fellaini, Moises, Sun Zhunhao and new foreign aid Kraisan, delgado can only register as a domestic player because he does not meet the requirements of naturalization for 5 years, and if he registers in the Chinese Super League, he will occupy the foreign aid quota. In this case, delgado is more difficult to qualify.
Although the relevant policies on the Chinese Super League have been clarified, key information such as the selection progress of the league division, when the league will start, and how the format will be adopted has not yet been clarified. According to the Beijing Youth Daily, at present, Meizhou City and Dalian City are highly likely to host some of the super league competitions, but candidate cities such as Wuhan, Xi'an, Hangzhou and Suzhou have stated that they cannot host the Chinese Super League. The scale of participation of 18 teams in the Chinese Super League requires the Chinese Football Association and the Preparatory Group of the Chinese Football Federation to select 3 cities in the competition area, in addition to Meizhou and Dalian, two candidate cities, Rizhao in Shandong has become the focus of attention.
If the Chinese Football Association and the China Football Federation Preparatory Group can finalize the three host divisions as soon as possible, and the two teams in Shanghai can arrive in the division as scheduled, according to the current situation, the Chinese Super League will start as early as early May. Unfortunately, as of now, there are no clear answers to these two core questions. Nowadays, with the announcement of some policies of the league and the approaching registration deadline, the team building of each team has gradually come to an end, and they can also enter the sprint preparation of the league according to their own personnel situation.
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