On April 24, the members of the Chinese men's football team ended a "14+7" day of medical isolation observation in Haikou, and then they will leave the station one after another to return to their respective territories, which also marks the official end of the Chinese men's national football team's journey of the round of 12, and the players can also return to their respective clubs to prepare for the new season of the Chinese Super League.
Just yesterday, the Chinese Football Association announced the list of participants in the new season of leagues at all levels and various new policies for the new season, among which the "Notice on Announcing the List of Participating Clubs at All Levels in the 2022 Season" officially determined the participating teams of the new season's leagues at all levels - 18 teams of the Chinese Super League were qualified to participate, and hebei teams and Chongqing Liangjiang Athletics, which once had an existential crisis due to financial crisis, finally "went ashore", and the four "promotion horses" of Wuhan Sanzhen, Meizhou Hakka, Zhejiang and Chengdu Rongcheng also successfully obtained the qualifications. In the Chinese First Division, the Qingdao team that was relegated last season withdrew, and the Guizhou team also withdrew, and the Beijing Polytechnic and Xinjiang teams from the Central B successfully took the position and qualified for the competition. There are 20 teams in the Chinese Second Division that have qualified for the competition, and the Chinese U19 men's football team is impressively listed. Judging from the list, the biggest change from last year's league is nothing more than the final implementation of the Football Association's expansion plan, whether the 18 Chinese Super League teams will bring a longer game cycle, and the opening time that has not been officially announced so far will be revealed, in the case of not being shaken by the "bottom line" of the new year, the choice of expansion will probably affect the formulation of the future format, and it is a blessing that cannot be decided too early.
Another "Notice on Policies Related to U-23 Players in the 2022 Professional League" released on the same day requires that in the new season of the Chinese Super League, clubs must maintain at least one U23 player per game. However, there are also specific solutions in the notice for special circumstances, such as if a player is selected for the U23 national team, the relevant clubs can not implement the U23 policy during the team's preparation for training, participation and epidemic prevention and quarantine. In addition, in the two years from 2021 to 2022, if there are players who have been selected for the U23 national team men's football team and "stayed abroad" on loan or transfer in the 2022 season, the Chinese Football Association has determined that the club's players can also not implement the U23 appearance policy during overseas playing and returning to the country during the epidemic prevention and quarantine period. Similarly, there are different ways to deal with situations where injuries cannot play. Although the U23 policy has always been a few people are happy and a few people are worried, it is difficult to conclude whether this policy is good or bad, but whether it is the "seedling-fueled" faction or the "go with the flow" faction, it cannot be denied that this policy seems to have become the only criterion that allows newcomers to board the Chinese Super League for a long time, after all, the idea of "Golden Yuan Decade" is not as good as buying has indeed hit the youth training of Chinese football a lot, and if you want to restore the club's "hematopoietic mechanism", there may be a long way to go.
As for the location of the Chinese Super League, it has now become unclear. Affected by the epidemic, candidate cities such as Wuhan, Xi'an, Hangzhou and Suzhou have all stated that they cannot host the Chinese Super League. The start time is becoming more and more urgent, and the chinese football association has fewer and fewer venues for the Chinese Football Association to choose, and the problem has become quite tricky. Yesterday, it was reported that the Preparatory Group of the Chinese Football Association and the China Football Federation contacted Rizhao City, Shandong Province, hoping that the other party could host the Chinese Super League competition. The main reason for choosing Rizhao is mostly because the Shandong Provincial Games will be held in Rizhao, and there are advantages in hardware and epidemic prevention capabilities. However, at present, because the epidemic prevention policy is relatively strict, the Preparatory Group of the China Football Federation can only arrange a person to rush to the local area for inspection, and as for the final result, it can only wait for the official announcement.