The 2022 season of the AFC Champions League is underway, and on April 26, Beijing time, reports from the Vietnamese media "soha" that after the end of the fourth round of the AFC Champions League, the points of the Vietnamese league in Asian clubs have officially surpassed the Chinese league.
In this year's AFC Champions League, the representative of Vietnam is the Jialai Huang Ying team. The advantage of sitting at home made Jialai Huang Ying perform bravely, forcing Sydney FC and Jeonbuk Hyundai to draw successively, especially the 1-1 draw with South Korean league overlord Jeonbuk Hyundai in the fourth round, which made Vietnamese fans excited. Although there is little hope of Jialai Huangying qualifying from the group, it has also made great progress for the Vietnamese team that participated for the first time.
With two draws, Jialai Huang Ying helped Vietnam bring 2.0 points in the Asian club standings. Vietnam also officially surpassed China with 18.652 points and rose to 12th place in Asia. Because Shanghai Harbor and Changchun Yatai have retired from the competition, while Guangzhou and Shandong Taishan are both playing as youth troops. Chinese Super League clubs only won 1 point after the 4th round of the AFC Champions League, and china is currently in the Asian club standings, retreating to 13th place, not only losing to Vietnam, but even being suppressed by Iraq, Thailand and other countries.
According to the AFC regulations, the more AFC club ranking points are obtained, the more AFC Champions League qualification will be obtained, so the Vietnamese league may have the opportunity to get more places in the future AFC Champions League, but correspondingly, the number of places in the Chinese Super League will be further reduced, and fewer Chinese Super League teams will appear in the future. In this regard, the Vietnamese media commented: "The Chinese Super League has twice stood on the top of Asia, and is currently in a rapid decline stage. Due to many factors, the youth army played in the AFC Champions League, which made the performance of the Chinese Super League in the Asian arena unsatisfactory. ”
Previously, Chinese media had said that if the Chinese Super League points were surpassed by Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam and Thailand, it would be a nightmare, and in 2022, this nightmare regrettably became a reality.