In the post-Jinyuan era, civilian football or the beginning of the recovery of the Chinese Super League
Reporter Chen Yong reported that on November 4, the 2023 season of China's Ping An Chinese Super League finally came to an end, with Shanghai Port, Shandong Taishan and Zhejiang teams winning the championship, second and third place, Chengdu Rongcheng locked in fourth, and at the same time, Dalian Renmin and Shenzhen were finally relegated. The hustle and bustle is gone, but the thoughts are still there.
A seemingly accidental but inevitable phenomenon is that the two teams of Dalian Renren and Shenzu are actually the victims of the residual poison of Jinyuan football.
Shenzhen, where the heavy debt pressure has overwhelmed the club, and the government has not been able to solve the problem even if it is bailed out, and they actually gave up in the middle of the season, and even their Under-21 team abandoned the Under-21 league. The same is true for the Dalian people, although the club continues to reduce expenses by cutting salaries, but the heavy debt makes them still suffer from the FIFA ban, and they cannot be strengthened at all, and the government's rescue is extremely difficult, in fact, in the final stage, they have basically become outcasts, only the soldiers of Dalian people are still fighting for their own fate, but they are no longer able to do so.
At present, the vast majority of the initiators and followers of Jinyuan football have encountered backlash: Guangzhou Evergrande has been relegated to the Central League, and it is completely a youth army to play in the Central League, and the historical burden is still bothering them; Hebei Huaxia Happiness, Tianjin Quanjian, and Jiangsu Suning have been disbanded; Although Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic was once bailed out, Chongqing finally gave up due to high debt pressure and the team was disbanded; In fact, there are also some teams that are reluctant to follow the trend but eventually become victims, such as Wuhan Yangtze River, Qingdao Huanghai and other teams that have played in the Chinese Super League.
The current Chinese Super League teams are also affected by Jinyuan football, but through a series of measures, the impact has gradually decreased: Shanghai Port is the representative of Jinyuan football, but because it is invested by state-owned enterprises, they can be said to be the only club in the Chinese Super League that has not reduced expenses; Shanghai Shenhua benefited from the strong support of the Shanghai Municipal Government and solved the problem through the share reform, and Tianjin Jinmen Tiger was in a similar situation; Beijing Guoan is currently the club with a lot of historical baggage, but the situation is gradually improving; The problem faced by clubs such as Shandong Taishan, Wuhan Three Towns, and Henan is not debt but future development; In fact, the Cangzhou Lions, which are in financial difficulties, do not have many historical debts.
In terms of promoted horses, last season's Nantong Zhiyun and Qingdao Manatee, and this season's Qingdao West Coast and Sichuan Jiuniu, the investment is not high. In fact, in more cities, football is "reborn": Hebei Langfang City of Glory won the championship to the second division, Chongqing Tongliang Dragon won the championship has rushed to the second division, after the disbandment of the Qingdao team, Qingdao Manatee and Qingdao West Coast have been surpassed, and the 2024 season of the Chinese Super League will appear for the first time "Qingdao Derby". These teams are, strictly speaking, "civilian teams".
In the 2024 season, with the further reduction of high-paid foreign players, and more importantly, the salary limit has allowed the previous high-paid local players to return to the pre-tax space of 5 million, and the investment in the entire Chinese Super League in the 2024 season is expected to drop significantly. After two or three seasons of de-Jinyuan, the current investment and results correspond to the situation: more than 300 million can pursue the championship, 2 to 3 billion can pursue the top eight or even the top six, 80 million to 100 million can basically be relegated, and in the 2024 season, it is expected that half of the teams will invest about 100 million, or even only 60 million to 80 million.
This is actually a painful process, taking this season as an example, 22 points can be relegated, which is actually a side effect of the civilian league of the league, but the positive effect is that the league will tend to stabilize, although it is stable after bottoming, but no matter what, after stability can we discuss development.
As the aftermath of Jinyuan football gradually disappears, starting from the 2024 season, the most important work of the Chinese Football Professional League is probably to do addition, which requires the support of the government, but the core is to do addition by cultivating the market, and in the 2023 season, the crazy ball markets of Beijing Guoan and Chengdu Rongcheng, as well as Shandong Taishan, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger, Shanghai Shenhua, Qingdao Manatee, and Changchun Yatai's good ball markets, all provide unlimited possibilities for the future.