The annual summary of Chinese football, the national brand is unsatisfactory, the league is chicken feathers, and anti-corruption runs throughout the year
Before you know it, it has come to the end of the year, and in less than 12 hours, the New Year's bell of 2024 will ring. And our Chinese football has also staggered through the 365 days of 2023. Next, let's look back and take a look at the big and small things that happened in Chinese football in 2023.
January
Wu Shaocong stayed in Turkey, joined the Turkish Super League Istanbul Basakser, and was later loaned to the Turkish league team Genklerbiligi;
Ding Yong and Ding Chunmei, the two general managers of Shenzhen Football Club, and former players Guowei and Qiao Wei were taken away;
In the FA Cup final, Shandong Taishan defeated the Zhejiang team 2-1 and achieved 8 crowns;
The Wu Xinghan incident continued to ferment, and the private lives of professional football players began to be concerned by the public;
Wuhan Yangtze River, which was relegated from the Chinese Super League, announced its dissolution.
February:
The anti-corruption in football continued to increase, and the chairman of the Football Association, Chen Xuyuan, vice chairman Yu Hongchen, and the director of the disciplinary committee, Wang Xiaoping, were taken away for investigation, and the fans applauded;
In the context of the devastation of Chinese football, the former U23 men's football coach Jankovic was promoted to the senior men's national football team and became the new coach of the national football team.
March:
Jankovic led the national football team to New Zealand and played two friendly matches with the New Zealand men's football team, but the result was an unsatisfactory 1 draw and 1 loss;
The Chinese U20 men's football team lost to South Korea with a score of 1-3 in the quarterfinals of the Asian Youth Championship, ending the journey of the U20 Asian Cup. Although he led the team back to the top 8 after 9 years, coach Antonio failed to be recognized by the outside world because of his rough tactical play;
Ma Kunshan FC, which has been promoted to the Chinese Super League for the entire offseason, announced its dissolution before the start of the new season of the Chinese Super League;
Du Zhaocai, the secretary of the Football Association, who is about to retire one day, was taken away for investigation, and the anti-corruption in football is at its climax. So far, the two major power centers of the Football Association have all fallen.
April:
Li Yingchuan, deputy director of the General Administration of Sports, was stationed in the Football Association and took the lead in setting up a 7-member working group as the leader of the temporary working group;
In the ruins of Chinese football, the 2023 season of the Chinese Super League has finally ushered in the opening;
The Qatar Asian Cup group draw was released, and the Chinese men's football team was drawn and was divided into Group A with Tajikistan, Lebanon and the host Qatar;
Ma Chengquan, the former chairman of the Chinese Super League, and Li Yuyi, the former vice chairman of the Football Association, were officially announced as suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and the "hurricane" in football continues. Half a month later, Shandong Taishan became the "hardest hit area", and coach Hao Wei, player Guo Tianyu, and foreign aid Sun Zhunhao were all taken away for investigation.
May:
From the violent incidents of Chinese Super League players on the field, to the regional contradictions of fans off the field, to the repeated negative responses of various clubs on the Internet, almost all the contradictions are provoked by the referees, and they are becoming more and more intense.
June:
Argentina's China tour is extremely popular, high-priced tickets are sold out instantly, and the Chinese are not lacking in enthusiasm for football;
Guizhou Village Super and Han Qiaosheng and Fan Zhiyi dreamily linked, and folk football continued to be enthusiastic;
Wang Dengfeng, former director of the Department of Physical Education, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education and vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, ushered in the trial. was charged with embezzlement and bribery, with the specific amounts of 46,701,300 and 9,664,690;
The national football team ushered in two warm-up matches with Myanmar and Palestine in Dalian, and won two consecutive victories with a score of 4-0 and 2-0.
July:
The Federation set up an honest account to return stolen goods, and 10 people returned stolen goods in just one week, 9 of whom were football project personnel. After the end of the stolen goods week, Tan Hai, the former golden whistle, and Qi Jun, the former leader of the national football team, were taken away for investigation;
Shui Qingxia led the Chinese women's football team to Australia and embarked on the journey of the Women's World Cup. However, with 1 win and 2 losses in the group stage, she failed to advance to the knockout round, and Shui Qingxia's employment was widely questioned.
August:
The Chinese Football Association has revised the arbitration system in accordance with the Sports Law, so that domestic players with unpaid wages can bypass the Football Association Arbitration Committee and apply directly to the China Sports Arbitration Commission for arbitration;
Wuhan Three Towns Football Club of the Chinese Super League officially announced that the investor would stop injecting capital into the club, and the outside world was in an uproar;
Liu Jun, chairman of the Chinese Super League Company and deputy head of the preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation, was taken away for investigation. The Super League has become a hard-hit area of anti-corruption, and the former six chairmen have all been taken away for investigation.
September:
Cheng Yaodong led the Chinese Olympic Games to participate in the U23 Asian Cup qualifiers, and the team qualified from Group G without being favored by the outside world, and advanced to the final stage of the event, while retaining the flame of qualifying for the Paris Olympics;
The national football team played two more warm-up matches, drawing 1-1 with Malaysia and losing 0-1 to Syria, and the national football team did not taste victory in September, and the conservative Jankovic was questioned by the outside world.
October:
The men's and women's football teams of the Chinese Asian Games ended their journey to the Hangzhou Asian Games, the men's football team stopped in the quarterfinals, and the women's football team won the bronze medal.
In the last training cycle before the round of 36 of the World Preliminaries, the national football team defeated Vietnam 2-0 and lost 1-2 to Uzbekistan;
The 12th Football Congress was held behind closed doors in Beijing, and Song Kai was elected chairman of the Football Association without suspense, and Li Yingchuan, who came to the Football Association to "fight fires" for half a year, served as secretary.
November:
The 2023 season of the Chinese Super League came to an end, with Shanghai Port winning the championship, Shenzhen and Dalian relegated, and Shanghai Port, Shandong Taishan and Zhejiang teams qualifying for next season's AFC Champions Elite League and AFC Champions League;
The Chinese women's football team stopped in the second stage of the Olympic preliminaries, missed the Paris Olympics, and will have no major tournament to play in two years, and coach Shui Qingxia has become the target of public criticism. Less than 20 days later, Shui Qingxia and her team were dismissed, and U20 women's football coach Wang Jun became acting coach;
The national football team embarked on the journey of the round of 36 of the world preliminaries, defeated Thailand 2-1 in the first game, lost 0-3 at home to South Korea, and achieved the goal of the first stage of the round of 36;
The U23 Asian Cup finals and Paris Olympics qualifiers were drawn, and the Chinese Olympic Games were divided into a group with Japan, South Korea and the United Arab Emirates, and the prospects for qualification were not optimistic;
Shanghai Shenhua lifted the FA Cup trophy for the fourth time with a 1-0 win over Shandong Taishan at the Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre, while also qualifying for next season's AFC Champions Elite League.
December:
At the end of the group stage of the AFC Champions League, Shandong Taishan advanced thrillingly, while Wuhan Three Towns and Zhejiang were eliminated;
The Football Association "throws stones to ask for directions", issues questionnaires, and policies such as relocation, neutral names, and the number of foreign aid may usher in changes;
The national football team flew to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, to begin preparations for the Qatar Asian Cup.