On May 4, the ninth round of the Chinese League Dalian InBev Club and Guangzhou Club played at Dalian Barracuda Bay Football Stadium, and Guangzhou defeated Dalian InBev 1-0. During the game, players on the field engage in violent and unsporting behavior that violates the style and discipline of the game. After the game, personnel from both teams gathered in the stadium and violence broke out again, causing chaos.
On May 10, the Chinese Football Association punished and gave detailed instructions for the player conflict after Dalian InBev lost 0-1 to Guangzhou in the 9th round of the Chinese League this season.
On May 4, in the 9th round of the 2024 Chinese League A season, Dalian InBev Football Club lost 0:1 at home to Guangzhou Football Club. During the game, players on the field engage in violent and unsporting behavior that violates the style and discipline of the game. After the game, the personnel of the two teams gathered in the stadium, causing friction and conflict, causing chaos on the scene and causing serious adverse social impact. In order to find out the cause of the incident and clarify the responsibilities of all parties, the Chinese Football Association set up an investigation team to conduct an in-depth investigation on the style and discipline of the game. The investigation determined that the outbreak of serious competition style and discipline in this game was a typical violation of competition style and discipline caused by Dalian InBev Football Club's ineffective performance of the responsibility of the first person responsible for competition style and discipline, lax restrictions on player education, loose internal management, individual players ignoring the discipline of the game, losing the game, losing emotions, maliciously causing trouble, and the poor professional ethics and style of individual players of the Guangzhou Football Club team, and the implementation of non-sports behaviors after the game to provoke the public.
Dalian InBev Football Club team should bear the main responsibility for the serious competition style and discipline problems in this game. In this game, four players of Dalian InBev Football Club team committed violent acts, which fully exposed the club's failure to take responsibility in player education and management, which is a concentrated reflection of the long-term lack of attention to the team's style and discipline management, ideology and morality and style construction, and is the main responsible party for causing serious problems in the game.
In the 3rd minute after the game, Wang Xuanhong, the No. 10 player of Dalian Yingbo Football Club, was dissatisfied with Huo Shenping, the No. 32 player of the Guangzhou Football Club team, bowing to the stands of the home team's fans, and then rushed to Huo Shenping and pushed his neck.
5 minutes after the game, Kotnik, the No. 44 player of Dalian InBev Football Club, suddenly rushed to Huo Shenping, the No. 32 player of Guangzhou Football Club, and Kotnik's shoulder hit Huo Shenping's body. Due to the crowd on the field at that time, the scene was chaotic, and the referee did not punish Kotnik. After the review team of the referee committee of the Chinese Football Association, it was determined that Kotnik committed violent acts and should be given a red card. Kotnik's behavior further intensified the conflict on the field, led to the escalation of the situation, and was directly responsible for the conflict and friction between the two sides.
After the referee blew the whistle to end the game, Huo Shenping, the No. 32 player of the Guangzhou Football Club team, did not follow the referee's instructions to concentrate in the midfield in time, but bowed to the home team's fan stands near the goal. The referee blew the whistle again to remind the players to concentrate in the midfield, but Huo Shenping still did not respond positively and continued to bow to the stands of the home team's fans. When his first bow caused dissatisfaction and emotion among the home fans, Huo Shenping bowed to the home team fan stands twice in a row. The referee determined that the second and third bows were provocative and gave him a yellow card.
The investigation team found that the Guangzhou Football Club team did not make a unified request to the home team's fans after the game, and this behavior was Huo Shenping's individual behavior. The investigation team reviewed the video of the first three rounds of away games of the Guangzhou Football Club team, and could not determine that Huo Shenping had the habitual behavior of bowing to the stands of the home team's fans. The investigation team also believes that as a normal adult, Huo Shenping should have a clear understanding of the situation of the first bow causing strong dissatisfaction among the home fans, and should have a clear judgment on the way that the home fans do not accept and are disgusted with bowing and thanking.
Based on the above circumstances and after fully listening to the expert opinions of the referee committee and the disciplinary committee of the Chinese Football Association, the investigation team supported the referee's ruling in this game and determined that Huo Shenping's second and third bows were provocative. Huo Shenping did not follow the procedural practice of the home and away teams shaking hands first and then thanking the field, did not obey the referee's whistle instructions, did not go to the midfield in time to concentrate, and his first bow behavior has aroused strong dissatisfaction among the home team's fans and still does not stop, objectively causing the fact that the home team's fans and players are angered, which is an important factor that causes the gathering of people in the stadium and the chaos of the scene, and bears unshirkable responsibility for the serious competition style and discipline problems in this game.
In accordance with the "Disciplinary Guidelines of the Chinese Football Association", combined with the investigation facts and the determination of responsibility, the Disciplinary Committee of the Chinese Football Association punished the main responsible party, Dalian InBev Football Club Team, the main perpetrator, Dalian InBev Football Club Team No. 10 player Wang Xuanhong, the directly responsible person No. 44 player Kotnik, and the responsible Guangzhou Football Club Team No. 32 player Huo Shenping in accordance with the prescribed procedures:
Dalian InBev Football Club team was notified of criticism and fined RMB 200,000.
Wang Xuanhong, the No. 10 player of Dalian InBev Football Club, was suspended for 10 games and fined 100,000 yuan.
Kotnik, the No. 44 player of Dalian InBev Football Club, was suspended for 6 games and fined 60,000 yuan.
Huo Shenping, the No. 32 player of the Guangzhou Football Club team, was suspended for 4 games and fined 40,000 yuan.
Other players who commit violent acts in this game will be severely punished in accordance with the regulations.
This incident is the most serious incident of competition style and discipline since the start of the professional league this year, with a bad nature and extremely bad social impact, which has seriously corrupted the atmosphere of the professional league and seriously damaged the image of the football industry. The Chinese Football Association resolutely opposes any form of violence and non-sports behavior on the field, insists on hitting any violation of competition style and discipline, and will not tolerate it, and resolutely maintains the normal order and good atmosphere of the professional league. The situation related to the management of professional league competition style and discipline will continue to be announced to the public in a timely manner, and consciously accept social supervision.
Chinese Football Association
May 10, 2024
In addition to this notice, the Dalian team also involved two fines in this game, namely:
Embalo, the No. 7 player of Dalian InBev Football Club, was suspended for 4 games and fined 40,000 yuan; Sui Weijie, the No. 17 player of Dalian InBev Football Club, was suspended for 4 games and fined 40,000 yuan. A warning was given to the Dalian Division of the Chinese League (home of Dalian InBev Football Club).
The club involved issued a statement
At about 11 o'clock on May 10, Dalian InBev Football Club issued an apology statement on its official Weibo, and said that it would resolutely obey the punishment decision of the Football Association, deeply learn from the lessons, and seriously rectify it.
On the same day, the Guangzhou team officially responded to the Football Association's punishment of Huo Shenping, saying that our club resolutely obeyed the punishment decision of the Chinese Football Association. (Zhonghong.com)