According to Oriental Sports Daily, the vast majority of clubs have submitted their applications for admission to the new season on time, with Hebei possibly signing up for the Chinese Champions League in the new season.
March 5 is the deadline announced by the CFA for the declaration of access to the third-tier professional league for the 2023 season. Today's feedback shows that despite all the difficulties, most clubs have submitted their applications for admission to the new season on time. Starting from today, the CFA's competition department and professional league management department will review these materials in accordance with the regulations and announce the access results around March 20th.
In recent times, Shenzhen, Guangzhou City and Chinese Super League (CSL) newcomers Kunshan FC have all been facing operational crises, a situation that may have led to their inability to pass the access audit. However, according to local media reports, these three teams have already submitted their access reports and some of their previous problems have been assisted and solved by the relevant authorities, thus it will not prevent them from participating in this year's Chinese Super League. For now, it is basically certain that Hebei, which gave up the opportunity to continue participating in the professional league last season for its own reasons, may keep its youth training business and sign up for the Chinese Champions League in the new season.
According to insiders, if a club fails to pass the access requirements of the Chinese Super League, one of the options will be to let a qualification standards of the Chinese A team promoted to the Chinese Super League, in order to continue to maintain the pattern of the league of 18 teams; if there are two or more than two clubs can not meet the standard, the league has a high probability of being reduced to 16 teams. From the CFA's current work deployment and time nodes, the new season of the Chinese Super League "start in mid to late April" and "home and away matches system fully restored" is basically a foregone conclusion.
