2021 Season
China Super League (soccer league)
The league finally ended hastily.
It was a season that was severely "shrunken" by the elimination of the home-and-away system and the dismantling of the national team's preparations for the World Qualifiers.
Affected by the epidemic and other factors, many clubs are in an operational predicament, which in turn triggered the departure of foreign coaches and high-level foreign aid, many teams suffered a crisis of salary arrears, and the league's level of competition and spectatorship is deteriorating.
China Super League (soccer league)
Attractiveness and brand value continue to sink. China
national soccer team
After entering its 27th year, the professional soccer league has come to a historical fork in the road where its survival is at stake.
为
national soccer team
Make way, league in tatters
2021 season
China Super League (soccer league)
hit the nail on the head
national soccer team
Since the professionalization of the ball,, the first cross-year season. The league began on April 20, 2021 and ran until January 4, 2022. During this period there was a nearly two-month hiatus from May 17 to July 15, 2021; and a nearly four-month suspension from August 15 to December 12, setting a record for the longest suspension of the league ever. Previously for 2018, the
China Super League (soccer league)
Served in Russia
Roth (name)
World Cup
The period was suspended for 58 days.
Shandong celebrates winning the championship
中
national soccer team
The association abandoned the knockout system in the second phase of last season, reducing the originally planned 30-round schedule to 22 rounds. In a full season year, the suspension totaled as many as 176 days, which is quite rare in the world of soccer. And all of this is for the
national soccer team
Impact 2022 Qatar
World Cup
Make way. Along with
national soccer team
World Cup
The dream is basically broken, the league made a huge "sacrifice" can be called a basket case.
China Super League (soccer league)
The most direct consequence of the two suspensions of the league is the lengthening of the battle line, all the teams experienced two "devil" schedule, the players physical and mental are facing great trials. The first "devil" schedule is from July 19 to August 15, 2021, 27 days and 9 matches; the second is from December 12, 2021 to January 4, 2022, 24 days and 8 matches.
The two "devil" schedule, are three days a game rhythm. On the one hand, fatigue testing the depth of the teams' benches, on the other hand, also increased the risk of injury to players, fatigue has become the only footnote under the intensive schedule. Coupled with the wave of foreign aid departures, the league's level of competition and spectatorship is reduced across the board.
Compared to the league for
national soccer team
Make way for three in the face of the AFC Championship, which is about the image of the foreign game
China Super League (soccer league)
Teams Shanghai Harbor, Guangzhou and Beijing
national security
Teams opted to give up: Shanghai Harbor went out in the play-offs, and Guangzhou and Beijing, who played with their reserve teams and ladder teams, were given a chance to win the play-offs.
national security
The team's group stage record was 6 losses, 1 draw and 5 losses respectively, creating the worst record for a Chinese team in the AFC Champions League, directly leading to the 2023 season.
China Super League (soccer league)
The number of AFC Champions League places has been reduced from "3+1" in previous seasons to "2+2" (league champions and
soccer league
(The Cup winners get a place in the main round, with the second and third places in the league playing in the play-offs).
in a difficult business situation.
China Super League (soccer league)
work one's way to the bottom
Early last year, fresh off winning the 2020 season
China Super League (soccer league)
Champion of Jiangsu Suning Club officially announced the dissolution of the first year of the first year of a team active in the league disappeared overnight, the most fundamental reason is the high capital investment "gold dollar soccer" did not get constraints and norms. Since then, a number of clubs into survival difficulties. Under the influence of many factors, such as the impact of the epidemic, many clubs' parent companies are no longer able to provide financial support.
The abolition of the home and away fixture system for the second consecutive season and the introduction of a centralized fixture system, coupled with the implementation of neutral name reforms by clubs as well as salary restrictions and limits on investment, also hit the clubs very hard
China Super League (soccer league)
The image of the league and its brand value have fallen off a cliff. The exodus of famous foreigners has led to the league's attention and appeal not being what it used to be. At the end of the year 2021, the
China Super League (soccer league)
Winter has arrived, but it is unknown whether spring returns will be forthcoming!
With operations in trouble, the
China Super League (soccer league)
The club has frequently erupted into a crisis of unpaid wages. It is reported that the entire
China Super League (soccer league)
As many as 13 teams in the league have salary arrears, and there are still a number of teams in arrears of salaries and bonuses before the start of the second phase. The Hebei team has not been paid for more than a year, the second stage of the transportation costs are staff, players from their own pockets to cobble together, the club has even been unable to pay the electricity bill.
Hebei skipper Kim Jong-woo
Against Shandong Taishan team had as many as 12 starters absent on leave, Hebei team manager Jin Jongfu for the team's second stage of the winless record, can only helplessly said "players too poor". The Qingdao team, which owes wages for 8 months, suffered 11 consecutive defeats in the league, and has long been uninterested in the game.
China Super League (soccer league)
The club is struggling, with unpaid wages triggering a wave of exodus of famous foreigners. Last season
China Super League (soccer league)
After the end, big-name foreign aiders such as Hulk of Shanghai Harbor, Hamsik of Dalian People, Pele of Shandong Taishan and Evra of Wuhan have already left the team. Jiangsu Suning team disbanded, Teixeira, Eder also packed up and left.
By the middle of the league, Beijing
national security
The team's Augusto, Bieira, Bakambu; Shanghai Harbour's Arnautovic; Guangzhou's Paulinho, Talisca and another collective departure. Dembele of Guangzhou City, who failed to return in the second phase, and Guilherme are also likely to leave next season. Nowadays
China Super League (soccer league)
The only big name foreigners left are Oscar, Fellaini and Quintero, few and far between, and the stars are dimming across the league.
Of the naturalized players, Ackerson, Gallagher, Allan and Lo Guofu have returned to Brazil after their release, and with the current climate in the league, their return to the
China Super League (soccer league)
The likelihood of that is slim to none.
Statistically, the season left
China Super League (soccer league)
The number of foreign aiders has reached 29, while the number of foreign aiders introduced is only 16. In addition to the Shenzhen team in the last season finalized Jintro, this season's king of the bidding is the Shandong Taishan team's South Korean foreign aid Sun Junho, the transfer fee is only 4.5 million euros, even less than the
China Super League (soccer league)
A tenth of its peak.In 2016, Shanghai Harbour had a €60 million deal from the
Chelsea
Introducing Oscar, Creating
China Super League (soccer league)
Citation Record.
Van Bronckhorst bids farewell to Canton City team
in olden days
China Super League (soccer league)
The field is full of famous coaches and now the big names are waving their hands away. Before the season, Van Bronckhorst and Guangzhou City terminated their contracts, and Pereira bid farewell to Shanghai Harbor. In the middle of the season, Guangzhou's Cannavaro team chose to leave, Beijing
national security
The team's Bilic is also coming up with
China Super League (soccer league)
Saying goodbye. The departure of a marquee powerhouse heralds a
China Super League (soccer league)
The end of an era.
this season
China Super League (soccer league)
The second stage barely lasted until the final whistle in a sea of low pressure, how will the team's survival be solved in the future? How will the club's shareholding reform be pushed forward?
China Super League (soccer league)
How many of the 16 teams that will be left next season will be able to stay in the
China Super League (soccer league)
? Everything is still up in the air.
As the league cools down, can the locals carry the load?
Against the backdrop of the gradual cooling of the league heat and the departure of a large number of famous coaches and super foreigners, the local coaches in the
China Super League (soccer league)
The stage has been given space to perform. The two consecutive "devil" fixtures tested the depth of each team's bench and youth training system. The large-scale departure of foreign aid, so that the "all Chinese class" has become the norm for the teams to start, so that more local young players to get the opportunity to accumulate experience in the field.
Shandong Taishan won again after 11 years of
China Super League (soccer league)
Champions, Hao Wei became
China Super League (soccer league)
First local coach in 14 years to lead a team to a conference championship in its entirety. In
China Super League (soccer league)
At the end of the prosperity, Shandong Taishan team with internal and external reinforcements of the overall thickness and relatively strong talent reserves to the last laugh.
Hao Wei becomes
China Super League (soccer league)
First local coach in 14 years to lead a team to a full league title
Of the 23 players who played for Shandong Taishan, 17 were homegrown and 11 were contributed by the club's youth system. Of the 21 goals scored by local players, the
Luneng (city in Shandong)
Players from the academy scored 18 goals, including 10 by Guo Tianyu, three by Wu Xinghan, two by Duan Liuyu, and one each by Zheng Zheng, Qi Tianyu and Liu Yang, spanning five age groups from 1989 to 1999.
As the saying goes, the train has to run fast, but it also has to be led by the locomotive. Among the local coaches, the
Changchun Yatai (soccer team)
The team's skipper Chen Yang is the most representative.
Changchun Yatai (soccer team)
The team has become the biggest dark horse in the league as a promoted horse, and Chen Yang has a lot to do with it. He adheres to a low-key and pragmatic style of coaching, holding high the flag of defensive counterattack in the league, unique, but also discerning the introduction of the three major foreign aid Junior, Eric and Okore, so that the team's offensive and defensive strength upgraded a few notches, and ultimately won the seat of the AFC Champions League next season.
In addition, Wuhan's team has been playing with Li Xiaopeng as
national soccer team
After the commander-in-chief.
Li Jinyu (1905-1992), Chinese female revolutionary and martyr
lead the team ahead of schedule
relegate
Yu Genwei leads hometown team Tianjin out of relegation quagmire; Mao Yijun leads the way
Shanghai Shenhua (soccer team)
The team has a smooth transition. However, it is also important to see that local coaches seem to be on the rise this season, but it is more because of the result of the contraction of the league and after the departure of famous coaches.
Guangzhou team in the naturalized players left the team, business difficulties, the club up and down did not disorganize themselves, and in the final stage to show unprecedented cohesion and strong fighting force. And
Evergrande (name)
After nearly 10 years of development, the football school has also trained a number of talents that can be made, emerging new stars such as Ling Jie and Tan Kaiyuan, and there is gradually a tendency to take over.
China Super League (soccer league)
The current downturn has objectively given local coaches and young players the opportunity to come to the fore in full force, heralding the
China Super League (soccer league)
The future team building system of the powers is about to undergo a major change. However, will the local generals be able to hold up the
China Super League (soccer league)
The league must still be a question mark. Any country or region that wants a soccer league to catch fire and raise the level of the league can't afford to be short of financial investment and star play.
Without high level name coaches and foreign aid
China Super League (soccer league)
, the level of competition and the brand value of the league is difficult to protect.
China Super League (soccer league)
After a major change in the development model, can local coaches and local youth players recreate a new fiery
China Super League (soccer league)
League, yet to be tested by time.
