On April 16, the 2024 China Taiping Chinese Football Association Women's Super League concluded its third round of matches this past weekend. According to Xinhua News Agency, many insiders said about the current situation of Chinese women's football that the quality of the Women's Super League has improved during the low period of the Paris Olympics, teams compete fiercely, and there is value for fans to never give up, but there is still room for improvement in terms of professionalization.
Shaanxi head coach and former international player Liu Huana told reporters after the match: "From these (first three rounds) matches, including several matches between our team and other teams, I think the players' ability and overall conversion have improved, and the pace of the game is also faster than last year. "Every team in the Women's Super League has brought in personnel. Apart from the foreigners, the internal players have also improved. I think this year's Women's Super League has been a good one."
Beijing head coach Yu Yun has similar feelings. He told reporters:Â "The quality of the matches has definitely improved because the most obvious thing is that the teams are relatively even in strength and then go all out and compete. I think the real level of the league has improved, which is a positive boost for our talent and national team building."
In order to promote the healthy and sustainable development of women's soccer clubs and the Women's Super League, the CFA has studied and widely solicited the opinions of relevant member associations and women's soccer clubs, and decided to release the financial agreement indicators for women's Super League clubs in the 2024-2026 season, including the "investment cap" for clubs and the "salary cap" policy for athletes. The "salary cap" policy will be implemented on a trial basis from this year. According to the new policy, the club's total expenditure for a single financial year shall not exceed 30 million yuan. It is understood that this standard was difficult for some small clubs to meet in previous years. However, some relatively large investment clubs have to have to have to change after the new policy and reduction in this season.
Compared with the men's Chinese Super League, which has improved its spectacle this season, the Women's Super League can't compare with it in all aspects. In the first three rounds, the Women's Super League is still deficient in terms of turf quality, game fluency, rhythm and confrontation intensity, broadcasting effect, commercial development, fan base promotion, and career exploration, and there is still a lot of room for improvement.
Industry insiders generally believe that in the Chinese women's football "no game can play" the trough period, support the strength of international players to high-level overseas leagues for exercise, while improving the technical and tactical content of the Women's Super League, venue facilities, game operations and ornamental, to attract more fans to watch the game, so that the young players in the Women's Super League to grow up, should be the development idea of Chinese women's soccer.
Liu Huana said that under the FA's new policy, all parties should strive to improve the competition platform with the highest level of women's soccer in the country, and gradually improve the league's ability to fight against the league and the ability to switch between attack and defense emphasized in modern soccer. "Although we may not have participated in so many competitions in the past few years, I believe Chinese women's soccer can rise again."
