Chinese soccer is in the doldrums, with news of professional league teams breaking up constantly. What does Guangzhou soccer, which once had both Guangzhou and Canton Chinese Super League teams, look like now? A brief summary:Evergrande stayed on fire in the Central League, Guangzhou City went up in smoke, and a new billion dollar club was born.
Evergrande left a fire in the first division.
As the most successful club in Chinese professional soccer, Guangzhou Evergrande carries a lot, especially after the name change to "Guangzhou Team", which represents the continuation of the orthodoxy of southern Guangdong soccer.
Unfortunately, Evergrande also made a 180-degree turn from a "landlord club" to a "low-cost operation" due to the financial collapse of its parent company. The team's key players, including many internationals, largely left the team - Wei Shihao and others stayed on the condition that the team let them leave freely at the end of the season, leaving only a class of new players promoted from the Evergrande Soccer School to represent the team in the Chinese Super League.
Such a lineup, the combat effectiveness can be imagined, and ultimately the Guangzhou team relegated, in the Premier League after the withdrawal of existing teams, but also did not "fill" return.
In fact, it was not known whether Guangzhou team could stay in the Central League due to its poor financial situation. In the end, the Shenzhen team returned 20 million yuan to allow Guangzhou to solve the problem of operating funds and not to be disbanded.
Evergrande or Guangzhou's fire continues in the Central League. But this season is alive and well, what about next season?What happens to Guangzhou when the 20 million dollars runs out?
Canton City is dissolved:
Guangzhou was relegated, but they are still "alive"; but Guangzhou in the same city is not so lucky: they were relegated last season, but there is no name of Guangzhou in the new season's admission list announced by the Football Association. The Guangzhou City team was disbanded.
Guangzhou City, or Guangzhou R&F, was actually formerly known as Shenyang Jinde. After several moves, he came to Guangzhou and put down roots here. He once wanted to play the "local card" of Guangzhou to attract local fans and compete with Evergrande, which has a huge national fan base.
In the past two years, the local sports department in Guangzhou has been trying to introduce local enterprises to "blood" or "take over" the two Chinese Super League teams in Guangzhou. Unfortunately, no progress has been made. In the end, Guangzhou could not wait for this day.
A few days before Guangzhou City disbanded, their head coach Li Weifeng said in an interview that the team still insisted on training and that he hoped the team would stay so that everyone would have a ball to play.
Now that Guangzhou is officially dissolved, Li Weifeng has become the biggest misfortune: in 2019, he temporarily coached Tianjin Tianhai, which was dissolved; in 2022, he temporarily coached Guangzhou, which managed to be relegated, but could not escape the fate of dissolution.
