Subsequently, Wuhan Changjiang FC insisted on participating in the 2022 season. He was twice penalized by the CFL with a nine-point deduction due to salary arrears. In the end, he finished 16th with 19 points from 8 wins, 4 draws, and 22 losses in 34 matches.In the second half of the league, Wuhan was essentially in a free-flowing state. After several rounds of consecutive losses, the team's morale and desire to survive have dropped to freezing point, long unlike the Wuhan team that beat Shanghai Port 1-0 in three straight games earlier this season.
With Li Tie, former coach of the Wuhan Yangtze team, under investigation for alleged serious offenses, the Furniture music department is in an even bigger whirlwind. In addition to Li Tie, many executives in the music department and staff members of Li Tie's coaching team are reportedly currently out of contact. Once the issues are finally confirmed, Wuhan Changjiang will likely be relegated again, even if it intends to continue to participate in the disciplinary proceedings of the CFA and CFA. In addition, the music department still has the issue of unpaid wages for "coaches and some of the players they deal with, foreign aiders, and individual players who violate team discipline" to deal with, in which case disbandment may be the inevitable choice for the "one hundred".
Several clubs face collapse
It's not surprising that Wuhan Changjiang disbanded. The scary thing is that for the professional league, this could be just the beginning. Hebei was also unlucky enough to be relegated last season, and are probably not in as good a position as Wuhan Changjiang at the moment. All the big coaches and players have left the team. Last season, they relied entirely on the support of their young army. In the middle of the league, the players released an open letter demanding their salaries, saying they had been owed by the club for three years, but received no response from the club. The Hebei players then pulled up a banner in front of the league's live cameras and demanded their wages from HHFG. The club announced on November 5 that if "the number of players meets the requirements for registration in the Chinese Super League, the club will continue to support", "otherwise they will respect the wishes of the majority of players and withdraw from the Chinese Super League". Hebei finally managed to complete the season, but the club was only a hair's breadth away from finally disbanding.
After the end of the season, Hebei team has been in a state of vacation, next season whether to continue there is no clear statement. But there are rumors that the club executives involved in the "Li Tie" case related to the storm, but has not been further confirmed by the relevant departments.
In addition, the Shenzhen soccer team is also on the verge of "despair". Many of the club's current executives, former executives and players have been taken away by regulators to be investigated for involvement in the "match-fixing" scandal. The club is saddled with huge debts, and the investors themselves are in financial difficulties and have lost interest in continuing to invest in soccer.
The Guangzhou duo is also in a bad situation, Guangzhou was relegated last season, there is no clear statement on whether Evergrande will continue to run the soccer, even if Xu Kayin is willing to continue to run the music department and invest 15 million yuan a year, the team will be difficult to stand in the Chinese First Division. Although Guangzhou City managed to get relegated, no progress has been made in the stock reform work, the state-owned enterprise consortium intends to leave, and no one has asked the team about it, and most of the team's players' contracts expired at the end of last year, and they are currently on a free status. Last season's absolute starter Li Tixiang has signed with Zhejiang.
It is worth noting that Wuhan Changjiang is the fourth Chinese Super League club to disband in the past four seasons. Previously, Tianjin Tianhai, Jiangsu Suning and Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic announced their dissolution. Among them, Tianhai can be called the Super League giants, while Jiangsu is the defending champion of the league this season. It's sad that the Chinese Super League is so cold and warm.
CFL prepares for shrinking league
In response to the existential crisis facing the Chinese Super League, news has emerged that the CFA and CFF are also preparing to downsize the league. As a result, each club will have one year to pay back the salary arrears. As a result, the CFA will no longer be open for clubs to enter the new season, but will strictly enforce the repayment of historical salary arrears and access audits, and will no longer compromise on barely getting 18 teams together to allow individual clubs to enter the Chinese Super League with illnesses. In order to avoid future problems, the CFL has been mentally prepared to reduce the size of the league to 16 clubs.
Previously, the Chinese Super League had been kept to 16 teams.In the 2021 season, the top two teams in the Chinese Super League were directly promoted, while the last two teams in the Chinese Super League and the third and fourth place finishers in the Chinese Super League played a play-off. The winning teams qualified for the 2022 Chinese Super League season, which was officially expanded to 18 teams. However, what no one expected was that with the deterioration of the business environment in the music sector and the decline in the overall standard of the league, the expansion of the Chinese Super League was likely to last only one season, forcing it to "lose weight".
Not only the Chinese Super League, but also the admission criteria of the Chinese League A will be further tightened.2022 Chinese League A is chaotic, and the behavior of individual clubs has caused great damage to the order and healthy development of the league. These clubs may encounter great trouble in the registration access work of the new season. On August 18 last year, the CFA also held a meeting to make high-profile bets on counterfeiting and announced a reporting email address. At that time, the leaders of the CFA also revealed that they had received reports that some of the clubs concerned were involved in gambling.
