On March 12, 2022, a grand National Football Association National Women's Football Championship opened at the training base in Haixi, Kunming. The championship brought together 19 teams from all over the country, including 10 Women's Super League teams and 9 Women's First League teams, and even the U17 Women's National Team, which was set up to cultivate the echelon of the women's national team.
After the group draw, the last champion Changchun Jiuyin loaned women's soccer team was placed in Group D; while last season's Women's Super League champion and runner-up Wuhan Chegu Jiangda and Jiangsu Wuxi women's soccer team were placed in Group B. In the same group, there are also the Women's Super League team, Sichuan women's soccer team, and the first time to succeed in the Super League, Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic; while Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank women's soccer team and Beijing women's soccer team, the two traditional strongest teams, were placed in Group C.
(Group stage drop chart presentation)
The tournament lasted 14 days and was divided into two phases according to the regulations. The first stage began on March 12, 14 and 16 with a single round robin tournament, in which 19 teams were divided into five groups, and eventually the first place finishers of the five groups and the three second place finishers with the best results, a total of eight teams, would advance to the second stage of the qualifying round of 1-8th place. The fourth place of the group with the worst result will be eliminated, and the remaining eight teams will participate in the 9-16 qualifying matches in the second stage. The second stage of the tournament will be a knockout system, with the 1-8 and 9-16 teams playing separate cross-elimination matches to determine all the rankings. In the event of a 90-minute draw in the second phase of the tournament, it will go straight to penalty kicks. The second stage will follow the single elimination system of quarterfinals, semifinals and finals to determine all the rankings.
Battle reports from the first round are below:
The standings after the first round are as follows:
On March 14, the second round of the group stage will begin, the U17 Women's National Team will face Zhejiang Hangzhou Women's Football Team, the last Women's Super League Champion Wuhan Chegu Jiangda will face the runner-up Jiangsu Wuxi Women's Football Team, the defending champion Changchun Jiuyin Rentals will meet Tianjin Shengde Women's Football Team, and Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank Women's Football Team, which was blanked in the first round, will face Henan Jianye Women's Football Team. The Chinese women's soccer team will broadcast some of the matches live from the second round of the group stage through online platforms such as Weibo, Today's Headlines, Shutterbugs and WeChat Video.
In order to thoroughly implement the deployment of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council, the State General Administration of Sports on the prevention and control of new crown pneumonia, to ensure that there will not be a single positive case in the 2022 National Women's Soccer Championship of the National Soccer Association, to strive for the healthy and orderly conduct of the tournament, and to strive to achieve the overall goal of fairness and impartiality in running the tournament, the tournament will continue to adopt the form of a fully closed tournament system, and the organizers have signed an epidemic prevention agreement with the clubs and all the participating staff. The organizer has signed an epidemic prevention agreement with each club and all participants, and formulated strict epidemic prevention guidelines and control measures, and all participants will be tested for nucleic acid regularly before and during the tournament.
Let's look forward to the girls' performance in this 2022 Women's Football Championship!
