The Chinese Super League, China A, China B match clouds and changes, frequent exposure of unpaid scandals, the investor parent company in debt, the slow progress of the club in the share reform ......2021 season, undoubtedly become the turning point of the National Football League professional league, the league fall may leave the different degrees of trauma at all levels of the league.
In the face of this challenge, the CFA has initiated a plan to maintain communication with many local soccer associations in the near future, aiming to quickly grasp the participation of teams in the Chinese B and Chinese Championships, and to prepare for this year's replacement teams at all levels of the league.
The year of 2020 can be called the year with the most exits of clubs in the professional league of national soccer. More than twenty teams have announced their exit from soccer, including Tianjin Tianhai of the Chinese Super League, Guangdong South China Tigers of the Central League, Liaozhu, Sichuan FC and Shanghai Shenxin. Nine clubs in the Chinese B League quit, and eight clubs in the Chinese Champions League also announced their withdrawal.
Jiangsu Suning failed to escape the winter after winning the Chinese Super League title, announcing its withdrawal from the national soccer team before the start of the 2021 season, triggering a chain reaction. Clubs such as Taizhou Yuanda, Beijing Renhe and Hohhot in the Central League have also bid farewell to domestic soccer. More teams withdrew, leading to a waiting list from the Central Championship to Central B that went all the way down to Dandong Hantong and Meixian Qixiang.
At the beginning of the 2021 season, despite the three tiers of the league struggling to come together, the crisis remains. After the start of the Chinese Super League, Chinese First Division and Chinese Second Division, the operation of many clubs was not optimistic. Real estate developer-invested teams, represented by the Guangzhou team, were in a survival dilemma due to the impact of the parent company's operational crisis. The Guangzhou team has been dealing with big contracts starting with its manager Cannavaro, and the high salary contracts in the past have become an obstacle to share reform and custody. The city of Guangzhou has been inquiring whether the Guangzhou team can finish the league season, but has yet to receive a clear answer.
Guangzhou's problems are the most prominent, but there are many other teams in the Chinese Super League that face risks to their survival. Even where local governments have committed to share reform, they face slow progress. The inability of the parent company and the slow progress of the share reform has led to unpaid wages becoming the norm. in September, three more clubs received a penalty order from the CFA banning the registration of new players. according to incomplete statistics, at least four clubs in the Chinese Super League are restricted from attracting reinforcements because of unpaid wages, and some clubs have even been penalized more than once, which is a clear indication of the severity of the situation in the current Chinese Super League.
The situation of large-scale salary arrears has also appeared in China A clubs, and there are even clubs booked for bankruptcy and liquidation at the end of the year. It is understood that due to the downturn of the Chinese Super League and Chinese A clubs, many Chinese B clubs have even received hundreds of letters of application from players, and many outstanding young players who have played in the national youth and national junior teams cannot find a foothold in Chinese B either.
By Wang Wei and Cheng Shan
