On May 30, Live Alert revealed that the organizers will cover most of the expenses for the 18 top Chinese Super League teams in the first phase of the tournament.
The new Chinese Super League season will officially kick off this Friday. According to Beijing Youth Daily, observing the assembly of the teams, they are tacitly cutting the cost of participation. In order to assist the teams to tide over the difficulties, the CFA, the Preparatory Group of the Chinese Football Association and the cities where the tournament zones are located have given substantial financial assistance to the teams. Once the teams are stationed in the tournament area, all expenses, including food, accommodation, training, matches, epidemic prevention and security, are fully covered by the tournament organizers.
Beiqing further disclosed that the Super League districts are able to accommodate the accommodation needs of up to 50 people per team, and the team will be allocated 40 rooms (including three meals), and all members must be in a closed environment during the game, which means that the team's full complement of food, lodging, training, and matches will be centralized in the closed districts. In addition, the team will be required to undergo the necessary epidemiological testing, and the disinfection of the playing area environment will be carried out in strict accordance with the regulations.
In terms of training configurations, each of the 18 Super League teams will be provided with an individual training ground, chosen in order of last season's ranking. Each team will be able to use the training venue for three hours per day free of charge, and will have to pay for any additional time required. The hotel's conference room is also open to all teams, with advance booking required before use.
Although there are subtle differences in the standards of the three tournament zones of Dalian, Meizhou and Haikou, the average daily cost per person for a team to be stationed in a tournament zone may be as high as 1,000 yuan, and the total expenditure may touch 36 million yuan, when considered together. Although these costs will be deducted from the organizer's participation fee, bearing the team's expenses in the tournament zone in advance will undoubtedly greatly reduce the club's financial pressure, concludes Beiqing.
