In the midst of intense preparations for the 2021 NFF Cup Finals, the National Football Association (NFA) held its 11th Second General Meeting of Members in Chengdu yesterday. The meeting had a rich agenda, including the consideration of the NFA's annual work report, review of the 2019 and 2020 financial reports, adjustments to the Executive Committee members, new members joining, establishment of branches, guidelines for assessment of member associations, and other key issues.
Since 2019, when the National Football Association (NFA) held its 11th First Members' Congress, the NFA has not held a second congress due to the epidemic. The meeting in Chengdu was an all-round sorting out and deep reflection on the past two years of the NFA. Chen Xuyuan, President of the NFA, released the annual work report of the NFA at the meeting, which comprehensively summarized the work of the NFA in the past two years and briefly planned the work priorities for the 2022 season. In this report, the National Football Association of soccer reform and development of the overall program for nearly seven years of implementation of the effectiveness of an in-depth analysis, put forward two "far from" point of view - the development of the current situation of the national football and the people's expectations are far from the overall level of the national football and the world-class level is also far from The overall level of national soccer is also far from the world-class level. Specifically, the performance of the men's and women's national football teams has not met the expectations; the level of professional leagues has declined; there is a big gap between the number of registered young soccer players and the level of competition and the international advanced level; the integration of sports and education is facing a lot of practical problems to be solved; it is difficult to meet the demand for soccer development in the increase in the number of coaches and referees and there is a big gap between them and the world's advanced level; the overall soccer industry, including the association's lack of self-development ability The overall football industry, including the association's ability for self-development, is insufficient. In the face of 2022, the National Football Association not only to ensure the completion of the remaining four rounds of the 12 rounds of the tournament, the Women's Asian Cup, Hangzhou Asian Games and other important events, and more importantly, to "save" the troubled professional league. At present, most Chinese professional soccer clubs are facing pressure to survive. Promote club equity diversification reform "share reform" has become the Chinese professional soccer life-saving straw. However, the current situation of share reform is not optimistic. The National Football Association (NFA) promised the representatives of the clubs at the meeting that it would issue a unified guideline for the share reform as soon as possible, and revealed the idea of the new season of the professional league: First, the strict implementation of salary limit policy, the annual investment of the first team is limited to 300 million yuan; Secondly, the home and away system will be restored with full force, and each place will decide independently whether to allow fans to enter the stadium; Third, all players are required to re-sign work contracts with the new clubs that have completed the share reform; Fourth, professional clubs with U17 and U19 ladder teams can meet the qualifications for admission, and are no longer mandatorily required to bear the operational pressure of owning ladder teams in multiple age groups, and youth training below U17 will be handed over to social forces, local football associations and campus soccer to solve in phases and at different levels.
