The report pointed out that our national team is only one step away from the Asian Zone 12, and with it the route adjustment of the Chinese Super League. This adjustment is not simply for the national team to sacrifice the league, but based on China's current anti-epidemic policy, comprehensively safeguard the structure and fairness of the league. 40 strong four matches transferred to West Asia has proved that anti-epidemic is always the first priority, the isolation policy can not be discounted.
The Preparatory Group of the Working League has the responsibility to protect the league, and based on the process of the last revision of the schedule, this time the adjustment may also be determined through the deliberation and vote of the Super League clubs' group meeting. Before collecting final opinions from the clubs, the Preparatory Group will publicize the adjustment plan and the pros and cons to the clubs, fully listen to the opinions and claims, and then vote.
Adjustments to the schedule are inevitable.
How will the rest of the 2021 season play out? How to adjust? Adjustment focus on what to consider? The answer is, defense first, national team second, league third.
There is no doubt about the prevention of epidemics, but must the national team be placed ahead of the league? This approach has always been controversial. In fact, this year, whether the league to make way for the national team, there is no utilitarianism of the so-called sacrifice, there are two objective factors can not be avoided: First, the national team into the 12, in September, October, November have two world tournaments, if there is no epidemic does not need to do quarantine, the league does not need to make major adjustments, just in accordance with the rules of the World Federation of Association Football, according to the World Competition Day arrangements for the national players The only thing to do is to arrange the international players in accordance with the WFA rules and according to the world competition days.
However, the problem is that, with the current epidemic and the established national policy of epidemic prevention, the quarantine time must be counted, so if you want the league to go on as normal, unless all the international players withdraw from the league. This would be unfair to the teams with the largest number of international players contributing to the league; secondly, taking a step back, even if a few teams with large numbers of international players agreed to allow the league to continue as normal in the event that the international players withdrew from the league, the quality of the league, as well as the fairness of the league, would be compromised. Guangzhou, Beijing Guoan and Shandong Taishan and other big international teams are unable to send the strongest troops to play in the case, the league also lost its real meaning of existence, not to participate in the league for the international players is also unfair. Therefore, the combination of these two considerations, as long as the national team into the 12 strong, it is certainly necessary to avoid the three months from September to November to organize the league, the league schedule for the 12 strong or perhaps accurately for the epidemic prevention requirements to make way for the inevitable result.
In terms of specific scheduling, there are also world tournaments in January and March of the following year, so that really leaves only the end of July, the whole month of August, December and February of the following year for the league to organize matches. So should we organize tournaments across years? That doesn't seem very feasible right now either. It would be good enough to ensure that the first 14 rounds of the first phase are played before the league restarts at the end of August when the national teams will be concentrated again, and the schedule is already quite intensive. Then if the remaining 16 rounds of matches are organized in December and the following February to ensure that the 30 rounds of this year's league system, there will be problems again - February 2022 to experience our country's New Year, there is also the domestic world transfer window, the contracts of many players are signed according to the year, involving domestic players may be able to coordinate, then if it involves foreign players, it may be possible to coordinate. The problem is that the contracts of many players are signed on an annual basis, and those involving domestic players may be coordinated. This may bring difficulties to many clubs in coordinating contracts and relegation issues.
Assuming that the vast majority of clubs are happy to overcome this set of difficulties and insist on a full 30 rounds, I believe the league will make a unified organization. This now seems unlikely, and it would be more feasible to compress the schedule to 22 rounds.
Race adjustments are preplanned and inconclusive
This newspaper learned from the Guangzhou area, now Guangzhou area is not on the next stage of the Super League tournament organization and the work of the Union preparatory group for formal exchanges, in fact, for the current Guangzhou, the epidemic prevention work is the top priority, and the national team's next competition organization has not been the final results of the Super League when to start are still inconclusive.
Guangzhou epidemic prevention and control is acceptable for the next phase of the Chinese Super League tournament, have not been evaluated systematically, so it is accurate to say that the first phase of the Chinese Super League the rest of the tournament will change the district, at least up to now there is no definite news.
However, from a normal tournament management point of view, the preparatory team for the working league on its part has to be prepared for both, meaning that it has to look for a city that can take over once Guangzhou can't sustainably take on the rest of the tournament.
At the beginning of the year when the selection of the Chinese Super League, the original shortlisted also have Dalian District, and Dalian District for the continuation of the hosting competition is also very proactive, because the beginning of this year's program league kicked off in March, so that Dalian because of climatic reasons is not as good as Guangzhou is more suitable, coupled with the Guangzhou has two Super League team, and the Shenzhen team spacing is relatively close to the tournament operations and attendance considerations, and ultimately selected the Guangzhou. Dalian eventually hosted the Central League competition.
Assuming that the rest of the tournament Guangzhou can not continue to host, Dalian is still the first choice, but this will inevitably affect the already there to confirm a good competition schedule of the Central League team, so the adjustment is not fair, as well as the Dalian tournament is happy to make such adjustments, are unknown.
Without this adjustment, a new search for a third location would have to be made, and from the climate in July and August, it is clear that the event would be better suited in a northern city. But this search, as well as the expedition, is still going forward.
What is certain is that all nine rounds remaining in the first phase will surely be played before the national team plays the Round of 12 in September.
There's more to the points method.
Assuming the schedule is compressed, how will the champions as well as the relegation spots be decided? Will the top four finishers of the two groups be placed in the Championship Group and the bottom four finishers of the two groups be placed in the Relegation Group like last year, with the results reset to zero, and a knockout system used to determine the champions and the relegation places? The answer is no. This year it has been confirmed that total points will be counted, meaning that the points from the first stage will be carried over to the second stage and then added to the points from the second stage to finally confirm the champion and relegated teams. However, there are some uncertainties here that are still under discussion: whether the results of the two phases will be fully added up for the overall ranking, or only the total points of the two groups will be added up for their respective rankings, and it seems that the second ranking method is now more likely.
The reason for this is that if the sum of the points of the two phases is used for the total ranking, once a team realizes that it can't enter the top four, or that the opponents it encounters after entering the top four are too strong, it might as well choose to enter the fifth place to face the middle and lower ranked teams, so that it can get more points in the second phase, and once a strong team has fallen into the relegation group, the team entering the title contention group can be surpassed by the difference in the total number of points added together. In order to prevent such a problem, it is very likely that only two groups will be ranked separately, with the first place in the championship group being the winner; the last two in the relegation group and the third and fourth place in the Central League PK. that is to say, even if the total number of points in the two phases of the total points added up, the first place in the relegation group has a higher total number of points than the last place in the championship group, this will not affect the overall rankings. In this way, the points of the first stage is very important. And the start of the world transfer window on July 1 is just the right opportunity to make up for some of the teams that didn't complete their reinforcements at the beginning of the season. The final points and ranking methodology should be finalized after the fixtures are confirmed.
