With the transfer of the 40 group A match to Sharjah, UAE, the reasonable adjustment of the remaining schedule of the Super League has become an urgent problem for the Football Association and the Preparatory Group of the Federation of China's Football Clubs (hereinafter referred to as the "Preparatory Group") to solve. Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter revealed that due to the epidemic and other factors, China's men's football team may not be able to immediately depart for home after the completion of the final game of the 40 strong match and the local time on the evening of June 15 against the Syrian team. The preparatory team has formulated a number of response plans for the remaining matches of the Chinese Super League in order to cope with various emergencies. At present, it seems that the restart of the league may be delayed until late July. As for the location of the tournament, Guangzhou has not yet been ruled out, except for Suzhou, which will continue to host the tournament. However, if the region is unable to continue hosting the league due to force majeure, then Dalian, which successfully hosted last season's Super League, is expected to be the preferred replacement.
The schedule of Group A of the 40-team tournament shows that our team's finale against Syria will kick off at 9:00 p.m. local time on June 15, or 1:00 a.m. Beijing time on June 16th. The earliest return time for the national soccer team on a chartered flight is 16th local time. In fact, the current global epidemic prevention and control situation is grim, our team with the group rivals Maldives, Syria, the Philippines team has been a number of players infected with the new crown, so members of the delegation of the national football team before returning to their home countries may also need to accept the necessary physical examination in the local until the confirmation of health and get "health green code" before boarding the plane. Therefore, the national football team return time may be later than the 16th.
According to China's epidemic prevention regulations, foreign personnel entering the country must undergo a strict medical examination and receive a certain period of medical isolation observation. The Football Association and the preparatory team also need to formulate a plan to deal with the possible impact of this. The original schedule showed that the sixth round of the first phase of the Chinese Super League would kick off on June 21, but in view of the above reasons, the restart of the tournament has been delayed.
Considering that the international players still need some time to recover their bodies and adjust their competitive status after the quarantine, the Chinese Super League may not restart until late July at the earliest. Sources familiar with the matter revealed that "this schedule, although not yet officially confirmed, is also the earliest start time planned after a comprehensive budget." And according to the Beiqing-Beijing headline reporter understands, once the new situation, the possibility of the Chinese Super League further delayed to restart in August can not be ruled out.
In addition to the restart time of the tournament needs to be determined, the location of the game, how the game system is arranged is equally important. It is understood that due to Guangzhou as one of the cities in the Chinese Super League tournament, the recent epidemic, the outside world is worried that the Guangzhou tournament may not be able to continue to host the Chinese Super League matches. The preparatory group is currently paying close attention to the epidemic situation in Guangzhou and the progress of epidemic prevention work, as a last resort, will not easily make the decision to change the location of the game.
Informed sources analyzed that, compared to the schedule confirmation, the game to change the location of the problem is more complex. This is because the hosting of the Chinese Super League this level of competition, not only need to host a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, its game arrangements and coordination capabilities, venues and closed area game, epidemic prevention hardware conditions to meet the high requirements, is also crucial, which is the preparatory group carefully weigh the arrangements for the race area.
Of course, the preparatory team has also made preparations for possible extreme situations. From the current situation, Dalian, which hosted last season's Chinese Super League, meets the requirements for hosting the tournament in all aspects, and therefore has the conditions to become the "first alternative to the Chinese Super League".
As for the match system, considering that our team is striving for the ticket to the 12-team tournament, the preparatory team has not yet made a final decision. Even if the national football team advances, taking into account the schedule of matches and the system of 12 matches has not yet been finalized, the Football Association and the preparatory group can only keep a dynamic attention to all kinds of conditions, and be prepared to improvise. Have to admit that, once the Chinese Super League postponed to late July or even later, then the Chinese Super League schedule was compressed, the system was changed will become a probable event.
