With the arrival of Beijing time on March 29, after the strict screening and review by the Football Association and the working league, the list of teams for the new season's three levels of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese First League and the Chinese Second League was finally unveiled. Unsurprisingly, the last Super League champion Jiangsu, as well as Taizhou Yuanda, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou, Beijing Renhe and six other teams bid farewell to the professional league stage. The Tianjin Jinmen Tigers, once rumored to be exiting the stage, unexpectedly passed the entry threshold, while the previous Chinese A League runner-up Zhejiang team had no chance to fill the vacancy in the Chinese Super League. In view of the withdrawal of several teams in the Central League A and B, a number of teams in the Chinese Champions League have thus qualified for replacement.
The Chinese Super League will remain at 16 teams for the new season. As Jiangsu team failed to pass the admission, last season's relegated Cangzhou Lions were able to return to the Super League by replacement. The biggest surprise in this list is the resurrection of Tianjin Jinmen Tigers. TEDA Group executives had made it clear that they would not continue to operate the team, but recently it was reported that Tianjin is trying to find a new sponsor to preserve the bloodline of Tianjin soccer. Tianjin soccer star Yu Genwei may be the head coach of Tianjin next season. The exact method by which Tianjin Jinmen Tigers will pass the access is not yet known.
Due to the expansion of the Chinese Super League to 18 teams next season, the relegation quota of this season's Chinese Super League has also been adjusted to "0.5+0.5", which reduces the relegation pressure on the teams compared to the past, and perhaps also indicates that the young players will be given more opportunities to play.
After the announcement of the list, the grouping of the new season of the Chinese Super League is also gradually clear. According to last year's "serpentine arrangement" grouping rules, the Dalian People's Team will be in the same group with Beijing Guoan, Shanghai Harbor, Shanghai Shenhua, Hebei, Guangzhou City, Wuhan and Changchun Yatai.
The new season of the Central League has seen a major change in the number of teams participating in the league compared to last season. In addition to the announcement of the dissolution of Taizhou Yuanda, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou and Beijing Renhe also failed to pass the admission, not in the new season of the League. Wuhan Sanzhen and Zibo Cuju, the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Central B League, as well as Beijing Renhe, which was relegated from the Central A League, were supposed to return to the Central A League along with Xinjiang Tianshan Xuebao, but Beijing Renhe failed to pass the admission process, allowing Nanjing City and Beijing Institute of Technology, the third and fourth-place finishers of the previous season's Central B League, to gain qualification for the new season's Central A League.
With the upcoming expansion of the Chinese Super League, the promotion and relegation rules of the Chinese First League have also been adjusted. In addition to the regular top two super, the league's third and fourth will be the last two with the Super League for the play-offs, relegation rules are also used with the Super League, the same "0.5 + 0.5" quota.
Super League champions fail to "come back from the dead"
The Chinese Super League will remain at 16 teams for the new season. As Jiangsu team failed to pass the admission, last season's relegated Cangzhou Lions were able to return to the Super League by replacement. The biggest surprise in this list is the resurrection of Tianjin Jinmen Tigers. TEDA Group executives had made it clear that they would not continue to operate the team, but recently it was reported that Tianjin is trying to find a new sponsor to preserve the bloodline of Tianjin soccer. Tianjin soccer star Yu Genwei may be the head coach of Tianjin next season. The exact method by which Tianjin Jinmen Tigers will pass the access is not yet known.
Due to the expansion of the Chinese Super League to 18 teams next season, the relegation quota of this season's Chinese Super League has also been adjusted to "0.5+0.5", which reduces the relegation pressure on the teams compared to the past, and perhaps also indicates that the young players will be given more opportunities to play.
With the announcement of the access list, the grouping of the new season of the Chinese Super League is also gradually clear. According to last year's "serpentine arrangement" grouping rules, Dalian People's Team will be divided with Beijing Guoan, Shanghai Harbor, Shanghai Shenhua, Hebei, Guangzhou City, Wuhan and Changchun Yatai.
The new season of the Central League has seen a big change in the number of teams compared to last season. In addition to the announcement of the dissolution of Taizhou Yuanda, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou and Beijing Renhe also failed to pass the admission, not in the new season of the League. Wuhan Sanzhen and Zibo Cuju, the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Central B League, as well as Beijing Renhe, which was relegated from the Central A League, were supposed to return to the Central A League along with Xinjiang Tianshan Xuebao, but Beijing Renhe failed to pass the admission process, allowing Nanjing City and Beijing Institute of Technology, the third and fourth-place finishers of the previous season's Central B League, to gain qualification for the new season's Central A League.
Central League team lineup "big change"
The new season of the Central League has seen a major change in the number of teams participating in the league compared to last season. In addition to the announcement of the dissolution of Taizhou Yuanda, Inner Mongolia Zhongyou and Beijing Renhe also failed to pass the admission, not in the new season of the League. Wuhan Sanzhen and Zibo Cuju, the winners and runners-up of the previous season's Central B League, as well as Beijing Renhe, which was relegated from the Central A League, were supposed to return to the Central A League along with Xinjiang Tianshan Xuebao, but Beijing Renhe failed to pass the admission process, allowing Nanjing City and Beijing Institute of Technology, the third and fourth-place finishers of the previous season's Central B League, to gain qualification for the new season's Central A League.
With the upcoming expansion of the Chinese Super League, the promotion and relegation rules of the Chinese First League have also been adjusted. In addition to the regular top two super, the league's third and fourth will be the last two with the Super League for the play-offs, relegation rules are also used with the Super League, the same "0.5 + 0.5" quota.
Amateur teams pass on to C.B.
There will be 24 teams competing in the new season of the Chinese B League, which now looks a bit sluggish compared to the 32 teams that competed in the heyday of the Chinese B League. It also contains many new faces. Last season's teams, Jiangsu Yancheng Dingli and Shenzhen Pokgang, as well as a number of teams from the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League A, failed to qualify, while last season's Chinese Champions League champions and ninth-place finishers all qualified for the Chinese B League and were able to enter the professional league.
According to the program released by the Football Association, the 2022 season of the Chinese B League will maintain the scale of 24 teams. In terms of promotion rules, the same rule of "the champion and runner-up will play a play-off with the third and fourth place" will be adopted as that of the Central League. In terms of relegation, the final two will be relegated directly, and the bottom three and four will need to play a play-off to determine the qualification for the next season.
