On the morning of January 3, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) officially promulgated the Interim Measures for the Management of Naming of Professional Clubs and Teams of the Chinese Football Association (CFA). Accordingly, clubs in the new Chinese Super League season will have seven foreign player registration quotas, and will be able to field up to five foreign players in actual matches.
This foreign aid quota increase is not sudden, since the end of October last year since the change of the Football Association, the new chairman Song Kai has revealed the intention to adjust the foreign aid policy. Observing the performance of Chinese Super League teams in the AFC Champions League this season, the problem of "insufficient foreign aid strength and poor performance" is still exposed. Against this backdrop, there have been repeated calls for the liberalization of the foreign aid quota. At the same time, the industry management and many clubs generally believe that increasing the number of foreign aid quota is conducive to optimizing the internal competition of the team to achieve the survival of the fittest.
In the new season, the league has made detailed adjustments to the foreign aid quota: Super League teams can register seven foreign aiders, with a maximum of five per game, and the actual number of players is limited to five; while Central League teams can register four foreign aiders, with a maximum of three per game, and the actual number of players shall not be more than three. It is worth mentioning that there is no longer a cap on the number of domestic players that can be imported into the Chinese Super League, Chinese First Division and Chinese Second Division clubs.
The first transfer window of the new season will kick off on January 4th and run until February 28th.
