A series of soccer scandals exploded like bombs and shocked the world when the CCTV documentary revealing China's soccer "blackout" operation came to light. Along with the revelation of these shady practices, a number of clubs involved have also surfaced. Fortunately, Hebei Huaxia Happiness and Wuhan Zhuoer, two teams that were deeply involved in match-fixing cases, have already existed in name only; and Shenzhen, a team that Li Tie once purchased and secretly colluded with the soccer federation to operate, is sliding into the abyss of destruction. They all seem to fulfill the old saying that the net of heaven is wide open.
Hebei Huaxia Happiness, as the most infamous team in Chinese soccer in the last decade, according to Li Tie's confession, since he became the head coach in 2015, the club's senior management has taken the initiative to ask him to use his contacts to help the team to get involved in match-fixing, which is undoubtedly the trigger that pushed Li Tie into the abyss. Behind the series of victories achieved by Huaxia Happiness under the leadership of Li Tie, a large number of black secrets of match-fixing are hidden.
After successfully surpassing their rivals, Huaxia Happiness colluded with the Football Association and blatantly broke the rules of the industry by registering players during the non-transfer period without any punishment. What's more, Huaxia Happiness spared no expense to create the highest premium transfer in the history of Chinese soccer, speculating the player's price to the 100 million yuan mark; the signing of the world's top foreign aiders has completely disrupted the order of the transfer of the Chinese Super League. The bad consequences of these behaviors are still affecting Chinese soccer.
Wuhan Zhuoer in Li Tie "sales" fake football, but no intention to refuse, but "gladly accept", all the way beyond the fake football. Subsequently, Li Tie and Wuhan Zhuoer reached a "coalition of interests", to assist Li Tie bribe the head coach of the national football team, and players to the national football team, in an attempt to profit from it. However, due to the uneven distribution of benefits, the relationship between the two sides broke down, leading to the outbreak of the "Li Tie case". Although Wuhan Zall has always been the image of a victim, but in fact it is not the same as Li Tie.
Shenzhen played a dishonorable role in the 2015 First Division match-fixing case that helped Huaxia Happiness overtake. During the Chinese Super League, the club channeled a large amount of monetary benefits to the then head of the Football Association and managed to hack Tianjin Tianhai's qualification for the Chinese Super League to fill the Super League vacancy, involving tens of millions of dollars.
The 2022 Chinese Super League season came to an end with Hebei Huaxia Happiness and Wuhan Zhuoer announcing their disbandment; while Shenzhen is still struggling, it is facing serious internal and external difficulties, and will almost not be able to pass this year's FA admission. The demise of these "black sheep" has undoubtedly been a wake-up call for later teams.
