On April 8, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) unveiled the intensive schedule for the new Chinese Super League (CSL) season. According to today's sports disclosure, this year's Chinese Super League schedule is more compact than in the past, and the hot summer tournament has a particularly significant impact on team performance.
The schedule of the new season of the Chinese Super League, the length of time to shrink, from the opening game on April 15 to the closing game on November 4, the entire season lasted less than seven months only. It is worth noting that the Chinese Super League six times a week double game mechanism, especially in mid-July before as many as five times, which not only meets the national team training needs, but also for the AFC Champions League system across the year to pave the way for reform.
In just 24 days from June 23 to July 17, teams will experience five rounds of the Chinese Super League plus a round of the Football Association Cup, averaging one match every four days. The fixture list reveals that 12 rounds of league matches will be played over a two-month period from the end of June to the end of August. Winning or losing the summer fixtures will have a direct impact on the teams' overall performance during the season.
