The 2024 Chinese Football Association Super League will hold its opening match on the evening of March 1.

In order to ensure the smooth and orderly operation of the league and reshape a healthy and clean competition environment, the disciplinary inspection and supervision agencies insist on front-line supervision, promote the implementation of main responsibilities, strengthen the use of cases to promote reform and treatment, and strictly investigate and deal with the factors behind the problems of competition style and discipline. Improper practices and corrupt practices.

  The league system is the cornerstone of football development.

The series of corruption cases in the Chinese football field have fully exposed the shortcomings and loopholes in the supervision and management of professional leagues, especially the Chinese Super League.

In this regard, the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission in the State Sports General Administration, while urging the Party Group of the General Administration and the Party Committee of the Chinese Football Association to carry out follow-up rectification work, took the issues of professional league access and game style and discipline as the entry point to further improve the quality of supervision. We will continue to thoroughly investigate corruption issues in the football field at a concrete, precise and normalized level.

  In January this year, in response to the hidden risks of using the professional league promotion and relegation rules to engage in back-room operations and exchange of interests, the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Sports General Administration promptly informed the Chinese Football Association, requiring it to pay close attention, handle it prudently, and prevent problems. Not yet.

The Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team also issued a notice to the General Administration Party Group on this issue, recommending that the General Administration Party Group fulfill its political responsibility as the leader, strengthen supervision of the football industry in all aspects and the whole chain, and resolutely cut off the interest chain of "hunting" and "hunting" in the football field. , eradicate the stubborn problem of recurring football chaos, and completely purify the football soil.

  "The Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team has always attached great importance to football supervision. In 2019, it established a football supervision working group to carry out regular on-site supervision of the Chinese Football Association, detect and deal with emerging and tendentious problems early, and actively play a frontline role. 2020 No. Immediately, Lin Weiguo, the former director of the Youth Department of the Football Center, was discovered and investigated for serious violations of discipline and law. In 2022, Li Tie, the former head coach of the Chinese National Men's Football Team, was used as a breakthrough to lift the lid of systemic corruption in football. Next, we will improve Frequency of visits, from the Football Association building to the green field, all-round and full-chain supervision will be strengthened, especially to urge the Chinese Football Association Party Committee and Discipline Inspection Commission to fulfill the political responsibility of comprehensively and strictly governing the party, strengthen industry rectification and work style construction; promote the General Administration Party Group to optimize the Chinese Football Association Internal governance body, deepen the reform of professional leagues, strive to solve the deep-seated contradictions and systemic problems that restrict the reform and development of Chinese football, and improve the quality and efficiency of football industry governance." The relevant responsible comrades of the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group of the State Sports General Administration said that the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Group will guide The Disciplinary Inspection Commission of the Chinese Football Association, in conjunction with relevant law enforcement agencies, will investigate and deal with outstanding problems such as fraud, match manipulation, and profit transfer in the league, and promptly expose them to the public to ensure clean conduct inside and outside the stadium.

  Taking the game style and discipline as the starting point to promote the reshaping of a healthy and refreshing football league environment is the common responsibility of discipline inspection and supervision agencies at all levels in the sports system.

At the 2024 Chinese Super League pre-match working meeting held recently, the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Chinese Football Association asked all football practitioners to learn lessons from the series of cases that occurred in the football field, continue to consolidate and consolidate the results of education and rectification in the national football field, and resolutely prevent and crack down on "fake gambling blackmail" ".

  "In the new season, we will assist the Chinese Football Association Party Committee to implement its main responsibilities, strengthen the supervision of professional leagues, and strengthen the management of competition style and discipline." Liu Yi, secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Chinese Football Association, said that the Discipline Inspection Commission of the Chinese Football Association will strengthen source prevention, organize employees to receive warning education, and sign contracts Self-discipline commitment letter to enhance awareness of compliance and discipline; increase cooperation with public security organs, local sports management departments, and sports big data companies to improve early warning capabilities for "fake gambling" and other issues; insist on strict investigation and quick handling, and serious investigation and punishment Violations of regulations and disciplines, and a high-pressure attitude is always maintained.

  In terms of preventing and cracking down on "fake gambling", Liu Yi said, for example, it has promoted the Chinese Football Association to improve the referee selection method, establish and improve systems and mechanisms such as referee review disclosure, promotion and relegation, and club appeals, and strengthen supervision and management of the entire process.

The Chinese Football Association is about to set up a league supervision and inspection team. In addition to carrying out competition supervision, it will also dispatch game style and discipline supervisors to the competition areas from time to time to conduct all-round supervision and inspection of the league organization.

In addition, the Chinese Football Association has also established a collaborative investigation and handling mechanism for the issue of "fake gambling" with relevant functional departments, and has released a reporting email address to the public.

  "We welcome all walks of life to supervise the upcoming Chinese Super League and provide us with clues to relevant issues in a timely manner. We hope that under everyone's joint supervision, leagues at all levels can become a more open, fair and just competition platform." Liu Yi told reporters.

(Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and State Supervision Commission website Qu Pengzuo Handi)