Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club announces withdrawal from Chinese Super League
If the supplementary team Dalian is the "first pick", if the supplementary team is not supplemented, there will be a team bye in each round
Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club publicly announced on the morning of May 24 that it would withdraw from the Chinese Super League and stop operating the team. The upcoming new season of the Chinese Super League will inevitably face schedule adjustments.
official farewell
and stop running the team
On the morning of the 24th, Jiang Zhe and Chen Jie, two Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team players, sent a message to say goodbye to the team through social platforms, and their sentimental tone conveyed some kind of "ominous signal".
In fact, the two players, together with their former teammates and colleagues, have confirmed the dissolution of the club.
Before they left, club staff had been removing personal items from the office in recent days.
In other words, before the official announcement, the club had already predicted the final result.
After the news of Liangjiang Athletic's first-team players' collective strike came out on May 16, the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football Federation preparatory team had already realized the seriousness of the situation.
On the evening of May 23, the preparatory team of the Chinese Football Federation released a poster for the start of the new season of the Chinese Super League through official channels.
However, apart from the start date, the slogan of the competition, and the selection results of the three competition areas that have long become old news, there is no other content in the poster information.
An important reason why the organizers of the event have been slow to announce the schedule and specific matches of the Chinese Super League is the crisis faced by Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club.
On the morning of May 24, Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Football Club issued an announcement through official channels, announcing that it would withdraw from the Chinese Super League and stop operating the team.
According to the announcement, since 1997, the club has represented Chongqing in China's top professional football league and has become a sports card for Chongqing.
At the end of 2016, Dangdai Group invested 540 million yuan to take over the club. Over the past six years, it has invested more than 3 billion yuan and achieved the best record in the history of the Chinese Super League.
However, due to factors such as the epidemic, the club is now heavily in debt and is unable to maintain the club’s operations.
The announcement stated that since the beginning of 2021, Dangdai Group has discussed shareholding reform with relevant government departments many times, in order to allow the club to continue.
However, due to changes in objective conditions, the shareholding reform was not carried out as scheduled, the club’s debts continued to accumulate, accounts were frozen, and employees’ lives were extremely difficult.
After careful study by the club's shareholders meeting, it was finally decided to withdraw from the Chinese Professional Football League and dissolve the team.
Regarding the arrangements after the club has ceased operations, the club stated that it will continue to raise funds through subsequent litigation recovery, debt collection, asset sales, and group borrowings to gradually pay off wages as much as possible.
prudent choice
Whether to supplement a team to advance to the Super League
The announcement of the results of the official announcement means that the organizers of the event must make adjustments to the original Chinese Super League competition plan.
In other words, after the Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team withdraws, the organizer needs to make a prudent decision whether or not to replace a team to advance to the Super League so as to ensure the participation scale of the 18 teams.
It is reported that the organizers of the competition had considered not to make up before this, that is, according to the Chongqing team's established rounds of competition, the results were calculated as "0-3 losses".
This is because the admission and participation confirmation work for professional leagues at all levels has come to an end. Now that there are only less than two weeks before the start of the competition, there will be many troublesome problems involved in temporarily supplementing teams to enter the Super League.
For example, teams that have obtained access and qualifications for different levels of leagues implement the pre-season personnel reserve work in accordance with different policies of the leagues at all levels.
The Chinese Super League and Chinese League One have different foreign aid policies. The Chinese League Two currently does not allow foreign aid to appear.
It should be noted that if it is confirmed that no supplements will be made, only 17 teams will participate in the Chinese Super League in the new season.
Although the Chongqing team was sentenced to be lost in all scheduled games, but each round has a team bye, which may objectively affect fair competition.
For example, if the team in the last round of byes happens to be involved in competitions such as winning the championship, competing for AFC Champions League tickets, and relegation, it is doubtful whether the team that has a competitive relationship with it will benefit from it.
The Beijing Youth Daily reporter learned that the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football Federation preparatory team urgently "meeted" to discuss countermeasures after receiving the confirmation information.
It is understood that due to factors such as maintaining fair competition in the league, the Chinese Football Association and the "preparatory team" do not rule out the possibility of urgently supplementing a team to join the Chinese Super League in the new season and a team to join the Chinese League in the new season.
If this plan is finally launched, according to the method of professional league clubs, the Dalian people who were originally included in the new season's China League One team, and the Shanghai Jiading Huilong team in the new season's China League two are expected to compete in the relevant leagues." The first-place team" status will be supplemented to the participating camps of the Chinese Super League and Chinese League One in the new season.
Of course, if the replacement is confirmed, the adjustment content that the event organizer needs to make will be more complicated.
For example, if the Dalian team can enter the Super League as a substitute, will they stay in Dalian to participate in the Chinese Super League as the host team of the division?
At present, the Chinese Super League and Chinese League One clubs are ready to enter the established competition area according to the organizer's notice. Affected by the epidemic, some teams have to enter the competition area in advance.
Then, after the adjustment of individual participating teams and grouping results, the relevant teams will also face other joint problems.
It is reported that after the disbandment of Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team, the Chinese Football Association is likely to temporarily open a transfer window for the team's players.
And if the "replenishment plan" is passed, then the supplementary team also has the possibility of supplementing signings as needed.
Objectively speaking, both opinions have certain reasonableness.
As of noon on May 24, the organizers of the event have not made a final choice on "supplement or not".
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Zhang Wailong: Handwritten letter to say goodbye to Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team
After Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club announced its withdrawal from the Chinese Super League and stopped running the team, the team's Korean coach Zhang Wailong emotionally issued a personal handwritten letter, saying goodbye to his team and at the same time expressing his gratitude to all those who persevered in the club.
Zhang Wailong said in the letter (translated in Chinese), "First of all, in 2020, 2021 and up to this year's disbandment notice, our players, staff and all members of the team have experienced many difficulties together, especially the basic living expenses. There are no guarantees, and the waiters in the restaurant, the stewards of the stadium, the people who do the laundry, who have dedicated their lives to help the team, have my heart in it, and I thank you.”
In the letter, Zhang Wailong hoped that the Chongqing team could continue the spirit of "one team, one family" demonstrated through football.
At the end of the letter, Zhang Wailong "I sincerely thank the Chongqing Municipal Government, Sports Bureau, Contemporary Group, Liangjiang New Area Government and Chongqing fans. I hope everyone can live a healthy and happy life and love football in the future. I also thank you for giving the Chongqing team to the team. The love of the coaches and players.”
Lee Jang-soo: The disbandment of the Chongqing team is distressing
After Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Club officially announced its withdrawal from the Chinese Super League and stopped operating the team, Li Zhangzhu, the South Korean coach who once coached in Chongqing and the current Chinese Super League Shenzhen team coach, said in an interview with the media, "Chongqing football has reached the point where it is not just Chongqing football. The problem is the problem of the whole Chinese football."
Li Zhangzhu said: "I feel very sad that the team is disbanding now. I have strong feelings for the city of Chongqing, and if I can help, I will be obliged. For a municipality as big as Chongqing, if the outside world can give With more care and support from the club, the current situation will definitely not be the case.” He admitted: “In the end, it is definitely not just a problem of Chongqing football, it can only be said to be some problems of Chinese football as a whole. I hope Chongqing football will make a comeback soon. "
Li Zhangzhu, who coached in Chongqing from 1998 to 2001, led his team to win the FA Cup in 2000, which is the only national championship the Chongqing professional team has won so far.
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When the 26-year-old Chongqing football stopped
The opening day of the new season of the Chinese Super League is getting closer and closer, and the long-awaited 2022 season is about to kick off. The 26-year-old professional football in Chongqing has stopped abruptly.
"After careful study by the club's shareholders meeting, we regretfully decided to withdraw from the Chinese Professional Football League and disband the team." May 24, 2022, is destined to be the darkest moment in the history of Chongqing football.
26 years of ups and downs have made Chongqing football an important part of the Chinese professional football landscape. Although it has few impressive records, it once carried the banner of western professional football.
However, due to the impact of the epidemic and the development model of the entire football industry, Chongqing football is heavily indebted, and it was ultimately difficult to maintain it when it was supposed to pack up and set off for the new season.
The share reform could not be carried out as scheduled, the flame of professional football in Chongqing was extinguished, and Chongqing fans spontaneously went to the club to say goodbye, sighing and crying.
The share reform has been the top priority of the reform of the Chinese Super League clubs in the past period. Some have successfully gone ashore to tide over the difficulties, some are still struggling on the shore and their future is uncertain, while some have completely sunk and bid farewell to the rivers and lakes.
Debt-laden clubs are not an exception in the Chinese Football Professional League. The Chinese Super League has had teams withdraw for three consecutive years. First, Tianjin Tianhai, which once used gold and yuan to make a storm, and then Jiangsu Suning, which was disbanded after winning the championship, is now 26 years old. The old-fashioned team Chongqing team.
The team has changed its name, the club has changed its equity, but it cannot change the dilemma and unbearableness of Chinese football and the professional league.
Today, the Chinese Super League teams have begun to enter each division one after another, but this does not mean that each team has properly solved their own problems.
Today, the Chongqing team, how many teams have almost become like?
How many teams may encounter tomorrow?
For Chinese football, these are not alarmist.
When the development cannot keep up with the times, when the level is far behind, Chinese football cannot always be accustomed to talking about feelings and utopians. Real problems should always be borne and solved by someone.
This group of texts / reporter Xiao Xun Wang Fan