The second stage of the Chinese Super League will remain unchanged, and the competition area will remain unchanged.
Guoan is still in the Meizhou Division and will play against the three towns of Wuhan in the next stage
According to the plan, after the first stage of the 2022 Chinese Super League ends on July 12, the second stage will be played from July 21 to August 21.
The Beijing Youth Daily reporter confirmed after verification that this stage of the competition will continue to use the centralized competition system.
The competition will still be held in Meizhou, Haikou and Dalian as originally planned.
In order to ensure the fairness and impartiality of the league law enforcement, on the basis of allocating all the certified referees to the three competition areas, the organizer will arrange some referees according to the importance of some games and the principle of territorial avoidance for referees. Swap between competitions.
In addition, due to weather factors, the kick-off time of some games in the Haikou Division will be postponed appropriately to protect the health and safety of participating players to the greatest extent.
The second stage of the division remains unchanged
No conditions for home and away matches
As of now, the first stage of the new season of the Chinese Super League is over halfway.
The organizers of the tournament have recently started various preparations for the second stage of the league.
Prior to this, some media had speculated that due to certain "conditions" in the Meizhou Division of the first stage of the competition, the event organizer may choose another division to replace the Meizhou Division to host one of the second-stage competitions.
There are even media speculations that Chengdu and Wuhan may "take over" some of the Chinese Super League competitions.
However, the Beijing Youth Daily reporter verified and learned that as of now, the event organizer has no such plan.
In other words, the second stage of the competition will still be held in the three competition areas of Meizhou, Haikou and Dalian as originally planned.
Before the opening of the Chinese Super League this season, the relevant person in charge of the preparatory team of the Chinese Football Federation stated that "resuming the home and away game system of the league" has always been an important goal or direction pursued by the league work, but the premise is that each division must do a good job in epidemic prevention and control. Meet the epidemic prevention and other safety conditions for hosting home games.
At present, the Chinese Super League does not yet have the conditions to resume the home and away format.
Therefore, the second stage of the competition will still use the centralized grouping system of the first stage.
Seed teams are not rotated in the first three stages
Guoan remains in the Meizhou Division
According to the competition rules confirmed in the pre-season, the second stage of the competition will have a larger rotation of the teams' divisions.
In the three groups of the Chinese Super League, the top two teams in each group are seeded teams. The seeded teams do not participate in the rotation of the competition area in the first to third stages, and the rotation will be carried out in the fourth stage.
Meizhou Hakka, as the host team of the Meizhou Division, is placed at No. 1 in the division; Shandong Taishan, as the defending champion, is placed at No. 1 in the Haikou Division; Changchun Yatai, as the fourth place in the 2021 Chinese Super League, is placed at No. 2 in the Haikou Division. The Shanghai Haigang team, as the runner-up of the 2021 Chinese Super League, will take the No. 1 position in the Dalian Division, and the Guangzhou team will be No. 2 in the Dalian Division as the 3rd place in the 2021 Chinese Super League. Teams together become the seed teams in the Meizhou Division. The above 6 teams did not participate in the division rotation in the first three stages of the league.
The regulations also show that among the teams participating in the second stage of each division, there will be no more games between teams in the same division in the first stage.
Affected by factors such as the event broadcast, the organizers have not yet finalized the specific arrangement and timetable for each round of the second stage.
Some referees in the next stage
Appropriately switch between competitions
The other competition arrangements for the second stage of the Chinese Super League are basically the same as the first stage.
It is worth noting that during the second stage, the organizers of the competition will still appropriately exchange some referees in the competition area, the purpose of which is to ensure the fairness and impartiality of the league law enforcement work.
For example, the referee who enforces the first-round confrontation between the two teams will in principle not call the two teams in the second-round confrontation.
Referee selection must strictly implement the principle of territorial avoidance.
In addition, since the new season of China League One will be held at the same time, the new season of China League Two will kick off on July 2, and there is a high demand for referees at all levels of league.
At present, due to the impact of the epidemic, some referees (part-timers) are still unable to ask their units for leave to go to the competition area for a long time to enforce the law.
These factors objectively create difficulties for the selection of league referees.
It is understood that the international referee Fu Ming has recently returned to China, and he expects to return to the law enforcement stage as soon as the first stage of the Super League ends.
Text/Reporter Xiao Xun