The Chinese Super League returns home and away plans to open in mid-April
The club access working time is from February 10th to March 20th
The 2023 Professional League Club Heads Meeting and the China Super League, China A, and China B Club CEOs Summit were held at the Xianghe National Team Training Base on the morning of February 7.
At the meeting, the preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation informed the clubs that the new season of the Chinese Super League is planned to open in mid-April, the new season of the Chinese League A is planned to open in mid-to-late April, and the Chinese League B is scheduled to open from mid-to-late April to early May. .
The club admission working hours are from February 10th to March 20th, and the admission system will be closed on March 3rd.
the league
Completed the admission work on March 20
The preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation also notified the revision and supplement of the third-level professional league access regulations for the new season.
Specific to the Chinese Super League, the team formation system of each club has been adjusted from the previous "one first team, one reserve team, consisting of U19, U17, U15, U14, U13 five-level echelons" to "one first team, one reserve team, There are six echelons of U21, U19, U17, U15, U14, and U13", that is to say, the original reserve team is canceled (only involving the Chinese Super League and Chinese Premier League clubs that originally set up the reserve team), and the U21 team will replace it.
China A and China B have five and four echelons respectively.
The regulations also supplemented that clubs are allowed to cooperate with local schools to jointly build club U15, U14, and U13 echelons.
According to the plan, after the event organizers communicate with the club on-site about the adjustment of the admission regulations, they will officially release the "2023 Chinese Football Association Professional Club Admission Regulations" on the 10th.
According to the regulations, clubs at all levels must complete the admission training on February 13, and the clubs officially submit the admission materials.
On February 20, the results of the preliminary review of the first batch of clubs paid (all arrears) will be announced for a period of 7 days.
March 3 is the deadline for clubs to submit admission materials.
The admission work will be completed on March 20, and the event organizer will announce the admission list.
It should be noted that, in addition to repaying wage arrears, the club must also pay all arrears of disciplinary fines before completing the admission procedures.
business
The title sponsor of the Chinese Super League remains unchanged
On February 7, Liu Jun, deputy head of the preparatory team of the Chinese Football Federation and chairman of the Chinese Super League, announced at the meeting that, as one of the most important business partners of the Chinese Super League in the past nine seasons, Ping An of China has continued to name the title for the 2023 season. The Chinese Super League and the Chinese Super League have reached a consensus that the single-season title cooperation fee will be 100 million yuan.
This is also a great consolation for the Chinese Super League and various Chinese Super League clubs that have experienced three consecutive difficult seasons.
The business situation of the league is also one of the important contents reported by the preparatory team of the Chinese Football Federation during the Xianghe meeting.
Liu Jun informed the Chinese Super League clubs that in the 2022 season, after excluding operating costs, the disposable income of the Chinese Super League is about 150 million yuan, which means that the average participation fee (commonly known as dividends outside) for each club in the current season is about 800 million yuan. About ten thousand yuan.
Although this amount has decreased compared with previous years, it is not easy for clubs to obtain "dividends" under the background that the league and clubs have encountered continuous management and operational difficulties in the past few seasons.
It is understood that after the second cooperation period between Ping An and China Super League expired at the end of last season, the two parties conducted in-depth communication on continuing cooperation and finally reached a consensus.
Liu Jun also confirmed to the club that China Ping An will continue to title the Chinese Super League in the 2023 season.
Statistics show that in February 2014, China Ping An officially began to name the Chinese Super League. The first naming cooperation period is 4 years, and the cumulative naming fee is 600 million yuan.
Since then, the Chinese Super League and China Ping An have renewed the contract for the latter to continue to name the Chinese Super League for 5 seasons, and the total cost of naming cooperation is 1 billion yuan.
It should be said that the second renewal of the contract between the two parties is undoubtedly good news for the league.
However, Liu Jun also frankly stated to the club representatives that due to objective factors, the amount of league sponsorship fees for the 2023 season may be reduced.
Of course, as the league returns to normal, the business development prospects of the Chinese Super League will most likely improve.
policy
Football Association abolishes U23 preferential policy
In addition, Guo Bingyan, head of the competition department of the Chinese Football Federation's preparatory group, informed the clubs of the specific content of the policy plans for professional leagues at all levels in the new season.
Compared with the 2022 season, the overall policy of the league in the new season has not changed much.
One of the more prominent changes is that the club's U23 local player policy has been cancelled, replaced by the adjusted U21 local player registration and playing methods.
Since the Chinese Super League and Chinese League One clubs will add U21 teams to replace the original reserve teams in the new season, the U21 League will be further improved and developed in the 2023 season on the basis of the successful holding of the 2022 season.
At the Xianghe meeting held on the morning of the 7th, the preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation notified the clubs of the adjustments and supplements of various league policy plans and access regulations for the new season.
The notification made it clear that the 2023 season club naturalized player registration, the number of player registrations in a single game, the registration and playing of foreign players, the number of substitutes and substitutions in a single game are all consistent with the previous season.
In the new season, the introduction of ordinary local players to professional leagues at all levels will continue to be unlimited.
The more prominent adjustments mainly involve the "U21 player" policy, which specifically covers the club's U21 echelon system and the U21 local player registration policy.
According to the plan launched by the preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation, in the new season, the Chinese Super League, Chinese A, and Chinese B clubs should all have U21 echelons. ).
Corresponding adjustments are also the details of the club's local youth player registration and playing requirements.
Specifically, the club’s U23 local player policy was abolished, and the number of U21 local players registered by each club in the Chinese Super League and Chinese League One in a single season increased from at least 3 last season to at least 5.
Among them, China A and China B clubs must ensure that a U21 player is always on the field in each league game, while the Chinese Super League clubs do not require U21 players to participate.
Judging from the content of policy adjustments, the discovery and training of players in the U21 age group has become one of the important goals of professional leagues at all levels in the new season.
An important background for this change is the successful holding of the U21 League of the Chinese Football Association in the 2022 season.
The establishment of the U21 echelon, on the surface, has the meaning of "reversing" the club to strengthen the excavation and training of players in the U21 age group, but from the unprecedented reuse of U21 players in professional leagues and cups last season and the various operational difficulties faced in recent years Looking at it, professional clubs at all levels also have the conditions to set up and improve the U21 echelon system.
Text/Reporter Xiao Nan
Coordinator/Durui
Beijing Youth Daily