China News Service, March 26. On the evening of the 25th, the Chinese Football Association website released the "Chinese Football Professional League Club Complaints Method (Trial)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), which stated that all participating clubs are not allowed to express their complaints about the league in public. Negative evaluation of the referee's work, and public criticism of the league referee's work is not allowed.
Clubs can appeal against penalties
The "Measures" apply to participating club football teams in the Chinese Football Association Super League, First Division League, and Second Division League. "Appeal" refers to the situation and appeal submitted by the participating club football teams to the referee department of the Chinese Football Association after the game if they have different opinions on the referee's key decisions during the game.
If the club has different opinions on the referee's penalty during the game, it should submit a written appeal within 24 hours after the end of the game. Overdue appeal will not be accepted.
The scope of appeal includes:
1. Events that lead to changes in the outcome of the game due to goals/no goals;
2. Mistakes in penalty kicks and missed calls lead to incidents that affect the outcome of the game;
3. Whether the direct red card is correct or not;
4. The target of disciplinary punishment is wrong;
5. Other penalties that affect the outcome of the game or cause significant social impact.
The "Measures" also point out that the result of the appeal will not be used as a basis for changing the referee's on-the-spot penalty decision and the result of the game. All participating clubs are not allowed to express negative comments about the work of league referees in public, nor are they allowed to publicly criticize the work of league referees. All relevant complaint content clubs are not allowed to be released to the outside world. If they need to be released to the outside world, it will be arranged by the Chinese Football Association. Violators will be disqualified from appeal. .
Data map: Photo by Han Haidan at the opening ceremony of the 2023 Chinese Super League
The Football Association takes multiple measures to improve referee work
After the start of the new season, the Chinese Football Association attaches great importance to the identification of controversial penalties in professional leagues and the opinions of clubs on referees' penalties.
Xu Jiren, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, once said that a referee promotion and relegation system will be implemented in the new season. "Based on the performance of the referee's match duties, the focus will be on the assessment of refereeing ability, theory, physical fitness and compliance with referee work disciplines, etc., and the ranking will be determined." Promotion and relegation list, competition for jobs, dynamic promotion and demotion.”
At the same time, the Chinese Football Association has set up a referee "blacklist" system to include referees whose abnormal performance in refereeing has serious consequences and who are suspected of violating regulations and disciplines into the "blacklist". Serious cases will be submitted to relevant departments for joint investigation and dealt with in accordance with laws and regulations.
The Chinese Football Association has also set up an internal reporting platform for the public and the referee community, and strengthened the supervision and supervision of excessive reception of referees and other violations of regulations and disciplines in the competition area, and adopted irregular spot checks and other methods for supervision.
In addition to the construction of the referee management mechanism, the Chinese Football Association will also disclose the results of disputes and penalties to the public. For some major disputes and penalties, the Chinese Football Association has hired authoritative experts from the international refereeing community to participate in evaluation, training and other work.
Data map: Ma Ning leads the Chinese referee team in the Asian Cup final. The picture shows Ma Ning (in blue) during the game.
The referee evaluation work for the new season has started
On March 11, in response to the complaints and opinions submitted by Shanghai Haigang Club and Yunnan Yukun Club, the Chinese Football Association organized the first referee review of this season.
There are three cases in this review. The first one comes from Zhejiang vs. Shanghai Haigang in the second round of the Chinese Super League. In the 10th minute of the game, the Shanghai Haigang team’s penalty kick was canceled; the second and third cases both come from the first round of the Chinese Super League. Foshan Southern Lions vs. Yunnan Yukun, the Foshan team suspected of fouling in their own penalty area, but the referee did not award a penalty. Later, the Foshan team fouled near the line of their own penalty area, and the referee awarded a direct free kick.
In response to the three precedents, the review group of the Chinese Football Association's Disarmament Committee held a video conference and invited personnel from the Discipline Inspection and Supervision Team of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection to the State Sports General Administration and the Discipline Inspection Department of the Chinese Football Association to supervise, and representatives from authoritative media were present to observe. At the meeting, through discussion and analysis of the three cases in this issue, the conclusion of the review was as follows:
Case 1: After VAR intervention, the referee changed the decision that the Shanghai Harbor team committed a foul at the beginning of the offensive phase and canceled the penalty kick. The final penalty on the spot was correct.
Case 2: The defender did not commit a foul and the referee made the correct penalty on the spot.
Case 3: The defender did not commit a foul, there is no possibility of a penalty kick, and the referee is correct in not awarding a penalty kick. However, in this case, it was incorrect for the referee to call the defender a foul on the spot and award a direct free kick. (over)