Original title: The new season of the Chinese Super League will start in early May and strive to end before the World Cup starts
Article source: Beijing Youth Daily
This week, the Chinese Football Association successively organized competition supervision and referees who participated in the work of professional leagues at all levels in the new season to receive online training and assessment, indicating that the preparations for the start of the leagues at all levels in the new season have been further improved. According to the latest communication from the Chinese Football Association and the preparatory group of the Chinese Football Federation, the new season of the Chinese Super League will start from May 7 to 9 at the earliest. Affected by the epidemic, the selection work for the competition area has not been fully implemented, but in order to ensure that the full-season competition “doesn’t cross the New Year” and at the same time take into account the “6 rounds of the FA Cup main competition (a total of 32 teams participating)”, the event organizer may be the Chinese Super League. In the first stage, the two groups of matches are arranged in the same competition area, so that the Chinese Super League can start as soon as possible.
This Thursday, the candidates for the supervising team of the Chinese Super League, Chinese League One, Chinese League Two, Chinese Champions League and FA Cup in the new season participated in the online business training organized by the Chinese Football Association as required and accepted the online assessment. Almost at the same time, the referee department of the association sent a notice to the local member associations, requiring all referees (including assistant referees) and referees who have entered the referee work of the Chinese Super League, Chinese League One and Chinese League Two in the new season to supervise the referee on April 24. Receive pre-season online training from March to 28. It can be seen that the preparations for the start of the professional leagues at all levels in the new season are in full swing. By convention, competition supervision, referee supervision, and referees will be assigned to each competition area according to the competition period and schedule after they have accepted and passed the business assessment. Due to the impact of the epidemic in the new season, the leagues at all levels will continue to use the competition system, so these personnel must arrive in the competition area about 4 days to 1 week before the start of the game.
Some referees and competition supervisors who participated in the training revealed to the Beijing Youth Daily reporter that as of April 23, they had not received a specific league (law enforcement) task assignment notice. This is because so far the start dates of the new season of the Chinese Super League, the Chinese League and the league have not yet been finalized due to the impact of the epidemic. Judging from the recent communication between the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football Federation’s preparatory team, they are striving to open the new season of the Chinese Super League as soon as possible between May 7 and 9. As for the start date of the Chinese League One in the new season, it is customary to be one week later than the start date of the Chinese Super League, and the start date of the Chinese League Two will be about a month later than the start of the Chinese Super League.
In fact, there are two main reasons for the delay in the start of the Chinese Super League. First, there are at least 3 divisions required for the first stage of the league, and 2 have not yet been finalized. Up to now, the Meizhou Division has basically agreed to host one of the first stages of the Chinese Super League. As for the other two groups of competitions, the organizers tend to arrange the competitions in Dalian and Kunming respectively. At present, the Dalian Division is still implementing relevant procedures for this matter. Affected by the recent domestic epidemic, Kunming City is still uncertain whether it can undertake Chinese Super League matches. If Kunming or other alternative competition area cities cannot host, the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football Federation preparatory group will not rule out the possibility of holding the remaining two groups of competitions in one place if there is no other choice. If Dalian finally agrees to take over, then the two groups of events may be held there. Of course, during the weekend, the organizers of the event are still intensifying communication with the relevant alternative divisions to strive for relatively ideal results.
As the selection results of the competition area and the start date have not yet been determined, the specific competition schedule for the new season of the Chinese Super League cannot be finalized. However, the principles for the specific arrangement of work have been generally finalized. For example, in principle, the new season of the Chinese Super League will not be played on New Year’s Eve, and strive to finish before the start of the World Cup in Qatar. The full-season competition is divided into 4 stages, and a period of not less than two weeks is planned to be reserved between each two stages for each team to adjust and implement the transfer work between the competitions. In addition, so far, there is no clear statement on when the two Chinese Super League teams from Shanghai can leave Shanghai and whether they can enter the competition area as scheduled. In this case, the organizer of the competition needs to reserve sufficient game days for the possible postponement of the competition between the two teams during the league break.
It is understood that the 2022 FA Cup competition will be held in 6 rounds as planned (all 18 Chinese Super League teams will participate in the main competition), and no professional league matches will be arranged during the Hangzhou Asian Games football match, so it will be reserved for the new season of the Chinese Super League. The time to play 34 rounds is very limited. However, in order to ensure the quality of the league and avoid too many injuries caused by the over-intensity of the league. In principle, the organizers of the event will strive to control the interval between each two rounds of the Chinese Super League to an average of more than 72 hours. Due to the limited selection of competition areas, the frequency of use of alternative venues in each competition area will also be high. Therefore, it is not realistic to start 3 games on the same day in each competition area of the Chinese Super League. Each round may be arranged in two close to each other. During the match days, one match will be arranged on one match day and two matches will be arranged on the other match day.
Considering the actual difficulties faced by the preparations for professional leagues at all levels in the near future, no matter how well-planned the plans are often unable to keep up with the speed of change. Whether the Chinese Super League can start in early May as the organizers wished depends on the actual situation.Return to Sohu, see more
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