Moving into April 16th, the smoke of the weekend has yet to dissipate as the 2024 China Taiping Chinese Football Association Women's Super League has completed its third round of competition. News from the Xinhua News Agency pointed out that industry insiders generally believe that even in the period after the Paris Olympics, the overall quality of the Women's Super League is still steadily rising, the competition between teams is getting more and more intense, and the support of the fans has become a force to be reckoned with, even though the road to professionalization still needs to be further improved.
Liu Huana, the head coach of the Shaanxi team and a former international soccer star, told the media after the match, "Observing the first three rounds of the tournament, a number of teams, including ours, have shown significant progress, with the players' individual abilities and teamwork improving, and the tempo of the game being faster than in previous years. Every team in the Women's Super League has introduced new faces, both foreign and domestic, and this year's matches are really worth looking forward to."
Beijing's head coach Yu Yun also shared his views, "The spectacle of the game has undoubtedly been enhanced, which is most directly reflected in the relative balance of the strength of the teams, the competitive attitude of going all out, and the fierce competition. I think the level of the league has been significantly improved, which plays a positive role in developing talents and national team building."
In order to promote the healthy development of women's soccer clubs and the continuous progress of the Women's Super League, the CFA, after listening to the opinions of member associations and clubs, has decided to implement the financial agreement indicators for women's Super League clubs in the 2024-2026 season, including the "investment cap" for clubs and the "salary cap" policy for players. The "salary cap" policy. From this year onwards, the total annual expenditure of clubs will be capped at $30 million. It is reported that this standard is a big challenge for some small clubs in previous years, and clubs with larger investment also face adjustments under the new policy this season.
Although this season's Women's Super League has improved in terms of spectacle, compared with the men's Chinese Super League, there is still a considerable gap for further improvement in terms of turf quality, game fluency, confrontation intensity, broadcasting effect, commercial development, promotion of the fan base and career exploration.
The industry generally believes that in the women's football in the "no war to play" in the trough period, to encourage the strength of the players to overseas high-level league exercise, and at the same time to improve the women's premier league technical and tactical level, facilities, game operation and ornamental, to attract more fans, so that young players in the women's premier league in the growth of the development of China's women's football, is the key.
Liu Huana emphasized that under the guidance of the FA's new policy, all parties should strive to improve the level of the highest competition platform for women's football in the country, and gradually enhance the league's confrontational ability and the ability to switch between attack and defense, which is emphasized in modern soccer. "Despite fewer opportunities to compete in recent years, I firmly believe that Chinese women's soccer has the potential to rise again."
