According to the Beijing Youth Daily news, the 23rd came the good news, the Chinese Football Association and the Chinese Football League preparatory group submitted the 2022 season of the Chinese Super League, the first league start program has been approved by the sports management department. However, in view of the complexity of the epidemic prevention and control, the opening program also needs the health sector and higher-level departments "green light" to be officially implemented. According to the program, the new season of the Chinese Super League, China A League will be June 3 in Haikou, June 8 in Dalian opened the war. At present, the Chinese Super League and Chinese A League teams are arriving at their respective competition areas, while the tournament organizers have also started preparations for the opening activities.
Haikou Wuheyuan Stadium as the third city of the Chinese Super League, the layout of the new season of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese A League has been determined. To this end, the CFA and CFL submitted the program for the start of the new season of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese League A (final draft) to the sports management department for approval on May 16th.
The Beijing Youth Daily reporter revealed that the "start plan" has been approved by the sports management department. However, due to the difficult task of epidemic prevention, the start plan can only be implemented after obtaining the consent of the health department and higher-level departments. From the situation reflected by the tournament organizers, they and the relevant departments have done a lot of preparatory work in advance, and in-depth exchanges, so the plan is full of confidence in the eventual adoption.
According to the opening program submitted, the new season of the Chinese Super League will open on June 3 and end in mid-November. The matches will be played in three divisions, Dalian, Haikou and Meizhou, and the opening ceremony of the Chinese Super League will be held on the evening of June 3 at the Wuyuanhe Stadium in Haikou. The opening match will be played between defending champion Shandong Taishan and another team in the same group.
The new season of the Central League is scheduled to open on June 8 and is expected to end in late November. The matches will be played within the three divisions of Dalian, Nanjing and Tangshan. This means that Dalian will become a dual-region city for the new season of the Chinese Super League and the Chinese First Division. The opening ceremony is planned to be held in the Dalian region. The opening match will be played between Dalian and another team in the same division.
It has been reported that other teams from the Chinese Super League are also expected to arrive at the tournament area in the near future (arriving on the 29th at the latest). The tournament organizers have reminded clubs not to arrange for their teams or members to travel to medium to high-risk areas in the country in the near future to avoid inconvenience to the teams in the tournament area.
It is worth mentioning that the "opening program" is based on the premise that 18 teams will participate in the new Chinese Super League season. However, the Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic Team recently refused to train due to long-term salary arrears. As of noon on May 23, the situation had not yet turned around. For this reason, the CFA competition department and the preparatory team on the one hand closely monitor the team's dynamics, on the other hand, began to make a plan for the possible withdrawal or dissolution of the situation. From the current situation, once the two rivers Athletic team to determine the new season is not in the Chinese Super League, the organizers will not arrange for other teams to replace. Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic will be awarded a "0-3 loss" in each of their matches in the new season, and the team will also automatically occupy a relegation spot. Of course, both the tournament organizers and the members of the club hope that the team can overcome the difficulties and participate in the tournament.
With Chongqing Liangjiang Athletic out of the picture, it is not yet clear which team will face Taishan in the opening match. However, the preparations for the opening event of the new season of the Chinese Super League have been quietly started. It is reported that the opening event will be held on June 3 evening. Affected by the epidemic, the opening event will be held briefly, the length will not exceed half an hour.
