At the beginning of 2025, one of the most anticipated events in Chinese football is undoubtedly the entry of various teams. Currently, Guangzhou Team, which ranked third in last season's China League One, is still not optimistic about their situation. Previously, several former Guangzhou Team players, including Wei Shihao, Yang Liyu, and Yan Dinghao, raised doubts after the Football Association issued a proposed entry list. So far, these players still have contract disputes with Guangzhou Team, simply put, Guangzhou Team currently owes them money.
In fact, this part of the athletes at that time misunderstood the intention of the Football Association. The Football Association only drafted an entry list at that time, which did not mean that these teams could definitely participate in next year's Chinese professional football league. It was just to give the athletes and teams a buffer period. Objections can be raised after the announcement of this list. As expected, including Guangzhou Team, many teams were reported to have received appeals from players, who had not paid off their debts. Subsequently, Guangzhou Team even conducted live streaming sales online, hoping to raise more funds for the club to complete the entry and clear the salaries owed to these players.
At the same time, Guangzhou fans are also very concerned about the current substitute qualifications in the Chinese Super League because it is still unclear how many teams in the Chinese Super League and China League One cannot complete the entry and will be forced to disband, giving up how many places. These are also very important for Guangzhou Team. Once Guangzhou Team can complete the entry, they will be the third in line for the Chinese Super League substitutes, ahead of them are Meizhou Hakka and Nantong Zhiyun. Perhaps Guangzhou Team may appear in next year's Chinese Super League. Last year, Guangzhou Team performed well in the China League One. Everyone hopes that Guangzhou, a city that once became popular because of football, can once again have a top-level professional league team in China. However, for Guangzhou Team at present, they still need to survive first.
However, there is already a good news for Guangzhou Team's entry. Many media have exposed that after multi-party consultations, some of the players who filed complaints against Guangzhou Team have withdrawn their lawsuits. To a certain extent, this can accelerate the process of Guangzhou Team completing the entry, which is a good news. However, there are also reports that the Football Association is still skeptical about Guangzhou Team's completion of the entry. Even if these players withdraw their lawsuits, the Football Association will still worry that Guangzhou Team's debt problems will still explode in the future, and it is unpredictable when these players will appeal again, affecting the progress of the league.
Speaking of this, many Guangzhou fans are very angry. After all, after the Football Association introduced the regulation fee, the team that paid the most was Guangzhou Team at that time. If these regulation fees could be returned in full according to the regulations, it would be enough for the team to survive for several years based on Guangzhou's current operating scale. But this part of the regulation fee has long been squandered by the previous leaders of the Football Association and those officials who were imprisoned. It is basically impossible to expect the current Football Association to return these conditions fees to Guangzhou Team, which is highly unlikely to happen.
In fact, not only Guangzhou fans, but also Beijing fans and Shandong fans do not need to worry about the regulation fee anymore, as this money has already gone down the drain. At present, the team wants to get rid of financial problems, they can only rely on themselves, as well as support from all sectors of society, local governments, and enterprises. In the future, we not only hope that Guangzhou Team can overcome this difficulty, but also hope that other clubs with similar problems can overcome this difficulty.