Dust Settles! FA Official Announcement: 3 Teams Fail to Qualify: 8-time Champion Guangzhou Team + Super League Cangzhou Lions Included
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On January 6th, Beijing time, the Chinese Football Association officially announced the list of clubs qualified for the 2025 season's professional league on its official website.
This list covers the three levels of professional leagues: Super League, China League One, and China League Two, with a total of 52 clubs participating in the qualification review. Among them, 49 clubs successfully obtained the qualification for the new season.
Unfortunately, three clubs, Cangzhou Lions from the Super League, Guangzhou Team from China League One, and Hunan Xiangtan from China League Two, failed to pass the qualification review.
If there is no turnaround in the future, they may disappear from the map of Chinese professional football.
Previously, while announcing the qualification list, the Football Association also made it clear that for clubs that did not obtain qualification due to wage arrears and debts, it will continue to follow up and handle them according to relevant regulations.
This statement has aroused widespread attention from fans and media people.
After all, the problem of wage arrears in clubs has always been a chronic disease in Chinese football, and this statement by the Football Association shows its determination to solve this problem.
After the announcement of the list, Li Xuan, a media person from "Football," analyzed the three clubs that failed to qualify.
Li Xuan pointed out that many clubs that only do accounting but have not really paid wages have entered the qualification list, reflecting some problems and loopholes in the qualification review process.
At the same time, Li Xuan also believes that the reason why Cangzhou Lions, Guangzhou Team, and Hunan Xiangtan failed to pass the qualification is mainly because of long-term wage arrears issues, causing players to lose patience.
In fact, when the Football Association previously announced the second batch of debt-clearing list, these three clubs were all publicly questioned by players on social media platforms.
Due to the large number of players who openly questioned, the Football Association had to respond at one point, which also reflects to a certain extent the seriousness and universality of the wage arrears issue!
After being publicly questioned, Cangzhou Lions once officially responded that the funds to resolve wage arrears have arrived and an agreement has been reached with the players.
And in the past few days, the club was still making its final efforts for qualification. Without receiving a clear response from the Football Association regarding qualification, it raised 60 million yuan to pay back wages owed to players, etc.
Similarly, Guangzhou Team was also rumored to have reached an agreement with players such as Wei Shihao, trying to resolve wage arrears issues to obtain qualification.
Although these clubs made efforts, they ultimately failed to pass the Football Association's qualification review.
According to the Football Association's regulations, the vacancies left by the three clubs that did not obtain qualification for the new season will be filled by other clubs.
Among them, Meizhou Hakka, which was relegated last season, will return to the Super League, while Shenzhen Youth and Shaanxi United, which ranked third and fourth in the China League Two last season, will be promoted to the China League One.
In addition, Xi'an Chongde Ronghai, Quanzhou Yaxin, Changchun Xidu, and other clubs will also be promoted to the China League Two.
The qualification list and subsequent measures announced by the Football Association this time undoubtedly have a profound impact on China's professional football league.
Firstly, it demonstrates the Football Association's determination to standardize league order and resolve wage arrears issues;
Secondly, it also reminds all clubs that they must strictly abide by relevant regulations, otherwise they will face the risk of being expelled from the professional league.
The development of China's professional football league will still face many challenges and tests, but only through continuous standardization and management can we ensure the healthy development and long-term stability of the league.
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