A few days ago, the Chinese Football Association held a three-level league general manager meeting. The meeting mainly determined two adjustments. The first goal is that the Super League will continue to use the competition system next season. The second adjustment is to determine the expansion to 18 teams in the 2022 season. In order to make this adjustment go ahead smoothly, the Chinese Football Association deliberately made extensive changes to the Super League’s relegation rules. The relegation quota for the Super League next season is 0.5+0.5. Simply put, there will be no teams directly relegated to the Super League next season. The last two of the Chinese Super League will play a play-off match with the third and fourth place in the Chinese Super League, and the winner will appear in the Super League in the 2022 season.
In this case, the 2022 Super League team will expand to 18. Once the news came out, it caused a lot of heated discussions among TEDA and Jianye fans. First of all, TEDA and Jianye fans believe that the team's relegation will be basically stable next season. The two teams, in accordance with the regulations of the Chinese Football Association, will do even if they do not win a game in the next season. Then just finish his work and play the play-offs with the Chinese A team, and then he can stay in the Super League. TEDA fans should be familiar with this script, because the team executed it perfectly last season. At that time, the Chinese Football Association reduced the schedule and adjusted the competition system to a competition system in order to ensure that the league did not appear in the new year. The most concentrated embodiment of the game system is the Super League in the second stage.
Because the second stage of the Super League relegation uses a two-round elimination system, it means that some relegation professionals can successfully complete the relegation task ahead of schedule as long as they play these two games. So when this game system came out, fans and the media began to calculate extreme situations. The extreme situation that everyone has calculated is that there is a team that does not win a game in the first stage of the Super League. Then in the second stage of the Super League, win a game, you can complete the relegation task ahead of schedule. Everyone originally thought that the probability of this kind of thing happening was very low. Certainly there would be no team in the Super League that played so badly in the first stage of the league, and then in the second stage the Super League would suddenly rebound and win a game to relegation.
As a result, in the most extreme situation mentioned above last season, TEDA failed to win a game in the first stage of the Chinese Super League and was regarded as a favorite for relegation early. TEDA seems to have become a backwater, but in the second stage of the Chinese Super League, it suddenly burst into super combat effectiveness. TEDA faced a strong deep foot and won the team cleanly with two goals, laying a solid foundation for relegation after winning a game. For this reason, many fans have expressed dissatisfaction, believing that TEDA is taking advantage of the Football Association. TEDA fans believe that the competition system is fair to the relegation team. Shenzhen Football Team did not play well in the two rounds of the knockout rounds because of their poor performance. Why should they complain about the competition system.
In any case, TEDA is indeed tainted by the special system of the Football Association, otherwise it will be very difficult for the team to relegation in the Super League last season. I originally thought that the Chinese Football Association learned from the two relegation professionals of TEDA and Jianye, and took advantage of the lessons of relegation in the game system. Next season, it will be more cautious when designing the game system. However, in order to achieve the goal of expanding the Chinese Super League, the Chinese Football Association directly cancelled the quota for relegation in the Super League, and instead allowed the last two teams in the Super League to play the play-offs with the third and fourth in the League. According to the strength of TEDA and Jianye, the play-offs with China A will be won next season. Therefore, TEDA and Jianye fans can sleep comfortably in advance, and no longer have to relegation for the team next season insomnia.
