The winter in the ancient city is very cold, especially for Shaanxi professional football. On December 28, reporters learned from Shaanxi Changan Athletic that despite the club’s best efforts, the Northwest Wolves still have not been able to solve the problem of unpaid wages. The deadline is approaching, where will the Northwest Wolves, who have already been penalized before, go?
Shaanxi Football Team was fined for unpaid wages
On December 21, the Chinese Football Association issued the "Notice of the Chinese Football Association on Doing All-out Implementation of Policies Related to the Professional League in the 2022 Season". The notice requires: "All professional football teams Football clubs should settle all historical wage arrears before December 31, 2022. The authorized person of each professional football club to resolve the arrears of wages shall submit the latest repayment voucher to the contact person of this notice before January 6, 2023. The Chinese Football Association will carefully review the relevant materials submitted by each professional football club for the 2022 season settlement history. The total back wages (arrears for the 2021 season and previous seasons) are divided into three time nodes: the first node is July 31. Each club must settle 30% of the historical back wages. Chinese Super League Wuhan Yangtze and Hebei, and Chinese Second Division Hunan Xiangtao The three clubs have been deducted 3 leagues for not meeting the standards. Points; the second node is October 31, when each club has to settle 70% of its historical salary arrears. Eight clubs including Shanghai Shenhua, Wuhan Yangtze and Hebei in the Chinese Super League, as well as Shaanxi Changan Athletic, Sichuan Jiuniu, Heilongjiang Bingcheng, Zibo Cuju and Jiangbei Gate in the Chinese League One did not meet the standards and were deducted 6 league points; the third node is December 31. Although 6 points were deducted, the Chang'an Athletic soldiers persevered under the difficult situation and finished fifth in the Chinese League One, still creating the best record in history.
Northwest Wolves are at the point of life and death
December 31st is not only the third time point to resolve historical wage arrears (wage arrears for the 2021 season and previous seasons) in the 2022 season, but also the first life-or-death hurdle for admission to the 2023 season. There will also be an admission review for the 2023 season. The key content of the review will be whether there is wage arrears for the 2022 season. Shaanxi Changan Athletic Club officials also confirmed: In accordance with relevant requirements, the club should resolve all historical salary arrears in 2021 and before by December 31, 2022, otherwise it will be punished by penalty points or relegation; the club should resolve all historical salary arrears in 2022 and before by January 31, 2023, otherwise it will be punished by disqualification.
Due to various reasons, Shaanxi Changan Athletic's home field income and sponsor equity returns have decreased sharply in the past three years. The club has fallen into serious economic difficulties. A more severe punishment than penalty points is to be relegated or even disbanded. Officials of the Chang'an Athletic Club said: "All the members of the Shaanxi Chang'an Athletic team remained united, overcame various difficulties, and successfully completed all league games in the 2022 season despite not being paid for 11 months. In the end, the Chang'an Athletic men's football team achieved the best result of fifth place since the team was founded. After being promoted to the Women's Super League, the Chang'an Athletic Women's Football Team successfully avoided relegation three rounds in advance. Although the club has gone all out, it is still extremely difficult to finance. It has now reached a critical moment of life and death. If it cannot solve the problem of wage arrears, it will face disbandment. "
share reform became a life-saving straw
In order to solve the problem of shortage of funds, Shaanxi Changan Athletic Club launched a self-rescue and took many measures, including opening a Changan Athletic live broadcast account to bring goods online, designing and building the Changan Athletic membership system, and signing a strategic cooperation agreement with Alipay and other forms, hoping to maintain the normal operation of the club. However, these business models can only be regarded as a drop in the bucket for the survival and development of the team. Judging from the current situation, the shareholding reform is still a life-saving straw for Northwest Wolf.
In fact, as early as September 9, 2021, Shaanxi Provincial Water Group officially held a press conference with Shaanxi Changan Athletics, disclosing to the public the news that the two parties had reached an equity strategic cooperation. At the press conference, the Provincial Water Affairs Group also made it clear that it would fully fulfill its responsibilities as an investor and strongly support the growth and development of Changan Athletic. However, due to personnel changes in the group, the club's shareholding reform work stalled.
In the 2023 season, the Chinese Professional Football League will recover, and it has become the general trend to resume home and away games. With home games, the Shaanxi Super Platinum Football Market will generate greater commercial value, business sponsorship income will increase significantly, and various incomes from home games will also rise steadily. If Changan Athletic can complete the reform of shares , it will fully realize its self-production capabilities in 2023 and be responsible for its own profits and losses. , the club's top executive said: "We are working hard to promote the shareholding reform and hope that more companies will help Shaanxi professional football. We will also use healthy and stable development to repay the support from all walks of life in Shaanxi."
Xi'an News All-Media Reporter Wang Rui/Text Chief Reporter Wang Jian/Picture
Editor: Yiqing
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