On February 29, the Chinese Football Association held a media briefing in Shanghai. Yang Xu, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, and Xu Jiren introduced the latest progress of the national team, Chinese Super League, youth training, and referees.
The Chinese women’s football team will start selecting coaches in March
The Chinese Football Association revealed that the Chinese women’s football team’s coaching selection will soon start. The preliminary plan is to issue a global recruitment notice in early March, and conduct interviews from mid-March to mid-April to determine the candidates.
In addition, the women's U20 national team is already preparing for the U20 Women's Asian Cup in Uzbekistan, with the goal of entering the U20 Women's World Cup. The women's U17 national team is training in Suzhou, working hard to obtain tickets for the 2024 U17 Women's World Cup.
As for the Chinese men’s football team, with the new national football coach Ivankovic taking office, the team will gather in Shenzhen on March 11 to compete with the Singaporean team in the top 36 of the World Cup in the away game on March 21 and at home on March 26. Two rounds of competition. In addition, Ivankovic will have his own coaching team, and the retention of the Chinese coach is also under consideration; the Football Association and Ivankovic have phased tasks in signing the contract. If it cannot be completed, the Football Association has the right to terminate the contract.
The Chinese Youth League will implement regional home and away games for the first time.
Xu Jiren said that registration for the third China Youth Football League has begun, and the new tournament will have regional home and away games. Teams in the four regions of Beijing, Hebei, Shandong and Henan will implement the home and away league system, which will be piloted among the 6 teams in the U17 group. For the first time, the China Youth Championship will open qualifications to foreign teenagers in China, and will first be piloted in U17 and U19 competitions.
Establish a new image of the Chinese Super League and resolutely fight against football corruption and "fake gambling"
Yang Xu briefed on the preparatory work for the professional league and new ideas and measures to combat "fake gambling". He said that the league will establish a new image, optimize the league system, and purify the stadium environment. The Chinese Football Association will resolutely crack down on football corruption and "fake gambling", and preventing and punishing corruption will be a top priority in 2024.
This season, the Chinese Super League has proposed a new slogan "Competing for the Future with Love" and continues to build the league's brand. Outside the stadium, professional leagues will also plan and organize various activities to promote clubs to participate in social welfare activities and encourage them to interact positively and actively with fans.
Chinese Super League poster. Source: Xinhua News Agency
The Chinese Football Association also issued "Several Measures to Strengthen and Improve the Fair Execution of Football Referees" at the meeting. At the same time, the Chinese Football Association will also strengthen the construction of the member association system this year and strengthen the construction of key cities for football development across the country.
The Chinese Football Association has issued several measures to strengthen referee work.
The Chinese Football Association has issued "Several Measures on Strengthening and Improving the Fair Execution of Football Referees" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures") at the meeting. The promotion and demoting of referees in men's professional leagues will be implemented in the new season. Plan, establishment of a referee "blacklist" system, establishment of reasonable appeal channels for clubs, public disclosure of disputed penalty evaluation results and many other measures.
Chinese Football Association. Source: Xinhua News Agency
According to the "Measures", the referee management power of the men's third-level professional league is fully handed over to the Chinese Football Association Referee Department for unified exercise. The Distribution Committee and the Referee Department are responsible for business and management work respectively, forming a healthy relationship of mutual cooperation and mutual supervision. Mechanism; formulate and implement a promotion and relegation plan for men's third-level professional league referees, which will be promoted and demoted according to a ratio of 3-5%. The promotion and demotion of referees is based on the performance of referees in leagues, FA Cup and other competitions, focusing on assessment of refereeing ability, theory, physical fitness and compliance with referee work disciplines, etc. The promotion and demotion list is determined according to the ranking, and competition for posts and dynamic promotions are carried out.
"The referee promotion and relegation system has not been well implemented before. This season will be resolutely implemented and carried out dynamically. If the referee performs poorly during the league and has a bad social impact, he will be demoted immediately. Currently, one referee has been demoted from the Chinese Super League. referee and two assistant referees, and promoted several referees from the Chinese Football Association," said Xu Jiren, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association.
's "Measures" introduced that in order to strictly prevent and combat unhealthy trends in the industry, a "blacklist" system for referees will be established and a reporting platform within the society and the refereeing community will be established. In response to the controversial penalty, the Chinese Football Association will increase social supervision.For disputes and penalties involving large social repercussions and high attention, authoritative evaluation results will be announced to the public using the association's official platform.
Yang Xu, vice chairman of the Chinese Football Association, said that in the new season, the Chinese Football Association will coordinate with the public security and other departments to resolutely crack down on football corruption and "fake gambling" chaos, making prevention and punishment the top priority.
Source: Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency
