Sorrowful! Among the teams that have participated in the First A and the Chinese Super League: only 10 have survived for 20 years!
Wang Qi, the former vice chairman of the Shenzhen Red Diamond Sports Association, revealed in an exclusive interview with "Guangming**" that in the past 30 years, 42 teams have participated in China's highest-level competitions such as the first class and the Chinese Super League, but only 10 have survived for more than 20 years. Behind this staggering number, China's professional teams are facing a tough test of survival. In the past four years, all 13 clubs that have played or played in the Chinese Super League have disappeared, which is a very sad situation.
Wang Qi lamented that it is very difficult to run a professional team in China. Ou Chuliang said frankly: The fighting between associations is getting more and more serious, and the original annual expenditure of about one billion yuan is now not enough for even three billion. Over the years, the cost of everything from player salaries to stadiums has been increasing, and it is difficult to maintain the huge expenses of tickets and advertising alone.
It is worth noting that although there are many teams that have participated in a A and a Super League, there are only a few teams that have really survived for more than 20 years, such as Beijing Guoan, Shandong Taishan, Shanghai Shenhua, and Guangzhou teams, which participated in a first-class league in the 1994 season. This also shows that there are still many bright spots in Chinese football on the road to professionalization, but there are still many things that need to be thought about and improved.
Wang Qi also said that this is a long industrial chain, involving all aspects such as tickets, advertising and TV rights. A stable, robust professional league is a prerequisite for this huge system to function. Taking Europe's top five leagues as an example, what Chinese football needs to learn from is that each club forms a comprehensive commercial league and operates various businesses in a market-oriented manner.
Chinese professional football clubs are in a predicament of "survival", and they must be deeply thought about and reformed, both in league management and management. Ensuring the smooth operation of professional football leagues and a market-oriented business model is an important way to promote the healthy development of Chinese football and enhance the viability of clubs. Only in this way will the professionalization of Chinese football go longer and longer, and finally achieve the goal of "a century-old store" of Chinese football. (Lao Qiu's comment).