Qingdao Football Club officially withdraws from the Chinese Professional Football League
2022-04-13 16:14:18Source: Guanhai News
Qingdao Daily/Guanhai News, April 13th. On April 12th, Qingdao Football Club officially sent a letter to Qingdao Football Management Center, explaining the club’s withdrawal from the Chinese Professional Football League.
In this “Note on Qingdao Football Club’s withdrawal from the Chinese Professional Football League”, Qingdao Club stated: In the 2020-2021 season, the club, as a new army of the Chinese Super League, has a huge gap in funding, plus the private loan debt left by the previous shareholders’ history. , making the club bear a heavy burden, facing the dilemma of the account being blocked, and even had a negative impact on the investor Huanghai Group. On the other hand, the two seasons in the Chinese Super League are the two years when the new crown epidemic became normal. The league’s long-term centralized game system and the team’s “neutral name” policy also made the club’s operation worse, and many sponsorship funds were not cashed. , and ultimately lead to the team’s unfortunate relegation for the 2021 season.
To sum up, combined with the fact that the club has encountered operational difficulties at this stage and is no longer able to support it, we regret to make the decision to withdraw from the Chinese Professional Football League. In the next step, the club will focus on the development and support of youth training and campus football, and hereby explain. Here, I would like to express my most sincere gratitude to all sectors of the society for their concern, help and support, and wish Qingdao football can achieve longer-term development and better results.
Regarding the withdrawal of Qingdao Football Club, a relevant person from the Municipal Football Management Center said: “In addition to being deeply regretful, we will actively work with the Municipal Football Association and the club to properly handle the follow-up work of the professional team. Regarding the club’s intention to continue to engage in football development, we will We will give full support and help in his participation in football competitions at all levels and in the development of football youth training.”
Football has a good mass foundation in Qingdao. In 2022, there will still be 3 teams in the city competing in this year’s Chinese Football Association League A and League B. In the next step, the focus of football work in our city is to earnestly implement the “Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Football in China”, make every effort to build key cities for national football development during the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, further follow the rules of football development, and give full play to the role of the market mechanism. , to achieve popularization and improvement, mutual promotion of mass football and competitive football, promote the balanced development of professional football, youth football, and social football, and steadily improve the overall development level of Qingdao football. The competent authority calls on the majority of fans to rationally view the law of professional football development, continue to support the development of football in Qingdao, and jointly create a good development environment and atmosphere. (Qingdao Daily / Guanhai News reporter Xu promise / Wen Wanglei / photo)