Guangzhou FC brought down the end of an era of Chinese football

The Guangzhou FCformerly known as Guangzhou Evergrande for most of the club’s last successful decade, their relegation from the Chinese Super League (CSL) after losing 4-1 against changchun yatai.

This result, added to the success of its neighbors in the southern city of CantonThe Guangzhou City, who won 3-0 in his match against Shenzhen FCmaking the eight-time champion of super league unable to reach a table position higher than 16th, marking a relegation.

The Guangzhou FC will be joined in 2023 in the second category of Chinese football Hebei CFFC., who started the season with a -3-point penalty and failed to add more in 33 games, and in Wuhan Yangtze River FC.

Consequently, relegation ended the team’s twelve-season run Canton in the Super League, where the club won the title every year from 2011 to 2017 before claiming the trophy in 2019.

The two-time winner of the Asian Champions League in 2013 and 2015 ended, with one game to go, his particular ‘annus horribilis’.

It began at the beginning of the year with the departure of five naturalized Brazilian-born Chinese players amid a policy of cuts due to the financial difficulties of its majority shareholder, the real estate group. Chinese Evergrande.

The group evergrandewhose debt reached more than 300,000 million dollars in the middle of last year, was seized by the authorities after it defaulted on its obligations.

This situation caused a Chinese government body to oversee the club’s stadium last year, whose construction cost 12,000 million yuan (1,721 million dollars, 1,616 million euros) should be completed by the end of 2022 to make it is the largest stadium in the world by capacity.

Prominent players in the football scene such as Brazilians have passed through its ranks Robinho Y returning homethe Colombian jackson martinez or the highest paid soccer player on the planet during his time when he played for the Chinese team, the Argentine Dario Conca.