Coup d’état in women’s football in China. The Chinese Football Association announced today that clubs in the Chinese Super League (CSL) will be required to have a women’s team as part of the entry requirements to compete in the upcoming 2023 season, the Asian country’s soccer governing body announced on Thursday.
China’s plan is to have professional women’s football and position itself as one of the world’s great powers. To do this, it decided to request this new rule to help professionalize women’s football.
The goal is to be in the top eight before 2025. And to organize the 2031 World Cup while candidates for the title. For this, they focus on innovation, planning, attracting talent and funding the training of their players.
The Chinese Association previously implemented a similar rule for the 2019 season, when 16 teams competed in the CSL. The start date for this year’s 18-team top flight has yet to be announced.
The highest body of Chinese football has advanced that “the women’s team in question should participate in the Chinese Women’s Super League or the second and third tier leagues.”
The CFA said last week that all league games will be played in a home-and-away format this year, ending three seasons of COVID-19 restrictions. Arguably the team from the city where COVID emerged, Wuhan Three Towns was crowned CSL champion for the first time last year. And it did the same in the Women’s Super League, which has 10 participating teams, including Wuhan Jiangda F.
Source: La Verdad
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