The Champions League, the home and away matches of the regional competition are coming!

Reporter Wang Wei reports Recently, the Organizing Committee of the China Championship League issued a notice to the member associations to organize the pre-registration of the 2025 season of the Champions League, which mentioned the reform plan of the competition system of the China Championship League next year: the China Championship Regional Competition will be planned to be carried out in parallel with the competition system and the home and away weekend league system, and the participating teams will decide what form of group stage to participate in according to the willingness of the participating teams to register.

In the past few years, the regional competition of the China Champions League has been carried out in a regional competition system, the country is divided into 8 divisions, each division of 8 teams is divided into two groups, the top two teams in each division enter the Champions League finals, and the 16 teams that enter the finals are divided into two groups by lot, and then the home and away competition system is carried out according to the results and rankings of the regional competition.

In the past two years, the competition in the Champions League has been very fierce, and while the teams are fiercely competing for the place in the competition, some new situations have also emerged. For example, in the regional stage of the Chinese Champions League, some teams were out after a few games after a long time of hard preparation, and the team was quickly disbanded. And most clubs that do not have a promotion plan, even if they are not disbanded, are facing a situation of not playing for a long time after being out. Some people in the industry jokingly call this "a whole year of preparation, a week of decisive battle". In this regard, the Organizing Committee of the China Champions League conducted research and analysis.

From the perspective of the pre-registration of the 2025 season of the Champions League by the Organizing Committee of the China Champions League, the China Champions League has the idea of soliciting the opinions of participating clubs. Judging from the details of the pre-registration, there will be an incentive policy for the group that will play the home-and-away system, and there will be more promotion places than the tournament system. It can be said that this may be a signal that the league is gradually transitioning from a home-and-away weekend league system after the epidemic to a home-and-away weekend league system.

From an ideal point of view, it would be a good thing for China's highest-level amateur league to finally form a weekend matchday league on a geographical scale, and there will be fewer and fewer cases of "preparing for a whole year and fighting for a week", which will help to localize and stabilize amateur clubs, and better prepare them for the transition to a possible professional professional club.

Of course, there are also some leaders of the Champions League teams who believe that the home-and-away system has a large investment cost and is not acceptable to every team, so the Champions League Committee conducts the new season in parallel with the home-and-away weekend league system, which is also an attempt to a new model.

Ge Chen, the founder of Guangxi Bushan Club, believes that it is feasible to play some home and away games, and the key is the investment of each club, such as playing home and away games in accordance with the principle of the team's nearest region, which can save expenses on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can also avoid the situation that some teams have been seriously preparing for a year and facing disbandment after playing the regional competition. Moreover, playing home and away, the game time is bound to be extended, which can make the team continue to develop healthily in the long run. Moreover, the Champions League selectively conducts home and away matches from the regional competition, which allows amateur clubs to carry out home operations and fan construction in the Champions League, which can better build club culture and lay a good foundation for football youth training in the local area.

The home-and-away events at the amateur club level can not only show the club culture and city image of the participating clubs, but also drive the participation of local fans, promote the activity of the local football market, stimulate the development of the football industry, and provide a solid foundation for the operation and development of the club.

The planned restructuring of the China Champions League is actually an attempt to build a stable bridge between amateur football clubs and professional football clubs, and through the setting of the home-and-away system, amateur clubs can further sink into the community, and may maintain and develop for a long time, so as to drive the radiation and influence of football at the amateur level. If there is a solid foundation, professional football will naturally be able to get better development assistance. Of course, it doesn't take one or two seasons to do this well.