Five years after the end of Jinyuan football, the total value of the Chinese Super League stopped falling and stabilized

Defending champions Shanghai Port are currently the team with the highest total value (€18.61 million) in the Chinese Super League

The reporter reported coldly Recently, the German transfer market website released the latest value data of Chinese Super League players and teams, and the total value of the 16 teams in the Chinese Super League is about 131 million euros, an increase of 8.4% from the end of last year (about 120 million), and the same as 2014 (131 million). Although the current total value of the Chinese Super League is the same as 10 years ago, only 28.6% of the all-time record at the end of the 2018 season (457 million), the bubble of the former "Golden Yuan Era" has been squeezed, and the total value of the Chinese Super League has fallen back to the ground from the peak and has begun to rise slowly again.

Today's Chinese Super League no longer has the "Golden Yuan Era" money burning competition, but instead rational investment. This data can stop falling and rebound after 5 consecutive years of cliff decline, allowing fans to see the hope of sustainable development of the Chinese Super League.

At the end of last year, the total value of the 16 teams in the Super League was only about 120 million euros, which was the lowest point in 10 years after the end of 2013 (116 million), and this season the Super League finally ended the decline in the total value at the end of the season for 5 consecutive years, although the total value is still the same as 10 years ago in 2014, but an increase of 8.4% over the end of last season, and the entire football market has signs of bottoming out. Among them, 11 teams have risen in value, more than half of the 16 teams in the Chinese Super League. The defending Shanghai Port increased its value by 2.26 million euros, an increase of 13.8%, and more than 1 million euros compared to the beginning of March. This is still on the premise that Oscar's value has fallen from 5 million euros at the end of last year to 4 million euros due to age.

Beijing Guoan (2.78 million euros), Shandong Taishan (2.64 million euros), Shanghai Shenhua (1.45 million euros), Chengdu Rongcheng (1.25 million euros) and other top-ranked teams also added value, and Tianjin Jinmen Tigers (4.08 million euros) rose by 63.8%. Due to the successful relegation of Shenzhen Xinpeng City, coupled with the introduction of high-value foreign aid, the total value of the team increased by 4.05 million euros, an increase of 168.8%, and it topped the Chinese Super League.

The total value of the Chinese Super League rebounded compared with the end of last year, largely due to the growth of foreign aid value. Vargas, who has performed well this season, has risen from 4 million euros at the end of last year to 5 million euros, surpassing Oscar to become the new value king of the Chinese Super League. Shandong Taishan's Cressan also rose by 1 million euros from 3.5 million euros, Tianjin Jinmen Tiger's Kompagno handed over 17 goals and 1 assist, and his Albanian striker Ademi was worth a net increase of 1.5 million euros.

Among the local players, Wu Lei, who won the Chinese Super League Golden Boot, was worth 300,000 euros from 1.5 million euros at the end of last year due to age problems, despite the peak data of 38 goals and 17 assists in 36 games. Xie Wenneng (450,000 euros), Yang Zexiang (350,000 euros), Zhu Chenjie, Lin Liangming (300,000 euros), Zhang Yuning, Wei Shihao, Hu Hetao, Wang Zhenao (250,000 euros), Xu Haoyang, Cao Yongjing, Bao Yaxiong (225,000 euros), Jiang Shenglong, Bai Helamu, Wang Yudong (200,000 euros), Huang Zhengyu and Wang Haijian (150,000 euros) have all increased significantly, but the starting point is too low, and the final amount is not enough to reach the height of competition with the top local players in Japan and South Korea.

Of course, compared with the end of last year, there are still many teams in the Chinese Super League that have fallen in value. Wuhan Three Towns sold Enrique in the middle of the season, resulting in the largest drop in the total value of the team (4.45 million euros), a drop of more than half. Meizhou Hakka (2.48 million euros) and Changchun Yatai (1.72 million euros) also saw significant declines. Despite this, in terms of number and growth amount, the teams with rising value in the Chinese Super League have the absolute upper hand, which has led to the bottoming out of the overall value of the entire league.

The total value of today's Chinese Super League is far from the peak of the "Golden Yuan Era" 7 years ago, only 1/4 of the year. At the end of 2018, Guangzhou Evergrande set a record for the value of a Chinese Super League club (93.55 million euros), which is five times more than that of Shanghai Port, the champion of the Chinese Super League this season. Shanghai Port has also shrunk by almost three-quarters compared to its own club value record (67.73 million euros, 2018). At the end of the 2018 and 2019 seasons, the total value of the Chinese Super League exceeded 400 million euros, and three of them were worth more than 50 million euros. At the end of the 2018 season, as many as 14 of the 16 teams in the Chinese Super League were worth more than 10 million euros, which also showed the cruelty of the "money burning competition" of the Chinese Super League that year.

Since 2019, the total value of the Chinese Super League has continued to decline, from 457 million euros at the end of the 2018 season to 160 million in 2021 in just 4 years, and the total value has "evaporated" by 65%. Since 2021, the total value of the Chinese Super League has been declining in the range of 100 million euros, until it finally stopped falling and rebounded this year. Since 2019, the value of the Chinese Super League at the end of the season has been Shanghai SIPG/Haigang, but it has also declined simultaneously, from 61.5 million euros (2019) to the lowest trough of 16.35 million euros (2023), which has also shrunk by 3/4.

At the end of 2020, the total value of the Chinese Super League dropped from 457 million euros in 2018 to 310 million euros, and the total value was surpassed by the Saudi League (316 million euros), and the Chinese Super League maintained the title of the most valuable league in Asia for 4 years. Today, the total value of the Chinese Super League (131 million euros) is only ranked seventh in Asia, not only far behind the Saudi league (1.22 billion euros), but also behind the United Arab Emirates (358 million euros), Qatar (332 million euros), and even inferior to the Iranian league (134 million euros).

Oscar, whose contract is about to expire, is a witness to the Chinese Super League falling back to the ground from the "Golden Yuan Era". After joining the Chinese Super League in early 2017, Oscar has almost always maintained the highest value of the Chinese Super League, starting from 23 million euros at the end of 2017, during which it has experienced two rebounds, and has dropped to 4 million euros after 7 years. Vargas (5 million euros), the most expensive player in the Chinese Super League at the end of this season, can only rank outside the top 20 in the 2018 Chinese Super League. There were 9 foreign players in the Super League worth more than 10 million euros that year. If Vargas and Oscar both leave the Super League in the winter as rumored, the value of foreign aid in the Super League and the total value of the Super League may continue to decline next year.

It is gratifying that the value of local players in the Chinese Super League has begun to rise on a large scale, and after foreign aid cannot support the total value of the Chinese Super League, if local players can narrow the distance with local players in South Korea and Japan, it is the real momentum of sustainable development for the Chinese Super League.