Looking forward to 2025: the Chinese Football Federation will be established, and the finale of the round of 18 will be ...... Chinese football will welcome a blockbuster policy

Reporter Chen Yong reports In one more day, the bell of the 2025 New Year is about to ring: in the new year, the professional league will usher in a new change, the national football round of 18 will usher in the finale, this year is also the "big year" of youth events, in addition to the U20 Asian Cup, U17 Asian Cup, and domestic regular youth events, the National Games will also be held. With the end of the anti-corruption and anti-gambling crackdown in football, the reconstruction of Chinese football will enter the fast lane, and as a result, we have more expectations for 2025.

After the executive meeting of the State Council on December 16, a new policy related to Chinese football will be announced. For Chinese football, this is another heavyweight policy after the 2015 "Overall Plan for the Reform and Development of Chinese Football", which is expected to comprehensively promote the rapid development of Chinese football.

The core difficulty in 2025 is still the professional league, and the access to the new season is one thing, and more importantly, how to effectively solve the problem of the club's survival and development. At present, local governments generally attach importance to football work, including the admission review process at the end of 2024, local governments have played an important role, which has brought hope to the governance of arrears of wages in China's professional leagues. However, in order to achieve long-term development, the professional league also needs to achieve qualitative changes at the overall management level of the league, and only with the improvement of the overall operation can the rules be more strictly enforced. In the past two or three years, this level of issues has also been the focus of football research and discussion, and relevant policies have been in the process of pre-research.

The separation of the management and management of the professional league is the highlight of 2025, and the Chinese Football Federation will be formally established. In other words, the governance system of professional leagues has been the core factor of instability in Chinese football over the past few years, and this aspect needs to be comprehensively sorted out and stabilized.

In addition, the new Chinese Football Federation company will also take on the important task of the operation of the three-level professional league, the operation of the professional league, also need all parties to give high attention and support, in the context of the country attaches great importance to football, the Chinese Football Federation company should have better business development.

As the superstructure of Chinese football, the national team is naturally in the spotlight. At present, although the national football team ranks first in the group in the round of 18, as many as 4 teams have 6 points, and Australia, which ranks second, is only 1 point higher than the Chinese team, and the national football team even has the hope of directly qualifying for the World Cup. In the face of such a situation, of course, the national football team has to fight, but in terms of the long-term construction and development of the national football team, whether it is in the past, present or future, the success of the national team needs to be built on the basis of the overall development of Chinese football.

The youth national team will usher in two major competitions in 2025: from February 12th to March 1st, the U20 Asian Cup will be held in Shenzhen, and the 05 national youth will participate in this event; From April 3rd to 20th, the U17 Asian Cup will be held in Saudi Arabia, and the major generals of the 08 countries will participate in this event. The two competitions are also qualifiers for the U20 World Cup and the U17 Asian Cup, and the corresponding places for advancing to the World Series are 4 and 8 respectively, and the probability of the national junior team advancing is theoretically higher. In addition, theoretically, the 09 national major will participate in the 2026 U17 Asian Cup qualifiers, but China has begun to bid for the U17 Asian Cup from 2026 to 2028.

In 2025, the focus will remain on junior events. Because of the hosting of the National Games, the restructuring of the 2025 Chinese Youth Football League and U Series League has been greatly affected, and the addition of home and away games on weekends has been restricted to a certain extent. However, in 2025, it is very important to thoroughly sort out the youth competitions at all levels in China, including but not limited to the three major balls, the Youth Association, the National Games, the Chinese Youth Championships, the U Series League, and the member association group competitions. In the future, the Chinese junior events should be coordinated and orderly, and the calendar should be released at least by September of the previous year.

Finally, as the anti-corruption and anti-gambling anti-crime campaign in football comes to an end, supervision is still the top priority, and the normalized anti-corruption and anti-gambling anti-crime can ensure the healthy development of Chinese football.