Chinese soccer peak strength in the world belongs to what class?

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Chinese men's soccer team was known as the Little King of Asia, which not only managed to achieve nine consecutive championships, but also made it to the Olympic Games several times. The story begins in 1924, in which year the Chinese men's national soccer team was officially established. Seven years later, the Chinese men's soccer team joined FIFA.

Football development

The period of regional teams

Before 1994, China's domestic soccer teams were professional teams, most of which were managed by local soccer associations and had names based on the place names of provinces and cities. In addition, China also had a considerable number of industrial sports associations under different state-owned institutions, such as the locomotive team under the Ministry of Railways, the 8-1 team under the army, and the front guard team of the armed police force.

The Club Period

In June 1992, the CFA held the famous "Hongshankou Conference" in Hongshankou, a western suburb of Beijing, to make professionalization a breakthrough in soccer reform. The main motive of professionalization is to let the participating teams get rid of the original government administrative sports mechanism, completely commercial and market-oriented as a means of survival and development.