In what year did Chinese football become professional?

1994.

In 1994, the first professional A-League began.

The professional League A and League B lasted for 10 years. After the 2003 season, they were restructured into the Chinese Football Super League and the Chinese Football League A. The purpose of the establishment of the Chinese Super League is to follow European precedents such as the English Premier League and allow professional league clubs to independently manage and operate the competition, gradually breaking away from the management of the Chinese Football Association. The Chinese Football Association is in turn responsible for national team competitions at all levels, training of young athletes and other tasks, as well as organizing other events such as the Football Association Cup.

On June 15, 2013, the Chinese national football team was defeated 1:5 by the Thai National Olympics at the Hefei Sports Center. This game once again pushed the Chinese national football team to the forefront of public opinion. Many people said they no longer believed in Chinese football, and even It is really a farce that some college teams have openly challenged the national football team.

Extended information

The low point of the decade from 1989 to 1999:

The Chinese team had two "black three minutes" in the Asian top six in the 1989 World Cup qualifiers "After losing to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar and once again missing out on the World Cup, the Chinese team entered a 10-year trough.

In the quarter-finals of the 1990 Beijing Asian Games, the Chinese team was eliminated by the Thai team 0:1 and suffered a bitter defeat on National Day night.

In 1993, German head coach Schlapner led the Chinese team, which had just won third place in the Asian Cup, to defeat Irbid in the Asian group stage of the World Cup qualifying tournament, and lost consecutive games to the weak troops of Yemen and Iraq, a strong team at the time, returned home immediately after the group stage. This defeat also gave birth to the Chinese Professional League.

In the 1994 Asian Games final, the Chinese team lost 2:4 to the new team Uzbekistan and won the runner-up. In the following more than ten years, the Chinese team was repeatedly humiliated by the Uzbek team.

In the 1996 Asian Cup, the Chinese team lost to the Japanese team with a "tacit goal" in the group stage. The Chinese team, which relied on the fair play spirit of the Syrian team that had been eliminated early, was able to qualify and lost to Saudi Arabia and stopped in the quarterfinals.

In the top 10 Asian qualifiers for the 1997 World Cup, they were humiliated by Iran and Qatar at home and missed the World Cup again.

In 1998, the Englishman Horton served as the head coach of the Chinese team. He led the Chinese team, which had been tempered by several years of professional leagues, to win the runner-up in the East Asian semi-finals and the third place in the Asian Games. However, Horton also led the Chinese team in the Olympic Games. The team failed again in the 1999 Olympic qualifiers.

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