The Chinese Super League schedule and format are announced as follows:

Based on the domestic epidemic situation, the Chinese Football Association has changed the original format plan. On the premise of ensuring that 34 rounds are played throughout the season, the Chinese Football Association The preparatory team referred to the competition system of the Chinese League One last year and adopted a double round-robin competition system divided into three divisions and four stages. The rounds of each stage are 10 rounds, 8 rounds, 8 rounds, and 8 rounds.

The three divisions are grouped in a serpentine arrangement of "host + last season's ranking". The only host in the three divisions is Meizhou Hakka. Therefore, the group rankings of each division are: host Meizhou Hakka (Meizhou Division A1), first place Shandong Taishan (Haikou Division B1), second place Shanghai Haigang (Dalian Division C1), third place Guangzhou team (Dalian Division C2 ), fourth place Changchun Yatai (Haikou Division B2), fifth place Beijing Guoan (Meizhou Division A2), sixth place Shenzhen Football Team (Meizhou Division A3) and so on.

After each stage, the teams in the group will rotate in twos according to the previous ranking, and finally rotate three times to complete the four stages. The top two ranked teams in each group will serve as seeding teams and will always be in the same group for the first three stages. That is to say: Meizhou Hakka (A1) and Beijing Guoan (A2), Shandong Taishan (B1) and Changchun Yatai (B2), Shanghai Haigang (C1) and Guangzhou Team (C2) have always been ranked in Meizhou and Guangzhou respectively in the first three stages. Haikou and Dalian Division.

Until the fourth stage, these 6 seeded teams are in the same group, but which of the three divisions is chosen needs to be decided by drawing lots, which means that only two teams can compete in the four stages. Change competition area. In each stage, the double round-robin competition between the six teams in the group will be conducted according to the rules of the AFC's top 12 competition. For example, the first round is: 1VS5, 2VS4, 3VS6, and so on.

The game rhythm is that each team basically plays a game every four days

The competition time periods of the four stages of the 2022 Chinese Super League are: June 3rd to July 12th in the first stage, and July 12th in the second stage. The first phase is from July 21st to August 21st, the third phase is from August 30th to September 30th, and the fourth phase is from October 9th to November 9th. The full season of 34 rounds and 306 games in the Chinese Super League was completed within 5 months.

It can be seen from the specific schedule of the first stage that each round of the Chinese Super League this season will be played in three days. Each team will basically follow the rhythm of one game every four days, with a three-day interval between each two rounds. .

Although this rhythm has one more day of rest than the three-day game in the second stage of the Chinese Super League last year, it has now entered the summer, and playing at this rhythm can be called a "devil's schedule." Moreover, this rhythm needs to be maintained for five months throughout the season, which is a great test for the physical fitness of the players. How to minimize injuries through reasonable rotation has become the number one problem that the coaching teams of each team must solve.

Reference for the above content: Beiqing.com-2022 Chinese Super League, new competition system + devilish schedule