China's national football team earns money, mainly from sponsors. A company affiliated to the Football Association, specializing in national football competition, is called Fortebo. In addition to earning hundreds of millions of dollars from sponsors every year, the national team holds competitions in China, and also charges the organizers a certain fee.
In other words, if a local government or sports company wants to host the national football match of the Football Association, it needs to pay millions of hosting fees and purchase the ticketing rights or some commercial rights. Despite poor performance and poor reputation, as the world's number one sport, there are still many sponsors willing to sponsor the national team. The management environment of the national team is much better than that of the Super League. The money earned by China Football Association is rarely used for infrastructure construction and the training of reserve forces, because although they have money, they don't want to do these laborious things, so they spend it on the national football team, anyway.