China's football governing body, the Chinese Football Association (CFA), said on Wednesday that a series of new regulations including a "salary cap" will be implemented in the Chinese Super League (CSL) and lower professional leagues next season. Worrying about prohibitively expensive transfer fees...
Oscar joined Shanghai Port in 2017 from the English Premier League side Chelsea on a record-breaking transfer fee of60 million euros($63.36 million) - a figure that remains unmatched in CSL history. With a reported annual salary of24 million euros, Osc...
Despite the unsatisfactory level of Chinese men’s football, player salaries have remained high. The average annual salary of Chinese Super League players is about GBP800,000 (USD990,215), second only to the top five European leagues, according to the 2018 Global Sports Salaries Survey. To ...
Oscar is said to be earning a weekly salary of almost 500,000 US dollars while Tevez's wage is reportedly 760,000 US dollar a week. "This happens with every player, if it wasn't for money I wouldn't leave Brazil," Oscar said. "When you go to Europe you go because of the money ...
Chinese soccer teams are tightening their belts as the strictest ever expenditure and salary cap will be implemented at all levels of professional leagues next season, which is expected to kick off in the spring. “The policy aims to curb the investment bubbles in our leagues,” the latest CF...
Since 2017, the CFA has carried out a series of regulations on the club, including restrictions on investment, transfer fees and player salary. Rich clubs like Guangzhou Evergrande and Shanghai SIPG cut back on importing expensive foreign players. ...
Looking at the potential financial trainwreck, the Chinese Football Association, introduced a ‘luxury tax’ that made big-money transfers a thing of the past. A salary cap was also introduced and sponsors were banned from naming teams after themselves, meaning Guangzhou Evergrande were renamed ...
Additionally, Oscar's current salary is not exorbitant compared to other naturalized players like Ai Kesen and Alan, making him a more cost-effective option. However, considering that Cangzhou Mighty Lions operates on a relatively tight budget, expecting the club to foot the bill for naturalization...
Almost five years later, the Argentine playmaker’s US$10 million move from Brazil’s Fluminense can be seen as a defining moment in the rapid emergence of the Chinese Super League. Conca’s salary of US$12 million a year is said to have made him football’s third highest paid p...
A new salary cap announced in December aims to consign that figure to history. Chinese Super League clubs will only be able to pay domestic players a maximum amount of 5 million yuan ($774,000) a year while foreign players are limited to 3 million euros ($3.69 million). Clubs that break...