2017 Super Cup will be held at Chongqing Olympic Sports Center on February 25. (Picture from the Internet)

CHONGQING(CQNEWS)--With the approach of the new season, new rules announced by Chinese Football Association (CFA) state that there are at most 3 foreign players on the pitch in one CSL match and at least one local U23 starter, which make the CSL participants anxious.

With the implementation of the “3+U23” rules, a series of questions appear. As the opening match of CSL in new season, will the new rules make their debut at the CFA Super Cup to be held at Chongqing Olympic Sports Center on February 25?

According to the latest news, 2017 Super Cup will follow the foreign player rules of the last season. Meanwhile, it is also not mandatory to send a local U23 starter. In other words, in the opening match in 2017 season, Evergrande and Suning teams still can send 4 foreign starters, including one Asian foreign player.

So it is very likely that 8 high-level foreign players, namely Evergrande’s Goulart, Paulinho, Alan and Kim Hyung Il and Suning’s Teixeira, Ramires, Roger Martinez and Hong Jeong-Ho, compete in the match, which is definitely good news for on-site audience and numerous football fans. After all, it may be possible to watch a game with 8 foreign players competing on the pitch in a short time. In the new season, there will be 3 foreign players at most on the pitch in the new CSL season.

According to insiders, the Super Cup, to a large extent, is considered a report-back performance of the last season. Besides, Evergrande and Suning will participate in the group games of the AFC Champions League around the Super Cup, while the AFC Champions League’s rules on foreign players are the same as the previous rules of CSL, so the arrangement is also for the convenience of the two CSL super teams’ overall preparation plans.

However, due to the television relay, there is still a little change in the Super Cup. The match originally scheduled at 19:35 on February 25 will begin at 20:00. Currently, tickets for this match are on sale and fans can buy tickets on the official tickets platform, the WeChat service account iRENA, or at the ticket office at Olympic Sports Center on the game day. The super foreign players playing on the pitch together will add a sense of “super” to the Super Cup. (Translated by Huang Juan, Fathom Language Limited)