CSL Clubs Preparing for 2013 AFC Champions League

Chinese clubs have started their preparations earlier to meet the criteria for competing in the 2013 AFC Champions League, sale Chinese Football Association (CFA) President and Chinese Super League (CSL) Chairman Yu Hongchen has said.

The AFC Special Mission Team (SMT) began its second inspection for the Asian Champions League 2013 season by meeting CFA and CSL representatives in Beijing.

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AFC Director of Club and Futsal Competitions and Head of SMT, Stuart Ramalingam, said the SMT aims to help Chinese clubs meet the criteria and support the growth of football in China.

He said: “The meteoric improvement of the Chinese Super League in recent years has not only brought attention to Chinese football but has also helped raise the profile of Asian football as a whole and we are supportive of all the initiatives shown by CSL.”

After meeting the CFA in Beijing, the SMT delegation travelled to Dalian for the assessment of clubs and will go to Qingdao, Shanghai and Guangzhou before heading back to Beijing for the conclusive meeting with CFA and CSL on July 1.

After the assessments, the Competitions Division will table all the SMT’s findings to determine the number of slots for each ACL participating nation to be decided by the Competitions Committee in November.

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