Mature professional leagues in Europe and South America are usually 1 and 2-level professional leagues, followed by amateur leagues, relying on strict qualification access supervision mechanism and promotion and demotion control. In most cases, even if they can improve their performance, amateur clubs can't enter professional leagues if they can't meet the financial standards. In the 2008/09 season, in order to set a buffer between professional and amateur, the German Football Association specially set up 3. The Bundesliga has replaced the regional leagues originally divided into three groups and become a semi-professional league between the professional Bundesliga and the purely amateur regional leagues. In this way, there will be no strange phenomenon that the East German team did not meet the requirements in the financial system before 1990, but it was outstanding and could not be upgraded in the end. Just like France's three-level national leagues, Italy's C 1 and C2 leagues, and Britain's five-level association leagues, they are all bridges between professional and amateur, and they are all guaranteed by strict promotion and demotion systems.
In this respect, we should learn from Japan and South Korea, who are also facing the shortcomings of the league system construction. J League was founded in 1993. The original enterprise league was divided into two amateur league systems: JFL 1 and JFL2. But it was not until 1999 that the Japanese Football Association established the professional J2 league. In the previous six years, JFL 1 League clubs in amateur group had to wait patiently because they could not meet the professional standards of the Football Association. At the same time, JFL League, which represents the highest level of amateur league, was established. Some former JFL2 league teams that can't meet the standard, as well as lower-level regional league teams, * * * isomorphism has become the most important link in the J league system. By 2008, the scale of J 1, J2 and J3 League reached 18, which finally formed a complete framework for the transformation of professional and amateur clubs. JFL League consists of 9 regional leagues, 46 county leagues and university leagues. As long as they meet the professional standards of the Japanese Football Association, they can start from the lowest county league and gradually realize their career dreams.
The pace of professional football in Korea is faster than that in Japan. K League, founded in 1983, didn't exhibit semi-professional K2 League until 2003. The Lower K3 League was established in 2007, which officially promoted the original K2 League to professionalism. However, cautious Koreans are in no hurry to speed up the professionalization process. There is no elevator system between the three leagues so far. On the contrary, since 2003, K League has increased the number of places four times, all of which were promoted only after K2 League teams reached professional standards. The Korean Football Association plans to implement a fixed promotion and demotion system in 20 10, when the number of teams in the three leagues will be stable at 16.
Although the China Football Association stipulates that the finalists of university leagues can be selected for professional secondary leagues, the defeats of Three Gorges University and Shenzhen University in 2008 also reflect that the China Football Association has not defined "occupation" between occupation and amateur. Moreover, the professional qualifications of university teams are not achieved through the three-level league under the existing system, but are directly approved in violation of regulations. When China football can establish a strict league system and define the standard professional and amateur football, China football can really get the soil to take off.