China Tier 2

TRANSFER RULES

• Teams cannot have any foreign goalkeepers in their squad.

• Teams can sign no more than five domestic over-21 players in a season (including Hong Kong (China PR), Macanese (China PR) or Chinese Taipei (China PR) players). This doesn't include players who are rejoining a club after returning from a foreign club they either a) moved to from the same club, b) were an Under-21 player at, or c) where they trained for 4 years between the ages of 12 and 21.

• Teams can only offer a maximum wage of E97,OOO p/w for foreign players (excluding Hong Kong (China PR), Macanese (China PR) and Chinese Taipei (China PR) players).

FINANCIAL FAIR-PLAY RULES

• Teams must avoid making a loss of more than E685M over the season in order to comply with financial fair play regulations.

• Teams must also ensure that their overall expenditure does not exceed E2285M_

• Teams must also ensure that their player wage expenditure doesn't exceed 65% of their overall expenditure.

Failure to comply will result in the following sanction:

• Fewer domestic over-21 players allowed to be signed in a season (including Hong Kong (China PR), Macanese (China PR) or Chinese Taipei (China PR) players) depending on the severity of the breach. This doesn't include players who are rejoining a club after returning from a foreign club they either a) moved to from the same club, b) were an Under-21 player at, or c) where they trained for 4 years between the ages of 12 and 21.

• Fewer foreign player registrations per season depending on the severity of the breach.

• The board is allowed to invest a maximum of £11.42M towards the calculated income.

SQUAD RULES

• Maximum of 4 foreign players

• Maximum of 3 foreign players (not including Hong Kong (China PR), Macanese (China PR) or Chinese Taipei (China PR))

• Minimum of 2 Under-21 Chinese players trained at the club for 4 years in a row between 12th and 21st birthdays

• Minimum of 3 goalkeepers in the squad

• Maximum of 7 foreign players registered in a season

• Maximum squad size of 30 players

• Players can be registered between Friday 1st January 2021 and Thursday 25th February 2021

• Players can be registered between Thursday 1st July 2021 and Saturday 31st July 2021

Training Facilities

The better the training facilities the more chance (already visible) players will develop.

Here are the facilities ranking from worst to best -

• Poor

• Basic

• Below Average

• Adequate

• Average

• Good

• Great

• Excellent

• Superb

• State of the Art

Youth Facilities

The training facilities available for Juniors (only).

Does NOT apply to visible players already at the club. All visible players currently at the club use Training Facilities regardless of age.

In theory the better these facilities the greater  your players will be developed on the day of intake.  But there are a lot of factors at play.

Here are the facilities ranking from worst to best -

• Poor

• Basic

• Below Average

• Adequate

• Average

• Good

• Great

• Excellent

• Superb

• State of the Art

Junior Coaching

The quality and quantity of unseen youth coaches that affects the quality of players in your youth intake

Junior coaching is ranked as follows from worst to best -

• Basic

• Fairly Basic

• Average

• Adequate

• Good

• Excellent

• Exceptional

Youth Recruitment

This determines how large a pool of players your team can recruit from.  It is the size of your recruitment network.  It increases your chances of getting the best young players from your area, nation and beyond.

Some clubs of course will have no youth recruitment at all, which means no youth intakes.

Recruitment is ranked as follows from worst to best -

• Limited

• Basic

• Fairly Basic

• Average

• Adequate

• Good

• Excellent

• Exceptional