Reporter Chen Yong reports On February 5th, the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the first day after the Spring Festival holiday, the "Quancheng Juniors" New Year Cup Children's Football National Invitational Tournament was held in Jinan City, Shizhong District Minor Quality Education Base, the main age group of this competition is 15 and 16 years old, Luneng Football School, Zhengzhou Zhengshang Road Primary School sent a team to participate.

This competition seems to be an ordinary youth invitational tournament, but the "Quancheng Juniors" series of events is actually a new track for the development of youth football in Jinan.

On the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the weather in Jinan suddenly became colder. On this morning, Song Yu, deputy director of the Jinan Municipal Education Bureau, rushed to the quality education base in the central district of the city early, and also arrived, as well as Dong Jian, the former vice president of Taishan Club and the former secretary of the Party Committee of Luneng Football School, Hu Zhonghua, deputy director of Shandong Provincial Football Management Center, and Zhao Fengdong, executive vice chairman of Jinan Football School.

On the morning of the same day, the "Quancheng Junior" New Year Cup Children's Football National Invitational Tournament opened, the event set up two age groups of 15 and 16, the participating teams include Jinan and the surrounding Cangzhou, Tai'an and other cities related teams, and invited Luneng Football School echelon and Zhengzhou Zhengshang Road Primary School, of which Zhengzhou Zhengshang Road sent two teams to participate.

At the opening ceremony, Luneng Football School and Jinan Heyue Sports presented a wonderful game, and then, Zhengzhou Zhengshang Road Primary School also showed its strong strength beyond its peers.

The "Quancheng Juniors" event is hosted by the Jinan Youth Campus Football Development Fund and undertaken by Luyi Sports Training School, which is an event focused on building by Jinan Campus Football. What's more, the Springs Junior is not a single event, but a series of events that take place on weekends and holidays throughout the year.

To be precise, the "Quancheng Juniors" series of events is a new track opened up by Jinan campus football on the basis of the original campus football events. According to the plan, the "Quancheng Juniors" are divided into two parts: the first is the "Quancheng Juniors" National Invitational Tournament, which is mainly arranged to be held during the winter vacation, summer vacation, May Day and Eleventh holidays, which is the nature of the invitational tournament; The second is the "Quancheng Junior" League, which is mainly aimed at social youth training institutions and school teams in Jinan and surrounding cities, and is a weekend weekly league. The "Quancheng Juniors" series of competitions are mainly for primary schools and kindergartens.

In the past few years, Jinan campus football has achieved all-round development, and since 2023, Jinan campus football has achieved remarkable results, winning a total of 4 national championships, 3 national third places, and 10 provincial championships.

More importantly, the "most beautiful home field" created by Jinan campus football - the home and away league in the middle of the week, making Jinan campus football a model room for campus football in China, has been highly recognized by relevant national departments, especially the home and away games in the middle of the week, the children of the whole school participate in the football game together, reflecting the popularization of campus football.

According to the plan, in 2025, Jinan campus football will develop steadily. On January 23, the Jinan Municipal Education Bureau, the Jinan Municipal Sports Bureau and the Jinan Football Association jointly issued the "Notice on Printing and Distributing the 2025 Jinan Youth (Student) Football Competition Calendar", which stated that it is necessary to continue to forge the "most beautiful home", firmly implement the home-and-away system of mid-week and weekly matches, give full play to the educational function of campus football, and work together with the city, county, family, school and community, coordinate and cooperate closely inside and outside the school, and provide a sufficient number of higher-quality football games for campus football children.

At present, Jinan campus football competitions include the "Mayor's Cup" Campus Football Super League, the "Mayor's Cup" Campus Football League, the "District Mayor's Cup" Campus Football League, the "Principal's Cup" Class League, the "Quancheng Cup" competition and the 4th Youth Championship (Jinan Division). In addition to the "Quancheng Juniors", there are also the National Women's Youth Football Invitational Tournament of Licheng No. 2 Middle School, the Jinan Campus Football International Summer Camp, and the "Yellow River Cup" Youth Football Invitational Tournament along the Yellow River Province. In the plan, Jinan will also hold the first sports meeting from July to August, which will include a football match.