Special correspondent Ming Yue reports 2025 will be a very unusual year for Shaanxi Union, the "Northwest Wolf" will replace the first year, and the United will also usher in the first year of the Central League. When it comes to the new season, the club's senior management is full of confidence, "At present, all preparations are being carried out in an orderly manner, this year is our first year in the Chinese League, first of all, we must stand firm, and then strive to repay the fans and the support of all walks of life in Shaanxi with better results!" ”

After the end of the 2024 season, although Shaanxi United achieved good results, they lost points in several key games, resulting in no direct passage to the Central League. All walks of life in Shaanxi are looking forward to the United being able to replicate the miracle of Chang'an Athletic's replenishment that year, but pinning their hopes on other teams to "withdraw" is undoubtedly suffering for the majority of fans.

Time into 2025, starting from January, Shaanxi fans have always paid attention to the Chinese Super League, the dynamics of the Chinese League, on January 6, the Chinese Football Association announced the "2025 season of professional league club access list", Shaanxi United is on the list, although this is not the final list of the Chinese League, but according to the rules, the joint replacement has no suspense, the majority of "wolf fans" are excited, that night, Shaanxi United ushered in the "pouring traffic", and the sales volume of the official delivery platform soon exceeded one million.

Shaanxi fans love the "Northwest Wolves", not only emotionally identifying, but also giving real money support.

Since its establishment, Shaanxi United has been exploring in market-oriented operations, on the one hand, implementing the membership system to increase the sense of belonging of fans and absorbing part of the funds for the development of the club; On the other hand, it directly helps the contracted enterprises to bring goods and bring real profits to the enterprises.

On January 15, the Chinese Football Association officially announced the list of participants in the 2025 season, and Shaanxi jointly determined the replacement, and the club has a higher and better platform for attracting investment. According to incomplete statistics, the sale of membership in the new season alone can easily bring tens of millions of income to the club, and the "wolf fan" has truly integrated with the "Northwest Wolves" and become the best "twelfth person".

The first and second divisions are completely two-magnitude events, the first division allows foreign aid, and the level of domestic aid is also higher, and the overall competition will be more cruel, which means that the preparation of the "Northwest Wolves" must be fully accelerated.

It is understood that before the Spring Festival, Shaanxi United launched the first phase of winter training at the Hongta base in Yunnan, "that time period is mainly to reserve physical fitness, and then inspect the trial team members, because to play in the first class, the personnel adjustment is still very large." The club's hierarchy revealed.

At present, it can be determined that more than 10 team members such as Xiao Zhiquan, Li Chen, Ma Yangyang, Xu Wu, Wen Shuo, Chen Xing, Bai Mingyu, Yao Diran, Yang Ruiqi, Wu Chengru, Gao Tianyu, Pei Shuai, Wu Junjie, Perman Jiang, Zhao Shuhao, Sun Xiaobin and other players have left, Wei Yuren, Wei Weihe, Chen Yanpu, Abduwahap, Wang Shijie, Wang Junyang, Wang Bohao, Xu Dongdong and other elite soldiers and strong generals have joined. As for foreign aid, foreign guns from the Netherlands and Italy are already in place. The large-scale adjustment of personnel means that the "Northwest Wolves" need time to practice new techniques and tactics.

According to the plan, Shaanxi United's training camp before the new season is mainly divided into three stages, the first stage is from January 3rd to 23rd, focusing on physical training; The second stage is from the fifth day of the Lunar New Year to the end of February, mainly technical and tactical drills; The third stage is to return to Xi'an on February 28, and then determine the main lineup through actual combat. The senior management of the United Club said: "After preliminary inspection and trial, the new signings have made it clear that they have at least played in the Chinese League, and they recognize the football atmosphere in Shaanxi." In short, the overall situation of the reinforcements is very good, including foreign aid is basically in place, the position is mainly the central axis, there are offensive and defensive, and the main consideration is to keep an eye on the opponent's foreign guns. ”

It is understood that the new season in the league will start on March 15, as a new army, Shaanxi United primary goal is relegation, in this regard, the club's senior management is full of confidence, "we must first stabilize in the league, and then strive for better results." The team is currently very united, the players are young, they can run with momentum, everyone is looking forward to the new season, and strive to go all out to play the spirit of the 'Northwest Wolves'! ”

In the 2024 season, Shaanxi United Club ranked fourth in the second division and finally qualified for the second division.

The performance of the "Northwest Wolves" is inseparable from the full guarantee of the Weinan Division. During the event, Weinan provided a full range of services to ensure the best condition of the venue, meet the high standards of the competition, and also formulated a perfect emergency plan in terms of security, medical treatment, fire protection and other aspects to escort the competition.

The support of the relevant departments of Weinan City is not only reflected in the hosting of the competition, but also in terms of financial support, the 2024 season has given the maximum fee reduction, the original 50,000 yuan per game of venue use fees, the actual implementation of 20,000 per game, the whole season 16 home games, the club has saved a total of 480,000 yuan. In addition, the competition area also exempted the venue lighting fee, which saved 160,000 yuan.

For the strong support of the relevant departments of Weinan City, both the club and Shaanxi fans have not forgotten. In order to give back to the Weinan Division, and also to better prepare for the new season, Shaanxi United Club has innovated and created the Western Cup.

"We invited three teams, namely Guizhou Zhucheng Athletic and Guangxi Hengchen from the second division and Shanghai Jiading Huilong from the second division. The first is to give back to Weinan by holding this event; the second is military training; The third is to make a report to everyone, after all, after a few months of training outside, there are great changes in personnel, and fans want to see how the team is doing. Said the club executive.

The senior executive said frankly: "We want to make this event a traditional event, in fact, many teams want to join, but considering that this is the first one, the scale is smaller at the beginning, plus we have a total of 4 teams, there will be more teams participating next year." We originally envisioned a lot more, including the possibility of combining football New Year's greetings next year, in short, we want to give back to Weinan and all walks of life for the support of the 'Northwest Wolves', and continue the popularity of football in our western region! ”

Shaanxi United has many "fans", and last year it successfully held more than a dozen home games at the Weinan City Stadium, attracting more than 300,000 spectators to watch the games live, and the number of fans watching the live broadcast was even larger.

However, with the replacement of the middle league, the "Northwest Wolves" suffered "happy troubles" in the home selection. From the point of view of the club and the fans at large, it would be better to have the home stadium in Xi'an, but the process has not been smooth. A person familiar with the matter explained: "The Xi'an market is larger, and it is definitely better for the long-term development of the club, so it is normal for United to want to return to Xi'an at home in the new season, but the objective situation is a little complicated." ”

According to the hardware standards of the professional league, there were originally two stadiums in Xi'an that could directly undertake the game, and a potential top stadium was also expected to host part of the game, that is, the Xi'an International Football Center, but the professional stadium built for the Asian Cup has not yet been delivered, and the main problem is that the lack of funds has led to the delay in delivery and opening time.

However, it has recently been reported that Xixian New Area and Shaanxi Tourism Group have signed a cooperation agreement on the operation of Xi'an International Football Center, and the two sides will actively introduce high-level events to promote the deep integration of "sports +" and the modern service industry of the digital economy. With the intervention of Shaanxi Tourism Group, the financial problem will be solved, and the Shaanxi United Home Court will definitely settle in Xi'an International Football Center at some time in the future.

Xi'an International Football Center is officially put into use, and it will take time to go through the relevant processes, but the start of the Chinese League is imminent, and Shaanxi United can only choose other stadiums. Shaanxi Provincial Stadium is known as the Holy Vermilion Bird, located in the bustling section, convenient transportation, and the inheritance of football emotion, originally the most suitable as the "Northwest Wolf" home, but unfortunately due to various reasons had no choice but to give up, the current first choice is Xi'an Olympic Stadium, the alternate venue is Weinan City Stadium.

Xi'an Olympic Sports was originally the venue of the 14th National Games, and after the completion of the tasks of the National Games, the management right was given to the venue builder.

A person familiar with the matter said bluntly: "Although the relevant departments of Shaanxi Province and Xi'an City have a positive attitude in undertaking the Chinese League A competition, the venue construction party does not belong to the provincial and municipal enterprises, they pay more attention to operation, and holding a concert is definitely more profitable than holding a football match, so whether it can finally settle in the Olympic Stadium still requires multi-party coordination and communication, and the key is whether the cost can reach a price acceptable to all parties." ”

In fact, after becoming a key city for national football, Xi'an has paid more and more attention to the development of football. It is understood that although there is no absolute right to speak on the use of Olympic sports, the relevant departments of Xi'an still take measures to support the "Northwest Wolf".

The senior management of Shaanxi United Club said: "The Western Cup is about to be held, and the new sports training center in Xi'an will receive foreign participating teams, where the training venues and supporting facilities are very good, and it is also very convenient to go directly to Weinan from there, thank you for the support of relevant departments!" ”

As for the alternate venue, Shaanxi United still chooses Weinan City Stadium. Now there are rumors in the outside world that Weinan will host next year's Shaanxi Provincial Games, and the venue needs to be renovated, and it may not be able to undertake the middle league. In this regard, the senior management of Shaanxi United Club said: "Weinan supports the team very strongly, and the renovation of the stadium can choose different time periods. ”