CHINESE Super League (CSL) will implement a series of new policies including a salary cap, naturalized players restriction and foreign players limit from the 2020 season, the Chinese Football Association (CFA) announced Tuesday.

“For the healthy and sustainable development of the league, we have studied the advanced practices from all over the world and carried out these policies,” the CFA said in a notice to all the professional football clubs.

“We hope these detailed policies will help us to improve the managing level and the competition of our professional leagues,” the notice said.

According to the notice, a local CSL player will not be paid more than 10 million yuan (US$1.45 million) and foreign players will not be paid more than 3 million euros (US$3.36 million) before tax every year, including incomes from contract signing bonuses, image rights, real estate, cars, stocks and bonds.

Local players who are called up by the national team cannot be paid more than 12 million yuan.

All the business contracts that a player signs shall be authorized by the CFA.

The CFA will also change its policy on club’s foreign players limit from 2020. According to the new policy, every super league club can register seven foreign players during the 2020 season, but only six of them can be registered at one time, five can be in a squad list, and only four can play in a match.

A restriction on naturalized players will also be imposed in the 2020 season.

A naturalized player who was born in China or has Chinese ancestry will not occupy a club’s foreign players quota.

A naturalized player who has owned Chinese citizenship for more than five years or is eligible to playing for the Chinese national team will also not occupy the foreign players quota.

Other naturalized players will occupy club’s foreign players quota.(Xinhua)