An Investigation Into The Factors Interfering The Development Of Chinese Women's Football Sport

Chinese women's football had been initiated from the late 1970s and early 1980s. Experiencing more than 20 years' endeavor, they had becoming a formidable women soccer power in 1990s, finishing runner-up at the 1996 Olympics and later at the 1999 World Cup and got unprecedented attention, at that time the Women's Football League Competition in China has also been the scene of a hit. But since then it has slipped to ninth place in the world rankings. Its lowest point was a humiliating 0-8 debacle at the hands of eventual champion Germany at the 2004 Athens Olympics. Thereafter, no attention was paid to the competition any more, and this sports had been at a very low tide for a long time in China. Its survival and prospects had become big concerns. The fifth Women's Football World Cup in 2007 and the 2008 Olympic games will be held in China, which may be a good opportunity for their development. Chinese Football Association has made a "developing women's football team in priority" strategy, and will make great efforts to create better conditions for the development of women's football team. However, the level of women's soccer in China is influenced by a lot of factors, which still lies in the stage of exploring and experimenting. The lack of theoretical research is also a big problem. Based on all these backgrounds, this paper made a systematical study on the factors influencing the level of women's football team and put forward constructive suggestions and recommendations, hoping it can contribute a little to the development of women's football in our country.We choose eight club teams in the Chinese Women's Football Super League, as well as Shanxi and Shaanxi women's soccer team as the study subject, and interview some community residents so as to research the maim problems and factors affecting the development of women's football team and to analyze the impact of traditional Chinese culture on the women team members. In this study process, we adopted documentation, investigation, interview methods, mathematical statistics and logic analysis as the basic analysis methods. The results are as follows:1. Investigating on the current status of women's football team includes: the purpose of team building, management system, competition situation, training status, coach and athletes situation. The interview on some community residents includes: the understanding to women's football, the degree of their concern, acceptance and the future development trends.2. The main factors affecting the development of women's football include: centraliged system of the Nation, financing system, the reserve strength of athletes, its popularity in society, the level of training and competition, management system, the overall quality of the coaches and athletes, the impact of China's traditional culture, etc.3. Suggestions: improving the management capacity; reinforcing team building and the reserve force training, expanding women's football population; fostering excellent Coaches; helping the retired athletes find their way out; raising enough funds for its development; giving more publicity to women's football, improving their social acceptance; paying more attention on the research of women's football.