Each Player At FIFA Women’s World Cup To Receive At Least $30k For The First Time
The plea of women footballers across the globe has finally been answered. FIFA declares that each player will receive at least $30K, and the amount will go higher for the member of a team that makes progress in the tournament. The members of the winning squad will receive $270000 each.
Beyond the individual pay package hike, FIFA has also increased the Women’s World Cup prize amount this year by three times the amount dished out at the 2019 event.
This hike in the prize pool, or rather individual pay package, is very significant as many of the players are not from a club team and thus don’t receive salaries. And this is quite a growth as, according to a FIFA report in 2022, the average annual salary of a female soccer player was $14000 in a year.
Along with the hike in the pay package, FIFA has also announced parity in the amenities to be provided to the women players during the tournament in New Zealand and Australia. The Federation Internationale de Football Association or FIFA has said that women players will enjoy similar support in accommodation and travel as the men players.
Despite this hike in the payment, it seems that FIFA still has a long way to go to bring men’s and women’s football to the same podium. This echoes in the words of Alex Morgan, the star forward in the US women’s soccer team.
She says, “We still have a ways to go, but having them direct the payments to players is huge — it’s a life-changing thing for many of these players entering the tournament.
Coming away with each player making $30,000 is huge because usually that money goes to federations and those players don’t see any, or much of that money.
”Besides the boost in the individual pay package, FIFA this year has set a fund of $152 million for the Women’s World Cup, covering 32 teams this year.
This fund includes the cost of team preparation, payments offered to players’ clubs, and prize money. This is a massive improvement from the figures for 2019. That year the fund was set as $40 million with prize money of $30 million.
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