The Matildas are in line for a massive pay day if they can win the FIFA Women’s World Cup on home soil this year. 7NEWS
FIFA has set out how a record prize money pot will be distributed for the tournament in Australia and New Zealand, with $US270,000 earmarked for each member of the winning squad.Every player involved in the tournament is guaranteed to receive at least $30,000 , at a time when the average salary in the women’s game worldwide is $14,000 , according to last year’s FIFA benchmarking report.
A group of 150 players from 25 national teams - including players from England, Scotland, Wales and the Republic of Ireland - had written to FIFA in October last year calling for equal conditions and for a guarantee that at least 30 per cent of prizemoney would be allocated to players.Credit:Previously, there was no requirement for national associations to distribute a minimum amount of World Cup prize money to participating players.
“The confirmation of equal conditions and guaranteed per-player performance compensation at next month’s World Cup represents not only the outcome of tremendous global collective action by over 150 national team players, under the umbrella of FIFPRO and its member unions, but a constructive negotiation with FIFA over the past months,” FIFPRO said in a statement.
FIFA is working to make the women’s game self-sustaining, and is understood to be bearing more of the load on prizemoney compared to sponsors and broadcasters for this year’s tournament than it would like to in the future.
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