Women’s World Cup: Super Falcons’ players to cash out $30,000 each
Nigeria’s Super Falcons players will have an opportunity to walk home with $30,000 each if they win the FIFA Women’s World Cup coming up in July
The organisers of the tournament have increased the prize money of the tournament which will be hosted by Australia and New Zealand.
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According to the announcement made by FIFA, each player (all 23 members) of the winning team are guaranteed at least $30,000.
Roughly, $270,000 will be given to the team. It was gathered that the said prize money will be given directly to the players instead of the country’s federation receiving the money and disbursing it to the players.
The $30,000 minimum directed prize money is more than twice the average salary of $14,000 for paid players surveyed in FIFA’s 2022 benchmarking report.
For the upcoming Women’s World Cup, member associations will also receive increased funding based on performance, with winners taking $4.29 million home and delegations earning $1.56 million for participating in the group stage.
The total performance-based prize funds still significantly trail what was the on the offer at the men’s tournament last year, where $440 million total prize fund was awarded.
FIFA has made it clear to national federations that it expects that the amount retained by member associations will be reinvested in their footballing activities, including coaching staff, grassroots projects, youth national teams and women’s football capacity-building programmes.
FIFPRO said the news “represents not only the outcome of tremendous global collective action by 150 national team players… but a constructive negotiation with FIFA over the past months.”
“The have listened to the voice of the players and we have taken steps toward greater gender equity in our game at the highest levels,” the global soccer players union said in a statement.