For the first time, players participating in the Women’s World Cup will be guaranteed pay by FIFA, The Equalizer has confirmed.
FIFA will pay out $110 million in total prize money to the 32 teams at the 2023 World Cup. Four years ago, the total prize money was $30 million for 24 teams.
Under the new guarantees, each player participating in the World Cup is guaranteed a minimum of $30,000. Players from the winning team will receive $270,000 each. The minimum guarantee of $30,000 per World Cup player more than doubles what FIFA determined to be the average global salary of paid players ($14,000) in a recent study.
The changes from FIFA come following a letter in October that was sent from world players union FIFPro to FIFA president Gianni Infantino asking for “equal framework of regulations and conditions” for the men’s and women’s World Cups, and at least a 30% increase in prize money from the 2019 World Cup.
In a statement issued on Thursday, FIFPro said:
“The confirmation of equal conditions and guaranteed per-player performance…
