While the 2023 Women’s World Cup featured record prize money, many of the tournament’s players still lack adequate financial compensation and one in five supplement their income with a second job, according to a FIFPRO poll released Wednesday.
The global players union found that one in three of those World Cup players earn less than $30,000 a year from their national team and clubs combined.
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That figure does not include the pre-tax $30,000 minimum World Cup prize money that players were guaranteed from FIFA.
The total prize money at the Women’s World Cup, the first in which it was guaranteed to go to the players, increased to $150 million, 10 times what it was in 2015 and three times the 2019 total. That figure, however, was still dwarfed by the $440 million prize pool for the men’s World Cup in Qatar last year.
“The players gave everything they had to put on a brilliant World Cup, but there are still important gaps that need addressing,” said Sarah Gregorius, FIFPRO’s director of policy and strategic relations for women’s football.
FIFPRO surveyed 260 World Cup players from 26 of the 32 national teams.
While some players have yet to see the money guaranteed by FIFA, Gregorius said the delay in some…
