FIFA president announces three-fold increase in prize money for Women's World Cup

2023-03-17 09:00

FIFA president announces three-fold increase in prize money for Women's World Cup

FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced that the total prize money of this Women's World Cup will increase, which will be three times that of the previous one.


After Infantino was successfully re-elected as FIFA president, he took the stage to give a speech and mentioned the increase in the total prize money of the Women's World Cup. This year's Women's World Cup co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand has a total bonus of US$152 million, including bonuses, team funds and compensation to clubs.


In the Women's World Cup in France 4 years ago, the total prize money was only 50 million US dollars, and now it has increased by 3 times. However, the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada, which was one more session before, had a smaller total prize money of only US$15 million.


However, even if the total prize money of the Women's World Cup is now increased, it is not as good as the US$440 million in the 2022 Qatar Men's World Cup . It can be seen that there is a huge gap in the amount of men's and women's World Cups.


Infantino said FIFA aims to achieve equal pay for equal work at the 2026 men's and 2027 women's World Cups. Infantino also mentioned that the broadcaster's remuneration for the Women's World Cup is 100 times lower than that of the Men's World Cup.


Infantino said: "FIFA wants to improve the status of women, unfortunately not everyone in the industry thinks that way, especially broadcast companies and sponsors should have to do more."


FIFA president announces three-fold increase in prize money for Women's World Cup The Women's World Cup, hosted by Australia and New Zealand this year, will open in July this year and will have the final in Sydney in August. There are 32 teams participating in this Women's World Cup, compared with 24 teams four years ago.