Breaking: Under the agreements, which run through 2028, members of both national teams will be paid equally for all competitions, including their respective World Cups
has agreed to separative collective bargaining agreements with its men’s and women’s national teams that will guarantee equal pay for players on both sides, likely ending the six-year legal fight between the women’s squad and the federation over salaries and working conditions.
The federation also agreed to provide equality in venues and playing fields, in accommodations at games and training camps, in charter flights and in staffing. “There’s many models you could have taken to equalize World Cup prize money. This is just the one that we landed on,” said Becca Roux, executive director of the women’s national team players’ association.“We had conversations, hard conversations, to get to where we were to where we are now,” said, a men’s national team defender and a member of the players’ union’s leadership group.
“We progressed. We’ve outgrown some of the conditions that may look like we have lost something,” said Midge Purce, a forward with the national team and with Gotham FC in the NWSL. “Our league is actually strong enough where now we don’t need as many guaranteed contracts. We can be on a more of a pay-to-play model.”
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