The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup prize money purse is a record $152 million, a 300% jump from 2019. Still, it remains roughly a third of the men's purse.
FIFA has had some success. This summer’s World Cup will be the largest in history, with 32 teams and 64 games, and it will be the first shared by two countries, with New Zealand playing host to 29 matches and Australia staging 35. Organizers say overall ticket sales, which have been lagging in New Zealand, are expected to top 1.5 million while TV viewership could reach 2 billion worldwide. Both figures also would be records.
“I’ve heard him say the future of football is female. That commitment to equalize it, I think, for the next World Cup is something that’s very forefront,” she said. “There’s a recognition of just how much the women’s game has grown and how much potential still remains in it.”said FIFA already has made some things equal. For example, all the teams will have base camps and dedicated training facilities rather than having to pick up and move after every game.
“Looking at the equal conditions, having single rooms, that’s not something that we could ever imagine,” said Riley, one of more than 150 women who last fall signed on to a letter from the players international union to Infantino demanding better treatment and equal pay. “Your roommate might have a cold, might have diarrhea. You’re in a tiny, itty-bitty room with no room to even open your suitcase.
So will one other perk: This year every World Cup player, whether they step foot on the pitch or not, is entitled to $30,000, more than double the average annual club salary for a woman’s soccer player in 2022. Whether the women get that money is far from certain, however, since FIFA said the payments will be made to each team’s national federation, which will be responsible for passing the money on.
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