FIFPRO poll finds one-third of WWC players earn under $30K\u060c<\/p>\n
Even though the 2023 Women’s World Cup offered record rewards, 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 survey released Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The global players’ union found that one in three World Cup players earn less than $30,000 a year from their national team and clubs combined.<\/p>\n
– Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n This figure does not include the minimum prize of $30,000 before taxes for the World Cup that FIFA has guaranteed to players.<\/p>\n Total prize money for the Women’s World Cup, the first in which it was guaranteed to players, rose to $150 million, 10 times what it was in 2015 and three times the 2019 total. That figure, however, remains dwarfed by the $440 million prize pool from the Men’s World Cup in Qatar last year.<\/p>\n \u201cThe players gave everything they had to deliver a brilliant World Cup, but there are still significant gaps to fill,\u201d said Sarah Gregorius, FIFPRO Director of Policy and Strategic Relations for Women’s Football<\/a>.<\/p>\n FIFPRO surveyed 260 World Cup players from 26 of the 32 national teams.<\/p>\n Even though some players have yet to receive the FIFA-guaranteed money, Gregorius said the delay in some countries was largely due to things like payment schedules, and that FIFA was working with them on that question.<\/p>\n “A lot of players have been paid and we’re getting a lot of feedback about how it’s changed their lives. In the end, I hope we’ll be able to say that 100% of the players have been paid. [and that] it was a real game-changer when it came to pay, gender equity and pay equity in football in general and in sport in general. \u00bb<\/p>\n