Prize money for 2023 Women’s World Cup to be raised to $US150 million as part of FIFA’s three-step gender equality plan

The prize cash for the 2023 Girls’s World Cup shall be $226 million, 10 occasions what it was in 2015 and thrice the quantity of 2019.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino introduced the $US150 million prize in his closing remarks to the 73rd FIFA Congress on Thursday.

The determine, nonetheless, was nonetheless significantly decrease than the $US440 million ($663 million) complete prize cash awarded on the males’s World Cup in Qatar final 12 months.

“For the primary time ever, I [plan to] dedicate a selected portion of this cost, which primarily has to go to soccer growth, however a selected portion of that ought to go after all to the gamers,” Mr Infantino mentioned, in asserting step two of a three-step plan.

The 1st step, he mentioned, can be equal circumstances and providers, similar to lodging and flights, for all women and men enjoying at a World Cup.

The ladies’s groups could have devoted base camps on the World Cup, which opens on July 20 in New Zealand and Australia.

Step three, in response to Mr Infantino, can be probably the most difficult, and would come with a devoted advertising technique for the ladies’s sport.

“Our mission will be capable of have equality in funds for 2026 males’s and 2027 ladies’s World Cups,” he mentioned.

World soccer gamers’ union FIFPRO applauded Thursday’s announcement, saying it confirmed the intent of gamers and FIFA to work collectively.

“By the voice and solidarity of gamers around the globe over months and years of campaigning, vital progress has been made within the circumstances, prize cash, and prize cash redistribution for the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup,” it mentioned in an announcement.

In October, 150 gamers wrote to FIFA searching for equal Girls’s World Cup circumstances.

Reuters