Gianni Infantino has introduced FIFA’s intention for equal prize cash by the 2027 Women’s World Cup.
The cash would match the 2026 males’s World Cup by then, FIFA’s president has introduced.
Women’s World Cup prize cash is rising to $110m for this yr’s event, from $30m in 2019.
There may even be a further $40m for workforce preparation cash and for golf equipment who launch gamers.
At the boys’s World Cup final yr in Qatar the prize cash on provide totalled $440m.
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Earlier, Sky News reported FIFA was engaged on improved pay and situations for gamers on the Women’s World Cup.
A deal has been labored on across the FIFA Congress which is happening in Kigali, Rwanda.
Concerns have been raised by gamers about prize cash disparities forward of the event in Australia and New Zealand later this yr.
While the prize pool for the boys’s World Cup in Qatar final yr was $440m (£365m+), the money to be break up between groups is $60m (nearly £50m) on the girls’s event.
The Women’s World Cup has additionally added groups since France 2019 with 32 quite than 24 finalists – together with European champions England.
Female gamers have lobbied their world union FIFPRO to push FIFA for equal pay.
FIFA’s money reserves have grown to $4bn.
Gianni Infantino has been re-elected as FIFA president for an additional four-year time period on the governing physique’s congress of 211 member associations.
He was first elected president in 2016.
Source: information.sky.com”
