The tournament, which begins Thursday in Australia and New Zealand, will bring a record amount of prize money in the history of the women’s soccer world championship.
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According to the announcement of the International Federation (FIFA) on Tuesday
$152 million will be awarded to participating teams.
Of this amount, fifty million dollars are “starting money” distributed to 32 national teams. Members of the world champion team can count on a bonus of $ 270,000 per person.
However, the current amount is still about a third of the men’s FIFA World Cup prize money.
And in the World Cup in Qatar last year, the teams received 440 million dollars.
The increase is staggering for women, the amount has tripled compared to the 2019 World Cup, and increased tenfold compared to 2015.
The goal is for the national teams to receive the same amount of money for the 2026 men’s and 2027 women’s world cup tournaments.
– said FIFA President Gianni Infantino in Congress in March.
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This year’s Women’s World Cup kicks off on July 20 and is hosted by Australia and New Zealand. The matches will be held in five cities in Australia and four in New Zealand. The largest participating stadium is Stadium Australia in Sydney, which has a capacity of 83,500.
The first Women’s World Cup was held in China in 1991. At that time, there were still 12 teams in the tournament, which has since swelled to 24 teams. The first official world championship for men was held 61 years ago, in 1930. The United States won the Women’s World Cup for the first time. The United States is the holder of the most World Cup titles, with four in total. In 2015 and 2019, the US National Team won. Germany have been victorious twice, and Norway and Japan have won the cup once each.
