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Revenue Disparity Explains Pay Disparity Between Soccer World Cup's Men And Women
Mike Ozanian Forbes Staff
SportsMoney
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News today that France earned $38 million from FIFA for winning soccer's World Cup in Russia, while the women's champion in France this summer will earn just $4 million, has prompted outrage.
The total prize money for the Women's World Cup in France this July will be $30 million compared with total prize money of $440 million for the men's teams at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
“The difference between the men’s and women’s prize money is ridiculous,” Tatjana Haenni, who oversaw women’s soccer for FIFA before stepping down in 2017, said, according to the Associated Press. “It’s really disappointing the gap between the men’s and women’s World Cups got bigger. It sends the wrong message.”
Nonsense. When viewed appropriately—based on how much money they generate—women actually make more than men.
As Dwight Jaynes pointed out four years ago after the U.S. women beat Japan to capture the World Cup in Vancouver, there is a big difference in the revenue available to pay the teams. The Women's World Cup brought in almost $73 million, of which the players got 13%. The 2010 men's World Cup in South Africa made almost $4 billion, of which 9% went to the players.
The men still pull the World Cup money wagon. The men's World Cup in Russia generated over $6 billion in revenue, with the participating teams sharing $400 million, less than 7% of revenue. Meanwhile, the Women's World Cup is expected to earn $131 million for the full four-year cycle 2019-22 and dole out $30 million to the participating teams.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeoz...ween-men-and-women-is-justified/#94668d56da4a
Revenue Disparity Explains Pay Disparity Between Soccer World Cup's Men And Women
Mike Ozanian Forbes Staff
SportsMoney
Traffic cop at the intersection of money and sports
News today that France earned $38 million from FIFA for winning soccer's World Cup in Russia, while the women's champion in France this summer will earn just $4 million, has prompted outrage.
The total prize money for the Women's World Cup in France this July will be $30 million compared with total prize money of $440 million for the men's teams at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
“The difference between the men’s and women’s prize money is ridiculous,” Tatjana Haenni, who oversaw women’s soccer for FIFA before stepping down in 2017, said, according to the Associated Press. “It’s really disappointing the gap between the men’s and women’s World Cups got bigger. It sends the wrong message.”
Nonsense. When viewed appropriately—based on how much money they generate—women actually make more than men.
As Dwight Jaynes pointed out four years ago after the U.S. women beat Japan to capture the World Cup in Vancouver, there is a big difference in the revenue available to pay the teams. The Women's World Cup brought in almost $73 million, of which the players got 13%. The 2010 men's World Cup in South Africa made almost $4 billion, of which 9% went to the players.
The men still pull the World Cup money wagon. The men's World Cup in Russia generated over $6 billion in revenue, with the participating teams sharing $400 million, less than 7% of revenue. Meanwhile, the Women's World Cup is expected to earn $131 million for the full four-year cycle 2019-22 and dole out $30 million to the participating teams.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeoz...ween-men-and-women-is-justified/#94668d56da4a
Steve Sailer@Steve_Sailer 17h17 hours ago
America dominates women's soccer for the same reason South Korea dominates women's golf: because nobody else cares.https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1147965294259900416…
Steve Sailer Retweeted Michael Tracey
Michael TraceyVerified account@mtracey
In two sentences or less, what’s the fundamental reason why the US women’s soccer team is so good, and the men’s team is so bad?
2:38 PM - 7 Jul 2019
America dominates women's soccer for the same reason South Korea dominates women's golf: because nobody else cares.https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1147965294259900416…
Steve Sailer Retweeted Michael Tracey
Michael TraceyVerified account@mtracey
In two sentences or less, what’s the fundamental reason why the US women’s soccer team is so good, and the men’s team is so bad?
2:38 PM - 7 Jul 2019
Well as evidenced by this World Cup, U.S. women did not dominate that easily, they beat really good teams in tough matches. Brazil, England, Netherlands, Sweden, Spaini all were really good teams.
Men have much higher level professional level teams and US Men's team is filled with college players who then go pro at 21-22 years old in the MLS. International teams are filled with people who went pro at 15-17 years old in a top notch academy. That is why U.S. will never match the powers for soccer but they dominate in basketball. Our AAU summer teams and tournaments are the equivalent to what other countries do for soccer. That is why we can send U-19 teams to the FIBA tournaments and dominate because these kids have been playing against the top talent in the world already.
The pay difference comes down to mainyl revenue differences but it is quasi ignorant to say no one cares about women's world cup when more people watched this than the World Series or Stanley Cup Finals played by men. Look at the attendance for the Gold Cup and Copa de America versus WWC in France.
Men have much higher level professional level teams and US Men's team is filled with college players who then go pro at 21-22 years old in the MLS. International teams are filled with people who went pro at 15-17 years old in a top notch academy. That is why U.S. will never match the powers for soccer but they dominate in basketball. Our AAU summer teams and tournaments are the equivalent to what other countries do for soccer. That is why we can send U-19 teams to the FIBA tournaments and dominate because these kids have been playing against the top talent in the world already.
The pay difference comes down to mainyl revenue differences but it is quasi ignorant to say no one cares about women's world cup when more people watched this than the World Series or Stanley Cup Finals played by men. Look at the attendance for the Gold Cup and Copa de America versus WWC in France.
Most of the revenue for sporting events come from advertisers of several types, directly and indirectly. Money available to pay players comes out of this revenue. Bigger revenue equals bigger potential payouts. I would imagine the most profitable group by far for advertisers would be the US consumer with their large discretionary spending. Perhaps US advertisers see relatively smaller value trying to market to audiences of woman’s soccer. It would be interesting to compare commercials between men’s and woman’s soccer and with other sports. However, I’m not the one to do it as I don’t give a damn about woman’s soccer, especially since they don’t seem to give a damn about our country or our President who is working to improve our competitiveness.