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The typical annual wage for a feminine skilled soccer participant globally is $10,900, says FIFA’s annual report on the ladies’s recreation, a determine skewed by a small variety of high golf equipment.
Among the many groups FIFA designated as Tier 1, which incorporates 41 golf equipment from 16 nations, the common wage was round $24,030, though 16 of these high golf equipment paid a median gross wage of over $50,000, based on the “Setting the Pace, FIFA Benchmarking Report on Women’s Football” launched on Monday.
The best of these salaries was roughly $120,000.
The typical gross wage, nonetheless, at Tier 2 and three golf equipment was $4,361 and $2,805, respectively.
“There is a need for players of a certain standard to earn a reliable and sufficient income solely from playing, reducing their dependence on secondary sources of income and allowing them to dedicate the time required to play at a higher level,” the report mentioned.
Tier 1 golf equipment additionally featured the longest participant contracts, mostly between one and three years, with salaries highest for contracts of two to a few years, whereas Tier 3 groups had been almost certainly of the tiers to supply contracts below three months.
“A longer contract enables players to commit to a club and a location, giving them more stability so they can focus on their footballing careers,” mentioned the report.
It additionally highlighted attendances as an space of concern.
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Whereas Arsenal hosted Manchester United in entrance of a Girls’s Tremendous League file 60,160 followers at Emirates Stadium final 12 months, Tier 1 groups averaged 1,713 followers, whereas Tiers 2 and three had been 480 and 380, respectively.
Arsenal had been among the many 23% of golf equipment that performed some matches at a stadium apart from their common floor, enjoying 5 dwelling league video games at The Emirates and the remaining at Meadow Park, which has a seating capability of 1,700 and whole capability of 4,500.
“For clubs in Tier 1, the average attendance at the other stadium was typically double that at the regular stadium, indicating that the sport has the ability to attract larger audiences on occasion,” the report mentioned.
Girls are under-represented in teaching roles, with 22% of head coaches throughout all tiers being feminine. There’s extra gender fairness amongst officers, with 42% of referees being feminine, starting from 57% in Tier 1 leagues to 25% in Tiers 2 and three.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino mentioned the report helps golf equipment, leagues and stakeholders acquire a greater understanding of the components that drive success.
“The strides made in recent years have been remarkable, but there is still more work to be done to unlock its full potential,” he mentioned.
Surveys for “Setting the Pace” had been despatched to 135 leagues and 1,518 golf equipment, with a complete of 677 golf equipment in 90 leagues responding.
FIFA tiers had been decided by components equivalent to whether or not the league had a membership licensing system, the variety of a league’s gamers who featured within the 2023 Girls’s World Cup and a member affiliation’s whole funds for girls’s soccer amongst others.
