The profitable group on the inaugural FIFA Ladies’s Champions Cup will earn $2.3 million, the best single payout ever awarded in ladies’s membership soccer.
The runner-up within the Feb. 1 ultimate at London’s Arsenal Stadium will obtain $1 million, with the shedding semi-finalists every taking house $200,000. The 2 groups already eradicated – New Zealand’s Auckland United FC and China’s Wuhan Chegu Jiangda WFC – every pocketed $100,000.
The semi-finals are on Wednesday at Brentford Stadium in West London, with NWSL membership Gotham FC going through Brazil’s SC Corinthians adopted by native favorite Arsenal Ladies FC in opposition to Morocco’s AS FAR.
“A complete payout of near USD 4 million distributed among the many six individuals primarily based on their efficiency is a transparent assertion of the assumption in ladies’s membership soccer and the gamers, groups and competitions driving its continued rise,” mentioned FIFA secretary common Mattias Grafstrom.
“It displays the worldwide progress of the ladies’s sport and FIFA’s dedication to creating focused, significant investments that strengthen ladies’s membership soccer for the long run. Our focus is evident: to proceed investing in, rising and elevating ladies’s membership soccer at each degree – making certain that chance, visibility and worth hold tempo with the distinctive performances seen on the pitch.”
