FIFA payment must be sufficient
DFB does not pay any extra premiums to the national team
06/26/2023, 07:10 am
At least 30,000 US dollars, around 28,000 euros, is the minimum bonus for the soccer players at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. This money is paid out by FIFA, and the sum increases as you progress. The DFB now explains: We don’t put anything on it anymore.
The DFB will not pay the German soccer players at the forthcoming World Cup any prize money in addition to the bonuses from FIFA. This was confirmed by the German Football Association and referred to the payments made by the world association. For the world title at the tournament from July 20th to August 20th in Australia and New Zealand, captain Alexandra Popp and Co. would each receive 270,000 US dollars (252,000 euros).
Last year, the DFB negotiated and promised 400,000 euros with the German men for a triumph in Qatar. In most cases, a delegation from the DFB and one of the players meet to discuss the amount of the bonus. Such rounds of negotiations were also reported to have taken place between the association and the women’s national team, but apparently without an agreement beyond the FIFA bonuses.
FIFA recently announced that at least $30,000 (around €28,000) will be paid out to each player for the first time. In the end, the 23 world champions will each receive $270,000 (€252,000) and thus more than $6.2 million (around €5.8 million). “These aren’t the worst numbers,” Popp said. “Basically, we’re very happy with what FIFA has accomplished.”
FIFA changes the distribution of funds
Even Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who called for equal pay for women and men from the DFB, had been involved in the debate about equal pay since last year’s European Championships in England. The DFB can now save themselves further negotiations thanks to FIFA’s approach.
In the past, FIFA funds were only distributed to the respective national associations, which in turn determined their prize money for the teams themselves. Now the premiums are passed on directly to the World Cup players. The associations receive additional payments – the association of future world champions, for example, again over 4 million dollars (a good 3.7 million euros).
At the World Cup, FIFA is distributing a total of 110 million US dollars (around 103 million euros) – and thus still significantly less than last time for the men in Qatar: last year there was a total of 440 million dollars (411 million euros).