Women's World Cup prize money significantly increased

Prize money for the 2023 Women's World Cup will be $150m [€141.3m], 10 times what it was in 2015 and three times the amount of 2019.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced the figure his closing remarks to the 73rd FIFA Congress on Thursday.

It is, however, is still considerably lower than the $440m [€414.6m] million total prize money awarded at the men's World Cup in Qatar last year.

"For the first time ever, I [plan to] dedicate a specific portion of this payment, which mainly has to go to football development, but a specific portion of that should go of course to the players," Infantino said, in announcing step two of his three-step plan.

Step one, Infantino said, will be equal conditions and services for all men and women playing at a World Cup.

"This will be a reality already for the Cup in 2023, same conditions as for the World Cup 22 will be for the players and coaching staff in the Women's World Cup in 23."

Step three, he said, would be the most complicated and would include a dedicated marketing strategy for the women's game.

"Our mission will be able to have equality in payments for 2026 men's and 2027 women's World Cups."

The Republic of Ireland are currently gearing up for their first ever appearance at a Women's World Cup.

They will start the tournament against co-hosts Australia in Sydney on 20 July, before facing reigning Olympic champions Canada in Perth and Nigeria in Brisbane.

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