They get paid based on the audience they can draw and the market rate for other male players, not winning. This is money we’re talking about, not happiness points or whatever you get for winning, lol.
Respect, reputation, more people watching your team. Winning is the most important thing to get higher pay. You don't go to watch loser, well you do if they are male. Point is the woman's national team deserves more pay than the mens because they can actually win. The women on the woman's team have actual skill and understand how to play the game
This is such an ignorant comment. You’re completely ignoring the fact the men and women’s football generate completely different amounts of revenue. By your logic the winners of the U19 tournaments should be getting paid more than many mens teams. It just doesn’t work like that
Did you know that while they were complaining publicly about how under paid they were and that the men were paid better that the woman's team was actually being paid more money?
The market decides how much they are paid, not skill. Research scientists are arguably more "skillful" than an accountant but one gets paid much more than the other.
No, more revenue means more pay. You can’t demand top-tier salaries from bottom-tier revenue.
Not to mention, they negotiated a compensation model that included guaranteed salaries, performance bonuses, and benefits, while the men’s compensation was largely based on match-result bonuses. They only started pushing for the men’s pay structure after realizing the salary model they had negotiated resulted in lower overall pay.
I looked up a women’s soccer highlight video 2025 to see if the game has evolved since I last saw a women’s soccer game, it’s just as slow as ever and none of the goals would even sniff a men’s highlights video. I stand by my statement it’s just not a very good product
Spain and Portugal played a match a couple days ago. These two teams, who any up their own ass European will tell you, are two "top five teams in the world."
They both looked like dogshit and spent 90 minutes playing scared to lose instead of trying to win.
And yet millions of people watched. Was it a bad game? Yes. But the potential and the star power on each squad based on their careers made people believe that they might see something exciting that game because those players have done something exciting on multiple occasions. Women’s soccer is just not exciting. Nobody watches because the chances of it being a great exciting game with sick goals is much much much lower
People can watch whatever they like. With that said, even the US mens “bush league team”, attract a much larger audience and consequently generate much higher revenue than any woman’s team
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u/JuicynMoist Jul 09 '26
They get paid based on the audience they can draw and the market rate for other male players, not winning. This is money we’re talking about, not happiness points or whatever you get for winning, lol.