Football in Australia: Same money for "Matildas" and "Socceroos"

Australia points out more equality in sport: As the "Guardian" and the "Daily Telegraph" report, the football national teams of women and men will no longer be paid differently. Australian media spoke of a historic settlement reached after months of negotiations with the national football association FFA.

The national players and their internationally less successful male counterparts should thus benefit equally from the advertising revenues and premiums of the association. In any case, when the deal takes the last legal hurdles, which according to the newspaper "Daily Telegraph" is still expected this week.

Australia's women footballers ranked eighth in the world rankings

According to the new rules, the players would in the future receive 40 instead of the previous 30 percent of the advertising revenue. Much more remarkable than this increase, however, is that the sum should be split equally between the teams of both genders. The representatives of the women's and men's selection had long ago agreed among themselves to set a sign for equal rights. Their union representatives now apparently enforced this line against the association.

It is unclear, however, how the deal affects possible tournament prize money. The Australian women's team would have gotten $ 250,000, according to "Guardian" for a World Cup victory this year. The men, however, reportedly earned $ 1.25 million for success in the low-profile Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates.

In practice, the men - currently ranked 41st in the world rankings - should therefore continue to earn more than the women, since the FFA unimpressable prize money as in the World Cup is usually much higher. The "Matildas" score much better in an international comparison: they are currently number eight in the world and were even temporarily fourth in 2017.