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Who will be the 2023 NWSL Champions?
Herculez Gomez explains why Portland won the title and Sebastian Salazar says KC won.
The 2023 NSWL Challenge Cup, a mid-season tournament that kicks off on April 19, will earn the $1 million prize pool for the first time in league history.
The financial assistance is part of a multi-year, multi-million dollar deal with HR, payroll and workforce management firm UKG.
With a sponsorship deal that began in 2022, the 12-team season-opening tournament prize pot will be doubled tenfold in 2022 and doubled again in 2023, “bringing fair rewards to the world of professional sports.” ” was set as the goal.
“Our players have long been on equal footing with male players in terms of skill and ability.The UKG partnership will raise awareness and address the unfair reality of the lack of women on and off the field. It’s important to advance the league’s broader efforts to put things right…it has literally changed,” NWSL Commissioner Jessica Berman said in a news release.
Major League Soccer’s MLS is Back tournament in Orlando in 2020 has a total prize pool of $1.1 million, and the MLS Cup has a similar prize pool.
The US Women’s National Team filed a sex discrimination lawsuit in early March 2019, which resulted in a $24 million settlement three years later. The player wanted a backpay of $66.7 million.
In 2022, the United States Soccer Federation became the first football federation to award FIFA World Cup prize money equally to the men’s and women’s national team players who participated in the World Cup. Joint CBA with United States Soccer Federation, USWNT Players Association, and National Soccer Team Players Association. The joint CBA will run until his 2028.
Thanks to a new deal, the USWNT made more money when they reached the knockout stages of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar than they did when they won the 2015 and 2019 Women’s World Cups.
The USWNT has won a total of 4 World Cups and 4 Olympic gold medals. In contrast, the USMNT has never won a World Cup and his best result was his 2002 quarterfinal.
This year’s Women’s World Cup prize money is $150 million, a 300% increase over 2019, but only about a third of the $440 million won by the men in Qatar in 2022 .
FIFA said it aims to bring men’s and women’s tournaments to parity by 2027.
UKG’s sponsorship initiative also includes working with Angel City FC forwards Sidney Leroux and Kristen Press to raise awareness about pay equity in the United States through a campaign called ‘Challenge Accepted’. raising awareness.
“Everyone in any kind of work deserves to be shown that they are paid fairly and valued for their time and talent.
The NWSL Players’ Association will join the AFL-CIO in 2021 and the MLSPA will follow suit in 2023.
The Portland Thorns are the defending champions of the Challenge Cup, and the tournament runs through September 9th.