{"id":21042,"date":"2019-11-06T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/under-new-deal-australian-womens-and-mens-soccer-will-get-equal-share-of-revenue\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:29:11","slug":"under-new-deal-australian-womens-and-mens-soccer-will-get-equal-share-of-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/under-new-deal-australian-womens-and-mens-soccer-will-get-equal-share-of-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Under New Deal, Australian Women’s And Men’s Soccer Will Get Equal Share Of Revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Australia celebrates a goal during its knockout round match against Norway during the Women’s World Cup in France in June. Football Federation Australia announced a new deal on Wednesday to improve pay and conditions for the women’s team, known as the Matildas.<\/p>\n

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Australia’s soccer governing body says it has reached an agreement with its top-flight men’s and women’s teams that will give the teams an equal share of player-generated revenue and lift the salaries of its women’s team.<\/p>\n

Under the collective bargaining agreement<\/a> between Football Federation Australia and Professional Footballers Australia, the two teams will be granted 24% of the revenue that they generate: 19% for themselves, and 5% to be invested in their names in the country’s youth national teams. The share paid to players will rise one point a year.<\/p>\n

Salaries for the women’s team will rise under the new deal. Top women’s players will make about $57,000 USD a year in 2020, up from about $38,000 this year.<\/p>\n

The FFA says the deal amounts to a 90% raise in guaranteed minimum payments for the Matildas, as the women’s team is known. The men’s team is the Socceroos. (Australia has achieved relative parity in team nicknames.)<\/p>\n

The contract promise other improvements for the women’s team. The federation says it will upgrade the parental leave policy to provide more support for Matildas both during pregnancy and when they return to the pitch. Training conditions will now match those of the men’s team. And the Matildas will travel in business class on international flights, as the Socceroos long have.<\/p>\n