The 2023 payout at a glance
The ninth FIFA Womens World Cup, played from 20 July to 20 August 2023, was the first with 32 teams and the first in which FIFA told every federation in advance how much of its prize money had to go to the players. Spain beat England 1 to 0 in the Sydney final, Sweden beat Australia for third place, and the remaining 28 nations went home with one of three fixed amounts depending on the round in which they lost.
Because the 2027 tournament in Brazil has not been played and its payment ladder had not been published by October 2026, the 2023 figures are still the most recent complete record of how the money in the tournament is shared. How the fund grew to this level over earlier editions is covered in our main report on Womens World Cup prize money. This page goes one level deeper and follows every dollar of the 2023 fund to a stage, a nation, a confederation and a player.
What FIFA set for each final position
FIFA published the payment model on 8 June 2023, six weeks before kick-off. It listed two scales. The first gave each participating member association a sum according to its final position, from 1.56 million dollars for a group stage exit to 4.29 million dollars for the champions. The second fixed a payment for each player in the squad, from 30,000 dollars at the group stage to 270,000 dollars for a world champion. Adding 23 times the player amount to the federation amount gives the team total.
| Final position | Teams | Federation amount | Per player | All 23 players | Team total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Champions | 1 | $4,290,000 | $270,000 | $6,210,000 | $10,500,000 |
| Runners-up | 1 | $3,015,000 | $195,000 | $4,485,000 | $7,500,000 |
| Third place | 1 | $2,610,000 | $180,000 | $4,140,000 | $6,750,000 |
| Fourth place | 1 | $2,455,000 | $165,000 | $3,795,000 | $6,250,000 |
| Quarter-finals | 4 | $2,180,000 | $90,000 | $2,070,000 | $4,250,000 |
| Round of 16 | 8 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
| Group stage | 16 | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
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Two details are easy to miss. First, the payments are not cumulative: a quarter-finalist received 4.25 million dollars in total, not the group amount plus the round of 16 amount plus a quarter-final bonus. Second, the federation figures for the top four are not round numbers. The runners-up federation amount was 3,015,000 dollars, a figure often misreported as 3.05 million, and the fourth place amount was 2,455,000 dollars. Both were set so that each team total lands on a round number once the 23 player payments are added.
The players overtake the federation at the semi-final stage: from fourth place upward the squad amount is larger than the federation amount for every team.
The chart shows how the balance shifts as a team goes further. At the group stage the federation amount was more than twice the combined squad amount. From the quarter-finals the two were close, and for the four semi-finalists the squad amount was the bigger of the two, reaching 6.21 million dollars for Spain against 4.29 million dollars for the Spanish federation.
What each of the 32 nations received in 2023
Applying the FIFA scale to the official results gives a figure for every nation. The money depended only on the final position, so it says nothing about how a team played, how many goals it scored or how big its federation is. Germany, ranked second in the world before the tournament, and debutants such as Haiti, Vietnam and Zambia received exactly the same 2.25 million dollars because all of them went out in the group stage.
Four levels below the semi-finals: 16 nations got 2.25 million dollars, 8 got 3.25 million and 4 got 4.25 million, while the top four shared 31 million.
The sortable table below lists the same nations with both components. Click on a heading to rank the teams by confederation, by stage or by any of the amounts.
| Nation ↕ | Confed. ↕ | Furthest stage ↕ | Federation (USD) ↕ | Per player (USD) ↕ | Squad of 23 (USD) ↕ | Total (USD) ↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Spain | UEFA | Champions | $4,290,000 | $270,000 | $6,210,000 | $10,500,000 |
 England | UEFA | Runners-up | $3,015,000 | $195,000 | $4,485,000 | $7,500,000 |
 Sweden | UEFA | Third place | $2,610,000 | $180,000 | $4,140,000 | $6,750,000 |
 Australia | AFC | Fourth place | $2,455,000 | $165,000 | $3,795,000 | $6,250,000 |
 Japan | AFC | Quarter-finals | $2,180,000 | $90,000 | $2,070,000 | $4,250,000 |
 Netherlands | UEFA | Quarter-finals | $2,180,000 | $90,000 | $2,070,000 | $4,250,000 |
 Colombia | CONMEBOL | Quarter-finals | $2,180,000 | $90,000 | $2,070,000 | $4,250,000 |
 France | UEFA | Quarter-finals | $2,180,000 | $90,000 | $2,070,000 | $4,250,000 |
 Switzerland | UEFA | Round of 16 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
 Norway | UEFA | Round of 16 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
 Nigeria | CAF | Round of 16 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
 Denmark | UEFA | Round of 16 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
 United States | CONCACAF | Round of 16 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
 South Africa | CAF | Round of 16 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
 Jamaica | CONCACAF | Round of 16 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
 Morocco | CAF | Round of 16 | $1,870,000 | $60,000 | $1,380,000 | $3,250,000 |
 New Zealand | OFC | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Philippines | AFC | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Canada | CONCACAF | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Rep. of Ireland | UEFA | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Zambia | CAF | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Costa Rica | CONCACAF | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 China PR | AFC | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Haiti | CONCACAF | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Portugal | UEFA | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Vietnam | AFC | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Brazil | CONMEBOL | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Panama | CONCACAF | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Italy | UEFA | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Argentina | CONMEBOL | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Germany | UEFA | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
 Korea Republic | AFC | Group stage | $1,560,000 | $30,000 | $690,000 | $2,250,000 |
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Source: FIFA payment model of 8 June 2023 applied to the official 2023 results. Totals are the federation amount plus 23 times the per player amount. Calculated by BusinessStats.
A few results stand out in money terms. Jamaica, Morocco and South Africa each reached the round of 16, earning 3.25 million dollars, as much as the United States, the champion of 2015 and 2019, which lost on penalties to Sweden at the same stage. Colombia, the only South American quarter-finalist, earned 4.25 million dollars, almost twice the amount Brazil and Argentina received. New Zealand beat Norway in the opening match but still exited in the group stage and, like Canada, the reigning Olympic champion, received the minimum.
The four semi-finalists alone received 31 million dollars, 28.2 percent of the fund, although they were only one eighth of the field. Spain alone collected 10.5 million dollars, more than four group stage teams put together. A list of every winner of the tournament since 1991 is in our Womens World Cup winners page, and the national teams that have played most often are ranked in the appearances table.
What every knockout win was worth
Because the payment depended on the final position, the gap between two levels is the real price of a knockout match. Getting out of the group added 1 million dollars to a team total, and so did winning a round of 16 tie. A quarter-final win was worth at least 2 million dollars, because the losing semi-finalists were guaranteed fourth place money of 6.25 million dollars.
| Step | Team total before | Team total after | Increase | Of which per player |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advancing from the group | 2,250,000 | 3,250,000 | +1,000,000 | +30,000 |
| Winning in the round of 16 | 3,250,000 | 4,250,000 | +1,000,000 | +30,000 |
| Winning a quarter-final | 4,250,000 | 6,250,000 or more | +2,000,000 minimum | +75,000 minimum |
| Winning a semi-final | 6,250,000 or 6,750,000 | 7,500,000 or more | +750,000 minimum | +15,000 minimum |
| Winning the third place match | 6,250,000 | 6,750,000 | +500,000 | +15,000 |
| Winning the final | 7,500,000 | 10,500,000 | +3,000,000 | +75,000 |
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The final was by far the most valuable match. The difference between first and second, 3 million dollars, was larger than the entire allocation of any group stage team. For each Spanish player the win over England was worth 75,000 dollars, the gap between the 270,000 and 195,000 dollar levels. The third place play-off, by contrast, was worth 500,000 dollars, of which 15,000 dollars per player, to Sweden.
The semi-final step was the smallest of the knockout rounds. Reaching the final guaranteed at least 7.5 million dollars against a maximum of 6.75 million dollars for the losers, so the minimum gain was 750,000 dollars. Seen from the other side, the money at stake rose sharply only at the very end of the tournament, where most of the extra cash for the top teams sat.
How the 110 million dollars was divided by stage
Adding up the allocations by level shows where the fund was concentrated. The 16 group stage teams together received 36 million dollars, the largest block, because there were so many of them. The 8 round of 16 teams shared 26 million, the 4 quarter-finalists 17 million and the top four 31 million. The fund was therefore spread fairly evenly across the levels, with a strong premium only for the champions.
Group exits took a third of the money: 36 million dollars, or 32.7 percent, went to the 16 teams that did not reach the knockout rounds.
| Level | Teams | Combined allocation | Share of fund | Average per team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group stage | 16 | $36.0M | 32.7% | $2.25M |
| Round of 16 | 8 | $26.0M | 23.6% | $3.25M |
| Quarter-finals | 4 | $17.0M | 15.5% | $4.25M |
| Top four | 4 | $31.0M | 28.2% | $7.75M |
| All teams | 32 | $110.0M | 100% | $3.44M |
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The average team allocation was 3.44 million dollars, but the median, the figure in the middle of the 32 teams, was 2.75 million dollars, between the group and round of 16 levels. Half of the nations received the minimum. That design reflects a choice by FIFA to guarantee a meaningful sum to every qualifier rather than reward only those that went deep into the tournament.
How much went to the players at each stage
The per player scale was the new element in 2023. Players of the four semi-finalists were earmarked 165,000 to 270,000 dollars each, quarter-finalists 90,000, round of 16 players 60,000 and everyone else 30,000. Across all 32 squads the total came to 48.99 million dollars, while the federations kept 61.01 million dollars. The players share of the fund was therefore 44.5 percent.
Third place had the highest player share: 61.3 percent, slightly above the 59.1 percent of the champions.
The share rises steeply from 30.7 percent at the group stage to around 60 percent for the top four, then flattens. In fact the Swedish squad, third, had a slightly larger share of its team total than the Spanish champions, because the jump in the federation amount between second and first (1.275 million dollars) was proportionally larger than the jump in the player amount. The lowest share, 30.7 percent, still met the demand in a letter sent to FIFA in October 2022 by more than 150 players from 25 national teams, which asked for at least 30 percent of prize money to go to players.
| Per player amount | Teams | Players | Combined (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| $270,000 | Spain | 23 | $6,210,000 |
| $195,000 | England | 23 | $4,485,000 |
| $180,000 | Sweden | 23 | $4,140,000 |
| $165,000 | Australia | 23 | $3,795,000 |
| $90,000 | 4 quarter-finalists | 92 | $8,280,000 |
| $60,000 | 8 round of 16 teams | 184 | $11,040,000 |
| $30,000 | 16 group stage teams | 368 | $11,040,000 |
| Total | 32 | 736 | $48,990,000 |
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Spread over 736 players, the earmarked total works out at about 66,560 dollars per player on average, but half of all players, 368, were on the 30,000 dollar minimum. Only 92 players, those of the top four, were allocated more than 100,000 dollars. The individual stars of the tournament, from the Golden Ball winner Aitana Bonmati to the Golden Boot winner Hinata Miyazawa, were paid on the same team scale as their teammates; their wider honours are listed in The Best FIFA womens player award winners and the leading goalscorers in the all-time scorers list.
Totals by confederation: UEFA took almost half
Grouping the 32 nations by their confederation gives a view of the 2023 money that is rarely published. Europe sent 12 teams, Asia and North and Central America 6 each, Africa 4, South America 3 and Oceania 1, the co-host New Zealand. Because European teams went furthest, UEFA nations received 52.0 million dollars between them, 47.3 percent of the fund. How the places are shared between confederations is explained in our page on World Cup places by confederation.
Europe close to the rest of the world combined: 52.0 million dollars for 12 UEFA teams, against 58.0 million for the other five confederations together.
| Confederation | Teams | Best finish | Total | To federations | To players | Share of fund | Per team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UEFA | 12 | Champions (Spain) | $52.0M | $26.125M | $25.875M | 47.3% | $4.33M |
| AFC | 6 | Fourth (Australia) | $19.5M | $10.875M | $8.625M | 17.7% | $3.25M |
| CONCACAF | 6 | Round of 16 (USA, Jamaica) | $15.5M | $9.98M | $5.52M | 14.1% | $2.58M |
| CAF | 4 | Round of 16 (Nigeria, South Africa, Morocco) | $12.0M | $7.17M | $4.83M | 10.9% | $3.00M |
| CONMEBOL | 3 | Quarter-finals (Colombia) | $8.75M | $5.30M | $3.45M | 8.0% | $2.92M |
| OFC | 1 | Group stage (New Zealand) | $2.25M | $1.56M | $0.69M | 2.0% | $2.25M |
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Africa had the best average among the smaller confederations. Three of its four teams reached the knockout rounds, one more than at any previous edition, so CAF averaged 3.0 million dollars per team, ahead of CONCACAF (2.58 million) even though CONCACAF had two more teams. North and Central America had its weakest tournament: neither the United States nor any other CONCACAF team passed the round of 16, and four of its six teams went out in the groups.
European players were the main beneficiaries of the new scale. UEFA squads were earmarked 25.9 million dollars, more than half of the 49.0 million dollars set aside for all players, because five of the eight quarter-finalists and three of the four semi-finalists came from Europe. The current strength of these national teams can be compared in the FIFA womens world ranking.
Beyond prize money: preparation funds and club benefits
The 110 million dollars was the largest part of a wider package. At the FIFA Congress in Kigali on 16 March 2023, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced 152 million dollars for the 2023 participants, about three times the 2019 figure. Besides the prize fund it contained preparation money paid to every federation before the tournament and a programme for the clubs that released players.
Prize money was 72 percent of the package: preparation funds and club payments added another 42 million dollars.
Preparation money, introduced in 2019 at 12 million dollars, was raised to about 31 million dollars and shared equally among the 32 federations, roughly 960,000 dollars each. Professional Footballers Australia, the national players union, reported that Football Australia received 969,000 dollars of it. The money is paid before the tournament and is meant to cover camps, travel and staff, so it is not linked to results.
The Club Benefits Programme paid 11.3 million dollars, up from 8.48 million dollars in 2019, to 1,041 clubs in 48 countries, against 822 clubs in 39 countries four years earlier. Half of the pot went to clubs that released a player, at an equal rate per player per day from 10 July 2023 until the day after her team was eliminated, and half to the clubs that had trained the players. On average each club received about 10,900 dollars, a small sum per club but one that reached clubs in countries that did not even qualify.
| Component | Group stage team | Champion (Spain) | Paid to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prize money, federation part | 1,560,000 | 4,290,000 | Federation |
| Prize money, player part | 690,000 | 6,210,000 | Federation, earmarked for players |
| Preparation money (about) | 960,000 | 960,000 | Federation, before the tournament |
| Club benefits | varies | varies | Clubs of the players |
| Total excluding clubs (about) | 3,210,000 | 11,460,000 |
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Including preparation money, a group stage team therefore received roughly 3.2 million dollars from FIFA and the champion about 11.5 million dollars, before club payments. FIFA finances these sums from its four-year revenue cycle, which is covered in our analysis of FIFA revenue and in our profile of FIFA as an organisation.
Did the money reach the players? What FIFA and FIFPRO said
The per player amounts were earmarked, not paid directly. On the eve of the tournament, on 19 July 2023 in Auckland, Infantino said the money would go to the member associations and that the associations would then make the payments to their own players. The guarantee therefore depended on 32 federations passing the money on, and FIFA did not publish a mechanism to enforce it before the event.
After the tournament, FIFA said it had credited the prize money to all 32 associations and that the distribution would be audited in due course. No public audit report on the 2023 player payments had been found by October 2026, so there is no official count of how many of the 736 players received their full amount.
- October 2022: more than 150 players from 25 national teams signed a FIFPRO letter to FIFA asking for equal conditions with the men, a guaranteed share of at least 30 percent of prize money for players and a binding global agreement.
- June 2023: FIFPRO welcomed the payment model and said its success depended on it being universally applied and fair; it also noted equal conditions with Qatar 2022, including delegations of up to 50 people per team.
- 8 August 2023: FIFPRO confirmed it was helping Nigeria players in a dispute with their federation over bonus payments, camp allowances and expenses, some dating back to 2021.
- November 2023: in a survey of 260 players from 26 of the 32 teams, 30 percent said they earned less than 30,000 dollars in the previous year from club and national team, and 49 percent less than 50,000 dollars, excluding prize money.
- The same survey found that two thirds of players did not feel physically prepared for the tournament and 53 percent felt the rest period before it was too short.
The survey puts the 30,000 dollar minimum into context. For almost a third of the players who answered, the guaranteed World Cup payment was at least as large as a whole year of football income, and for about half it was more than half a year. FIFPRO said the results showed that many players still lacked adequate financial compensation.
National agreements could also change what players actually took home. Professional Footballers Australia noted that under the Australian collective agreement players receive 40 percent of group stage prize money and 50 percent of any further prize money, and that the FIFA scale was better than that agreement for some outcomes and worse for others. The FIFA amounts were described as a floor, not a ceiling, so federations were free to pay more.
Set against the men in Qatar: exactly one quarter
One feature of the 2023 ladder is that every team total was exactly one quarter of the equivalent amount at the 2022 men tournament in Qatar. The men champions Argentina received 42 million dollars against 10.5 million dollars for Spain, and the 9 million dollar minimum for a men group stage exit compares with 2.25 million dollars. The full men distribution is in our breakdown of Qatar 2022 prize money by stage.
| Final position | Men 2022 | Women 2023 | Women as share of men |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champions | 42 | 10.5 | 25% |
| Runners-up | 30 | 7.5 | 25% |
| Third place | 27 | 6.75 | 25% |
| Fourth place | 25 | 6.25 | 25% |
| Quarter-finals | 17 | 4.25 | 25% |
| Round of 16 | 13 | 3.25 | 25% |
| Group stage | 9 | 2.25 | 25% |
| Total fund | 440 | 110 | 25% |
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The difference is in what the totals contain. In 2022 the men payments went entirely to federations, with no earmarked player part, while in 2023 between 31 and 61 percent of each team total was set aside for the players. Total prize money across all men tournaments is tracked in our FIFA World Cup prize money series.
Brazil 2027: no payment ladder published yet
The next tournament will be played in Brazil from 24 June to 25 July 2027, the first held in South America, with 32 teams and 64 matches. The final draw is scheduled for 11 December 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. As of October 2026, FIFA had not published a prize fund or a stage by stage distribution for 2027, and reports in August 2026 noted that no figure equivalent to the 2023 model had been announced.
In March 2023 Infantino described equal payments at the 2026 men and 2027 women tournaments as the aim, and FIFPRO has said it is committed to pay equity for both events. Whether the 2027 ladder keeps the 2023 structure, with a federation part and an earmarked player part for each stage, is not yet known. Until FIFA publishes it, the 2023 figures on this page are the latest official reference. This page will be updated with a full 2027 versus 2023 comparison once the official figures are released.
The 2023 distribution in eight figures
Questions about the 2023 payouts, team by team
Spain was allocated 10.5 million dollars: 4.29 million dollars for the Spanish federation and 270,000 dollars for each of the 23 players, or 6.21 million dollars for the squad.
England was allocated 7.5 million dollars, made up of 3,015,000 dollars for the federation and 195,000 dollars for each of the 23 players.
FIFA set 30,000 dollars per player for the group stage, 60,000 for the round of 16, 90,000 for the quarter-finals, 165,000 for fourth, 180,000 for third, 195,000 for the runners-up and 270,000 for the champions.
Each of the 16 group stage teams was allocated 2.25 million dollars: 1.56 million for the federation and 30,000 dollars for each of 23 players.
No. Each team received one amount based on its final position, so a quarter-finalist got 4.25 million dollars in total, not the sum of the lower levels.
UEFA. Its 12 teams were allocated 52.0 million dollars, 47.3 percent of the 110 million dollar fund, followed by the AFC with 19.5 million dollars.
No. FIFA paid the money to the 32 member associations, which were responsible for passing the earmarked amounts to their players. FIFA said after the tournament that the distribution would be audited.
About 30.7 million dollars of preparation money, shared equally among the 32 federations, and 11.3 million dollars to 1,041 clubs through the Club Benefits Programme, for a total package of 152 million dollars.
Not as of October 2026. The tournament runs from 24 June to 25 July 2027 in Brazil, and the 2023 distribution remains the latest published ladder.
FIFA - new payment model for the FIFA Womens World Cup 2023, member association and per player amounts by final position, 8 June 2023.
FIFA - 152 million dollar package announced at the 73rd FIFA Congress, Kigali, 16 March 2023.
FIFA - Club Benefits Programme for the 2023 tournament, July 2024, and programme methodology and FAQ.
FIFA - FIFA Womens World Cup Brazil 2027 dates; official match results of the 2023 tournament; Qatar 2022 prize money by stage.
FIFPRO - statements on the 2023 pay and conditions (June 2023) and on the October 2022 player letter; statement on the Nigeria players, 8 August 2023.
FIFPRO - Womens World Cup player survey, 260 players from 26 teams, November 2023.
Professional Footballers Australia - prize money, preparation funding and collective agreement shares for the 2023 tournament.