The prize fund for this season’s Ladies’s FA Cup has been doubled to £6m, the Soccer Affiliation has introduced.
The FA board has accepted a £3m enhance in comparison with final season, which suggests a prize pot of £44,000 per match on the third-round stage, up from £12,500 in the identical spherical final season.
Successful the ultimate will now earn the victors £430,000 in comparison with £100,000 final season, the FA mentioned.
It’s the second consecutive season during which the prize pot has elevated, with final season’s uplift centered on the cash accessible on the earlier phases of the competitors.
The FA’s director of girls’s soccer, Baroness Sue Campbell, mentioned: “Doubling the prize cash showcases the FA’s clear dedication to the way forward for the Ladies’s FA Cup and can assist us preserve its stature as essentially the most prestigious home girls’s cup competitors on the earth.
“That’s why we’re delighted to be making a second successive enhance to the prize fund, guaranteeing that as golf equipment progress by means of the competitors they obtain monetary rewards that can empower them to put money into their very own futures.
“Finally, we would like the ladies’s competitors to obtain the identical prize cash as the lads’s, and this new enhance is a optimistic step within the route of attaining that long-term ambition.”
Chelsea claimed the trophy final season however would earn £430k quite than £100k in the event that they defend their crown
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The boys’s FA Cup prize fund for the present season was confirmed in June, with £2m on supply for successful the ultimate and £1m for the dropping finalists. These groups would additionally profit from funds for progressing by means of the sooner rounds.
FA chief government Mark Bullingham mentioned final month that modifications to the long run format of the Ladies’s FA Cup had been being thought of.
“We’ve completed a extremely good job of rising the ultimate as an occasion. Once I first began working with the FA it was an occasion that received lower than 20,000 and wasn’t even at Wembley,” Bullingham mentioned on the Leaders Week convention at Twickenham in October.
“We’re now promoting out Wembley, and that’s an enormous occasion for us in our calendar. So the ultimate goes rather well.
“Our problem now could be to develop the remainder of the competitors. Inside that, we don’t all the time really feel that the ladies’s competitions must observe the format of the lads’s, so we’re how we might at the very least consider some potential modifications which may be extra artistic and permit the competitors to have its personal construction and format.
“So we’re evaluating these in the intervening time with the view to what would attraction to followers extra, what would attraction to broadcasters extra and the way can we develop much more rapidly?
“Like the remainder of the ladies’s recreation, we’ll develop it. It’s simply how can we speed up it even sooner?”
