The Girls’s FA Cup has obtained a landmark £3m funding to make sure important monetary profit for golf equipment taking part from the third spherical onwards.
The whole prize cash on provide has doubled to £6m, constructing on the success of final season’s competitors that noticed a document crowd of 77,390 witness Chelsea’s 1-0 win over Manchester United at Wembley.
With curiosity persevering with to develop in ladies’s soccer, the brand new settlement means there shall be an enormous monetary uplift for golf equipment who make it by to the third spherical correct.
Those that compete at that stage of the competitors will entry a prize pot of £44,000 – a considerable uplift on the £12,500 pot allotted for a similar spherical of the 2022/23 version.
The eight groups who attain the quarter-finals will compete for a prize pot of £112,500 – £90,000 goes to the winner and £22,500 to the loser – and the semi-final providing has risen to £200,000 from final season’s determine of £62,500.
The winner of the Girls’s FA Cup will pocket £430,000 from a pot of £538,000, which dwarfs the £150,000 competed for by Chelsea and United in 2022/23.
|
Spherical |
£ per match |
Winner |
Loser |
Whole £ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Third Spherical |
£44,000 |
£35,000 |
£9,000 |
£880,000 |
|
Fourth Spherical |
£67,000 |
£54,000 |
£13,000 |
£1,072,000 |
|
Fifth Spherical |
£100,000 |
£80,000 |
£20,000 |
£800,000 |
|
Quarter-final |
£112,500 |
£90,000 |
£22,500 |
£450,000 |
|
Semi-final |
£200,000 |
£160,000 |
£40,000 |
£400,000 |
|
Ultimate |
£538,000 |
£430,000 |
£108,000 |
£538,000 |
|
Whole* |
£5,994,000 |
*Together with preliminary rounds
Baroness Sue Campbell, The FA’s Director of Girls’s Soccer, stated, “Doubling the prize cash showcases The FA’s clear dedication to the way forward for the Girls’s FA Cup and can assist us keep its stature as probably the most prestigious home ladies’s cup competitors on this planet.
“In the end, we wish the ladies’s competitors to obtain the identical prize cash as the boys’s, and this new enhance is a optimistic step within the path of reaching that long-term ambition.”
This season’s funding enhance aligns with when WSL golf equipment enter the competitors.
28 groups from exterior of the skilled sport additionally compete within the Third Spherical Correct, which means golf equipment from Tier 3 and beneath of the ladies’s soccer pyramid will collectively entry a minimal further prize pot of £404,000 in comparison with if that they had made the identical stage final season.
With a document 460 groups competing within the 2023/24 Girls’s FA Cup, extra golf equipment from throughout the divisions will profit from the 2 annual will increase in prize cash.
