Women’s players face stark pay divide with average salary less than $11,000, Fifa reports

Female player annual salary across globe averages $10,900 USD
One in five head coaches at professional clubs are women

The average annual salary for a female professional football player globally is $10,900 (£8,400, A$17,000, €9952), says Fifa’s annual report on the women’s game, a figure skewed by a small number of top clubs.

Among the teams Fifa designated as Tier 1, which includes 41 clubs from 16 countries, the average salary was around $24,030, although 16 of those top clubs paid an average gross salary of over $50,000, according to the Setting the Pace, Fifa Benchmarking Report on Women’s Football released on Monday.

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