FIFA Women's World Cup 2019 Solidarity Funding

For the first time, FIFA have solidarity money after a WWC. They said they gave $8.46 million. I added the numbers and got $8,466,700, which would round up to $8.47 million. $8,466,700 is 4.06 percent of the $208,463,167 given after World Cup 2018. For WWC 2019, half of the money was prize money for clubs who had players in the WWC, and half was to reward clubs for developing women and clubs age 12 to 22. https://resources.fifa.com/image/up...ty-fund-2019.pdf?cloudid=ipxbzeckzjfosu9n1zeh is a 21 page PDF with all the amounts, and I'll type some here. The 24 countries who qualified and 15 other countries in UEFA got prize money. USA had the most with $789,960. Jamaica got the fewest money for a country that qualified with $22,520. Portugal, who didn't qualify, got more than Jamaica with $26,660. The other fourteen countries that didn't qualify ranged from Lithuania's $12,210 to Serbia's $890. Based on the money, I'm assuming many of the Netherlands players play for clubs in other countries. The Netherlands $350,510, which was eighth of nine UEFA countries that qualified, and eleventh in the world behind USA, China, and Japan in other confederations. England's $734,720 and France's $704,650 weren't far below USA's $789,960. Jamaica's $22,520 was just over a sixth of the next lowest country country that qualified, which was Canada with $134,720. Here are the top ten:

1. USA: $789,960
2. England: $734,720
3. France $704,650
4. Germany: $615,450
5. Sweden: $609,890
6. Spain: $599,080
7. Norway: $464,790
8. China: $426,010
9. Japan: $388,390
10. Italy: $360,710

I didn't mention CAF, CONMEBOL, or OFC yet, so I'll give the top country in each confederation. Cameroon's $205,580, New Zealand's $193,490, and Chile's $162,120 led their confederations. New Zealand automatically led OFC because no other OFC teams got prize money.

On a club level, 822 clubs got prize money. They were 403 (49.03 percent) in UEFA, 168 (20.44 percent in AFC), 88 (10.71 percent) in Concacaf, 81 (9.85 percent) in CAF, 51 (6.20 percent) in CONMEBOL, and 31 (3.77 percent) on OFC. 20 countries had at least 20 clubs get prize money. The top ten countries with the most clubs that got prize money are:

Tied 1. USA: 59
Tied 1. France: 59
Tied 1. Australia: 59
4. Germany: 56
5. Sweden: 55
6. Netherlands: 50
7. Norway: 44
Tied 8. Spain: 39
Tied 8. Japan: 39
10. South Africa: 35

The USA didn't have any of the ten clubs that got the most money. Eight were in UEFA and two were in AFC. They are:

1. Olympique Lyonnais (France): $178,770 (2.11 percent of the total)
2. Barcelona (Spain): $174,440
3. Manchester City (England): $129,000
4. Chelsea (England): $119,880
5. Arsenal (England): $119,730
6. Nippon TV Tokyo Verdy Beleza (Japan): $114,830
7. Montpelier Herault (France): $113,820
8. Bayern Munchen (Germany): $111,670
9. BG Bundit Asia (Thailand): $101,980
10. Paris Saint-Germain (France): $97,990

Ten clubs not listed above who got at least $50,000 and got the most money in their country are:

Linkopings (Sweden): $89,480
Portland Thorns (USA): $84,200
Hyundai Steel Red Angels (Korea Republic): $81,460
LSK Kvinner (Norway): $78,660
Juventus (Italy): $75,630
Dalian (China): $75,420
CSD Colo-Colo (Chile): $64,780
Ajax (Netherlands): $59,240
Glasgow City (Scotland): $53,510
CD UAI Urquiza (Argentina): $52,690

Those are not the clubs from eleventh through twentieth.

Eight clubs got more than double the second highest club in their country. They are Thailand (ninth above), Korea Republic (third club in the second group), Vancouver Whitecaps of Canada with $40,940, Harbour View of Jamaica with $9,380, Chile (seventh club in the second group), KR Reykjavik of Iceland with $6,810, ZFK CSKA Moscow of Russia with $7,520, and Besiktas JK of Turkey with $7,520. That excludes countries that only had one club get prize money.

Of the 822 clubs that got money, 178 (21.65 percent) got at least $10,000, 549 (66.79 percent) got at least $1,000 and under $10,000, and 95 (11.56 percent) got under $1,000.

Most of the clubs who got money got it for training players, which I stated earlier as developing women and clubs age 12 to 22. 644 clubs (78.35 percent) got money for training players but didn't have players in the WWC, 43 clubs (5.23 percent) got money for having players in the WWC but not for training players, and 135 clubs (16.42 percent) got money for both.

Edit: World Cup 2018 gave 24.62 the amount of money WWC 2019 gave, and the difference gets even bigger when you look at home many clubs of gender got prize money. World Cup 2018 gave money to 416 clubs, while WWC gave to almost double that amount of 822. The reason is that 644 clubs (78.35 percent) trained players but didn't have any players in WWC, whereas World Cup 2018 didn't pay clubs for training players. Among clubs that got money, the average Men's club got 48.65 times what the average Women's club got. The average Men's club got 2.80 times what the top Women's club got. When I say "average," I mean the mean, and a majority of clubs get less than the mean because the top clubs are farther away from the mean than the bottom clubs. That is true for both genders. The median Men's club got a little under half the of the mean, and the median Men's club got 1.39 times what the top Women's club got.

 

A girls' club three towns west of me got $3,840 for developing Crystal Dunn. I'm in a suburb of New York City, and I like when teams in Nassau County get honored. Even if you don't think the money is a lot, the club is in a document that fans around the world can see.