According to a number of domestic media confirmed, the Chinese men's football team is about to usher in another round of large-scale salary cuts. According to the current outflow plan, male footballers will be cut to a pre-tax maximum salary of 3 million yuan this year. This will be the third time in three years that the men's football team has implemented a salary cut, which also means that the income standard of the men's football team after the salary cut will be infinitely close to the current level of Chinese female footballers.
At present, the annual salary of the Chinese men's football team is the pre-tax maximum salary of 5 million yuan, which is equivalent to about 3 million after tax. After the salary cut, the after-tax maximum salary of Chinese male football players has been less than 2 million yuan, reaching the lowest level in nearly a decade. If you take into account factors such as inflation, this may even be the lowest income level in the nearly three decades since the professionalization of Chinese men's football.
For Chinese male footballers, the maximum salary is "only" less than 2 million yuan after tax, which means that the vast majority of players may have to accept the same salary treatment as Chinese female footballers. Taking Wang Shuang, the best player in The current Chinese women's football team, as an example, her annual income after tax is more than 1 million yuan, and the gap with the top salary players of the men's football team is not large.
At present, the annual income of national footballers is about 300,000 to 500,000 yuan. Therefore, from this point of view, because the maximum salary has been locked to less than 2 million before tax, after the men's football team salary cut, only the top men's football international football players still have an advantage over female footballers in terms of income; and more ordinary international footballers and other male footballers who cannot get the top salary, their annual income standards are certainly not as good as Wang Shuang and other women's football core players. The huge income gap between men's and women's soccer will be further flattened as a result.
In fact, since the defeat of the 2019 Asian Cup, "salary cut" has become the main theme of Chinese football. The maximum salary of the international footballer was first reduced to 5 million yuan after tax, and a year later it was reduced to 5 million yuan before the maximum salary tax. This time, it was directly adjusted from 5 million before tax to 3 million before tax, and its salary reduction was unprecedented. This is also a "regurgitation" of the defeat of the Chinese men's football team in Vietnam, and for the men's football players, it means that the real hard days are coming.