Chinese women's football
Hello everyone, I'm Lantai.
I believe that many friends have paid attention to the Women's World Cup today, and the Chinese women's football team lost 0:1 to the Danish women's football team in the first match, and the group qualification is slim.
After the match, Ms. Shui Qingxia, the head coach of the Chinese women's football team, gave an interview to the media, saying that the women's football girls had done their best in this game:
We worked hard and played what we deserved, but it's a pity. As myself, I am very grateful to the players, who gave their best for the 90 minutes.
Many netizens on the Internet agree with the words of Shui Gui, after all, the women's football girls only conceded the ball at the last moment of the game.
Coach Shui Qingxia
However, some netizens who are not very clear about the current situation of Chinese women's football said that the Chinese women's football team has been holding low wages for a long time, and it is not easy to play to this extent, and the next step should be to think about how to increase the income of women's football girls, and cannot let the girls shed blood and sweat and tears.
When Lantai saw this kind of speech, it was completely "question mark face".
Because in the world women's football scope, the treatment of Chinese women's football is the top three in the world, if not the world's first.
The income of women's football girls, especially women's international footballers, is not low at all.
Screenshot of FIFA's official website
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After the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup in 2022, many football professional media have made special reports on the income of women's football girls, among which "Football News" also made a special survey, according to the "Football News" survey, the annual income of Chinese women's football international footballers can reach 1 million to 2 million yuan:
The salary income gap between international and non-international football is reflected in the club level, generally speaking, the annual salary of women's international football is between 1 million and 2 million, non-international football, if it is the main player of the club, the annual salary is about 300,000-400,000, and there are some very young players who cannot play too many games with a monthly salary of several thousand yuan.
So, is this survey by Football Newspaper accurate?
At that time, after the investigation of "Football Newspaper" was launched, many other media outlets have sought out relevant people to verify, and according to the reports collected so far, the investigation of "Football Newspaper" is still relatively accurate.
For example, a reporter from "Upstream News", which belongs to Chongqing Daily Newspaper Group, asked Xu Yuan, the former captain of the women's football team, to verify the income of women's football, and Xu Yuan told reporters that the annual income of women's football Chinese foot-level players has indeed reached 1 million yuan:
Xu Yuan, a former captain of the Chinese women's football team, said that the current salary of top Chinese women's football players can reach about 1 million yuan.
When Wang Shuang transferred to Paris Saint-Germain in 2018, many media reported that Wang Shuang's annual salary in Paris was 500,000 yuan, and it was reported that her annual salary in Dalian Quanjian had reached 1 million yuan, in order to play in Ligue 1, she chose to take the initiative to reduce her salary.
Screenshot of the official website of Guangzhou Daily
"Guangzhou Daily" also published a manuscript entitled "Chinese Women's Football is No More "Poor" on July 22, which mentioned that it is normal for the current income of Chinese women's football players to exceed one million, and individual star players even have an annual income of tens of millions:
At present, the minimum annual salary of domestic female super team members generally reaches 4.5 million yuan, and the individual main players reach 1 or 2 million yuan. And some international star players can also sign brands, and the annual salary plus brand endorsement fee income is nearly 10 million yuan a year, and the income level has far exceeded most male players. In contrast, Zhang Linyan, like Liuyang Ruichao, received an annual salary of less than 1 million yuan in the Grasshopper Club.
Premier League women's football match
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So what is the income of Chinese women's football internationals in the world women's football?
Frankly speaking, if not the first, it is the top three levels.
The official FIFA website has published a report called "FIFA Benchmark Report: Women's Football".
According to the report, China's women's football team has the highest league investment in the world, with the average investment of clubs being about $1.85 million. Another data shows that the average salary contribution ratio of the team is 56%, which results in an average salary of about $1.036 million per women's club.
Screenshot of FIFA's official website
So, how much do female football players in Europe and the United States earn?
Or according to the "Football News" report at the time, the average annual salary of the women's first team of the Premier League was 47,000 pounds a year, (430,000 yuan)
The salaries of French Women's League and German Women's League players are about $100,000 to $150,000 a year.
The average annual salary of the Norwegian women's football team, which is in the same Scanvia as Denmark, the opponent of the Chinese team in the first match of this Women's World Cup, is between $12,000 and $24,000.
Lantai did not find out what the average annual salary of the Danish women's football team is, but the average annual salary of the Norwegian women's football team Lantai feels that it can be used as a reference, and it is more noteworthy that the Norwegian women's football team is much stronger than Denmark in terms of star players and historical records; The salary of the Norwegian women's football team is only possible to be above the Danish women's team.
Therefore, even if the highest 24,000 US dollars / year is calculated, the average annual salary of the Danish women's football team will not exceed 170,000 yuan.
Denmark Women's Football
In other words, in the first match of this Women's World Cup, the Chinese women's football team, with an average annual salary of one million, lost to the Danish women's football team, whose average annual salary was only 1/10 of itself.
Of course, Lantai is not criticizing Chinese women's football girls for "high salaries and low energy", but just wants to remind everyone that the current income of Chinese women's football and their achievements are actually "inverted".
From an economic point of view, the price of a commodity is ultimately determined by its value.
In fact, the Chinese women's football team is still in a situation where no one cares about and no one pays attention for a long time, which is in stark contrast to the scene of the European women's football audience.
In April 2023, after the first round of the Chinese Super League, a number of media reported the shocking gap between the Chinese Super League audience and the Women's Super League audience, with 190,000 people watching the game in the first round, while the total number of viewers of the six matches in the fourth round of the Women's Super League was less than 10,000, with a maximum of 3,652 people, and three matches were even less than 1,000 viewers.
Women's Super League stands
According to the 2022 "Reference News" report, the Premier League Women's North London derby between Arsenal and Tottenham on September 24 attracted 47,367 people to watch the Emirates Stadium.
As of April 2023, the average number of Premier League women's football players per match is 6,961.
To be honest, as a "commodity", the value of Chinese women's football is still very low.
Therefore, Lantai hopes that if everyone really likes the Chinese women's football team and is really moved by the hard work of the Chinese women's football girls, they will go to the scene to watch the women's super league matches and support the women's super league more.
After all, the league is the foundation of the national team.
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