How much do English footballers earn compared to the England Men's National Team?

While the 2019 Women's World Cup is in full swing in France, the subject of equality in football has never been more important to the public.

Although the treatment of female teams over their male counterparts is controversial – Ada Hegerberg, winner of the Golden Feminine Ball, is in international exile in Norway due to her lack of professionalism. of attention.

In particular, the US women's national team, the reigning world champion, competed with the country's FA for a payment, while Australia successfully fought to achieve the pay equity.

Meanwhile, England is one of the favorites to dethrone the Americans, but how do the average female Super League women's salaries compare to their male counterparts in the Premier League?

England's international players receive FA Central Contracts, which differ from club contracts and net players by a minimum of £ 25,000 a year. An additional £ 5,000 is available as a bonus.

These were introduced in 2009, with 17 players initially receiving offers, and now include 33 stratified professionals in four sections, ranging from promising young people to veterans.

Players playing their football club abroad are also eligible for these contracts, which expire in December 2019.

In addition to these contracts, players earn money from their clubs, which naturally pay more or less significant salaries to players.

According to reports, Steph Houghton, captain of the Manchester City and England Women's National Team, earns £ 65,000 a year before tax, although she receives an exceptional salary.

In the WSL, the average figure would be around £ 27,000, although the recent restructuring means that fewer and fewer players receive only £ 5,000 to £ 10,000 a year.

Unlike the Premier League, the high-end English is not the superpower of the game. The French clubs – with Lyon in the lead – are spending money on women's football with an average salary of around £ 35,718 in Women's Ligue 1, including the three biggest winners of the sport: Wendie Renard, Amandine Henry and Hegerberg. which are with OL.

Renard and Henry both earn about £ 300,000 a year, while Hegerberg earns £ 343,000.

Nevertheless, these figures do not compare to the big stars of the English game.

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Even ignoring Gareth Bale of Real Madrid and Aaron Ramsey, who would pocket £ 300,000 a week at Juventus, the big male stars earn considerably more than their female counterparts.

Raheem Sterling would be the highest-paid English player in the game, with a salary of £ 300,000 a week, which is about 52 times more than the best players in the world.

Wayne Rooney, Harry Kane, Luke Shaw and Ross Barkley, meanwhile, earn significantly more than £ 150,000 a week, according to reports – and this is before sponsorship deals, which are still much higher among men than women. .