Ladies’s FA Cup: Total prize fund to double for 2023/24 season | Soccer Information

The winners of this season’s Ladies’s FA Cup will now obtain £430,000 – £100,000 greater than Chelsea earned for touchdown the competitors final season – with the Soccer Affiliation having doubled the dimensions of the general FA Cup prize pot.

A further funding of £3m has been accredited by the FA Board, bringing the whole prize fund for the competitors to £6m.

Which means there can be a big enhance in prize cash for golf equipment competing from the third spherical onwards for the 2023/24 season.

Golf equipment competing within the third spherical will now entry a prize pot of £44,000 per match, a considerable uplift on the £12,500 pot allotted for a similar spherical within the 2022/23 competitors.

There will even be a rise within the prize cash for every match between the third spherical and the ultimate, with the ultimate prize pot additionally considerably growing from £150,000 to £538,000 to make sure success within the competitors is rewarded.

This season’s funding enhance aligns with when Ladies’s Championship golf equipment enter the competitors. Twenty-eight groups from exterior of the skilled recreation additionally compete within the third spherical, which means golf equipment from Tier 3 and under of the ladies’s soccer pyramid will collectively entry a minimal further prize pot of £404,000 in comparison with if that they had made the identical stage final season.

That is the second time in successive seasons that The FA has elevated the prize cash for the Ladies’s FA Cup. Final yr’s enhance was weighted in the direction of rising the prize fund for the sooner rounds of the competitors from the primary spherical qualifying to the second spherical to the good thing about golf equipment decrease down the pyramid.

With a report 460 groups competing within the 2023/24 competitors, extra golf equipment from throughout the divisions will profit from the 2 annual will increase in prize cash. Final season the Ladies’s FA Cup last bought out for the primary time, with a report crowd of 77,390 watching Chelsea defeat Manchester United 1-0 to win their fifth title.

“Doubling the prize cash showcases The FA’s clear dedication to the way forward for the Ladies’s FA Cup and can assist us keep its stature as probably the most prestigious home ladies’s cup competitors on the planet,” stated Baroness Sue Campbell, the FA’s director of ladies’s soccer.

“That is why we’re delighted to be making a second successive enhance to the prize fund, making certain that as golf equipment progress by means of the competitors they obtain monetary rewards that can empower them to spend money on their very own futures.

“Finally, we wish the ladies’s competitors to obtain the identical prize cash as the boys’s, and this new enhance is a constructive step within the course of reaching that long-term ambition.”

The boys’s FA Cup prize fund for the present season was confirmed in June, with £2m on supply for profitable the ultimate and £1m for the shedding finalists. These groups would additionally profit from funds for progressing by means of the sooner rounds.