{"id":10900,"date":"2021-09-23T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T10:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=152298"},"modified":"2021-09-23T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T11:10:39","slug":"uefa-to-double-prize-money-fund-for-the-2022-womens-european-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/uefa-to-double-prize-money-fund-for-the-2022-womens-european-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"UEFA to double prize money fund for the 2022 Women\u2019s European Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UEFA have now doubled the prize fund for the 2020 Women\u2019s European Championship to 16 million euros and have also guaranteed an increase in payments for the qualified 16 team. The footballing European governing body had also approved the introduction of a program that will ensure that teams that release players for the Euros will be rewarded with payouts from a 4.5 million euro fund.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 Prize money will be doubled for next summer's <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFAWomensEURO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UEFAWomensEURO<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UEFAExCo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UEFAExCo<\/a> confirmed the 16 qualified teams will share a total \u20ac16 million, up from \u20ac8 million in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Clubs releasing players will also receive a total \u20ac4.5 million for the first time.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WEURO2022?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WEURO2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA (@UEFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFA\/status\/1440954489498914818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The decision was announced after a UEFA executive committee meeting in Chisinau, Moldova while stating that the financial scheme for the distribution will be made available soon as announced earlier today by the governing body. The women\u2019s competition was originally scheduled to take place this year but was held for a later date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is now set to take place in the country of England from the 6th of July 2022. UEFA has approved the changes to its solidarity payment scheme for the men\u2019s teams not taking part in the 2021-2024 cycle of club competitions. Further details regarding this have been announced by UEFA on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26bd In Chi\u015fin\u0103u, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UEFAExCo?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UEFAExCo<\/a> has approved a new solidarity payment model for men's club competitions for the 2021-24 cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The changes will see greater financial solidarity for a wider spectrum of clubs not competing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UCL<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UEL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UEL<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UECL?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UECL<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>More details:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UEFA (@UEFA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UEFA\/status\/1440976640327262208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UEFA have said that there would be an increase in shares for all associations that are outside the top five European footballing countries which include England, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. The move is said to have come after UEFA snubbed off the attempts made by the top 12 European clubs earlier this year in hope of forming a breakaway European Super League.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFA has decided to increase the prize money fund by double for the women\u2019s international tournament which was postponed earlier this year to next year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":33376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[938,178,2467],"class_list":["post-10900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-soccer","tag-uefa","tag-womens-football"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}