– The Soccer Affiliation of Wales (FAW) has reached an settlement with its males’s and girls’s nationwide groups to realize equal pay, it introduced on Wednesday.
The brand new settlement will cowl the interval as much as and together with the 2026 males’s World Cup and the 2027 girls’s World Cup, it mentioned in its assertion.
FAW‘s announcement comes months after america girls’s nationwide soccer workforce and their governing physique U.S. Soccer agreed to resolve a years-long dispute over equal pay in what gamers described as a landmark second for the game.
“We hope that it will enable future generations of girls and boys to see that there's equality throughout Welsh worldwide soccer, which is necessary for society as an entire,” the Wales males’s and girls’s nationwide groups mentioned in a joint assertion.
“With this settlement in place, we'll now stay up for the UEFAEURO 2024 and 2025 qualifying campaigns, as we intention to see additional success throughout each our senior groups within the close to future.”
FAW mentioned the announcement sends out the message to future gamers that anybody who represents Wales within the senior squads are “pulling on the identical shirt and are representing the identical workforce from an equal footing”.
Wales’ males’s workforce had been knocked out of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar within the group stage and are at present ranked twenty eighth on this planet. Their feminine counterparts did not qualify for this yr’s World Cup and are ranked thirty second.
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