A clear majority of Germans are in favor of national soccer players receiving the same bonuses as their male colleagues.
This is the result of a representative survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the German Press Agency before the European Championships in England, which begin on July 6th. Accordingly, 67 percent of those surveyed are in favor of equal pay. 18 percent are against, 15 expressed no opinion.
Should the team of national coach Martina Voss-Tecklenburg win the title for the ninth time in the finals, each of the 23 players from the squad will receive 60,000 euros. There is 30,000 euros for reaching the final on July 31 at Wembley Stadium in London.
At the EM 2017, the German Football Association would have paid out 37,500 euros per player. The German men would have received 400,000 euros each if they triumphed at the European Championships last year.
The European governing body UEFA pays a total of 16 million euros in bonuses, for men it was more than 330 million. In many countries there is a premium dispute. In the USA, where the women’s selection is much more successful than that of the men, the players around star Megan Rapinoe had enforced in court that they receive the same prize money at major tournaments.