FIFA to award $2.3 million to winners of inaugural Women’s Champions Cup

FIFA pays $2.3 million in prize cash to the membership that wins the primary Ladies’s Champions Cup at Arsenal’s stadium subsequent week.

The entire fund detailed on Friday (January 23, 2026) by FIFA will share $3.9 million among the many six continental champions. The ultimate levels in London are a warmup for a deliberate full Ladies’s Membership World Cup in 2028.

European champion Arsenal will play ASFAR of Morocco after Gotham from the USA performs Corinthians of Brazil in back-to-back semifinals on Wednesday (January 28, 2026) on the house of Premier League membership Brentford. The ultimate at Arsenal’s stadium on February 1 will observe a third-place sport on the similar venue.

The champion will get $2.3 million and the crushed finalist $1 million, with $200,000 paid to every of the shedding semi-finalists.

Two continental champions already eradicated in earlier rounds — Auckland United from Oceania and Wuhan Chegu Jiangda representing Asia — every get $100,000.

“The prize cash is a transparent assertion of the assumption in girls’s membership soccer and the gamers, groups and competitions driving its continued rise,” FIFA secretary common Mattias Grafström mentioned in an announcement. Arsenal acquired greater than 1.5 million euros ($1.8 million) in prize cash for profitable the UEFA Ladies’s Champions League final season.

FIFA paid $1 billion amongst 32 groups within the males’s 2025 Membership World Cup. That match in the USA was backed by Saudi Arabian cash to make sure influential European golf equipment acquired the prize cash they sought to agree to participate.