Oh - I think I was mistaken about all women's football being amateur - I think some of the clubs have professional women's teams on the books.
That said - it really is a pittance compared to the men's game.
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You probably earn about the same as the captain of the England football team.
Casey Stoney, captain of England women's football team, earns £25,000 a year - around the national average wage (£26,500) and a fraction of what her male counterparts earn.
Wayne Rooney, Manchester United striker, earns 50p a second, and his annual wage is £15.6m, which is far, far more than what any women’s footballer could hope to make.
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So - the captain of the England team - arguably representative of the cream of women's football earns a little less than the average annual wage.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/ampp3d/...better-4684810
And yet ... they've been doing far better than the men's national team.
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Having the women play at Wembley has been a marketing triumph for the FA. They’ve sold 55,000 tickets, more than they managed to shift for the men’s lacklustre game against Norway in September, which just 40,181 attended
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In September they put 10 past Montenegro. Away from home. You’ll mostly remember Montenegro’s men from our boys only drawing 2-2 away and Rooney getting sent off.
The England women also scored 13 against Hungary in an away World Cup qualifier as recently as 2005.
England’s men haven’t scored ten goals or more in a game since 1964, when they beat the USA 10-0.
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After that dismal trip to Brazil, England’s men are currently 20th in the FIFA rankings. England’s women are currently 7th. And have never been ranked lower than 14th in the world.
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England’s women have won the Cyprus Cup twice, in 2009 and 2013. And they also twice won the Mundialito in the eighties, which was the pre-cursor to the FIFA Women’s World Cup.
England’s men have won...erm...well...they won Le Tournoi in 1997. And...erm...couldn’t even win the Umbro Cup when we held it in 1995.
Mind you...
There is one stat where the men have DEFINITELY done better
Number of World Cups won
Men 1 Women 0
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/row-ze...womens-4672335