US Men’s Team Forced to Split World Cup Payout So

The USMNT (United States Men’s National Team) was knocked out of the 2026 World Cup after their round-of-16 loss to Belgium this past Monday, but that didn’t stop them from incomes a cool $16 million in FIFA prize money.

20 p.c of that will go to U.S. Soccer, and the remainder to the gamers.

And while that may need served as a silver lining after truly fizzling out of the match, the boys’s crew can have to settle for the fact that the 80 p.c ($12.8 million) will really be break up with the USWNT (United States Women’s National Team).

Under the U.S. Soccer Federation’s 2022 equal pay collective bargaining settlement (CBA), the boys’s payout will likely be pooled with whatever the ladies earn in the 2027 match and break up between the 2 groups after the federation takes its cut.

🚨JUST IN: The US males’s crew earned $16 million in prize money at the World Cup. The money will likely be break up evenly with the ladies who make the 2027 girls’s World Cup roster

US males’s and girls’s gamers equally share World Cup prize money under the phrases of the collective bargaining… pic.twitter.com/mADK5oeXXC

— Polymarket Sports (@PolymarketSport) July 8, 2026

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The complete setup stems from the big equal-pay push led by the U.S. girls’s crew. Back in 2019, a number of girls’s gamers sued U.S. Soccer for gender discrimination. That ultimately led to a 2022 settlement and brand-new collective bargaining agreements for both the boys’s and girls’s groups.

On the pitch, the USWNT has received 4 World Cups, while the boys haven’t made it past the spherical of 16 since 2002. But efficiency would not equal income or payout.

The pay hole was apparent in the last cycle. The USMNT pocketed $13 million for reaching the spherical of 16 at the 2022 World Cup, while the USWNT earned just $1.87 million for reaching the same stage at the 2023 Women’s World Cup.

Spain, the 2023 Cup winners, earned just $4.29 million in FIFA prize money as champions.

Belgium gamers did the “Trump Dance” in the locker room after eliminating USA from the World Cup

DIABOLICAL 😭 pic.twitter.com/uiNCKOcA8S

— hostilityr Report (@hostilityrReport) July 7, 2026

The males’s national crew usually generates considerably more income for U.S. Soccer than the ladies’s crew, which is the core purpose the pay debate has been so contentious.

The USWNT may make the World Cup remaining or even win it all and still convey in less ticket, broadcast, or merchandise income than a males’s crew that only makes it to the Round of 16.

Thanks to the CBA, the boys’s bigger paydays from larger income are serving to to increase the ladies’s compensation. As my RedState colleague Nick Arama wrote following the ladies’s devastating loss to Sweden in 2023, “FIFA pays out more for the men’s performance,” which “means splitting equally means the men lose money, even though they’re the ones who are making more of it.”

Yet everybody in the woke sports activities world felt this made issues “equal.”

As Inigo Montoya would possibly say: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”

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