PSG, semi-finalists last year, will play Lyon if they finish off Sparta Prague in the last-16 (they're up 5-0 on aggregate). 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I'm in the dressing room and I can see it in the girls; the mentality now is to go out there and win. On 23 January 2022, Barcelona defeated Atltico Madrid 7-0 in the final to win their second Supercopa de Espaa. The league has been restructured three times since then, in 1996, 2001 and 2011, with another great leap in 2020 when the Spanish sports ministry declared that it would formalise women's football's status as a professional sport. Getafe vs. Celta Vigo (4 p.m.), THURSDAY, MAY 4 (all times ET) The clubs painful 3-1 loss against Lyon in the Womens Champions League was a cruel ending to a nearly perfect campaign. Regardless of spending, the team thoroughly outplayed each opponent. Last updated: 2 July 2021Source: FC Barcelona. "There's an attempt to compare it with the men's game, and to link it to that," Losada says. Futbol Club Barcelona Femen, commonly referred to as Bara Femen, [1] [2] is a Spanish professional women's football team based in Barcelona, Catalonia. Jack Grealish, Kevin de Bruyne and Riyad Mahrez feed balls to either Erling Haaland or Julian Alvarez. Football Salary: Top-10 Highest-Paid Players 2020. "These last two years I had an injury that really hurt me emotionally: I got injured, went back, got injured again and I didn't feel right. On 1 June 2021, just two days after the Copa de la Reina Final, Barcelona suffered their only league defeat of the season as they lost 34 to rivals Atltico Madrid. This is what will allow the clubs to be able to sway their stakeholders to pay the female teams decent wages. These clubs do not offer professional contracts, and players normally juggle training and matches with a full-time job. The salary limits for all 20 La Liga teams for the 2019/20 season have been announced, and once again, Barcelona has the highest spending limit. Where women's football is going, too. Finally, there is always the prospect of organic growth in the womens game. Although the team was not officially recognized by the club, it was the first match played by a women's team associated with FC Barcelona (then known as CF Barcelona). Higher WSL attendances and more television coverage on the BBC and BT Sport are just a few of the measurable changes that weve seen. Ousmane Dembl who so far scored 12 goals for Barcelona in all competitions making (210,000 . The Spanish champions defeated English champions Chelsea Women in front of a crowd of 72,262 at Camp Nou, the third-largest in the competition's history. The summer of 2022 brought about a large shift in Barcelona's squad with four major player departures the club's all-time top scorer Jenni Hermoso left to Mexican club Pachuca, the club's longest-serving player and appearances leader Melanie Serrano retired to pursue a youth coaching position within the club, Lieke Martens left to Paris Saint-Germain, and Leila Ouahabi left to Manchester City. FC Barcelona Femen belongs to one of the four professional football clubs in Spain whose legal entity is not that of a sports corporation (SAD), as its ownership rests with its memberships, called socis. [27][28] In response, Corts admitted that a change was indeed necessary, but maintained the rumours were unfounded.[29]. Barcelona walloped Osasuna, 9-0, but Osasuna advances. Through battles with promotion and relegation, the club won their first league title in 2011. An official statement is expected from the team in the coming weeks. Barca can boast phenomenal dribblers in Graham Hansen, who has eight goals and five assists in 14 total games. It set up a Final against Chelsea, another one of the consistent performers in the Womens Champions League. as he isn't convinced by the offer from the Russian club, Fabrizio Romano reports. "A key figure," Losada says. Building on this, television rights should become a more valuable commercial income stream for the game and increase the exposure surrounding the female leagues. "We weren't professional in any sense," she says. Bath Guijarro, Bonmat (2), Oshoala (2), Caldentey (2), Crnogorevi (2), Bonmat (2), Caldentey (2), Oshoala (2), Mapi Len, Rolf, Torrejn, Paredes, This page was last edited on 30 April 2023, at 19:05. Barcelona Femeni's 4-0 win over Chelsea Women in the 2020/21 Women's Champions League final on Sunday means that, have become the first club to win both the, The Blaugrana men's side, meanwhile, have won the CL five times with the latest victory taking place in the 2014/15 final. All results (away, home and aggregate) list FC Barcelona's goal tally first. Although there has been a clamp down on this practice, many clubs in the Primera Divisin still do not provide their players with a living wage, and for this reason, the players have to hold down a part time or full time job on the side. Barcelona, one of the powerhouses right now in the world of football, was founded on 29 November 1899.Since 24 September 1957, the club has played in their home ground, Camp Nou which has a capacity of 99,354 seats. [37], In the 202122 Champions League knockout rounds, Barcelona beat Real Madrid 83 on aggregate and Wolfsburg 53 on aggregate. As Club Femen Barcelona, Barcelona won their first Copa del Reina (the women's equivalent of the Spanish cup, or Copa del Rey) in 1994. People seem to want to retire me but I'm in one of the best moments of my career, and I see football differently now. Its players are the best paid in the world, with average earnings of $12.3 million. [17] On 25 August, Barcelona were defeated 01 by VfL Wolfsburg in the single-legged semifinal of the UEFA Women's Champions League, a disappointing downgrade from their previous season. The following month, Barcelona defeated Logroo 30 in the final of the 2020 Copa de la Reina after it was postponed from 31 May 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Barcelona are through to the final of the Women's Champions League! Get in touch with us now. Good conditions, good facilities, fully professional coaching, money -- in these areas, Lyon stole a march on the rest, but the gap is narrowing. The structure of wages and contracts in Spain for female players is haphazard. Alongside sponsorship, it would be important to increase the following and coverage of womens football in Spain, which will in turn increase club income. , Feb 14, 2023. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. ", "I made my debut in 2006 and we weren't professional," she continues. Spain's top-flight women footballers have signed their first collective agreement on pay and conditions, . Women's Champions League Semi Final. [30] On 27 June, ahead of Barcelona's 91 thrashing of Eibar in their final league game of the season, Corts announced that he would leave Barcelona following that game amidst reported unrest within the team. 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In the past three years, Barcelona has picked up three Liga F titles, three Copa de la Reina titles, three Supercopa de Espanas, and a Womens Champions League title. The clubs? The 28-year-old midfielder has netted 12 goals in 18 games across La Liga and the Champions League this term. The shirt was white and the shorts blue, but they did play at the Camp Nou when they beat UE Centelles on penalties on Christmas Day, 1970. Work more. BARCELONAHow much does Lionel Messi earn? Out of the 30,000 registered players, only 0.1% receive professional contracts. Lionel Messi ready to accept a low salary to join Barcelona, waiting for an offer. Given the. In fact, I didn't even dream of being a [professional] footballer. Frenkie de Jong - 560,962 per week (470,156 per week) Sergio Busquets - 423,077 per week (354,591 per week) Jordi Alba - 400,577 . [21] In doing so, Barcelona became the first ever club to have been European champions in both men's and women's football. Barcelona play in the La Liga, the highest tier of football in Spain.Barcelona total wage bill for 2023 is:. "Our style is recognisably Barca," Losada says, citing an identity that runs across generations and across genders. Compare the Barcelona womens system to the City system. After defeating Chelsea in the first leg of the semifinals, 1-0, Barcelona just needs to see off the Blues to reach a fourth final in five years. They are, though, decent salaries in the context in the women's game: Barcelona, Madrid and Levante are a case apart, with the players' union revealing that the average salaries of players at the rest of the league's clubs was 17,000 a year. That is to say, the costs that comports the Bara Feminine to the Barcelona entity represent only 0,75% of the total. I saw there that it could be different. Frenkie De Jong is currently the highest paid player in FC Barcelona and his earnings per week are about 250,000 more than what Sergio . ), Features Bundesliga, LaLiga, Championship, & FA Cup, Features Champions League, Serie A, Europa League & Brasileiro, Starting price: $4.99/mo. It reached the semifinals in the 2016/17 season. "and we stopped winning. The Frenchman's weekly wage is said to be about 231,000 while Martens makes around 180,000 per year. Compare that to Manchester City's Women's Super League team. [19] This was the club's seventh Copa de la Reina title, surpassing Espanyol's six wins to become the team with the most all-time Copa de la Reina titles. Have a more competitive mentality. Stream top leagues, tournaments and teams. The club hired Fran Snchez in his place, and that summer signed multiple big names in international football- namely Lieke Martens, Toni Duggan, and lise Bussaglia, amongst others. "And that's the point at which Atltico Madrid emerged as a really strong side," Losada adds. Freiburg vs. RB Leipzig (2:30 p.m.) On 17 March, 2019, Barcelona defeated Atltico at the Wanda Metropolitano in a match that broke the world record for attendance at a women's club football match with 60,739 attendees. The club was in a position where it was very broken, there was no happiness, but the femen has been there at the forefront, still fighting. Past stars like Kheira Hamraoui, Vicky Losada and more have all left. It's the women's football section of FC Barcelona and it competes in the Primera Divisin, the top tier of Spanish women's football. Thirty is the new twenty. Jill Ellis . ", "We have all grown over the years, myself included. . The highest paid male footballer in the world is Lionel Messi, who earns $92 million a year at Barcelona, which is 178x more than. They lost Hermoso to Pachuca, Martens to PSG and Leila Ouahabi to Manchester City. The following morning, though, came the meeting at the airport and that promise, a vow, to take one more step in a long journey. ", And still winning. Then, teenager Salma Paralluelo notched eleven goals and four assists in 21 total games. Lieke Martens has won the women's Champions League with the Catalans. Barcelona's best paid player, Lieke Martens -- winner of The Best FIFA Women's Player prize in 2017 -- reportedly earns around 200,000 a year. On 2 July 2021, Corts' assistant coach Jonatan Girldez was appointed as the new manager of Barcelona following Corts' exit. He played two games as a loanee. In said conservative bet, frame the signings of Ana-Maria Crnogorevi, Caroline Hansen, and the international Jennifer Beautiful, that arrived free pertinent of the Athletic of Madrid, the three incorporated in the summer of 2020. "But it was a big change. - ESPN+ viewer's guide: Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, FA Cup and more. But it's an attractive name, Madrid aren't going to disappear and with time it might become a clsico, bit by bit. A wage that the players of the Bara multiply by nine. ", "Barcelona make Champions League history with 4-0 win over Chelsea", "Chelsea 0-4 Barcelona: Bara surge to first Women's Champions League title", "FC Barcelona first club to win Men's and Women's Champions League", "Bara Women 4-2 Levante: Cup champions! Yes, 90. March 22, 2023 by . "Women's football has grown and it has found itself a place in society, in the media, that means it won't take a step back now," she says. The star big man has a player-option which could make Green a free agent . Often these contracts only mean that the players get a payment per match, which can reach up to around 300 to 500 in the Liga Iberdrola, but in the Segunda is much less. As seen on Forbes, FC Barcelona Femen has reached the final of the UEFA Women's Champions League for the fourth time in the past five seasons. Although being closely associated with the club for decades, the team was not established as an official section of FC Barcelona until 2002, when the club definitively incorporated Club Femen Barcelona into its sports structure. Rivaldo urges Roberto Firmino to not move to Barcelona in summer transfer window, Hed never interfere: Patrick Vieira explains what its like to work under prospective Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Chelsea preparing stunning transfer for Harry Kane, if Mauricio Pochettino is announced as manager: report. [25] Amidst this success, Barcelona announced manager Llus Corts was set to stay for two more years. Total Salaries: 182,640,000 Transactions Jan 27 2023 Mximo Perrone Signed 5 1/2 year contract by transfer from Vlez Sarsfield to Manchester City F.C. According to Forbes, however, football's highest-paid man - Barcelona's Lionel Messi - earns over 2000% more than Lloyd does. "It's a process, a question of time," Losada explains. The club then brought in the services of 202122 Pichichi winner Geyse Ferreira, 2020 FIFA The Best winner Lucy Bronze, Nuria Rbano, and young stars Salma Paralluello, and Vicky Lpez. They reached an informal integration agreement with FC Barcelona where they were allowed to use the colors, badges and facilities of the club, but it took a few more years to adopt the crest. ", Vicky Losada smiles. 'ACCESS ALL AREAS' pass to exclusive interviews with the biggest and best names in the game. His contract at the club runs until 2023. Includes: Premier League + 84 Sports Channels. It sounds like a clich but football is my life. Barcelona are the European champions, taking Chelsea apart and winning 4-0 in the final to complete a treble last season. ", "It's about education, and sport is a good way of changing that. Vivianne Miedema. With a squad of 30, that equals an average 11.8m per player. ", She stops, pulls a face and laughs. Throughout the year, Alicia will be sharing some of her insights and experiences of womens football in Spain and around the world. It took until 2015 for FC Barcelona to officially professionalize the womens team, FCB Femen. They were the first Spanish club to reach a quarterfinal of the Champions League, the first to reach a semifinal of the Champions League, the first to make it to a Champions League Final, and the first to win it, which they did in 2021. [3], On 17 November 1970, in a way akin to Joan Gamper, Cabecern posted a print advertisement in an FC Barcelona fan magazine called La Revista Barcelonista. What about the top female players though? The highest-paid player in the women's game is currently USWNT star Carli Lloyd, who takes home over $518,000 a year from playing in the National Women's Soccer League for NJ/NY Gotham FC - who were known as Sky Blue FC until last year. First Team Women's Bara Atltic FC . An encyclopedia of football shirts and boots knowledge both past and present Mark has also been to the FA Cup and League Cup finals for FFT and has written pieces for the mag ranging on subjects from Bobby Robson's season at Barcelona to Robinho's career. Figures from late 2019 showed the budget for Barcelona's entire women's team to be 3.5m, which is less than Jeison Murrillo alone was paid. As if, in Losada's words: "in a final against Lyon, you have nothing to lose.". ", It would be huge, the culmination of a journey - and yet also the start. FT. Rayo Vallecano 2-1 Barca: LIVE updates, reactions, stats, ratings, Ancelotti says Barca deserves to win La Liga this year, Xavi replies, La Liga accept Barca's plan for Messi comeback (reliability: 5 stars), Yamal retains his place: Xavi unveils 22-man squad for Osasuna game. The Italian giants secured his loan deal from Barcelona last September and the agreement also included a permanent transfer option. The top five highest paid women footballers has been revealed by France Football magazine and the list reveals how large the pay gap still remains. In front of a crowd of 72,262 at Camp Nou, the third-largest in the competition's history, FC Barcelona Femen defeated English champions Chelsea Women to reach the final . Barcelona Femen plays its home games at Johan Cruyff Stadium in Sant Joan Desp, and occasionally at the Camp Nou. Sociedad vs. Real Madrid (3:30 p.m.), WEDNESDAY, May 3 (all times ET) From the start, Barca dominated Chelsea. He once saw Tyrone Mings at a petrol station in Bournemouth but felt far too short to ask for a photo. Less than two months later, on 13 March 2022, they were again crowned Primera Divisin champions after beating Real Madrid 5-0, with six games to spare. Visit ESPN to view Barcelona squad and player information from all competitions, along with a season-by-season archive. Yet, the team keeps adding more stars. Barcelona Femeni's top earner is the Netherlands ' star Lieke Martens. Barcelona will play a third successive Women's Champions League final after they beat Women's Super League side Chelsea 2-1 on aggregate. Then-. She called for women between the ages 18-25 to play in an exhibition match the following month at the Camp Nou. There were sponsors, marketing, promotion -- not the slightest suggestion that football is only for men. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Despite the development of British football and the rise of the Women's Super League in recent years, there are no British players on the list. The result was two Primera Divisions and four Copa de la Reinas in the six seasons since professionalizing. "Train more," the FC Barcelona Femeni captain says. Salaries in football are always a talking point. The agreement includes a ten-tier system for the players' salaries starting from 250.000 euros and getting up to 3,5 million or more, which will be known to all EuroLeague clubs and give a more solid base of transfer negotiations. Everything I know, everything I have learned comes from football. On 31 May, Barcelona defeated Levante 42 in the Copa de la Reina final to win the trophy for the eighth time,[24] becoming the first-ever Spanish women's side (fifth overall) to win the European continental treble. Once promoted, the section enjoyed some popularity in the 2004-05 season due to the signing of the Mexican international Maribel Domnguez and the Spanish Mara Luisa Coimbra, but those signings did not translate into quality results for the team. Some clubs were also employing their female players under fake job titles, so that if they were injured or couldnt play, the club did not lose out on money. As revealed by Cadena SER, she makes as much money in a year as Samuel Umtiti in less than a week. It defeated Manchester City after breezing through easier competition. These figures, as shown above, are trending in the right direction, however, and should continue to grow throughout the 2020s with coverage of women's football improving. That team meeting took place in Budapest, Hungary, the morning after Barcelona lost the 2019 Women's Champions League final to Olympique Lyon, five-time winners of Europe's biggest competition. "But half the teams in our league, lots of the girls playing just about survive on what they earn. The highest-paid player in the women's game is currently USWNT star Carli Lloyd, who takes home over $518,000 a year from playing in the National Women's Soccer League for NJ/NY Gotham FC - who . They also have teams that regularly dominate in continental competition. However, Zenit aren't giving up and plan to push further for the transfer to happen. Made in Florida. Meanwhile, Barcelona are open to selling Umtiti. In the Women's Super League in England, the average women's footballer salary is thought to be around 30,000. "Train more. Barcelona is the 'cara bonita' [the acceptable face, the pretty face] of the league, along with teams like Atltico and Levante, but that's not a reality at 100% of the clubs.". Two years later, in the 2018/19 campaign, Barcelona got to its first Womens Champions League Final. After the past 15 August approved in the Official Bulletin of the State (BOE) the I Collective Agreement of feminine football in Spain to regulate the labour conditions of the players of the First Iberdrola, the budget of the FC Barcelona in his feminine category has elevated of face to the present campaign 2020-21 until the six million euros, of which 3,63 millions are to pay the wages of the sportive staff. The club mainly relies on its wingers to either beat their defenders and suck in the defense toward them to create chances, or to overload the flanks to create space for the starting striker, which is one of Oshoala or Brazilian Geyse. This season maybe the [domestic] league hasn't worked in our favour, the standard has dropped a bit and that might take something away from us, but we're working to be at the best level in the Champions League. While Madrid's revenue fell from $896 million the previous year, Barcelona's rose from $823 million during the same period, according to Deloitte. Top-15 Highest Paid Female Soccer Players' Salaries. They have won five league titles since; Losada was there for all of them. Some players received some money, but not enough to live off and on a structural level it was 100% erm ". World Soccer Talk is reader-supported and may earn a commission through our partner links. Be more ambitious. - Stream ESPN FC Daily on ESPN+ (U.S. only) ", The best team in Spain right now? Putellas in Barca squad to face Chelsea, Bronze out after operation . They achieved this while they had a perfect record in the league, winning all 26 of their games.