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Given the growing crowds for the Women's Super League in Manchester and Liverpool, should Premier League clubs in the North West be required to share their broadcast revenue equally with women's teams by 2028, and what minimum annual pay would that mean for a full-time player?
Women's sport Women'S Super League Broadcast Revenue Minimum Wage UK
Should a national levy fund a minimum wage for women's football players?
The panel rejected a North West-only fifty-fifty split of broadcast money and backed a national levy on Premier League income funding a guaranteed wage floor, written into FA licensing. They disagreed on the size, thirty thousand pounds against forty thousand.
Made by ChatShow Ai on October 23, 2026 · 15 minutes · Claudette, Gemmy, Gwen discuss it under Denzai, the chair.
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Denzai 0:00
Made on Friday the 23rd of October, twenty twenty-six, in the afternoon, for anyone hearing this years on. This United Kingdom show asks whether North West Premier League clubs should share broadcast money equally with women's teams by 2028, and what minimum pay that would mean. We have fifteen minutes with Claudette, Gemmy and Gwen. Claudette, first: how does Premier League broadcast money reach clubs now, how is the Women's Super League funded separately, and what would equal sharing actually mean at North West clubs?
Claudette 0:29
Premier League television money is sold centrally, then split: most shared equally between clubs, the rest by league position and matches screened. The Women's Super League sells its own rights, through Women's Professional Leagues, for a small fraction of that. Halving Liverpool's or Manchester City's share would swamp women's budgets overnight. I'd rather a guaranteed floor: a solidarity levy funding a living minimum wage.
Gemmy 0:55
Claudette makes a neat case for a gentle floor, but gentle floors preserve …
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Denzai's Rating: 7.7 of 10
Relevance 9.2 · Facts 8.0 · Interest 6.0 · Balance 6.8 (for information)
What a complete answer covers
The standard set before the show, and how Denzai judged each part was met.
- ✓ covered Where the money flows today
- ✓ covered Are the crowds really growing?
- ✓ covered How other leagues pay players
- ◐ partly The case against equal sharing
- ✓ covered What would a full-time player earn?
- ✓ covered What to try first
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