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Error Found In Reported Projection For Women's World Cup Revenue

Women's World Cup revenue figures can be confusing as broadcast rights are often bundled with the men'sGETTY IMAGES

A widely reported figure that projected the FIFA Women's World Cup to "generate a tiny fraction of the men's World Cup's billions in revenue" -- just $131M -- has turned out to be incorrect, according to Rachel Bachman of the WALL STREET JOURNAL. The $131M revenue number "actually was an expense." It came from a "confusing FIFA financial report that was misreported by Forbes.com" on March 7. The figure "spread through other reports and on social media this summer, as a debate raged about how much women's players in the U.S. should be paid," and was picked up by the U.S. Soccer Federation. In an online post yesterday, Forbes assistant managing editor Mike Ozanian "acknowledged the error and its discovery by The Wall Street Journal." Due to FIFA's "inscrutable accounting practices, it's impossible to calculate how much the Women's World Cup is worth." FIFA itself "acknowledges that it doesn't know the answer." FIFA's '18 financial report said that the men's World Cup generated nearly $5.4B in total revenue. However, about $3B of that "came from the sale of broadcast rights, and the right to broadcast the Women's World Cup is included in many of the men's World Cup deals." It is "not clear how, if broadcast rights are bundled, FIFA is able to produce a revenue figure for the men's World Cup but not the women's tournament" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 9/25).

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