‘It’s so backwards’: women call for equal prize money in South Australian football

Player Isobel Hodgson says the prize money inequality in South Australia’s National Premier Leagues ‘doesn’t make any sense’. Photograph: Adam Butler

When the Matildas captivated the nation and led the cry for gender equality in Fifa prize money for future World Cups, the football community backed Australia’s best female footballers in. But at the same time, women playing in the country’s National Premier Leagues say they are being treated unequally with their own “backwards” prize money pay gaps.

In South Australia, players in the Women’s National Premier League (WNPL) compete for less than a third of the prize money that the men play for in the state’s National Premier League (NPL).