World football ruling body, FIFA have taken a decision to increase the prize money of the Women's World Cup starting with next year's finals in France.

 Speaking at the FIFA council meeting on Friday in Kigali, Rwanda, president Gianni Infantino presented the cash upgrade from $15m to $50m, which will be shared amongst the 24 participating teams.

Firstly, $30m will be the new prize money, a 100% percent increase from the 2015 edition in Canada, $11.5m for pre-tournament preparations and $8.5m to clubs for releasing their players for the world cup, first of its kind in the women's game.

"The overall contribution will be $50m for the 24 participating teams which means more than three times the amount paid in 2015.

"It’s a very important message for women’s football. It will boost this Women’s World Cup even more," Infantino said at a news conference.

However, FIFpro were not satisfied with the increasment and the global footballers' union in a statement said the changes were not enough to breach the gap between the men's and women's football over the world.

"FIFPro notes the willingness of FIFA to increase prize money for the Women’s World Cup and make structural improvements to support women’s football," a FIFpro statement said.

"However, despite these changes football remains even further from the goal of equality for all World Cup players regardless of gender.

"In reality, the changes actually signify an increase in the gap between men’s and women’s prize money. This regressive trend appears to contravene FIFA’s statutory commitment to gender equality.

"We strongly support our members, women’s national-team players in multiple countries, who have written to FIFA in recent days expressing their dismay about the distribution of prize money."

The announcement comes after players union in New Zealand, Australia, Sweden and Norway wrote to FIFA to raise concerns over the inequality in cash set aside for the women's world cup when compared to the men's.

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