The salary pot in the men’s competition will rise by 45% to £2.05m per facet, whereas the fund for ladies’s groups will enhance by 100% to £880,000.
The minimal wage for a feminine participant additionally rise by 50% to £15,000, whereas the variety of abroad gamers permitted in each competitions will increase from three to 4.
In 2025, male gamers earned a most of £200,000, whereas prime earners within the girls’s version pocketed £65,000.
The competitors may have a participant public sale in 2026 – akin to the Indian Premier League.
Gamers have been beforehand allotted to sides by way of a draft with a set of wage tiers, however will now have their workforce and pay set by an public sale that can happen in March.
Groups will have the ability to signal 4 gamers in a window from mid-November to the top of January, with one allowed to be a retention of any member of a facet’s 2025 squad.
The three remaining direct signings have to be from abroad or England contracted gamers, and franchises will have the ability to supply multi-year contracts.
The suitable to match, an possibility that allowed sides to retain squad members by providing similar salaries if a participant was drafted by one other facet, will not be a characteristic of the competitors.
