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Women's World Championship squash prize money

The Women's World Championship has paid £4,042,758 across 16 tournaments from 2010 to 2026. In 2026 Amina Orfi took £78,984.

PAID IN TOTAL£4.0m
EDITIONS16
2026 TOP PRIZE£79k
PLAYERS PAID170
RANK2 of 97

Every edition

Who won, what they took, and what the tournament paid in all

Every edition of the Women's World Championship with its winner, the winner's prize and the total paid.
TOURNAMENT WINNER TOP PRIZE PAID
2026 2025/26 Amina Orfi £78,984£79k £493,647£494k
2025 2025 Women's World Squash Championship Nour El Sherbini £71,111£71k £444,444£444k
2024 2024 Women's World Championship Nouran Gohar £66,963£67k £418,519£419k
2023 2023 Women's World Championship Nour El Sherbini £59,259£59k £370,370£370k
2022 2022 Women's World Championship Nour El Sherbini £65,185£65k £407,407£407k
2021 2020-21 Women's World Championship Nour El Sherbini £59,259£59k £370,370£370k
2019 2019/20 Nour El Sherbini £48,415£48k £302,606£303k
2019 2018/19 Nour El Sherbini £56,296£56k £351,852£352k
2017 2017 Raneem El Weleily £33,778£34k £182,939£183k
2017 2016 Nour El Sherbini £19,739£20k £109,844£110k
2016 2015 Nour El Sherbini £21,407£21k £119,096£119k
2014 2014 Nicol David £17,000£17k £96,019£96k
2014 Women's World Open 2013 Laura Massaro £13,222£13k £74,685£75k
2012 Women's World Open 2012 Nicol David £20,778£21k £117,293£117k
2011 Women's World Open 2011 Nicol David £16,119£16k £91,022£91k
2010 Women's World Open 2010 Nicol David £16,622£17k £92,644£93k

Prize money paid, edition by edition

The Women's World Championship 2025/26 payouts

What each finishing place was worth at the latest edition

Prize money by finishing place at the Women's World Championship 2025/26.
PLACE PLAYERS EACH BAND TOTAL
Winner 1 £78,984£79k £78,984£79k
Runner-up 1 £49,365£49k £49,365£49k
Semi-final 2 £29,619£30k £59,239£59k
Quarter-final 4 £17,278£17k £69,111£69k
Last 16 8 £9,873£10k £78,987£79k
Last 32 16 £4,936£5k £78,981£79k
Last 64 32 £2,468£2k £78,981£79k

Every cheque by name is on the Women's World Championship 2025/26 payouts page.

Who has earned the most at the Women's World Championship

Prize money won here, across every edition we hold

The players who have won the most prize money at the Women's World Championship.
# PLAYER NATION WINS PRIZE MONEY
1 Nour El Sherbini Egypt 8 £529,301£529k
2 Nouran Gohar Egypt 1 £264,042£264k
3 Hania El Hammamy Egypt 0 £171,832£172k
4 Raneem El Weleily Egypt 1 £134,620£135k
5 Nour El Tayeb Egypt 0 £124,852£125k
6 Amina Orfi Egypt 1 £103,650£104k
7 Olivia Weaver United States 0 £103,559£104k
8 Nicol David Malaysia 4 £99,394£99k
9 Camille Serme France 0 £97,400£97k
10 Joelle King New Zealand 0 £92,979£93k
11 Amanda Sobhy United States 0 £91,727£92k
12 Sarah-Jane Perry England 0 £82,063£82k
13 Salma Hany Ibrahim Ahmed Egypt 0 £75,287£75k
14 Rowan Reda Araby Egypt 0 £73,029£73k
15 Laura Massaro England 1 £66,039£66k
16 Tesni Murphy Wales 0 £65,039£65k
17 Nele Coll Belgium 0 £62,898£63k
18 Sivasangari Subramaniam Malaysia 0 £62,811£63k
19 Georgina Kennedy England 0 £62,315£62k
20 Tinne Gilis Belgium 0 £60,481£60k
21 Satomi Watanabe Japan 0 £53,204£53k
22 Nada Abbas Egypt 0 £52,121£52k
23 Alison Waters England 0 £42,746£43k
24 Joshna Chinappa India 0 £39,907£40k
25 Mélissa Alves France 0 £38,535£39k

Other squash tournaments

The tournaments either side of the Women's World Championship by prize money paid

Squash tournaments ranked around the Women's World Championship.
# TOURNAMENT EDITIONS PAID
87 Men's Open de France 1 £49,981£50k
88 Women's Open de France 1 £49,981£50k
89 Men's Canadian Open 1 £40,747£41k
90 Chennai Open 1 £39,262£39k
91 Hurghada International 2 £34,225£34k
92 Burning River Classic 1 £28,927£29k
93 Dutch Open 1 £18,741£19k
94 El-Kersh Heliopolis Open 1 £18,741£19k
95 Granite Open 1 £18,521£19k
96 Boca del Río Veracruz International 1 £14,815£15k
97 Seoul Open 1 £14,815£15k
1 Men's World Championship 16 £4,823,899£4.8m
2 Women's World Championship 16 £4,042,758£4.0m
3 Men's British Open 14 £1,872,253£1.9m
4 Men's Qatar Classic 14 £1,735,823£1.7m
5 Women's British Open 14 £1,706,426£1.7m
6 Men's Tournament of Champions 16 £1,680,315£1.7m
7 Men's El Gouna Open 14 £1,621,313£1.6m
8 Men's US Open 15 £1,596,352£1.6m
9 Women's US Open 15 £1,493,304£1.5m
10 Men's Hong Kong Open 13 £1,485,724£1.5m
11 Women's Tournament of Champions 14 £1,356,364£1.4m
12 Men's Egyptian Open 6 £1,241,904£1.2m
13 Men's Windy City Open 9 £1,240,296£1.2m

Frequently asked questions

How much did the winner get at the Women's World Championship 2025/26?

Amina Orfi took £78,984. The whole tournament paid £493,647 across 64 players.

How much prize money has the Women's World Championship paid?

£4,042,758 across 16 editions from 2010 to 2026. The richest was the Women's World Championship 2025/26, at £493,647.

Who has won the most money at the Women's World Championship?

Nour El Sherbini, with £529,301 and 8 wins. Nouran Gohar is next on £264,042.

Who has won the Women's World Championship the most times?

Nour El Sherbini, 8 times in the editions we hold.

Where does the Women's World Championship rank for prize money?

2nd of the 97 squash tournaments we hold, by total prize money paid.

Where to next

Every squash tournament and player is ranked on squash prize money. The latest edition is the Women's World Championship 2025/26, and the one before it the 2025 Women's World Squash Championship. What the men's and women's fields are paid is compared on men's vs women's squash prize money. How much of the pot a squash winner keeps, against every other sport, is on the winner's share of prize money. How far down the field the money runs, against every other sport, is on how deep prize money pays.