{"id":78286,"date":"2026-09-04T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/usl-and-players-ratify-new-cba-raising-salaries-and-introducing-12-month-deals\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:56:12","slug":"usl-and-players-ratify-new-cba-raising-salaries-and-introducing-12-month-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/usl-and-players-ratify-new-cba-raising-salaries-and-introducing-12-month-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"USL and players ratify new CBA, raising salaries and introducing 12-month deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>New pact includes terms for first-division USL Premier<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Base pay for Championship grows from $31k to $42k<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Agreement runs through the 2030 season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The United Soccer League and USL Players Association announced the ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement for two levels of the organization\u2019s pyramid on Friday, with fresh terms taking effect immediately and running through 2030. The new pact include a second agreement for the second-division USL Championship as well as the first set of terms for the upcoming USL Premier, a first-division sanctioned league scheduled to lauch in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Among the headline items of the deals is the introduction of 12-month contracts for players, a codified first in the US lower divisions. The first USL CBAs worked to standardize 10-month contracts; before then, clubs varied in their commitments to players. Championship players will earn a base compensation (which includes housing) of $42,000 in 2026 \u2013 up from $31,000 \u2013 with that floor increasing annually over the term of the agreement. The USL Premier will also launch with 12-month contracts and a compensation floor of $67,500 in 2028 with annual increases worked into the CBA.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/sep\/04\/usl-cba-salaries-contracts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New pact includes terms for first-division USL Premier Base pay for Championship grows from $31k to $42k Agreement runs through the 2030 season The United Soccer League and USL Players Association announced the ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement for two levels of the organization\u2019s pyramid on Friday, with fresh terms taking effect immediately &#8230; <a title=\"USL and players ratify new CBA, raising salaries and introducing 12-month deals\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/usl-and-players-ratify-new-cba-raising-salaries-and-introducing-12-month-deals\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about USL and players ratify new CBA, raising salaries and introducing 12-month deals\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}