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American football: United States: $49 million: $43 million: $6 million 7: Phil Mickelson: Golf: United States: $48.7 million: $4.7 million: $44 million 8: David Beckham: Association football: United Kingdom: $47.2 million: $5.2 million: $42 million 9: Cristiano Ronaldo: Association football: Portugal: $44 million: $23 million: $21 million 10 ...
This list does not reflect the highest annual salaries or career earnings, only the top 100 largest contracts and thus is largely limited to athletes in team sports and auto racing. Athletes in individual sports , such as golf , tennis , table tennis , boxing , kickboxing , and MMA , are not employed by a team and usually earn money primarily ...
One woman cracked Forbes' 2023 list of the world's highest-paid athletes -- tennis great Serena Williams, who brought in $45.3 million in her final year of competitive play. She retired from her...
A list of the top 10 highest-paid soccer players in the world has been revealed, as a study looked into salaries and endorsement deals for the top players on the planet.
In March 2021, she was named as the highest paid female soccer player in the world. [6] She played her last international match with the USWNT on October 26, 2021, shortly before retiring from professional soccer at the completion of the 2021 NJ/NY Gotham FC season.
Currently, Messi is the highest-paid player in Major League Soccer with a guaranteed yearly pay of $20.4 million (though he certainly makes more than that). He signed the contract in 2023—to go ...
The top twenty are most likely accurate as no players before the mid-1980s amassed more than twenty or thirty caps. For example, Boris Bandov , the player active before 1980 with the highest number of caps, played 33 times between 1976 and 1983, while Perry Van der Beck played 23 times between 1979 and 1985.
The following is a list of most expensive association football transfers, which details the highest transfer fees ever paid for players, as well as transfers which set new world transfer records. The first confirmed record transfer was of Willie Groves from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa for £100 in 1893 [ 1 ] (equivalent to £14,000 in ...