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The progression of the British football transfer fee record tracks the increases in the record for the highest transfer fee paid or received by British association football clubs. A transfer fee is the sum of money paid by one club to purchase the contract, and therefore the playing services, of a professional footballer.
This also skews the list towards sports with salary caps where salaries are therefore public knowledge and easy to cite. The contract figures referenced below are presented at face value and do not reflect potential pre or post-tax treatments. For example, contracts with European sports teams are typically quoted on a post-tax basis.
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 ...
Salary/winnings Endorsements 1: Roger Federer: Tennis: Switzerland: $106.3 million: $6.3 million: $100 million 2: Cristiano Ronaldo: Association football: Portugal: $105 million: $60 million: $45 million 3: Lionel Messi: Association football: Argentina: $104 million: $72 million: $32 million 4: Neymar: Association football: Brazil: $95.5 ...
There is no team or individual salary cap in the Premier League. As a result of the increasingly lucrative television deals, player wages rose sharply following the formation of the Premier League, when the average player wage was £75,000 per year. [264] In the 2018–19 season the average annual salary stood at £2.99 million.
David Beckham, an English retired professional footballer with a net worth of US$300 million. Association football is the world's most popular sport and is worth US$600 billion worldwide. [ 1 ] By the end of the 20th century it was played by over 250 million players in over 200 countries.
The English Football League, established in 1888 as The Football League by Aston Villa director William McGregor and renamed "English Football League" in 2016, was the first professional football league in the world. Since its founding, however, many other leagues have been founded in England.
In May 2022 Daniels came out as gay, aged seventeen, becoming the UK's only male professional footballer to be publicly out at the time, and the first since Justin Fashanu in 1990. [10] He cited fellow footballer Josh Cavallo, Thetford Town manager Matt Morton, and diver Tom Daley as helping him come out. [11]