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This is a list of the largest sports contracts. These figures include signing bonuses but exclude options, buyouts , and the endorsement deals. 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 .
Formula 1: Max Verstappen. Contract: $266.5 million over five years Max Verstappen, who has a net worth of $70 million, earned the title of Formula One World Champion back to back in 2021 and 2022.
Contract: $674 million over 4 years Lionel Messi’s four-year, $674 million contract with FC Barcelona, signed in 2017, remains one of the largest sports deals in history.
Juan Soto contract details, by the numbers. Number of years: 15 Signing bonus: $75 million Total value of contract: $765 million. That's $65 million more than the 10-year, $700 million contract ...
Since the 1960s, all regular season and playoff games broadcast in the United States have been aired by national television networks. Until the broadcast contract ended in 2013, the terrestrial television networks CBS, NBC, and Fox, as well as cable television's ESPN, paid a combined total of US$20.4 billion [11] to broadcast NFL games.
It's just that American sports franchises are in the business of shelling out long term, high-paying deals, whereas in UEFA, franchises usually only sign players for up to 4-5 years. I think Ronaldinho's contract is around 85 million USD, which doesn't make the cut on this list.
Referee, Umpire or Other Official. Median pay: $17.49 an hour NBA referees-- who are among the best-compensated across all pro sports -- start at around $250,000 a year, according to Career Trend.
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