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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 ...
This is a list of the highest-paid athletes in the world as ranked by Forbes magazine. 2024 list. The 2024 ... Association football: Argentina: $135 million: $65 ...
By 2023, the top 3 highest-paid football players in the world (Neymar Jr. from Al Hilal who was earning £240 million per year; Cristiano Ronaldo from Al Nassr who was earning £173 million per year; and Karim Benzema from Al-Ittihad who was earning £172 million per year) were all playing in the Saudi Pro League earning record-breaking ...
According to Forbes’ annual report, Argentinian soccer player Lionel Messi is currently the highest paid athlete in the world, earning about $130 million per year. While many athletes bring most ...
Soccer players are the highest-paid athletes on this list. They occupy two of the top three positions. The reasons are simple. Soccer's global popularity, the substantial salaries that players in ...
The pandemic may have put a crimp in the earnings of the world's top athletes in recent years, but they can still bring home millions of dollars a year — into the hundreds of millions, in fact ...
The same tournament, he broke the record of most international goals scored in men's football and became the player with the most international caps in men's football in 2023. One of the world's most marketable and famous athletes, Ronaldo was ranked the world's highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2016, 2017, 2023, and 2024 and the world's most ...
According to France Football, he was the world's highest-paid footballer for five years out of six between 2009 and 2014, and was ranked the world's highest-paid athlete by Forbes in 2019 and 2022. Messi was among Time ' s 100 most influential people in the world in 2011, 2012, and 2023.