The Soccer Geek

Today the Sunday Times newspaper brought out their sports rich list, so to celebrate I’ve decided to write a post listing all the wealthiest soccer players and stars in the UK. This post therefore tracks their accumulated wealth.

If you are interested in the wealth of celebrity soccer figures you may wish to also check out my other post called richest soccer players which ranks the world’s players according to their last year’s earnings from everything including wages and sponsorship deals.

Looking at the highest earnings from last year, you may find the statistics for the accumulated wealth quite low in comparison. For the players that make it onto both of my lists, you would think that the difference between overall wealth and yearly earnings would be much higher than it is. There are 2 major factors explaining this:

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• There are differences in the findings of different publications. France Football will report back differently from Futebol Financa, and differently again from The Sunday Times because they will each have their own sets of research and it is difficult to get 100% accuracy
• Soccer players must blow a lot of cash!

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So here goes with the rich list for 2010:

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£190 million: Dave Whelan (Former player and Wigan Athletic owner)

£125 million: David Beckham (LA Galaxy and England)

£40 million: Michael Owen (Manchester United)

£34 million: Fabio Capello (England manager)

£33 million: Sol Campbell (Arsenal), Rio Ferdinand (Manchester United), Wayne Roooney (Manchester United), Alan Shearer (TV pundit and former England captain)

£32 million: Ryan Giggs (Manchester United)

£31 million: Robbie Fowler (Perth Glory and ex England)

£30 million: Roy Keane (Ipswich Town manager)

£28 million: Michael Ballack (Chelsea)

£24 million: Steven Gerrard (Liverpool)

£23 million: Frank Lampard (Chelsea)

£21 million: Carlo Ancelotti (Chelsea manager)

£20 million: Gary Lineker (TV Pundit and ex England)

£20 million: John Terry (Chelsea)

£19 million: Patrick Vieira (Manchester City)

£18 million: Giovanni Trapattoni (Ireland manager)

£17 million: Didier Drogba (Chelsea), Arsene Wenger (Arsenal manager)

£16 million: Damien Duff (Fulham), Sven-Goran Eriksson (Ivory coast and ex England manager), Paul Scholes (Manchester United)

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Well that concludes all the footballers from the top 50 of the Times top 100. I’d like to note again that these figures for the wealthiest soccer players are taken from the Sunday Times sports rich list of 2010. In their guide they give a list of all sportsmen, not just soccer stars, and have special featurs like a young rich list. If you want more information then you can visit their website here.

That’s all for today. Are there any surprises here for you? Who do you think will make their way to the top of the rankings by 2011?

Have fun,

Soccer Geek

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