Barca top salaries league as Juve wage bill soars
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Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid and Italy’s Juventus are the world’s best-paid sports teams according to the 2019 Global Sports Salaries Survey.
The 10th edition of the survey, conducted by sportingintelligence.com, finds Barcelona atop the list with an average basic salary of $12.8 million for first-team players.
That figure is down on last year when Barcelona was also first with an average of $13.7 million, swelled by the basic pay check of Lionel Messi, which exceeds $65 million.
Madrid retains second place with an average of $11.6 million and Juve, ninth on the list last year, is up to third with $10.54 million. The other soccer teams in the top 20 are Paris Saint-Germain at 12th and Manchester City at 13th.
The figures used in the survey do not include signing or performance bonuses and other extras.
Teams from the NBA fill the remaining seven spots in the top 10 and take 15 of the top 20 places. In 2017 the top three teams in the survey were the Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors, while in 2018 three NBA teams broke the average pay ceiling of $10 million per player.
Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid and Italy’s Juventus are the world’s best-paid sports teams according to the 2019 Global Sports Salaries Survey.
The 10th edition of the survey, conducted by sportingintelligence.com, finds Barcelona atop the list with an average basic salary of $12.8 million for first-team players.
That figure is down on last year when Barcelona was also first with an average of $13.7 million, swelled by the basic pay check of Lionel Messi, which exceeds $65 million.
Madrid retains second place with an average of $11.6 million and Juve, ninth on the list last year, is up to third with $10.54 million. The other soccer teams in the top 20 are Paris Saint-Germain at 12th and Manchester City at 13th.
The figures used in the survey do not include signing or performance bonuses and other extras.
Teams from the NBA fill the remaining seven spots in the top 10 and take 15 of the top 20 places. In 2017 the top three teams in the survey were the Oklahoma City Thunder, Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors, while in 2018 three NBA teams broke the average pay ceiling of $10 million per player.