Sport salaries: even QPR weekly wage tops UK annual average

Manchester City crowned best-paid sports team in the world for second year running

Joey Barton of Queens Park Rangers
(Image credit: Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

WITH Man City facing sanctions from Uefa for breaching its Financial Fair Play regulations some light has been shed on the magnitude of the club's spending after it was revealed that the Citizens boast the highest wage bill in world sport.

  • The biggest fallers from last year's top 10 were Milan of Serie A, down from sixth to 27th.
  • The average salary at Toronto FC of MLS has increased 256 per cent year-on-year to around $600,000 per player. The report claims this is largely down to the arrival of big name players such as England star Jermain Defoe and Brazil goalkeeper Julio Cesar.
  • The NBA is the highest-paying league as a whole, with 441 players at 30 teams in the 2013-14 season earning an average of £2.98m per year each.
  • The Premier League is the best paying football league in the world, with the average annual pay at £2.27m per player.

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