The World’s Most Financially Savvy Football Players

Ryan Giggs

Estimated personal wealth: £27m ($44m)
Value of each senior league goal: £245,000 ($398,000)

Lucrative Deals and Assets
Giggs’ long list of endorsement contracts, from the early 1990’s to the present day, include Reebok, Citizen, Givenchy, Fuji, Patek Phillipe…… and, less glamorously, Quorn. BBC Sport called him the Beckham of his day, noting that “If you put his face on the cover of a football magazine, it guaranteed you the biggest sales of the year.”

Wayne Rooney

Estimated personal wealth: £25m ($.4m)
Value of each senior league goal: £217,000 ($352,000)

Lucrative Deals and Assets
£7m ($4.3m) per year endorsement deals with Coca-Cola, Nike, Nokia, Ford, and Asda. Harper Collins gave him an advance payment of £5m ($8.1m) for five books to be published over twelve years. His Prestbury, Cheshire home is worth £4.25m ($6.9m). Even his dog, a Dogue de Bordeaux, is valued at £1,250 ($2,030).

Steven Gerrard

Estimated personal wealth: £22m ($36m)
Value of each senior league goal: £262,000 ($426,000)

Lucrative Deals and Assets
Alongside Lee Johnson, Gerrard is another player to benefit from the property market. He received a flat in a Dubai skyscraper in return for endorsing the project’s opening night in London. Gerrard has also seen a lot of income from sponsorship deals, including Adidas and Persil (estimated at £1m and £1.5m per year respectively).

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