Manchester City is The Highest Paid Team In World Sports

Manchester City is The Highest Paid Team In World Sports Bada Akintunde Manchester City is The Highest Paid Team In World Sports

Manchester City are the highest paid team in sport, according to a survey by Sportingintelligence.
The Premier League club are said to pay an average annual wage of £5.3m to its first-team players.

This is more than Major League Baseball teams the New York Yankees and LA Dodgers, who are second and third in the survey.

La Liga giants Real Madrid and Barcelona, who face each other tonight in the Copa del Rey Final, take the next two spots. They both pay their first team players an average of over £4.9m a year.

Six of the top 10 in the list are football clubs, with baseball (two) and basketball (two) also represented.

"The Global Sports Salaries Survey looks solely at earnings for playing sport, not for endorsements or other extra-curricular activities," states the Sportingintelligence website.

"The 2014 report considers 294 teams in 15 leagues in 12 countries across seven different sports: football, baseball, basketball, gridiron, cricket, ice hockey and Aussie Rules football.

The report looks at numbers from either current or most recently completed seasons, depending on availability of accounts and other information."

English champions Manchester United, Chelsea (10), Arsenal (11) and Liverpool (20) are all in the top 20. United pay £4.3m, while log leaders Liverpool award £3.4m per man.

City are one of 76 clubs being investigated by Uefa over a breach of it's Financial Fair Play rules, with a finding expected shortly.

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