The Premier League is by far the richest league in the world, with the 20 clubs now earning an average of around £155 million per season. Premier League players earn £2.3million a year each on average, or £43,717 a week, giving them wages almost 60 per cent bigger in 2014 than their closest earnings rivals in Germany’s Bundesliga, an exclusive Sportsmail study of football leagues around the world has revealed.The average annual player wage in Croatia of £45,500 is roughly the same as the average weekly wage in the Premier League!
Players in Major League Soccer, where Frank Lampard will star next year for Sheikh Mansour’s New York City FC, are earning an average of £135,945 in 2014 – or £2,614 a week.
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AJ SOCCER 