Top 20 Highest-Earning Players in World Football 2004

Player	Earnings (£million)	Club (in 2004)
David Beckham	19.8	Real Madrid
Ronaldo	13.4	Real Madrid
Zinedine Zidane	8.9	Real Madrid
Christian Vieri	8.2	Internazionale
Alessandro del Piero	6.5	Juventus
Frank Lampard	6.4	Chelsea
Raul	6.3	Real Madrid
Thierry Henry	6.3	Arsenal
John Terry	5.9	Chelsea
Luis Figo	5.8	Real Madrid
Ruud van Nistelrooy	5.8	Manchester United
Ronaldinho	5.6	Barcelona
Oliver Kahn	5.5	Bayern Munich
Roy Keane	5.4	Manchester United
Patrick Vieira	5.3	Arsenal
Michael Owen	5.1	Real Madrid
Francesco Totti	5.1	AS Roma
Sol Campbell	5.0	Arsenal
Michael Ballack	4.7	Bayern Munich
Rio Ferdinand	4.4	Manchester United

Top 10 Highest-Earning Managers in World Football 2004

Player	Earnings (£million)	Club (in 2004)
José Mourinho	5.1	Chelsea
Sir Alex Ferguson	4.1	Manchester United
Sven-Göran Eriksson	4.0	England (National Team)
Arsène Wenger	3.0	Arsenal
Ottmar Hitzfeld	2.3	Bayern Munich
Fabio Capello	2.2	Juventus
Jürgen Klinsmann	2.1	Germany (National Team)
Claudio Ranieri	2.0	Valencia CF
Rafael Benitez	1.8	Liverpool
Alberto Zaccheroni	1.6	Internazionale

Source: France Football magazine - Figures based on salary + commercial earnings. Frank Lampard is the highest paid player by wages alone (at £5.17 million per season) and José Mourinho is believed to have earned £1 million for securing the English Premier League Championship in 2005.

Forbes.com produced their own player rich list in early 2006 - which is reproduced below.

Top 10 Best Paid Soccer Players in the World 2005

Player	Earnings (US$ million)	Club (in 2005)
David Beckham	32.0	Real Madrid
Ronaldo	23.0	Real Madrid
Zinedine Zidane	19.0	Real Madrid
Ronaldinho	14.0	Barcelona
Francesco Totti	13.5	AS Roma
Michael Owen	13.0	Newcastle United
Frank Lampard	12.5	Chelsea
Oliver Kahn	11.0	Bayern Munich
Raul	10.5	Real Madrid
Alessandro Del Piero	10.5	Juventus