Brendan Rodgers’ Celtic stars earning more than twice as much as their Rangers counterparts
Survey highlights huge gulf in class between Scottish football's biggest sides as Gers battle to end Hoops' supremacy
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CELTIC players are earning more than TWICE as much as their Rangers counterparts.
The massive gulf in wages between the Old Firm rivals was revealed in a report into global sporting salaries.
The average annual income of Brendan Rodgers’ side is £717,860 — just short of £14,000 a week — according to the Sporting Intelligence website survey
But across the city Mark Warburton’s men are paid a basic salary of £316,888 per year — just over £6k a week.
The poll, which focused on the earning of 10,000 sportsmen in seven different sports around the world, also laid bare the enormous financial divide between the Scottish Premiership and the English Premier League.
The take-home pay of an EPL footballer is a staggering 16 times higher than players plying their trade in Scotland’s top flight.
South of the border the average salary is nearly £47,000 a week — dwarfing the £2,825 a week earned in the Premiership.
The Sporting Intelligence survey looked at wages in 17 different leagues — with seven SPFL sides occupying the bottom seven places among the 333 teams questioned.
Hamilton — whose average annual salary is £42,606 — propped up the pile with Partick Thistle not far ahead of them.
Driven by an astronomical £1bn-per-season television deal, the EPL also leaves La Liga, Serie A and the Bundesliga trailing in its wake when it comes to remunerating their biggest stars.
The report claims Manchester United have the highest wage bill in world football.
United’s average wage is a massive £5,770,000 with Paul Pogba picking up £15.1m per year.
drop down 11 places from last year to 192nd with Rangers in 244th place.
Here’s how the top 12 line up in terms of average first-team salary.
- Celtic - £717,860
- Rangers - £316,888
- Aberdeen - £134,670
- Hearts - £86,890
- Dundee - £61,837
- Inverness - £53,345
- Motherwell - £49,335
- Kilmarnock - £48,950
- Ross County - £47,515
- St Johnstone - £47,206
- Partick Thistle - £42,671
- Hamilton - £42,606