St. Petersburg, February 23 - RIA Novosti, Taras Barabash, Sergey Yaremenko. The winter transfer window has closed. The clubs did without high-profile acquisitions, some focused on keeping their leaders, and the reigning national champion Moscow "" was the most active in the market.
The leader of the Russian championship set the trend of economy. During the winter, the railway workers did not make a single acquisition, but left only until the end of the season. Strengthening the “Locomotive” is, but internal. During the winter, forward Ari and defender Vedran Corluka returned to action - both missed the first half of the season due to injuries. Loko also retained Manuel Fernandes. Inter Milan was interested in the Portuguese, but the leader of the Premier League rejected the offer from Italy.
The most impressive action of "Dynamo" in the transfer market is a kind of "exchange" of attackers with "Tosno" (Leningrad region). Evgeniy Markov, who scored eight goals in the first part of the season, but in reverse. But if money was paid for Markov, then Pogrebnyak left Dynamo for free - after the termination of the contract.
When people, especially those with no interest in football, find out about the salaries of footballers, they are often overcome with either amazement or indignation. From the outside, this may indeed seem strange: men rolling a ball on a green lawn receive millions of dollars for this, at first glance, a frivolous activity. However, while football is indeed one of the highest paid jobs in the world today, incomes in this area are very different. It all depends on whether we are talking about world-famous football players and those who play for top clubs, or about young athletes and players in the lower divisions.Salaries of Russian football players
Salaries of football players in the Russian Premier LeagueAverage salary in Russian Football Premier League is equal to approximately 800 thousand rubles per month. Such data was announced by the head of this organization. At the same time, the difference in the earnings of the players of the top eight clubs compared to the rest is huge. However Lately there is a downward trend in wages Russian football players. In 2016, the highest paid player in Russia, the Brazilian forward of Zenit Hulk, who received 7 million euros a year as a salary, left our country. Since then, the fees of RFPL players have not even come close to that amount.
The largest salary in 2017 is received by the Spaniard J. Garcia, who plays for Zenit, and the captain of Lokomotiv V. Chorluka - 4.5 million euros per year. The second place belongs to B. Ivanovic from Zenit, who earns 4.1 million euros. Third place is shared between J. Mvila and A. Song, who play for Rubin, as well as I. Denisov, a Lokomotiv player - 4 million euros. Regarding the latter, it must be said that he receives one half of his salary from Dynamo, and the other half from Lokomotiv, for which he plays under a lease agreement (in the summer of 2017 he will sign a full contract with this club).
Next come: M. Fernandes from Lokomotiv and K. Promes from Spartak - 3.8 million euros, A. Dziuba from Zenit - 3.6 million euros, L. Adriano from Spartak - 3 5 million euros, Danny from Zenit - 3.4 million euros, A. Kokorin from the same club - 3.3 million euros. 3 million euros each earn Juliano and D. Criscito from Zenit, as well as Jonatas from Rubin. Closes the top ten most expensive football players Russian Premier League Spartak midfielder Fernando, receiving 2.8 million euros. The legendary Igor Akinfeev, the permanent goalkeeper of CSKA, is outside the top ten - in 11th place, earning 2.5 million euros.
The salary cuts affected even the most famous Russian football players. Alexander Kokorin, who earned 5 million euros at Dynamo, moved to Zenit last year and began to receive 3.3 million euros. This also affected eminent, but age-old football players who decided to extend their contracts with clubs. The earnings of the striker of the same "Zenith" Alexander Kerzhakov, who was previously paid 3 million euros, decreased by about 3 times. The salary of Sergei Ignashevich from CSKA, which previously amounted to 2 million euros, has halved.
Salaries of football players in the FNL and PFL
Not all football players in Russia have such fabulous fees. And Russian football is not limited to the Premier League. Interestingly, some clubs playing in the RFPL offer their players salaries at the level of salaries in the FNL. For example, the Tula "Arsenal", "Tom" and the recently departed from the Premier League "Orenburg". Even in Anji, the players' earnings, with the exception of a number of especially valuable players, may not exceed the salaries in the FNL, the limit for them is 1 million rubles. per month. How much do they get in the second most important Russian tournament or, in other words, the first division?
The financial condition of the FNL clubs is quite different. Khimki, SKA, Tambov, Yenisei are in the most prosperous position. Much depends not only on the sources of funding, but also on how far the demands of the players extend. P. Pogrebnyak from Dynamo, who flew out of the RFPL in 2016, even in the FNL had a salary of 1.5 million euros per year. Other players received 3-4 million rubles. per month. Last year, a scandal erupted in Dynamo in connection with unpaid salaries.
In the club "Tosno", which came out at the end of the last season in the Premier League, the main players, playing in the FNL, received 600-700 thousand rubles. per month. In Orenburg, which is now in the FNL, the salary in the 2016/2017 season was no more than 350 thousand rubles. per month, despite the fact that the club played in the Premier League. Many clubs in the FNL offer their players salaries ranging from 180 to 250 thousand rubles. per month, excluding bonuses. But if we take into account the earnings of the leading players of the most successful clubs in this division, then the average salary in the FNL will be 300 thousand rubles a month.
In clubs that occupy the second half in standings, the main players receive up to 100 thousand rubles. per month, the rest - 70-80 thousand rubles. Football players from teams that have just entered the FNL from the PFL receive from 40 to 90 thousand rubles. per month. Players who sit on the bench for a long time or youth who play under youth contracts can receive very modest money. But even in the poorest clubs, sometimes they pay very large fees when it comes to foreign players. However, in most clubs in the FNL, management prefers to moderate their ambitions and not squander funds in the transfer market.
The lowest salaries in professional football in Russia are received in the PFL - the third most important tournament or the second division. The average salary there can reach 100-120 thousand rubles. per month, maximum - 150 thousand rubles. However, this applies only to those teams that are seriously aimed at entering the FNL. In other clubs, players receive 30-70 thousand rubles. per month. In the poorest teams - 20-40 thousand rubles, and the earnings of young people may even slightly exceed 10 thousand rubles. per month. PFL clubs often face problems with non-payment of salaries. Sometimes in such cases they simply cease to exist.
Salaries of football players abroad
No matter how huge the salaries of RFPL players may seem, they cannot be compared with the money that eminent players of foreign top clubs receive. The very names of athletes who play for the leading clubs in the world are sometimes a real brand and bring their owners multimillion-dollar profits. Such football players earn reputation and fame with sweat and blood, showing, as a rule, a beautiful and spectacular game.Salaries in the leading football clubs in Europe.
Recently, the players of the famous English club Manchester United - the average annual salary there is about $ 7.5 million. The ten most generous world clubs in terms of the average annual salary look like this:
- Manchester United - $7.5 million
- Barcelona - $7.33 million
- Manchester City - $7.03 million
- Real Madrid - $6.55 million
- Chelsea - $5.85 million
- PSG - $5.8 million
- Bayern - $5.4 million
- Juventus - $5.15 million
- Arsenal - $4.8 million
- Liverpool - $3.9 million
Most a large number of football players whose salaries are in 6-digit figures, plays for Manchester City - about 20 people. Approximately 10 people receive millions of salaries in other English teams- Chelsea and Manchester United, as well as in the strong club Germany - Bayern. The number of the richest footballers in the aforementioned Real Madrid and Barcelona is slightly less. After England and Spain, the largest percentage of the most expensive players is in the Chinese Super League, in this indicator, China is ahead of the Bundesliga, as well as the French and Italian leagues.
It is in China, which has never been considered as a football power, that the highest paid football players in the world now play. And number one among them is the Argentinean E. Lavessi with a weekly salary of 577 thousand euros. However, in the very near future expensive player world should be another Argentine striker, at the very end of last year, joined the club "Shanghai Shenhua". It's about about Carlos Tevez, who will receive 40 million euros per year. It is expected that the salary cap in the Chinese Super League could be raised even higher.
It is possible that one of the main stars of world football, Lionel Messi, will soon appear in the Celestial Empire, who is dissatisfied with his salary at Barcelona and says that after the contract with Barça expires, he may go to China. One of the Chinese clubs expressed their willingness to offer him an annual salary of 100 million euros. Another club in China is not averse to paying more than 100 million euros a year for the opportunity to have in their ranks the main legend of modern football - Cristiano Ronaldo. Another football star, Z. Ibrahimovic, is promised 120 million euros a year by the Chinese.
Football star salaries
There are many rankings of the highest salaries in world football. The Forbes rating can perhaps be considered one of the most authoritative, despite the fact that its compilers decided to ignore Chinese football players. The latter fact can be explained by the fact that Forbes also focuses on the total income of players, which is formed not only from their salaries and bonuses, but also from sponsorship contracts, the largest amount of which is received by these football players with the loudest names in the world. So, according to Forbes, the top ten football players with the highest annual salaries and bonuses today should look like this:
- C. Ronaldo, Real Madrid - $53 million
- L. Messi, Barcelona - $51 million
- Z. Ibrahimovic, Manchester United - $30 million
- G. Bale, Real Madrid - $24 million
- W. Rooney, Manchester United - $20 million
- L. Suarez, Barcelona - $18 million
- E. Hazard, Chelsea - $18 million (ranks below Suarez in the Forbes ranking due to total income).
- S. Aguero, Manchester City - $17 million
- S. Fabregas, Chelsea - $16 million
- Neymar, Barcelona - $14 million
*Dear readers, please note that salaries in football often change and the figures and ratings given are relevant at the time of publication of the material (06/19/2017).
So let's start with the fact that we take only general football leagues. This means that we do not take children's, youth, veterans', women's, etc. competitions.
Schematically divided into 5 levels.
1 Level. Major League country is called Premier League. It participates 16 clubs and play the title champion of Russia. This year it features:
Spartak Moscow),
Dynamo (Moscow),
CSKA (Moscow),
Lokomotiv (Moscow),
Zenit (St. Petersburg),
Wings of the Soviets (Samara)
Anzhi (Makhachkala)
Amkar (Perm)
Rubin Kazan)
Kuban(Krasnodar)
FC Rostov(Rostov on Don)
FC Krasnodar
Volga (Nizhny Novgorod)
Tom (Tomsk)
Terek (Grozny)
Spartak (Nalchik)
Competitions are held in a round robin system in two rounds. THOSE. each team meets in turn with all the others, both on its own field and on the opponent's field. A total of 30 matches for each team (15 at home + 15 away). It has always been so. This year, figures led by Mudko decided to add a second stage for the championship. The first eight clubs according to the results of the first stage will play each other in two rounds, playing places from 1 to 8, to compete for championship medals and tickets to the Champions League and UEFA Europa League. Wherein points scored in the first stage are saved. The remaining eight clubs will also play each other in two rounds, playing places from 9 to 16, to compete for the preservation of a place in the Premier League. The points scored in the first stage are saved. 15th and 16th place teams lose the right to next year play in the premier league and fly to the second level. This is called "flying out directly", ie. no play-offs with teams from the second-tier league. The teams that finished 13th and 14th at the end of the championship will have to play play-offs with teams from the second-tier league that took 3rd and 4th places, respectively. The winners of the play-offs will be eligible to play in the next Premier League championship, while the losers will be eliminated and will be in next year play in a second tier league. In general, football officials tried to make everything more difficult to understand
2 Level. The second tier league is called Football National League. Performing in it 20 teams.Two best teams go directly to the first level and will play next year in the Premier League. The third and fourth will participate in the play-offs with 13 and 14 teams at the end of the Premier League season. The last five teams ranked 16th to 20th are relegated from the FNL in third tier leagues. The composition of the FNL participants in 2011-2012:
Alania (Vladikavkaz)
Baltika (Kaliningrad)
Volgar-Gazprom (Astrakhan)
Gazovik (Orenburg)
Dynamo (Bryansk)
Yenisei (Krasnoyarsk)
Zhemchuzhina (Sochi)
KAMAZ (Naberezhnye Chelny)
Beam-Energy (Vladivostok)
Mordovia (Saransk)
FC Nizhny Novgorod
Siberia (Novosibirsk)
SKA-Energy (Khabarovsk)
Torpedo (Vladimir)
Torpedo (Moscow)
Ural (Yekaterinburg)
Fakel (Voronezh)
Khimki
Chernomorets (Novorossiysk)
Shinnik (Yaroslavl)
Competitions are held in a round robin system in two rounds. Each team plays 38 matches (19 at home - 19 away).
3 Level. Third level Russian football called "Second Division". The second division is divided geographically into 5 zones: "West", "Center", "South", "Ural-Volga" and "East". In total this 75 teams. The winner of each zone rises to the second level and will play in the FNL. In each zone, the tournament is held in a round robin system.
Participants of the "West" zone - 16 teams:
Volga (Tver)
Volochanin-Ratmir (Vyshny Volochek)
Dynamo (Vologda)
Dynamo (Kostroma)
Dnepr (Smolensk)
Banner of Labor (Orekhovo Zuevo)
Istra
Karelia (Petrozavodsk)
Lokomotiv-2 (Moscow)
Petrotrest (St. Petersburg)
Pskov-747
Saturn-2 (Ramenskoye)
North (Murmansk)
Spartak (Kostroma)
Textile worker (Ivanovo)
Sheksna (Cherepovets)
Participants of the "Center" zone - 14 teams:
Salyut (Belgorod)
Vityaz (Podolsk)
Vanguard (Kursk)
Rusichi (Eagle)
Metallurg-Oskol (Stary Oskol)
Sokol (Saratov)
FC Gubkin
Metallurgist (Lipetsk)
Kaluga
Spartak (Tambov)
Zvezda (Ryazan)
Lokomotiv (Liski)
Zenith (Penza)
Podolia (Podolsk)
Participants of the "South" zone - 18 teams:
Rotor (Volgograd)
Torpedo (Armavir)
Astrakhan
Dynamo (Stavropol)
Slavic (Slavyansk-on-Kuban)
Mashuk (Pyatigorsk)
MITOS (Novocherkassk)
Olympia (Gelendzhik)
SKA (Rostov-on-Don)
Kavkaztransgaz (Ryzdvyany)
Biologist-Novokubansk(Progress)
Angusht(Nazran)
Friendship(Maikop)
FAYUR(Beslan)
Dagdiesel (Kaspiysk)
Energy(Volzhsky)
Taganrog
Alania-d (Vladikavkaz)
Participants of the zone "Ural-Volga" - 14 teams:
Neftekhimik (Nizhnekamsk)
Volga (Ulyanovsk)
Miner (Uchaly)
Chelyabinsk
Ufa
Academy(Tolyatti)
Tyumen
Chemist (Dzerzhinsk)
Syzran-2003
Octane (Perm)
Rubin-2 (Kazan)
Zenit-Izhevsk (Izhevsk)
Dynamo (Kirov)
Nosta (Novotroitsk)
Participants of the "East" zone - 13 teams:
Metallurg-Kuzbass (Novokuznetsk)
Dynamo (Barnaul)
Mostovik-Primorye (Ussuriysk)
Chita
Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk)
Smena (Komsomolsk-on-Amur)
Radian-Baikal (Irkutsk)
Amur-2010 (Blagoveshchensk)
Irtysh (Omsk)
Sibiryak (Bratsk)
Kuzbass (Kemerovo)
Yakutia (Yakutsk)
Siberia-2 (Novosibirsk)
All teams that take the last places in their groups are relegated to the fourth level of the football hierarchy and lose the status of a professional club. Only the top three levels are considered professional. To summarize: in Russia this moment 111 professional clubs that I have listed. Among them is one team from Smolensk.
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4th level.- championship of Russia among amateur football clubs. LFL (amateur football league) - a league for semi-professional teams, considered officially amateur. But in practice, in most clubs, despite their amateur status, players play for a salary, in England this is called semi-professional. LFL is divided geographically into 10 zones: "North-West", "Golden Ring", "Center-Moscow", "Center-Moscow Region" and "South", "Black Earth", "Urals and Western Siberia", "Volga Region" ", "Far East", "Siberia". The winners of each zone can move up to the third level, become professional teams and play in the second division, if they pass the appropriate licensing as professional club. Usually the question of this rests on money - in order to be professional football club I need a completely different budget. Youth teams also take part in LFL tournaments, the players of which are not older than 23 years old. THOSE. for example, the youth team of the Moscow "Spartak". They do not have the right to move to the third level, because. are youth teams of professional clubs.
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Well, if it makes sense, you can sort out each league separately from these 10, but each of them has its own format and its own regulations, and accordingly, everyone conducts their competitions differently. For now, let's skip it, let's say that the SC "Smolensk" acts in the "Chernozemye" zone.
The fourth level ends all-Russian competitions. The next level is competitions of a regional scale.
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Level 5- championships of regions, territories, autonomous regions, republics, etc. Subjects of the Russian Federation in general. The winners have the right to apply next year to the fourth level league, to the zone according to the geographical location, but subject to certain conditions - well, it is written in the LFL regulations, youth teams of all ages need to be, pay the loot for the fee, judges for work, security for stadium, etc. Here, in general, everything is according to various schemes. In the Smolensk region, for example, the regional championship is divided into three leagues, this is described in detail here:
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Let's also say that the Smolensk teams were able to rise only to the second level - in Soviet times, Iskra, In the 90s, Kristall. The current team "Dnepr" performs at the third level. The Oasis team from Yartsevo at the beginning of the millennium rose to the third level. The team "Khimik" from Safonovo performed at the fourth level in the early 90s. That's all. Vyazemsky teams have not yet risen above the regional championship (level 5)
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Well lan, let's try to parse level 4 so that the article is finished, so to speak. Well, or at least better than on Wikipedia and so that it is exclusive, in the sense that only here and nowhere else in one place the flow of information does not immediately lie
So on the list
4.1. Zone "Northwest"
Here, in general, the competition is divided into two groups: Group 1 - unites teams from the Republic of Karelia, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Novgorod and Pskov regions, as well as willing teams from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region; Group 2 - unites the teams of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Based on the results of the Competitions in groups, 6 teams are determined - participants of the second stage: 4 teams of group 1 and 2 teams of group 2. At the second stage, the Competitions are held in two rounds on the principle of "each with each" on their own field and the opponent's field and the winner is determined Participants:
group 1
Apatite (Kirovsk)
Chemist (Koryazhma)
SDYUSSHOR-2 (Novgorod)
AST-Karelia (Petrozavodsk)
Karelia-Discovery (Petrozavodsk)
Pskov-747-youth. (Pskov)
Severodvinsk-KTA
Group 2:
"Travis and VVK" (St. Petersburg)
"Rus" (St. Petersburg)
"Rouen" (St. Petersburg)
"Zenith-youth" (St. Petersburg)
"SMU-303" (St. Petersburg)
"Peter" (St. Petersburg)
"Victoria" (Gatchina)
Phosphorite (Kingisepp)
"Metallurg" (Tikhvin)
"Neva-TMK-Frost" (St. Petersburg)
"Silanar-Fakel" (St. Petersburg)
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