How much money does a player earn in Mexican soccer?

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Wages in the mexican soccer have always been at the center of controversy between hobby, press and even on a social issue. Most of them well above what a Mexican in some other profession or trade and on a continental level, the MX League It is one of the best paying.

All of the above only refers to the salary received by the players without counting cousins, bonds or advertising contracts or sponsorships, which considerably increases the millionaire figures that are already high.

How much does a player earn in Mexican soccer?

Like almost everything in life, MX League It also has its levels, with cases of billionaire ties such as that of André Pierre Gignac or the brand new reinforcement of Tigers and World Champion, Florian Thauvin, who are the best paid in the tournament and examples of homegrown players who are just emerging in national football and who often stay with their youth contracts.

Thauvin and Gignac they earn 5.3 and 4.6 million dollars a year, which represents 8.8 and 7.6 million Mexican pesos a month. In contrast, according to studies carried out by Global Sports Salaries Survey and sources consulted by Millennium Y Hobby, a youth squad of elite teams like America, Cruz Azul or ChivasThey earn from 15 or 20 thousand pesos to 50 thousand a month.

In the same study it is detailed that a soccer player from the MX League On average, he earns 1,73 dollars, which a month represents 32,190 (643,000 Mexican pesos).

How much money does a player earn in Mexican soccer

Differences with the average Mexican

The financial published in April this 2021 a study where it is detailed that the average salary of a mexican worker It is only 6 thousand pesos a month, so it would have to work a little more than 10 years to achieve what a soccer player a month.

Players who win the most in Liga MX

  • Florian Thauvin || $ 5.3 million
  • André-Pierre Gignac || $ 4.6 million
  • Guillermo Ochoa || $ 4.5 million
  • Rogelio Funes Mori || $ 3.8 million
  • Nicolas Castillo ll 3 million dollars
  • Vincent Janssen || $ 2.7 million

In the Expansion League the numbers go down even more. According to the portal Goal.com, the best contracts in this division are close to 400 thousand pesos per month, that is, just over 45 thousand pesos per game.

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