LIST: Four highest earning rugby players in every position, 2021
Top 10s/ListsSunday, 24 January 2021 at 11:40
We’ve looked at the data and listed 2021's highest earning rugby players for every position on the pitch.
Rugby is one of the most played team games in the world, and the players involved in this game make a lot of money.
Below is the list of highest earning rugby players in the game, and you might be shocked to find out how much these players make.
Highest earning rugby players:
Back-three:
- Charles Piutau (Bristol Bears) - £1m
- Beauden Barrett (Suntory Sungoliath) - £750k
- Simon Zebo (Racing 92) - £600k
- Stuart Hogg (Exeter Chiefs) - £550k
Centre:
- Virimi Vakatawa (Racing 92) - £780k
- Semi Radradra (Bristol Bears) - £500k
- Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs) - £450k
- Damian de Allende (Munster) - £420k
Fly-half:
- Handre Pollard (Montpellier) -£1m
- Finn Russell (Racing 92) - £850k
- Owen Farrell (Saracens) - £750k
- Dan Biggar (Northampton) - £600k
Scrum-half:
- Aaron Smith (Highlanders) - £620k
- Morgan Parra (Clermont) - £560k
- Faf De Klerk (Sale Sharks) - £500k
- Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers) - £350k
Prop:
- Tadhg Furlong (Leinster) – £480,000
- Mako Vunipola (Saracens) - £420k
- Kyle Sinckler (Bristol Bears) -£350k
- Vincent Koch (Saracens) - £300k
Hooker:
- Guilhem Guirado (Montpellier) – £500k
- Dane Coles (Hurricanes) - £375k
- Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs) - £230k
- Jamie George (Saracens) - £200k
Lock:
- Eben Etzebeth (Toulon) - £900k
- Maro Itoje (Saracens) - £875k
- Alun Wyn Jones (Ospreys) - £480k
- James Ryan (Leinster) - £460k
Back-row:
- Michael Hooper (Toyota Verblitz) - £625K
- Steve Luatua (Bristol Bears) - £550k
- Kieran Read (Toyota Verblitz) – £520k
- Pablo Matera (Stade Francais) - £480k
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