Top 5 Highest-Paid Athletes 2020 | The Countdown | Forbes

Paydays for the world’s top-earning athletes dropped for the first time in four years, according to the 2020 Forbes ranking as the coronavirus wreaked havoc on sports and canceled or postponed many marquee events for the first time since World War II.

The 100 highest-paid athletes earned a combined $3.6 billion this year, which is 9% below 2019 and the first decline since 2016. Roger Federer takes the top spot for the first time, with $106 million of pre-tax earnings, edging past Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi, who have swapped the No. 1 spot in three of the past four years. The two soccer icons earned a combined $209 million during the past 12 months, a $28 million drop from 2019, due to salary reductions at many European soccer clubs when league play was halted in March.

Federer, who has the best endorsement portfolio in sports, is just the ninth athlete to have landed in the top spot since 1990, the first year Forbes began tracking athletes’ earnings.

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[fazrinbudi]

Football (the real one where the players actually used foot to control the ball), is the Greatest Sport In The World 🗣

[harryleon]

CR Would have been no 1 but he agreed to a 30 % wage cut.

[agentsidhu]

Cristiano would have been top if he wouldn't have take 30m paycut

[kittu]

These players inspires world 🌍.. Dedication commitment.

[NikhLogic]

Their years of hard work clearly makes them deserving.

[sihlesihle]

Ronaldo is the most followed celebrity in the world(not just athlete)

[good]

Roger is The best👍 you deserved all the $ come your way ❤️👍

[Je.rone_]

I haven't watch the video yet but I already know im not on the list because I'm a prophet

[jay-rathod-]

To reach there its as simple as:
Step1: Leave your school knowing that even if you fail you will be able to survive next 100 years of your life because your parents are rich.

Step 2:Hire a mentor.
Step 3: Spend most of your time in ground.
Step 4: work hard on ground.

[danielobiagbaoso]

So NFL teams are worth billions, but none of their player are on the top 5 highest paid

[Prhuntr]

But since LeBron, Neymar, Messi and Ronaldo all have to pay tax isn't like half of their income just gone to tax? Whereas Roger lives in Switzerland he pays way less tax... So Federer is like way way ahead in reality and someone like Lewis Hamilton should actually be in this list too since he lives in Monaco and pays zero tax?

[anthonycephas]

Just gimme one of those millions I’ll be rich for the rest of my life lol 😂

[ismail]

Hard working man gets 200€ monthly.. something is wrong here 🥴

[jin]

federer is also in the sunrise ad here in Switzerland. Freakin everywhere this guy.

[astarinrankings]

Amazing info, we also created top 30 highest-paid athletes of the world 2020.

[cascaderz]

Its Cristiano Ronaldo not Christiano Ronaldo

[rikpala]

Totally bro messi is the higest paid footballer in the world

[cardcode]

Highest paid athletes come out of basketball. Only the very few like .01 of soccer (football players) are paid higher than them

I can bet there are so many sports that athletes play and work harder than these clowns but don’t get paid that high cus these athletes started at a very young age (lucky) and they didn’t, there sport don’t get as much watch time as there sports do. That’s so unfair