Age obviously has no taking on the athlete and no more on his bank account. At 40 and for the third consecutive year, Cristiano Ronaldo is crowned the best paid sportsman in the world according to the Annual Forbes classification updated in May 2025.
With 246 million euros in total income, including 200 million salary by its Saudi club Al-Nassr, CR7 precedes the American basketball player Stephen Curry (139 million euros) and the British boxer Tyson Fury (130 million euros).
Two French people appear in the top 50 best paid athletes on the planet: My wife et Kylian Mbappé. The Al-Ittihad player is in 8th place with 93 million euros while the Real Madrid star points to 16th row with 80 million.
No woman in the top 50
No woman appears in the top 50 and the best paid woman in the world would be the American tenniswoman Coco Gauff With 30.4 million euros. The last woman to have appeared in this ranking is the American tennis player Serena Williams In 2023 with 40 million euros.
To be present in this top 50, you must have received 48 million euros. In this ranking, only seven sports are represented with first basketball (16 classified) in front of US football (13), football (8), golf (5), boxing (3), baseball (3), and the automobile (1).
In terms of nations, the Americans have placed 29 athletes and leave the crumbs to others. The United Kingdom is second with… 3 representatives. France and Brazil have two.
