Most salaries are not really known except for the bigger names. There is also a huge disparity between what the big teams pay (Beitar Jerusalem, Maccabi Haifa) and what the other smaller budgets (Hapoel & Maccabi Tel Aviv, F.C. Ashdod etc.)
its dependent on the team badget. i dony know exactly how much money every player get. i know in beitar the players make big money.
I think that Walid Badir, a national team player with Hapoel Tel Aviv makes around US $60,000 per annum. I think that Haifa wanted to give him only US $40,000 and that is why he left. They kept lowering his salary.
Average Player Salaries in Israel Fascinating! In America's Major League Soccer (MLS), college graduates and other local talent who are undrafted and unheralded get either a so-called "developmental" contract - can be as little as US$ 15K - or a full roster minimum of around US$ 30K. This contracts are basically renewed year to year, so the young player must basically prove himself over and over again without real job security. For a player to come in and initially sit on the bench until he proves himself, for a mid-table Israeli team, he might expect a comparable salary in 2008? Also, there are foreign player limits in the Israeli league, right? Thanks in advance for the clarification! Cheers, Maverick
I read a couple days ago in the Yediot Aharonot (sports news paper) here in israel that there is an american trying out for hapoel tel aviv ....i think they said his name was laurent manuel can anyone tell me who he is and where he came from and how old? cheers, AW
http://brownbears.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/manuel_laurent00.html Is this him? I didn't see anywhere that he is training with us!?!
It's so crazy how much football players in the premier league earn these days: Average Premier League Salary