PDL and W-League players make $0 (for playing at least) per season due to NCAA restrictions (most of the rosters is made up of NCAA players, and they would lose their eligibility if they were paid or if they played with players who were paid. Why yes the NCAA sucks.
You also loose it if you took money for playing another sport, see: Jeremy Bloom. NCAA has some really bullshit rules.
Someone posted this in the MLS forum. The average pay in MLS is 75k. There are a few players that make wak above that though. Landon Donovan makes 900k and Freddy Adu I think makes 750k. The players on the reserve teams that see very little to no time with the first teams make $11,500 I think.
players make in the regionalliga here,(austria) with average attendances of less than 1,000 people, over 2,000 euros a month. i would imagine that in a league with attendances like in the USL players could make double that easily. it's not just the attendances that the clubs make money from either, they get A LOT of money from selling players to bigger clubs and from sponsers.
The difference is that USL clubs get very little from sponsors and almost nothing from TV and selling players.
Same thing happened with Jay Needham. He got drafted by DC United and was offered around 18,000 a year and turned it down to join the Islanders who were going to pay him more. He won rookie of the year in the league and is now playing in Europe. As for the players I'm not sure what the average is but I do know that some of the Islanders players live in an area of San Juan called Condado/Isla Verde which is like Puerto Rico's version of South Beach Miami and it isn't cheap. Our team has a lot of sponsors and good attendance so I think the players are getting paid pretty good wages.
i should've said "some players" make over 2000 a month here in the regionalliga. it depends on who you are, I don't know the average salary, but there are a lot of players who don't need other jobs once they're playing at this level.
These are excerpts from one of my posts before last season. The source was the Oklahoma Gazette (which I think is a free-weekly paper) and the link to the article is now dead. So, that's very little information for you to rely on but maybe it was a ballpark figure for 2013. Considering the addition of Sacramento, which I speculate operated on a higher payroll; other franchises in 2015 that will presumably try to emulate Sac; and depending on how you count MLS loanees, I suspect this figure is increasing.
That is a very low salary. What type of perks do USLPro teams offer to players on top of their salary? Do clubs provide housing for players? Are team meals provided as part of their daily training? Do they meet for a team breakfast before training? Followed by lunch? These things may not seem like much but they do add up
Pro in the sense that money is exchanged. PDL or NPSL usually means amateur and no compensation. You are usually playing for the "love of the game".
According to the Riverhounds bankruptcy paperwork the payroll budget for the first team next season is $520,000 which is "around league average." I believe this also includes the head coach.
Or in the case of the vast majority of PDL players, anyway, you're playing to improve your skills and stay fit before you go back to college in the fall. But there are a number of former professional players in both leagues (harder in the PDL, which has limits on O23 players) who certainly continue to play for the love of the game.
With the MLS clubs taking the USL pro clubs as full minor league affiliates whether that actually will own the club of have a hybrid ownership like you see with minor league baseball, AHL, and now the NBA D-League clubs. It will sure up at least the affiliated clubs. Independent clubs like you see in baseball minor leagues, Arena or CFL football, hockey leagues, basketball leagues ABA or NBL of Canada, NASL and non affiliated USLPro clubs will continue to struggle at times or find the right formula merging with other leagues to make it work. For football the CFL is working now do to it being a Canadian league with a Canadian fan bases. Many other clubs under the major league level are working in a lot of cases by being part of a bigger S&E group that have at least one major league club and control of an arena or field in which to brand them under and being able to streamline costs in marketing and management.
Gotcha. living with 5 other players happens in such leagues as the CFL as well. As for part time jobs if it is for some that will change with MLS teams becoming now fully affiliated like baseball etc. It will be truly a step to the major League level. You can see where some clubs are owning their own team or having a true connected affiliate like they are trying to get in place in Vancouver and seems like what is happening in Louisville with OC affiliate. The very loose affilates of just loaning a few players to a team in a different region are beginning to stop more and more now. The USLPro clubs are heading into the true minor league mode where Academy players turning pro early or after college can sign with the organizations under a minor league contract. Same with draft picks that have had to find another lower division club. Young internationals not ready for the MLS yet. And of course the bench players with MLS contracts able to get regular field time in a match that counts for something.
An above-average USL player is estimated to earn $2,000 a month, with some making $3,000 and more, The Washington Post reported in March, while Sports Business Daily reported in 2013 that the league's salaries range from $12,000 to $40,000 a season. Some USL squads are owned by Major League Soccer, and many are affiliated with MSL clubs as developmental teams. The USL is seeking to become a second-tier league itself within the soccer hierarchy, the Post reported. The NASL has average annual salaries of $15,000 to $30,000, with some players earning up to $100,000, according to a report from professional soccer networking service Fieldoo. http://www.crainsdetroit.com/articl...ootball-club-looks-to-kick-it-up-to-pro-level