Roy Hodgson was the best-paid manager at Euro 2016, earning £3.5million a year to put him ahead of Italy’s Antonio Conte (£3.15m) and Turkey’s Fatih Terim (£2.7m).
Hodgson resigned as England manager on Monday night after a shock defeat by Iceland saw the Three Lions knocked out of Euro 2016 at the last-16 stage.
The 68-year-old took charge of England at three major finals but could only win three of the 11 games he oversaw and here, we take a look at his tournament record and overall statistics from his 56 matches at the helm.
The Republic or Ireland’s Martin O’Neill earns a £1m a year, making him the best-paid national coach from the British Isles after Hodgson, while Northern Ireland’s Michael O’Neill is on £250,000 a year and Wales’ Chris Coleman £200,000, although both are getting improved deals imminently.
Hodgson was the second-best-paid manager at the last World Cup in Brazil, when the only man earning more than him was a former England boss, Fabio Capello, then with Russia.
Capello was earning £7m a year and when the Russians sacked him last July, their legal obligation to honour his pay-off left them strapped for cash and in need of Minister for Sport Vitaly Mutko calling in a favour from Leonid Slutsky.
The biggest managerial names in club football can now command 10-figure sums per year, with Pep Guardiola’s deal at Manchester City from this summer understood to be worth £15m annually.
At international level, only the richest FAs can afford even to reach seven figures, which is why the upper echelons of our list is dominated by the biggest countries in Europe.
Virtually every manager will be in charge of players earning multiples of what he earns, and some of the national bosses are taking home in a year what their star players earn in a week.
Sweden’s Erik Hamren is on £154,000 per year, which is about half what his star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic can expect each WEEK when he signs his expected next contract, with Manchester United.
Portugal manager Fernando Santos earns £962,000 a year, or £18,500 a week. His star player Cristiano Ronaldo earns almost £320,000 per week at Real Madrid.
Looked at another way, what Ronaldo earns every 90 minutes (£19,800) is what Santos earns in a week. Ronaldo earns that for every 90 minutes of his week, sleep and all, not just when he’s on a football pitch.
Ronaldo’s Real Madrid team-mate Gareth Bale also earns more in a week than his national boss, Coleman, earns in a year.
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