Barca leads salary league

Barcelona is the best-paid team in global sport and the first to have average basic annual pay of more than EUR10 million ($12.8 million), according to a global survey published on Monday.

The Catalan giant returns to the top of the pay rankings in the ninth edition of Sporting Intelligence's Global Sports Salaries Survey (GSSS) for the first time since 2012.

The average annual basic first-team salary at Camp Nou was more than EUR10.45 million in late November of the 2018-19 season, the British-based researchers said.