Footballers, Their Cars & How Many Minutes Of Play It Takes To Pay For Them

Carspring, online used car dealership in London have researched the vehicles driven by more than 250 of the world’s leading football players.

With this information, along with the estimated salaries of each player, the online showroom were able to calculate how many minutes of game time each athlete would have to play in order to pay off the value of their vehicle.


Elite-level footballers have never been richer than they are today.

Wages continue to increase at a rapid pace with the first million-pound-a-week player inevitably only a few short years away from emerging.

With more money in the bank and busy schedules, those same footballers have less and less time to find ways to blow their mountains of cash, so it is only natural that many of them have chosen to invest in supercars.

Cristiano Ronaldo of Real madrid has one of the most expensive cars in the world, the Bugatti Veyron GSV, from £1.8 million.

Play time to pay off car: 05:15:20

Lionel Messi, Barcelona, Ferrari F430 Spider, £173,000.

Play time to payoff car: 00:31:32

Wayne Rooney, Aston Martin Vanquish S, from $288, 000.

Play time to pay off car: 00:50:36

Demarai Gray, Leceister, Lamborghini Huracan, from $379,000.

Play time to pay off car: 09:52:49

Graziano Pelle, Shandong Luneng, Morgan Aero, £92,610.

Play time to pay off car: 00:19:58

Carlos Tevez, Shanghai Shenhua, Porsche Panamera Turbo S, valued at £115,100.

Play time to pay off car: 00:11:35

Tevez became one of the world's highest-paid players when he moved to China from Argentina's Boca Juniors.

He can now afford almost eight Porsches per game