The AFL's highest paid players
Mark Robinson | March 17, 2009
$1 million plusChris Judd (Carlton)
Jonathan Brown (Brisbane)
$700,000-800,000Nick Riewoldt (St Kilda)
Matthew Pavlich (Fremantle)
Barry Hall (Sydney)
Matthew Richardson (Richmond)Matthew Lloyd (Essendon)
$600,000-700,000Simon Black (Brisbane)
Daniel Kerr (West Coast)
Chad Cornes (Port Adelaide)
$500,000-600,000Brent Harvey (North Melbourne)
Brad Johnson (Western Bulldogs)
Brendan Fevola (Carlton)
Nick Stevens (Carlton)
Matthew Scarlett (Geelong)
Gary Ablett (Geelong)
Luke Hodge (Hawthorn)
Sam Mitchell (Hawthorn)
Luke Power (Brisbane)
Anthony Rocca (Collingwood)
Nathan Brown (Richmond)Adam Goodes (Sydney)
Aaron Sandilands (Fremantle)
Dean Cox (West Coast)
Peter Bell (Fremantle)
Scott Lucas (Essendon)
Andrew McLeod (Adelaide)
Luke Ball (St Kilda)
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25203918-19742,00.htmlMost, if not all, of these players are "franchise" players.
It means they receive a hefty salary for playing the game and a chunk of the $519,000 marketing allowance, called Additional Services Agreements (ASA), which clubs were able to spend last year.
That figure has been increased to $537,000 this season.
In effect, all player earnings documented by the AFL, and exclusively revealed by the Herald Sun today, include a player's salary and their ASAs.
For example, Riewoldt's contract might have been made up of $550,000 for playing and $200,000 for marketing - the latter not being listed in the salary cap.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25202932-19742,00.html