The World's Highest-Paid Rugby Players 2017

Revealed! The World’s Highest-Paid Rugby Players 2017

Money, money, money; it talks and everybody is listening. Here are the World’s Highest-Paid Rugby Players 2017.

Rugby players are paid handsomely for their exploits on the pitch, and beyond, thanks to the sheer amount of lucrative endorsement and sponsorship deals that they command too.

But which players take home a little more than the majority of their colleagues? And by a little more, we mean an absolute fortune.

10. Manu Tuilagi (Leicester Tigers – £460,000)
9. Bryan Habana (Toulon – £467,000)
8. Charles Piutau (Ulster – £500,000)
7. Johnny Sexton (Leinster – £500,000)
6. Ma’a Nonu (Toulon – £600,000)
5. Leigh Halfpenny (Toulon – £600,000)
4. Aaron Cruden (Montpellier – £680,000)
3. Matt Giteau (Toulon – £900,000) 
2. Dan Carter (Racing 92 – £1,400,000)
1. Ayumu Goromaru (Toulon – £1,400,000 +)