And everyone has, and sadly some are no longer employed by the AFL or the clubs.”Some of those players on back-ended deals sacrificing up to $400,000 from their 2020 salaries have no concrete assurances they will be reimbursed.AFL player managers are hopeful players like Jack Martin on front and back-ended deals with much of that salary in the 2020 season might be compensated for some of that lost money.But there is still no fleshed-out process or AFL mechanism for compensation for players who are being paid a large slice of their contract this year rather than spread out over the life of long-term contracts. Bonus incentive payments are also paid for how high a player finishes in the club best-and-fairest voting, for winning the goal-kicking award and other things.By the time a player reaches his fourth or fifth year and is playing close enough to every game, he will be on about $400,000 a year.The better, more sought-after players will be on bigger, fixed contracts without extra match payments, so they get paid regardless of whether they play. These are the players on the multi-year contracts that are worth millions of dollars across the life of the contract.Players get paid monthly for the work they've done. As with the men's game, the matches could not go ahead and, unlike the men's game, the much shorter women's season was only weeks away from completing the finals. Barcelona have retained their status as the best-paid team in world sport. Players agree to be paid different amounts in different years to help the club squeeze other players into the salary cap.This means some players are taking a bigger or smaller hit from this year's pay cut than they would if they were paid equal amounts in each year of their contract.Take Carlton's classy midfielder Jack Martin. When you are the best player at one of the biggest AFL clubs in the game and Captained the side you are expected to get paid the big bucks. You can find out more about our policy and your choices, including how to opt-out Nic Naitanui (West Coast) over $1.2 million The players are the face of the game and so have been the high-profile face of the cuts to the industry.
This week they were paid for the previous month, which would have meant one-12th of their base payment.
No player has been asked to give back money they have already been paid. Which is a hell of a lot of money in anybody’s book – but there are more than 800 players in the AFL who earn less than that. So the pay cut has hit big this year.Marlion Pickett has a special place in footy folklore. The push from the AFL is to cut the number of players on club lists to 35.And that is just the players.
It has not been fully addressed because there is a preoccupation with working out what if any season the AFL will have this year. This has been an industry recognition that we would not be where we are today unless everyone contributed. FOUR AFL players earned more than $1 million in season 2015 as the average salary rose above $300,000 for the first time. But take it as read that player contracts for next year will have to be revisited too.
Players have agreed to give up 50 per cent of their pay for the next two months, during which time games have definitely been postponed, then they will either give up 50 per cent or 70 per cent for the remaining five pay periods, depending on whether games resume this season.If the AFL comes back and plays 16 more rounds of football this year, the players will continue to give up 50 per cent of their pay for the rest of the year. In order to recruit Martin from Gold Coast through the pre-season draft at the end of last year instead of having to trade for him, the Blues promised to pay Martin $3.1 million – plus incentives – over five years.But the kicker was they promised to pay him more than $1 million in each of his first two years at the club and then $1.1 million in total across all of the remaining three years. As people in the league have lost their jobs temporarily or permanently, a new sport has arisen: how much can we now pay the players?The coronavirus has devastated the world but, for the purposes of sport in this little corner of the world, we are occupied with what the virus has done to the game of footy.
In short, the virus has shut down the competition. It was not feasible to put it in limbo and hope to come back months later.Where this question mark over the financial future of the AFL leaves the women's game, or how this revenue drop-off affects the AFLW is unclear. Perhaps fewer coaches could be noticeable on the field too if it means the game is less structured and coached.But all of this is, first and foremost, about saving money to save the game.The AFLW season has been cancelled. Invalid postcode. If no more football can be played this year, the players have agreed to give up 70 per cent of their pay for those remaining pay periods.It might be the world’s smallest violin you play here in sympathy for wealthy players but think about this.The AFL players and clubs operate under a salary cap. This year "Buddy" was due to earn $1.4 million, next year $1.5 million and in 2022 a flat million.
Essentially, by agreeing to move money around he helped the club stay under the salary cap.But now he's reached the year when he was finally supposed to earn the money that had been voluntarily deferred in the preceding four years – only to find it is the year of the coronavirus pay cuts.This the fault of a bat in Wuhan not Cameron or anyone at the Giants.Which brings us to one of the most famous deals in AFL history. A NOTE ABOUT RELEVANT ADVERTISING: We collect information about the content (including ads) you use across this site and use it to make both advertising and content more relevant to you on our network and other sites. in reference to the question that is probably how they are paid 100% from what i hear it is like a wage so much a week still goes in to the bank they don't get paid … The AFL has ordered clubs to cut $1 million out of their football budgets this year and will demand another $2 million cut next year. The average player’s salary is $363,000.At the bottom end of the scale are the rookies. A first-year rookie earns $85,000 and match payments of a standard $5000 a game.