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On February 12, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will play the 57th edition of the Super Bowl.
In 2022, according to Nielsen data, the big NFL game had an audience of more than 100 million viewers around the world.
Currently, the salary of an NFL player can range from 600 thousand dollars to 20 million dollars annually.
The Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles will be in charge of shaping the 57th edition of the Super Bowl, one of the most anticipated sporting events of the year, which, every year, raises questions about how much money the champion of Super Bowl receives/will receive. the NFL.
With the arrival of 2023, we finally say goodbye to the effects of the World Cup in Qatar, classified as the most expensive in history, and we usher in a new year that bursts forth, from the beginning, with one of the most important sporting events: the Super Bowl.
This year, as it had already been announced since 2022, The big NFL game will take place on February 12 at State Farm Stadium in the city of Glendale, Arizona, home of the Arizona Cardinalsand where, in addition, Rihanna will be in charge of giving the halftime show.
Without a doubt, we are talking about one of the most important shows in sports, which, in Mexico, has a great fan base. In fact, According to data from the NFL, there are some 45 million Mexican fans of one of the most important sports in the United States. and, of course, the Super Bowl.
The last edition, data from Nielsen IBOPE revealed that a total of 10.6 million Mexican fans tuned in to television to watch the game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Los Angeles Rams.
Super Bowl 2023: this is the money the NFL champion would receive
In short, for sports lovers in general, February is one of the months with the greatest impact thanks to the Super Bowl, an event that gives rise to family reunions, friends, meetings in restaurants, etc., as it happens, although to a lesser extent. with the Soccer World Cup.
Of course, we are talking about two sports / two industries that are very different from each other. From the outset, the salaries of the players are not compared. In the NFL, according to the information published in the National Football League collective agreement, the salary of the players is 610,000 dollars per year; however, the median salary for NFL players is $2.7 million per year, and the highest-paid players can earn more than $20 million per year.. In soccer, to mention one example, the highest paid player, Cristiano Ronaldo will earn 200 million euros a yearon a two and a half year contract with Al-Nassr.
Now, one of the biggest doubts regarding the Super Bowl has to do with the fact of how much money the NFL champion receives. In this sense, information from Fanside reveals that, in the last edition, the Los Angeles Rams took a total of 150 thousand dollars, while the losing squad received 75 thousand dollars.
This is not all, since, according to the most recent agreement of the league with the Players Association, the number, both the winner and the loser, will increase by 20 thousand dollars in each edition until 2030. So, taking into account these data, the winner of the Super Bowl 2023 will take an economic prize of 170 thousand dollars.
In Qatar 2022, World Cup winner Argentina walked away with a $42 million prize for its national soccer federation, according to what The Sporting News points out.
