FOOTBALL'S RICH LIST David Beckham �87m Michael Owen �32m Robbie Fowler �28m Sol Campbell �27m Rio Ferdinand �22m Ryan Giggs �22m Andriy Shevchenko �22m Thierry Henry �21m Wayne Rooney �20m Michael Ballack �18m

Beckham's wealth is almost three times that of the next richest player, Michael Owen, who is worth �32m.

Robbie Fowler has amassed �28m, followed by Sol Campbell (�27m), Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs and Andriy Shevchenko (all �22m).

Roman Abramovich is comfortably the richest investor in British football, with a fortune of �10.8bn.

Despite his enormous wealth, Abramovich is only the second richest man in the country, behind steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, worth an estimated �13.2bn.

It is thought that Abramovich has ploughed around �440m into Chelsea.

FOOTBALL'S TOP INVESTORS R Abramovich (Chelsea) �10.8bn J Lewis (Spurs) �2.1bn D Desmond (Celtic) �1.25bn M Glazer (Man Utd) �1.05bn T Hemmings (Ch'ton, Preston) �900m Sir A Sugar (Spurs) �790m R Lerner (Villa) �789m D Murray (Rangers) �650m S Keswick, family (Cheltenham) �644m D Sullivan (Birmingham) �595m

After Abramovich the next richest investors in British football are Spurs stakeholder Joe Lewis (�2.1bn) and Celtic shareholder Dermot Desmond (�1.25bn), according to the survey in FourFourTwo magazine.

Beckham earns �4.4m per season at Real Madrid and has a number of lucrative sponsorship deals that earned him �19m last year.