How Rich Are Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan and These Big-Name US Soccer Stars?

Carli Lloyd

Net Worth: $2 million

Carli Lloyd, now 40, was part of the nucleus of the national team's old guard. And although she retired in the fall of 2021, there was no slowing the famous workhorse down while she played. She ended her long career on the national team with 134 goals, trailing only Abby Wambach and Mia Hamm in the category.

Lloyd represented the United States in four summer Olympics, helping the team to two gold and one bronze medal, and won two World Cup championships. She also played in the National Women's Soccer League, ending her career as a member of NJ/NY Gotham FC. Forbes reported that Lloyd was more popular than ever as an endorser, speaker, merchandiser and more in 2021, earning $4 million off the field.

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Megan Rapinoe

Net Worth: $5 million

Even though Megan Rapinoe is closer to the end of her soccer career than to the beginning of it, she is the reigning rock star of the American soccer world -- the player people in the U.S. know even if they don't know anything else about soccer.

Rapinoe, 37, was a hero of the World Cup in 2019, scoring her 50th international goal during the finals. A high-profile activist and vocal social justice advocate, Rapinoe is consummately marketable. She was one of a handful of athletes Visa agreed to continue sponsoring when it became the first big brand to extend its contract for the 2020 Olympics after the games were delayed to 2021, according to Soccerex. Nike and Samsung are among the other big brands to sign her to big deals, NBC News reported. The two-time World Cup champion plays for the OL Reign of the NWSL and is one of the original members of the franchise, which dates back to 2013.

Landon Donovan

Net Worth: $14 million

All credible articles about the greatest American men's soccer players must include Landon Donovan at or near the top. A star in Europe and at home with the L.A. Galaxy, Donovan has a tally of records that is too long to recite, including most goals and most assists by a U.S. Men's National Team member, and his five goals in World Cup matches are the most by any American player. In December 2020, as part of Major League Soccer's 25th season celebration, Donovan was named one of the 25 greatest players in league history, and his six MLS Cup titles are a record.

He dominated on the field both in the U.S. and internationally throughout the 21st century, and after his retirement, he found off-field success as an analyst, broadcaster, and a franchise leader and owner in several organizations. Currently, the 40-year-old is the manager and executive vice president of soccer operations of the San Diego Loyal of the USL Championship.

Hope Solo

Net Worth: $3 million

Goalkeeper Hope Solo held down the net for the U.S. Women's National Team from 2000-16, earning two Olympic gold medals, a World Cup championship and every major U.S. goaltending record along the way. Aside from establishing herself as one of the greatest goalies of all time, Solo and her crew represented the bridge between the original World Cup national squad of 1990s fame and the women who are representing the U.S. today.

On March 31, 2022, she was arrested in North Carolina and charged with impaired driving, resisting arrest and misdemeanor child abuse. Her 2-year-old twins were in the car with her. Her attorney, Rich Nichols, said "the story is more sympathetic than the initial charges suggest," adding the 40-year-old Solo "looks forward to her opportunity to defend these charges.

Alex Morgan

Net Worth: $3 million

In 2011, Alex Morgan was the youngest player on the World Cup roster when she scored two clutch goals, one in the semis and one in the finals. The decade that followed would enshrine Morgan as one of history's greatest scorers.

She is a two-time World Cup champion, winner of gold and bronze Olympic medals and scorer of 115 goals in 190 appearances with the national team. One of the most marketable female athletes in the world across all sports, she signed a deal to become the first woman on the cover of the EA FIFA video game series in 2015, according to Adweek. Now 32, Morgan plays for the San Diego Wave of the NWSL in her native Southern California.

Cobi Jones

Net Worth: $3 million

National Soccer Hall of Fame member Cobi Jones spent 12 years with the L.A. Galaxy. The U.S. National Team's cap king, Jones is a three-time World Cup player and a former Olympian. He served as an assistant coach for the Galaxy after he retired in 2010 and found success as an analyst and a broadcaster. He was the most famous among a core group of players who returned to the U.S. from playing overseas to join Major League Soccer when it made its debut.

Jones also made the list of one of the 25 greatest players in league history.

Abby Wambach

Net Worth: $4 million

A two-time Olympic gold medalist and World Cup champion, Abby Wambach is also a bestselling author, advocate and activist. Although her record was surpassed by Canadian star Christine Sinclair in 2020, Wambach's 184 goals were the most scored by any man or woman in the history of international soccer when she retired in 2015.

One night in 2013, she tied the record of 158 goals set by the great Mia Hamm a generation before. Then she broke the record with another goal, then broke her own record with another goal during the same game with a performance for the ages.

Mia Hamm

Net Worth: $40 million

Before Solo and Wambach, before Rapinoe, Morgan and Lloyd, there was Mia Hamm, the superstar who embodied the glory of U.S. women's soccer and set the mold for the modern rock star celebrities of women's soccer. After joining the women's national team at the age of 15, Hamm was part of the U.S. team in the very first World Cup in 1991 and would go on to compete in three more. A three-time Olympian, Hamm won two gold medals and a silver.

Today, she lives in Southern California with her husband, retired baseball star Nomar Garciaparra, and their three children. She is a co-owner of the MLS' Los Angeles Football Club.

Michael Bradley

Net Worth: $6.5 million

Few men who have ever played for the U.S. national team can claim to have more experience than Michael Bradley, who was drafted into MLS in 2004. By 2019, he was earning $6.5 million a year on a contract with Toronto FC, which had paid him $39 million over six years -- but his deal expired that year, according to CBC Sports. He then signed a new deal to keep him in Toronto, albeit for a pay cut that slashed his salary to $1.53 million a year.

Clint Dempsey

Net Worth: $16 million

Those who don't rank Landon Donovan as the greatest American soccer player of all time usually give the honor to Clint Dempsey, also a member of the MLS' top 25. The New England Revolution and Seattle Sounders star's 57 national team goals are tied for the record with the 57 put up by none other than Landon Donovan -- but Dempsey did it in 16 fewer contests. In 2012, the English club Tottenham signed Dempsey for about $9.5 million -- $22.2 million over three years -- making him the highest-paid American soccer player in history at the time.

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George Malone and Jami Farkas contributed to the reporting for this article.

All net worth information comes from Celebrity Net Worth and is accurate as of April 19, 2022.

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