UK Ice Hockey Pay: What's the Real Number?
Lora Jones
2025-05-22 21:00:05
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The average player wage in EIHL equates to around £34,000. This suggests the highest salary for a player in the UK league only amounts to a tiny fraction of the biggest contract in the NHL – the top earners in history may have penned contracts of around £50,000 per year.
Asia Parisian
2025-05-22 18:32:26
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For context, the very top players in the UK might earn £50k in the Elite League, but the average is half of that. Below that level no one is full-time just as a player. In 2021 and 2022 the GB national team played in the World Group of the World Championships alongside the US, Canada, Sweden and Russia. These players on below-average UK salaries competed alongside players earning in excess of $10m per year.