Frank Lampard has hit the headlines this week with the announcement that he has signed a lucrative new contract at Chelsea.

However, the Blues midfielder only places joint fourth in a list of the richest footballers in Britain.

Lampard is worth around £19million, the same amount as England colleague Steven Gerrard.

Many of the usual suspects make up the ten, including Cristiano Ronaldo, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand and Wayne Rooney, who is second on £35million.

There are one or two less obvious names, with Harry Kewell and Damien Duff worth approximately £13million and £14million respectively despite recent injury problems.

Michael Owen is top of the list and is understood to be worth £41million, with a £100,000-a-week wage packet supplemented by several sponsorship deals.

Owen's £41million seems a paltry figure when stacked up against the sort of money made by club owners.

Guessing the wealthiest owner would seem straightforward but Roman Abramovich is no longer number one.

The Chelsea boss has an estimated fortune of £11.2billion but he has lost out to steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, a shareholder at Queens Park Rangers.

Mittal is worth around £27.7billion and with that type of money in the boardroom at Loftus Road it might be safe to assume that QPR have a bright future.

Alisher Usmanov of Arsenal and Manchester United's Malcolm Glazer both feature in the list, which starts at ten with Rangers owner Sir David Murray, who has a fortune of roughly £720million