Cristiano Ronaldo: Flight details reveal Al Nassr captain’s jet has left Riyadh amid Iran attack on US embassy
Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez may have left Riyadh
Cristiano Ronaldo’s private jet left Saudi Arabia in the middle of Monday night amid the escalating conflict in the Middle East, flight trackers have shown.
The five-time Ballon d’Or winner, who lives in Riyadh with fiancee Georgina Rodriguez and his five children, may have been one of the foreign nationals to leave the region, where the US embassy in the city was hit by two drones overnight.
The US State Department has advised Americans to leave numerous Middle Eastern countries, with many flights scheduled for Riyadh turning back.
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Has Cristiano Ronaldo left Saudi Arabia?
Ronaldo’s Bombardier Global Express, which has been valued at around £61 million, left Riyadh at 20:52 local time and landed in Madrid at 01:32 Spanish time, according to publicly available information on Flightradar24.
The journey took almost seven hours, sending the all-black aircraft – featuring images of Ronaldo as part of its design – over Egypt and the Mediterranean.
Ronaldo, who was injured during Riyadh-based club Al-Nassr’s 3-1 win at Al-Fahya on Saturday, is part of a squad who have had their Asian Champions League Two quarter-final with Al-Wasl postponed because of the conflict.
In a statement, the Asian Football Confederation said it would “closely monitor this rapidly evolving situation” and “remains resolute in ensuring the safety and security of all players, teams, officials and fans.”
Israel and the US’s combined attacks on Iran have killed the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, with retaliatory strikes across the region killing and injuring US service members.
When did Cristiano Ronaldo buy his private jet?
Ronaldo bought a Gulfstream G200 jet for £16m in 2015 and replaced the aircraft with the Bombardier Global Express 6500 in 2024.
The model can carry 15 people and has tables and sofas, a suite with a double bed and a shower.
Rodriguez shared photos with her Instagram following of more than 72 million last week showing the 32-year-old flying to Milan on the plane, posing in a bra in one of the pictures.
Cristiano Ronaldo family
Ronaldo’s first child, Cristiano Jr, was born in 2010, with his birth mother not named. In 2017, Ronaldo and Rodriguez became parents to twins said to be named Mateo and Eva and conceived with a surrogate mother.
Weeks later, the couple announced that Rodriguez was expecting a baby. A daughter, Alana Martina, was born in November 2017.
In October 2021, Ronaldo and Rodriguez said they were expecting twins — a boy and a girl. In April 2022, Ronaldo shared on Instagram that Bella had been born but their baby boy, Angel, had died.
The family joined the Portugal icon when he moved to Saudi Arabia to join Saudi Pro League club Al-Nassr at the start of 2023.
In 2025, Rodriguez, who met Ronaldo in 2016 while he was at Real Madrid and she was working as a store assistant in the Spanish capital, shared a ring in an engagement announcement.
The ring is worth approximately 35 carats and cost $5 million, according to Tobias Kormind, the managing director of London’s 77 Diamonds, via People.
Cristiano Ronaldo salary, wages
On financial website Forbes’ all-time list of the highest earning athletes in a year, only boxer Floyd Mayweather eclipses Ronaldo, having pocketed an estimated $300 million (£226m) in 2015 and $285m (£214.5m) in 2018.
Ronaldo was said to have surpassed $1 billion (£771m) in career earnings two years before becoming the most high-profile footballer to move to Saudi Arabia, making his Al-Nassr debut in January 2023.
Ronaldo’s first Al-Nassr deal was widely reported to be worth £14.75m a month or £3.4m per week. His annual salary was said to be £177m per year, made up of £62m for his football salary, supplemented by commercial bonuses.
Ronaldo has a variety of lucrative sponsorship deals, with his recent endorsements including Whoop, video game UFL and cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
Cristiano Ronaldo contract
Ronaldo is yet to win the Saudi title despite top-scoring in the top flight in each of his two full seasons with Al-Nassr, who have potentially colosssal financial might through the country’s Public Investment Fund.
Shortly after Al-Nassr finished third last season – 13 points behind Al-Ittihad – Ronaldo appeared to strongly hint on social media that he had played his final game for the club.
He agreed a new contract exactly a month later, having scored in Portugal’s triumphant Nations League semi-final against Germany and final against Spain.
The five-time Champions League winner scored 35 goals in 41 matches across all competitions for Al-Nassr in 2024/25 and has 22 goals in 26 games this time around for the table-toppers.
He missed three matches in all competitions earlier this year, with Madrid’s all-time top scorer thought to have been unhappy at Al-Nassr’s perceived lack of transfer activity.
Here’s how the Saudi Pro League table looked after Gameweek 24.
| Team | Played | W | D | L | GD | Points | |
| 1 | Al-Nassr | 24 | 20 | 1 | 3 | +46 | 61 |
| 2 | Al-Ahli | 24 | 18 | 5 | 1 | +31 | 59 |
| 3 | Al-Hilal | 24 | 17 | 7 | 0 | +39 | 58 |
| 4 | Al-Qadsiah | 24 | 16 | 6 | 2 | +33 | 54 |