Watch out, David Beckham. Wayne Rooney is coming for your crown.

This summer, the 32-year-old English soccer star, prostitute-shagger and hair-transplant recipient landed himself a reported $15 million, 3¹/₂-year gig with arguably the worst Major League Soccer team in the United States: D.C. United.

On top of that, Rooney scored a promotions contract with the marketing firm Octagon that The Sun in the UK reports could net him more than $225 million and put him on track to become one of the richest athletes in America.

“When David Beckham came over, he invented this role that Rooney is playing himself: the aging European superstar who comes and joins a team of middling, mostly American players,” said George Quraishi, managing editor for The Athletic Soccer.

But Rooney is refusing to phone it in and cash out. Thanks to the British import’s stellar performance so far, D.C. United has jumped out of last-place and is a genuine playoff contender.

Rooney, who is married to Coleen Rooney, 32, and has four children, has caused nearly as much of a stir off the field as on.

In 2004, the UK’s Sunday Mirror exposed Rooney’s proclivity for prostitutes, including one to whom he gave his autograph as a souvenir and a then-48-year-old grandmother, who called herself “Auld Slapper.”

The granny denied it happened.

Rooney owned up to his dirty deeds, though, saying, “Foolish as it now seems, I did on occasions visit massage parlors and prostitutes.”

Coleen, who has been with Rooney since they were teenagers, stood by the soccer player, and married him four years later. But just one year after their wedding, he payed a visit to another prostitute. Coleen was pregnant with their first son, Kai, at the time.

Last August, he was arrested for drunken driving in a car belonging to a UK party girl, who claimed she and the soccer star shared a kiss that evening. Coleen, pregnant with their fourth child, forgave the philandering footballer yet again.

Rooney’s long list of indiscretions only seems to bolster his fans’ adoration.

“Soccer fans . . . find it hard to hold that all against Rooney because he’s sort of a working-class hero in a way,” Quraishi said. “David Beckham strived to shed that image, even though they both came from modest backgrounds.”

While Beckham has fashioned himself into an upmarket style icon, Rooney, who is nicknamed “Shrek,” got hair plugs and shilled for the transplant clinic’s Web site in 2011, tweeting: “Just to confirm to all my followers, I have had a hair transplant. I was going bald at 25, why not? I’m delighted with the result.”

Quraishi defines Beckham and Rooney’s contrasting image like so: “David Beckham married a Spice Girl. Wayne Rooney married Coleen.”

The couple grew up together in Croxteth, Liverpool, and have four children: Kai, 8, Klay, Kit, 2, and 6- month-old Cass. Rooney was raised in public housing and his mother, Jeanette, still works as a cafeteria lady at the De La Salle Academy in Liverpool.

Rooney made his professional soccer debut at age 16. He played for Everton, Manchester United and Everton again before signing with D.C. United. Now that he’s worth an estimated $160 million, he and Coleen have comfortably transitioned to the high life. The couple flies private and picked up a $15 million mansion in Washington.

Coleen, one of England’s most famous WAGs (wives and girlfriends), keeps the tabloids drooling over her designer duds, such as the $800 Gucci T-shirt she wore last month on a shopping trip in their new city.

While Washington is more low key environment than the limelight-loving athlete is used to, Quraishi said the city is ideal for Rooney:

“With [his] history and the blemishes on his record, moving to DC is a perfect fit for him.”