J1 LEAGUE · TOP 100

Highest paid J1 League players

Q: Who is the highest paid player in J1 League?

Erik of Vissel Kobe, on AU$68,040 per week — AU$3,538,080 a year.

Q: How much do the top 100 J1 League players earn between them?

AU$1,896,048 per week and AU$98,594,496 per year, which is 57% of the entire J1 League wage bill.

Q: Which J1 League club has the most players in the top 100?

Vissel Kobe, with 10 of them, paying AU$309,771 a week across those players.

Q: What does it take to make the top 100?

AU$10,584 per week — that is what Shusuke Ota earns in 100th place.

Erik leads on AU$68,040 per week. These 100 players take AU$1,896,048 a week between them - 57% of the league's entire wage bill. We hold a wage for 475 of the 653 players in J1 League.

TOP 100 WEEKLY AU$1.9m

SHARE OF LEAGUE BILL57%

MEDIAN AGE29

MOST IN THE LIST13 Kashima Antlers

J1 League league stats Top earner at every club All leagues

Where the top 100 play

Combined weekly wages of each club's players in this list

Vissel Kobe 10 AU$310k Kashima Antlers 13 AU$273k FC Machida Zelvia 9 AU$201k Sanfrecce 9 AU$146k Cerezo Osaka 9 AU$144k Kawasaki Frontale 8 AU$143k Nagoya Grampus 7 AU$112k Avispa 4 AU$109k Urawa Reds 6 AU$85k Gamba Osaka 5 AU$78k FC Tokyo 4 AU$62k Shimizu S-Pulse 4 AU$58k

What each age band takes

Combined weekly wages of the top 100 by age

Under 23 1 AU$14k

23-26 16 AU$215k

27-30 46 AU$889k

Over 30 37 AU$778k

The shape of the top 100

Weekly wage by rank

#1 AU$68k #10 AU$32k #100 AU$11k

Erik earns 2.1× what the tenth best paid player in the list does, and 6.4× the 100th. Half of the AU$1.9m a week on this page goes to the first 30 players on it.

The top 100

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#	PLAYER	WEEKLY	YEARLY	TEAM	NATION	AGE	POSITION
01	Erik	AU$68,040	AU$3,538,080	Vissel Kobe	Brazil	30	AM/F C
02	Oriol Romeu	AU$66,150	AU$3,439,800	Avispa	Spain	33	DM
03	Yûya Ôsako	AU$64,260	AU$3,341,520	Vissel Kobe	Japan	35	AM/F C
04	Yuki Soma	AU$52,920	AU$2,751,840	FC Machida Zelvia	Japan	28	AM LC
05	Yoshinori Mutô	AU$47,250	AU$2,457,000	Vissel Kobe	Japan	32	AM RL, ST
06	Takuma Asano	AU$41,580	AU$2,162,160	Sanfrecce	Japan	30	AM RLC, F C
07	Aleksandar Čavrić	AU$37,800	AU$1,965,600	Kashima Antlers	Serbia	31	AM RL, ST
08	Mateus Santos	AU$34,020	AU$1,769,040	Nagoya Grampus	Brazil	30	AM RLC, F C
09	Jackson Irvine	AU$32,130	AU$1,670,760	Cerezo Osaka	Australia	32	DM
10	Elber	AU$32,130	AU$1,670,760	Kashima Antlers	Brazil	33	AM RLC

11	Leo Ceara	AU$32,130	AU$1,670,760	Kashima Antlers	Brazil	30	ST
12	Na Sangho	AU$30,240	AU$1,572,480	FC Machida Zelvia	South Korea	28	AM C
13	Din David	AU$30,240	AU$1,572,480	F Marinos	Israel	29	AM RL, ST
14	Gaku Shibasaki	AU$28,350	AU$1,474,200	Kashima Antlers	Japan	33	DM
15	Akihiro Ienaga	AU$28,350	AU$1,474,200	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan	39	AM RLC
16	Gotoku Sakai	AU$28,350	AU$1,474,200	Vissel Kobe	Japan	34	D/WB RL
17	Gen Shoji	AU$24,570	AU$1,277,640	FC Machida Zelvia	Japan	32	D C, DM
18	Naomichi Ueda	AU$24,570	AU$1,277,640	Kashima Antlers	Japan	30	D C
19	Boniface Nduka	AU$24,570	AU$1,277,640	Vissel Kobe	Japan	29	D C
20	Kim Jin Hyeon	AU$22,680	AU$1,179,360	Cerezo Osaka	South Korea	38	GK
21	Ibrahim Dresevic	AU$22,680	AU$1,179,360	FC Machida Zelvia	Kosovo	28	D C, DM
22	Hiroto Taniguchi	AU$22,680	AU$1,179,360	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan	25	D C, DM
23	Marcinho	AU$20,790	AU$1,081,080	Kawasaki Frontale	Brazil	30	AM RL
24	Marcos Júnior	AU$20,790	AU$1,081,080	Sanfrecce	Brazil	32	AM/F C
25	Yuto Nagatomo	AU$18,900	AU$982,800	FC Tokyo	Japan	38	D/WB/M RL
26	Kento Hashimoto	AU$18,900	AU$982,800	FC Tokyo	Japan	31	DM
27	Takashi Usami	AU$18,900	AU$982,800	Gamba Osaka	Japan	33	AM LC, F C
28	Kento Misao	AU$18,900	AU$982,800	Kashima Antlers	Japan	29	D C, DM
29	Yûma Suzuki	AU$18,900	AU$982,800	Kashima Antlers	Japan	29	AM RLC, F C
30	Takashi Inui	AU$18,900	AU$982,800	Vissel Kobe	Japan	37	AM LC
31	Diego	AU$17,766	AU$923,832	Shimizu S-Pulse	Brazil	29	DM, AM RC
32	Danilo Boza	AU$17,766	AU$923,832	Urawa Reds	Brazil	27	D RC
33	Filip Uremović	AU$17,577	AU$914,004	Kawasaki Frontale	Croatia	28	D C
34	Issam Jebali	AU$17,199	AU$894,348	Gamba Osaka	Tunisia	33	AM/F C
35	Kazuya Konno	AU$17,010	AU$884,520	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan	28	AM RC
36	Matheus Sávio	AU$17,010	AU$884,520	Urawa Reds	Brazil	28	AM LC
37	Thuler	AU$16,821	AU$874,692	Vissel Kobe	Brazil	26	D C
38	Asahi Masuyama	AU$16,065	AU$835,380	FC Machida Zelvia	Japan	28	AM RL
39	Diego	AU$15,876	AU$825,552	Vissel Kobe	Brazil	29	D LC
40	Hiroyuki Mae	AU$15,498	AU$805,896	FC Machida Zelvia	Japan	29	DM

41	Hiroaki Okuno	AU$15,498	AU$805,896	Sagamihara Topolino	Japan	35	DM
42	Kazuki Fujita	AU$15,120	AU$786,240	Avispa	Japan	24	GK
43	Lucas	AU$15,120	AU$786,240	Cerezo Osaka	Brazil	31	AM RC
44	Koki Anzai	AU$15,120	AU$786,240	Kashima Antlers	Japan	30	D L
45	Kei Koizumi	AU$15,120	AU$786,240	Shimizu S-Pulse	Japan	30	WB R, DM
46	Kei Chinen	AU$15,120	AU$786,240	F Marinos	Japan	30	DM
47	Masaya Okugawa	AU$14,931	AU$776,412	Kyoto Sanga F.C.	Japan	29	AM RLC
48	Ryoya Ogawa	AU$14,553	AU$756,756	Kashima Antlers	Japan	28	D/WB L
49	Papagaio	AU$14,553	AU$756,756	Kyoto Sanga F.C.	Brazil	26	ST
50	Ryuji Izumi	AU$14,553	AU$756,756	Nagoya Grampus	Japan	31	DM, AM RLC
51	Shahab Zahedi	AU$14,364	AU$746,928	Avispa	Iran	29	AM RL, ST
52	Shinji Kagawa	AU$14,364	AU$746,928	Cerezo Osaka	Japan	36	DM, AM C
53	Shinnosuke Nakatani	AU$14,364	AU$746,928	Gamba Osaka	Japan	29	D C
54	Taiyo Koga	AU$14,364	AU$746,928	Kashiwa Reysol	Japan	26	D C
55	Sébastien Haller	AU$14,364	AU$746,928	Sanfrecce	Côte d’Ivoire	31	ST
56	Samuel Gustafson	AU$14,364	AU$746,928	Urawa Reds	Sweden	30	DM
57	Daihachi Okamura	AU$13,986	AU$727,272	FC Machida Zelvia	Japan	28	D C
58	Daichi Hayashi	AU$13,986	AU$727,272	Gamba Osaka	Japan	28	AM/F C
59	Daniel Schmidt	AU$13,986	AU$727,272	Nagoya Grampus	Japan	33	GK
60	Capixaba	AU$13,986	AU$727,272	Shimizu S-Pulse	Brazil	28	AM RL
61	Yota Komi	AU$13,797	AU$717,444	Cerezo Osaka	Japan	22	AM RL, ST
62	Yuta Higuchi	AU$13,797	AU$717,444	Kashima Antlers	Japan	28	M RC
63	Erison	AU$13,797	AU$717,444	Kawasaki Frontale	Brazil	26	AM R, ST
64	Haruya Fujii	AU$13,608	AU$707,616	Nagoya Grampus	Japan	24	D C
65	Hayao Kawabe	AU$13,608	AU$707,616	Sanfrecce	Japan	29	DM, AM C
66	Takuma Nishimura	AU$13,230	AU$687,960	FC Machida Zelvia	Japan	28	AM/F C
67	Teruhito Nakagawa	AU$13,230	AU$687,960	FC Tokyo	Japan	32	AM RC, F C
68	Welton	AU$13,230	AU$687,960	Gamba Osaka	Brazil	27	AM RL
69	Kyôsuke Tagawa	AU$13,230	AU$687,960	Kashima Antlers	Japan	26	AM R, ST
70	Keita Endo	AU$13,230	AU$687,960	Kashiwa Reysol	Japan	27	AM RL

71	Katsuya Nagato	AU$13,230	AU$687,960	Vissel Kobe	Japan	30	D/WB L
72	Nassim Ben Khalifa	AU$13,041	AU$678,132	Avispa	Switzerland	33	AM RLC, F C
73	Marco Túlio	AU$13,041	AU$678,132	Kyoto Sanga F.C.	Brazil	27	AM RLC
74	Ryuta Koike	AU$12,663	AU$658,476	Kashima Antlers	Japan	29	D/WB RL
75	Rubén Blanco	AU$12,663	AU$658,476	F Marinos	Spain	29	GK
76	Sho Inagaki	AU$12,474	AU$648,648	Nagoya Grampus	Japan	33	DM
77	Takumu Kawamura	AU$12,474	AU$648,648	Sanfrecce	Japan	25	DM, AM C
78	Shusaku Nishikawa	AU$12,474	AU$648,648	Urawa Reds	Japan	39	GK
79	Thiago Santana	AU$12,474	AU$648,648	Urawa Reds	Brazil	32	ST
80	Takahiro Ohgihara	AU$12,474	AU$648,648	Vissel Kobe	Japan	33	DM
81	Ayumu Ohata	AU$12,285	AU$638,820	Cerezo Osaka	Japan	24	D/WB L
82	Dion Cools	AU$12,096	AU$628,992	Cerezo Osaka	Malaysia	29	D RC, M R
83	Yûta Nakayama	AU$11,907	AU$619,164	FC Machida Zelvia	Japan	28	D LC, DM
84	Yudai Kimura	AU$11,907	AU$619,164	Nagoya Grampus	Japan	24	AM RLC, F C
85	Jesiel	AU$11,529	AU$599,508	Kawasaki Frontale	Brazil	31	D C
86	Keigo Higashi	AU$11,340	AU$589,680	FC Tokyo	Japan	34	DM, AM C
87	Koya Yuruki	AU$11,340	AU$589,680	Kashiwa Reysol	Japan	30	AM LC
88	Yu Kobayashi	AU$11,340	AU$589,680	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan	37	AM R, ST
89	Kensuke Nagai	AU$11,340	AU$589,680	Nagoya Grampus	Japan	36	AM/F C
90	Kim Ju-Sung	AU$11,340	AU$589,680	Sanfrecce	South Korea	24	D C
91	Kenta Inoue	AU$11,340	AU$589,680	Shimizu S-Pulse	Japan	26	AM RL
92	Ryoma Watanabe	AU$10,773	AU$560,196	Urawa Reds	Japan	28	AM LC
93	Solomon Sakuragawa	AU$10,584	AU$550,368	Cerezo Osaka	Japan	23	ST
94	Thiago Andrade	AU$10,584	AU$550,368	Cerezo Osaka	Brazil	24	AM RL, ST
95	Tomoki Hayakawa	AU$10,584	AU$550,368	Kashima Antlers	Japan	26	GK
96	Tomoya Inukai	AU$10,584	AU$550,368	Kashiwa Reysol	Japan	32	D C
97	Takaaki Shichi	AU$10,584	AU$550,368	Sanfrecce	Japan	31	D/WB/M L
98	Tsukasa Shiotani	AU$10,584	AU$550,368	Sanfrecce	Japan	36	D C, DM
99	Sho Sasaki	AU$10,584	AU$550,368	Sanfrecce	Japan	35	D C
100	Shusuke Ota	AU$10,584	AU$550,368	Sagamihara Topolino	Japan	29	AM R

Frequently asked questions

Who is the highest paid player in J1 League?

Erik of Vissel Kobe, on AU$68,040 per week — AU$3,538,080 a year.

How much do the top 100 J1 League players earn between them?

AU$1,896,048 per week and AU$98,594,496 per year, which is 57% of the entire J1 League wage bill.

Which J1 League club has the most players in the top 100?

Vissel Kobe, with 10 of them, paying AU$309,771 a week across those players.

What does it take to make the top 100?

AU$10,584 per week — that is what Shusuke Ota earns in 100th place.