FOOTBALL · 80 NATIONS

Football wages by nationality

23,863 players across 80 nations, earning a combined AU$374,423,537 a week. Each page ranks the highest paid players from that country and picks the best-paid XI their wages can field: 75 of the 80 can field a full 4-3-3.

These are club salaries, not national-team squads. A nation appears here once we hold a weekly wage for at least 40% of the players who give it, and for at least 20 of them: below that the figures describe the leagues we happen to hold wages for rather than the country, so the page would mislead more than it told you.

Every nation we hold wages for

Players we hold a wage for, and what their clubs pay them each week

4,051 · AU$43.3m Argentina

1,588 · AU$15.9m France

1,229 · AU$29m Brazil

1,115 · AU$25.4m Spain

1,074 · AU$26.2m Italy

1,003 · AU$17.8m Germany

904 · AU$25.1m Portugal

643 · AU$19.8m Netherlands

637 · AU$12.2m Japan

622 · AU$5.7m Colombia

606 · AU$7m Scotland

588 · AU$4.4m Belgium

576 · AU$9.2m India

453 · AU$262k Poland

444 · AU$4.1m Norway

439 · AU$4.6m United States

431 · AU$6m Mexico

415 · AU$4.1m Denmark

346 · AU$6.1m Czechia

333 · AU$2.3m Wales

289 · AU$2.7m Austria

287 · AU$4.1m Australia

285 · AU$1.2m Türkiye

281 · AU$5.2m Croatia

262 · AU$4.3m Russia

252 · AU$3.7m Ireland

252 · AU$2.8m Thailand

239 · AU$464k Saudi Arabia

234 · AU$6.3m Greece

220 · AU$2.5m China PR

219 · AU$1.3m Finland

185 · AU$712k Nigeria

166 · AU$4m Canada

165 · AU$1.7m Estonia

164 · AU$106k Sweden

159 · AU$3.9m Morocco

153 · AU$4.6m Uruguay

147 · AU$4.2m Senegal

134 · AU$5m Ghana

129 · AU$2.7m Serbia

123 · AU$4m Northern Ireland

122 · AU$1.1m Côte d’Ivoire

116 · AU$3.3m Slovakia

88 · AU$1.4m Switzerland

86 · AU$3.3m Cameroon

83 · AU$2m Mali

81 · AU$1.3m Albania

76 · AU$1.1m Bosnia & Herzegovina

71 · AU$1.1m Algeria

70 · AU$2.1m Ukraine

68 · AU$1.6m Paraguay

68 · AU$1.3m New Zealand

61 · AU$431k Slovenia

55 · AU$1.7m Congo - Kinshasa

55 · AU$1.1m South Korea

51 · AU$1.8m Ecuador

51 · AU$1.7m Iceland

49 · AU$764k Chile

48 · AU$784k Jamaica

47 · AU$1.2m Guinea-Bissau

47 · AU$444k Romania

46 · AU$703k Kosovo

45 · AU$1.1m Venezuela

45 · AU$492k Guinea

44 · AU$1.1m Gambia

42 · AU$550k Georgia

38 · AU$1.3m Tunisia

38 · AU$516k Hungary

37 · AU$1.6m Angola

35 · AU$551k Burkina Faso

32 · AU$611k Suriname

32 · AU$392k Bulgaria

28 · AU$362k Curaçao

28 · AU$206k Montenegro

26 · AU$504k Cape Verde

26 · AU$237k North Macedonia

22 · AU$306k Israel

22 · AU$600k South Africa

22 · AU$230k Zimbabwe

Best paid from each nation

England Harry Kane · AU$732k 4051 players Argentina Lautaro Martínez · AU$532k 1588 players France Kylian Mbappé · AU$954k 1229 players Brazil Vinícius Júnior · AU$662k 1115 players Spain Lamine Yamal · AU$540k 1074 players Italy Mateo Retegui · AU$636k 1003 players Germany Jamal Musiala · AU$795k 904 players Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo · AU$5.8m 643 players Netherlands Virgil van Dijk · AU$672k 637 players Japan Daichi Kamada · AU$211k 622 players Colombia Jhon Durán · AU$576k 606 players Scotland Andrew Robertson · AU$336k 588 players Belgium Thibaut Courtois · AU$492k 576 players India Lalengmawia · AU$11k 453 players Poland Robert Lewandowski · AU$829k 444 players Norway Erling Haaland · AU$864k 439 players United States Weston McKennie · AU$230k 431 players Mexico Hirving Lozano · AU$209k 415 players Denmark Andreas Christensen · AU$286k 346 players Czechia Patrik Schick · AU$319k 333 players Wales Brennan Johnson · AU$240k 289 players Austria Konrad Laimer · AU$271k 287 players Australia Harry Souttar · AU$69k 285 players Türkiye Merih Demiral · AU$397k 281 players Croatia Joško Gvardiol · AU$384k 262 players Russia Alexandr Golovin · AU$190k 252 players Ireland Caoimhin Kelleher · AU$129k 252 players Thailand Chanathip Songkrasin · AU$25k 239 players Saudi Arabia Salem Al-Dawsari · AU$219k 234 players Greece Kostas Tsimikas · AU$211k 220 players China PR Abdulhamit · AU$25k 219 players Finland Lukás Hrádecký · AU$96k 185 players Nigeria Victor Osimhen · AU$837k 166 players Canada Alphonso Davies · AU$478k 165 players Estonia Karl Hein · AU$29k 164 players Sweden Alexander Isak · AU$576k 159 players Morocco Youssef En-Nesyri · AU$501k 153 players Uruguay Ronald Araujo · AU$397k 147 players Senegal Sadio Mané · AU$1.2m 134 players Ghana Antoine Semenyo · AU$317k 129 players Serbia Dušan Vlahovic · AU$708k 123 players Northern Ireland Conor Bradley · AU$230k 122 players Côte d’Ivoire Séko Fofana · AU$267k 116 players Slovakia Milan Škriniar · AU$319k 88 players Switzerland Gregor Kobel · AU$286k 86 players Cameroon Bryan Mbeumo · AU$288k 83 players Mali Cheick Doucouré · AU$157k 81 players Albania Armando Broja · AU$121k 76 players Bosnia & Herzegovina Tarik Muharemović · AU$192k 71 players Algeria Ismaël Bennacer · AU$225k 70 players Ukraine Mykhaylo Mudryk · AU$250k 68 players Paraguay Miguel Almirón · AU$215k 68 players New Zealand Chris Wood · AU$157k 61 players Slovenia Jan Oblak · AU$591k 55 players Congo - Kinshasa Aaron Wan-Bissaka · AU$230k 55 players South Korea Kim Min-Jae · AU$382k 51 players Ecuador Moisés Caicedo · AU$269k 51 players Iceland Gylfi Sigurðsson · AU$211k 49 players Chile Guillermo Maripán · AU$102k 48 players Jamaica Leon Bailey · AU$202k 47 players Guinea-Bissau Beto (Norberto Betuncal) · AU$102k 47 players Romania Radu Drăguşin · AU$88k 46 players Kosovo Edon Zhegrova · AU$152k 45 players Venezuela Yeferson Soteldo · AU$65k 45 players Guinea Serhou Guirassy · AU$334k 44 players Gambia Francis Gomez · AU$115k 42 players Georgia Khvicha Kvaratskhelia · AU$522k 38 players Tunisia Ellyes Skhiri · AU$115k 38 players Hungary Dominik Szoboszlai · AU$278k 37 players Angola David Carmo · AU$119k 35 players Burkina Faso Edmond Tapsoba · AU$163k 32 players Suriname Joël Piroe · AU$86k 32 players Bulgaria Marin Petkov · AU$119k 28 players Curaçao Sontje Hansen · AU$25k 28 players Montenegro Adam Marušic · AU$154k 26 players Cape Verde Wagner Pina · AU$33k 26 players North Macedonia Eljif Elmas · AU$163k 22 players Israel Manor Solomon · AU$104k 22 players South Africa Lyle Foster · AU$58k 22 players Zimbabwe Marshall Munetsi · AU$75k 20 players