FOOTBALL · 80 NATIONS
Football wages by nationality
23,863 players across 80 nations, earning a combined AU$368,573,170 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
Best paid from each nation
England Harry Kane · AU$720k Argentina Lautaro Martínez · AU$524k France Kylian Mbappé · AU$939k Brazil Vinícius Júnior · AU$652k Spain Lamine Yamal · AU$531k Italy Mateo Retegui · AU$626k Germany Jamal Musiala · AU$782k Portugal Cristiano Ronaldo · AU$5.7m Netherlands Virgil van Dijk · AU$662k Japan Daichi Kamada · AU$208k Colombia Jhon Durán · AU$567k Scotland Andrew Robertson · AU$331k Belgium Thibaut Courtois · AU$484k India Anirudh Thapa · AU$10k Poland Robert Lewandowski · AU$816k Norway Erling Haaland · AU$851k United States Weston McKennie · AU$227k Mexico Hirving Lozano · AU$206k Denmark Andreas Christensen · AU$282k Czechia Patrik Schick · AU$314k Wales Brennan Johnson · AU$236k Austria Konrad Laimer · AU$266k Australia Harry Souttar · AU$68k Türkiye Merih Demiral · AU$391k Croatia Joško Gvardiol · AU$378k Russia Alexandr Golovin · AU$187k Ireland Caoimhin Kelleher · AU$127k Thailand Chanathip Songkrasin · AU$25k Saudi Arabia Salem Al-Dawsari · AU$215k Greece Kostas Tsimikas · AU$208k China PR Abdulhamit · AU$25k Finland Lukás Hrádecký · AU$95k Nigeria Victor Osimhen · AU$824k Canada Alphonso Davies · AU$471k Estonia Karl Hein · AU$28k Sweden Alexander Isak · AU$567k Morocco Youssef En-Nesyri · AU$493k Uruguay Ronald Araujo · AU$391k Senegal Sadio Mané · AU$1.2m Ghana Antoine Semenyo · AU$312k Serbia Dušan Vlahovic · AU$697k Northern Ireland Conor Bradley · AU$227k Côte d’Ivoire Séko Fofana · AU$263k Slovakia Milan Škriniar · AU$314k Switzerland Gregor Kobel · AU$282k Cameroon Bryan Mbeumo · AU$284k Mali Cheick Doucouré · AU$155k Albania Armando Broja · AU$119k Bosnia & Herzegovina Tarik Muharemović · AU$189k Algeria Ismaël Bennacer · AU$221k Ukraine Mykhaylo Mudryk · AU$246k Paraguay Miguel Almirón · AU$212k New Zealand Chris Wood · AU$155k Slovenia Jan Oblak · AU$582k Congo - Kinshasa Aaron Wan-Bissaka · AU$227k South Korea Kim Min-Jae · AU$376k Ecuador Moisés Caicedo · AU$265k Iceland Gylfi Sigurðsson · AU$208k Chile Guillermo Maripán · AU$100k Jamaica Leon Bailey · AU$198k Guinea-Bissau Beto (Norberto Betuncal) · AU$100k Romania Radu Drăguşin · AU$87k Kosovo Edon Zhegrova · AU$149k Venezuela Yeferson Soteldo · AU$64k Guinea Serhou Guirassy · AU$329k Gambia Francis Gomez · AU$113k Georgia Khvicha Kvaratskhelia · AU$514k Tunisia Ellyes Skhiri · AU$113k Hungary Dominik Szoboszlai · AU$274k Angola David Carmo · AU$117k Burkina Faso Edmond Tapsoba · AU$161k Suriname Joël Piroe · AU$85k Bulgaria Marin Petkov · AU$117k Curaçao Sontje Hansen · AU$25k Montenegro Adam Marušic · AU$151k Cape Verde Wagner Pina · AU$32k North Macedonia Eljif Elmas · AU$161k Israel Manor Solomon · AU$102k South Africa Lyle Foster · AU$57k Zimbabwe Marshall Munetsi · AU$74k