Cristiano Ronaldo AU$5,670,000/wk Al-Nassr Football Club Karim Benzema AU$1,566,810/wk Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club Sadio Mané AU$1,181,250/wk Al-Nassr Football Club João Félix AU$1,096,200/wk Al-Nassr Football Club Kylian Mbappé AU$939,330/wk Real Madrid Kalidou Koulibaly AU$939,330/wk Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club Otávio AU$892,080/wk Al-Qadsiah Football Club Erling Haaland AU$850,500/wk Manchester City Victor Osimhen AU$824,040/wk Galatasaray A.Ş. Robert Lewandowski AU$816,480/wk Chicago Fire FC Jamal Musiala AU$782,460/wk FC Bayern München Rúben Neves AU$782,460/wk Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club Kingsley Coman AU$782,460/wk Al-Nassr Football Club Mohamed Salah AU$756,000/wk Trabzonspor A.Ş. Harry Kane AU$720,090/wk FC Bayern München Dušan Vlahovic AU$697,410/wk Beşiktaş A.Ş.
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RUSSIAN PREMIER LEAGUE · CLUB BY CLUB

Highest paid player at every Russian Premier League club

One row per club, ranked on what that club's best paid player earns. Wílmar Barrios of Zenit St. Petersburg leads on AU$134,190 a week. At the other end, Fakel Voronezh pays its own best paid player, Maxim Turischev, AU$198 — a gap of 676×.

BIGGEST SINGLE WAGE AU$134k Wílmar Barrios · Zenit St. Petersburg
LOWEST TOP EARNER AU$198 Maxim Turischev · Fakel Voronezh
TOP TO BOTTOM 676× Zenit St. Petersburg over Fakel Voronezh
BIGGEST SINGLE SHARE 22% FC Krasnodar's bill taken by Jhon Córdoba
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The best paid at each club

Weekly wage of the top earner, at the 12 clubs paying the most

Wílmar Barrios Zenit St. Petersburg AU$134k Jhon Córdoba FC Krasnodar AU$125k Gedson Fernandes Spartak Moscow AU$115k Matheus Reis CSKA Moscow AU$108k Bitello Dinamo Moscow AU$57k Ilzat Akhmetov Krylja Sovetov Samara AU$49k Artem Karpukas Lokomotiv Moscow AU$42k Alexandr Lomovitskiy Rubin Kazan AU$36k Alexandr Soldatenkov FC Sochi AU$32k Arsen Adamov Akhmat Grozny AU$30k Dmitry Chistyakov FC Rostov AU$28k Artem Dzyuba Akron Togliatti AU$26k

Clubs leaning hardest on one player

Top earner's share of the club's own weekly bill, among clubs where we hold at least 8 wages

FC Krasnodar Jhon Córdoba 22% CSKA Moscow Matheus Reis 18% Akhmat Grozny Arsen Adamov 14% Spartak Moscow Gedson Fernandes 12% Zenit St. Petersburg Wílmar Barrios 11% Rubin Kazan Alexandr Lomovitskiy 10% FC Rostov Dmitry Chistyakov 9% FC Sochi Alexandr Soldatenkov 9% Dinamo Moscow Bitello 9% Lokomotiv Moscow Artem Karpukas 9%

Every club's top earner

16 of the 17 clubs we track are ranked, one row each. We hold no wage for any player at the other one, so it sits under the table rather than being ranked on a figure we do not have. Tap a column heading to re-rank

# CLUB TOP EARNER WEEKLY YEARLY AGE POSITION CLUB WEEKLY BILL WAGES HELD SHARE OF BILL
01 Zenit St. Petersburg Wílmar Barrios
AU$134,190
AU$6,977,880 31 DM AU$1.2m 25/33
02 FC Krasnodar Jhon Córdoba
AU$124,740
AU$6,486,480 32 ST AU$574k 22/45
03 Spartak Moscow Gedson Fernandes
AU$115,290
AU$5,995,080 26 DM, AM C AU$998k 25/36
04 CSKA Moscow Matheus Reis
AU$107,730
AU$5,601,960 30 D LC AU$606k 26/36
05 Dinamo Moscow Bitello
AU$56,700
AU$2,948,400 25 AM LC AU$632k 28/33
06 Krylja Sovetov Samara Ilzat Akhmetov
AU$49,140
AU$2,555,280 27 AM RLC AU$57k 3/30
07 Lokomotiv Moscow Artem Karpukas
AU$41,580
AU$2,162,160 23 DM AU$465k 26/39
08 Rubin Kazan Alexandr Lomovitskiy
AU$35,910
AU$1,867,320 27 AM RLC AU$372k 27/30
09 FC Sochi Alexandr Soldatenkov
AU$32,130
AU$1,670,760 28 D C AU$355k 26/28
10 Akhmat Grozny Arsen Adamov
AU$30,240
AU$1,572,480 25 D RC AU$223k 22/35
11 FC Rostov Dmitry Chistyakov
AU$28,350
AU$1,474,200 31 D C AU$301k 22/31
12 Akron Togliatti Artem Dzyuba
AU$26,460
AU$1,375,920 36 ST AU$40k 2/24
13 Baltika Kaliningrad Stefan Kovač
AU$14,364
AU$746,928 26 DM, AM C AU$14k 1/34
14 Dinamo Makhachkala Houssem Mrezigue
AU$13,608
AU$707,616 25 DM AU$16k 2/25
15 Rodina Moscow Andrey Yegorychev
AU$8,505
AU$442,260 32 AM RC AU$15k 4/48
16 Fakel Voronezh Maxim Turischev
AU$198
AU$10,319 23 ST AU$198 1/30
A club's weekly bill is the wages we hold for its squad, so WAGES HELD is what that figure and the share beside it are taken over.

Clubs with no wage on record

1 club here has no player we hold a wage for, so it has no top earner to rank. Squads, and any wage we do add, show on the club pages.

FC Orenburg

Frequently asked questions

Russian Premier League club top earners

Which Russian Premier League club pays the biggest single wage?

Zenit St. Petersburg. Wílmar Barrios earns AU$134,190 per week there, AU$6,977,880 a year, and no other club on this list pays one player more.

Which Russian Premier League club has the lowest paid top earner?

Fakel Voronezh, where the best paid player we hold a wage for is Maxim Turischev on AU$198 per week. Zenit St. Petersburg pays 676 times that for its own top earner.

Which Russian Premier League club leans hardest on one player?

FC Krasnodar. Jhon Córdoba takes 22% of the AU$573,606 a week the club pays across the 22 squad members we hold a wage for.

How many Russian Premier League clubs are on this list?

16 of the 17 clubs we track are ranked, one row each. We hold no wage for any player at the other one, so it sits under the table rather than being ranked on a figure we do not have.