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J1 LEAGUE · TOP 100

Highest paid J1 League players

Erik leads on $47,880 per week. These 100 players take $1,365,112 a week between them - 57% of the league's entire payroll. We hold a salary for 480 of the 653 players in J1 League.

TOP 100 WEEKLY $1.4m
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 salaries of each club's players in this list

Vissel Kobe 10 $218k Kashima Antlers 13 $192k FC Machida Zelvia 9 $142k Cerezo Osaka 9 $101k Kawasaki Frontale 7 $91k Sanfrecce 7 $88k Urawa Reds 8 $86k Nagoya Grampus 7 $79k Avispa 4 $76k Gamba Osaka 5 $55k FC Tokyo 4 $44k Shimizu S-Pulse 4 $41k

What each age band takes

Combined weekly salaries of the top 100 by age

Under 23 1 $10k
23-26 16 $151k
27-30 47 $657k
Over 30 36 $547k

The shape of the top 100

Weekly salary by rank
#1 $48k #10 $23k #100 $7k

Erik earns 2.1× what the tenth best paid player in the list does, and 6.4× the 100th. Half of the $1.4m a week on this page goes to the first 30 players on it.

The top 100

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#PLAYERWEEKLY YEARLYTEAMNATION AGEPOSITION
01 Erik
$47,880
$2,489,760 Vissel Kobe Brazil 30 AM/F C
02 Oriol Romeu
$46,550
$2,420,600 Avispa Spain 33 DM
03 Yûya Ôsako
$45,220
$2,351,440 Vissel Kobe Japan 35 AM/F C
04 Yuki Soma
$37,240
$1,936,480 FC Machida Zelvia Japan 28 AM LC
05 Yoshinori Mutô
$33,250
$1,729,000 Vissel Kobe Japan 32 AM RL, ST
06 Takuma Asano
$29,260
$1,521,520 Sanfrecce Japan 30 AM RLC, F C
07 Kewin (Kewin Oliveira Silva)
$26,600
$1,383,200 Fagiano Okayama Brazil 30 GK
08 Aleksandar Čavrić
$26,600
$1,383,200 Kashima Antlers Serbia 31 AM RL, ST
09 Mateus Santos
$23,940
$1,244,880 Nagoya Grampus Brazil 30 AM RLC, F C
10 Jackson Irvine
$22,610
$1,175,720 Cerezo Osaka Australia 32 DM
11 Elber
$22,610
$1,175,720 Kashima Antlers Brazil 33 AM RLC
12 Leo Ceara
$22,610
$1,175,720 Kashima Antlers Brazil 30 ST
13 Na Sangho
$21,280
$1,106,560 FC Machida Zelvia South Korea 28 AM C
14 Din David
$21,280
$1,106,560 F Marinos Israel 29 AM RL, ST
15 Gaku Shibasaki
$19,950
$1,037,400 Kashima Antlers Japan 33 DM
16 Akihiro Ienaga
$19,950
$1,037,400 Kawasaki Frontale Japan 39 AM RLC
17 Gotoku Sakai
$19,950
$1,037,400 Vissel Kobe Japan 34 D/WB RL
18 Gen Shoji
$17,290
$899,080 FC Machida Zelvia Japan 32 D C, DM
19 Naomichi Ueda
$17,290
$899,080 Kashima Antlers Japan 30 D C
20 Boniface Nduka
$17,290
$899,080 Vissel Kobe Japan 29 D C
21 Kim Jin Hyeon
$15,960
$829,920 Cerezo Osaka South Korea 38 GK
22 Ibrahim Dresevic
$15,960
$829,920 FC Machida Zelvia Kosovo 28 D C, DM
23 Hiroto Taniguchi
$15,960
$829,920 Kawasaki Frontale Japan 25 D C, DM
24 Marcinho
$14,630
$760,760 Kawasaki Frontale Brazil 30 AM RL
25 Marcos Júnior
$14,630
$760,760 Sanfrecce Brazil 32 AM/F C
26 Miki Yamane
$14,630
$760,760 Urawa Reds Japan 31 D RC
27 Yuto Nagatomo
$13,300
$691,600 FC Tokyo Japan 38 D/WB/M RL
28 Kento Hashimoto
$13,300
$691,600 FC Tokyo Japan 31 DM
29 Takashi Usami
$13,300
$691,600 Gamba Osaka Japan 33 AM LC, F C
30 Yûma Suzuki
$13,300
$691,600 Kashima Antlers Japan 29 AM RLC, F C
31 Kento Misao
$13,300
$691,600 Kashima Antlers Japan 29 D C, DM
32 Takashi Inui
$13,300
$691,600 Vissel Kobe Japan 37 AM LC
33 Diego
$12,502
$650,104 Shimizu S-Pulse Brazil 29 DM, AM RC
34 Danilo Boza
$12,502
$650,104 Urawa Reds Brazil 27 D RC
35 Filip Uremović
$12,369
$643,188 Kawasaki Frontale Croatia 28 D C
36 Issam Jebali
$12,103
$629,356 Gamba Osaka Tunisia 33 AM/F C
37 Kazuya Konno
$11,970
$622,440 Kawasaki Frontale Japan 28 AM RC
38 Matheus Sávio
$11,970
$622,440 Urawa Reds Brazil 28 AM LC
39 Tatsuki Seko
$11,970
$622,440 Urawa Reds Japan 27 D R, DM
40 Thuler
$11,837
$615,524 Vissel Kobe Brazil 26 D C
41 Asahi Masuyama
$11,305
$587,860 FC Machida Zelvia Japan 28 AM RL
42 Diego
$11,172
$580,944 Vissel Kobe Brazil 29 D LC
43 Hiroyuki Mae
$10,906
$567,112 FC Machida Zelvia Japan 29 DM
44 Hiroaki Okuno
$10,906
$567,112 Sagamihara Topolino Japan 35 DM
45 Kazuki Fujita
$10,640
$553,280 Avispa Japan 24 GK
46 Lucas
$10,640
$553,280 Cerezo Osaka Brazil 31 AM RC
47 Koki Anzai
$10,640
$553,280 Kashima Antlers Japan 30 D L
48 Kei Koizumi
$10,640
$553,280 Shimizu S-Pulse Japan 30 WB R, DM
49 Kei Chinen
$10,640
$553,280 F Marinos Japan 30 DM
50 Masaya Okugawa
$10,507
$546,364 Kyoto Sanga F.C. Japan 29 AM RLC
51 Ryoya Ogawa
$10,241
$532,532 Kashima Antlers Japan 28 D/WB L
52 Papagaio
$10,241
$532,532 Kyoto Sanga F.C. Brazil 26 ST
53 Ryuji Izumi
$10,241
$532,532 Nagoya Grampus Japan 31 DM, AM RLC
54 Shahab Zahedi
$10,108
$525,616 Avispa Iran 29 AM RL, ST
55 Shinji Kagawa
$10,108
$525,616 Cerezo Osaka Japan 36 DM, AM C
56 Shinnosuke Nakatani
$10,108
$525,616 Gamba Osaka Japan 29 D C
57 Taiyo Koga
$10,108
$525,616 Kashiwa Reysol Japan 26 D C
58 Sébastien Haller
$10,108
$525,616 Sanfrecce Côte d’Ivoire 31 ST
59 Samuel Gustafson
$10,108
$525,616 Urawa Reds Sweden 30 DM
60 Daihachi Okamura
$9,842
$511,784 FC Machida Zelvia Japan 28 D C
61 Daichi Hayashi
$9,842
$511,784 Gamba Osaka Japan 28 AM/F C
62 Daniel Schmidt
$9,842
$511,784 Nagoya Grampus Japan 33 GK
63 Capixaba
$9,842
$511,784 Shimizu S-Pulse Brazil 28 AM RL
64 Yota Komi
$9,709
$504,868 Cerezo Osaka Japan 22 AM RL, ST
65 Erison
$9,709
$504,868 JEF United Chiba Brazil 26 AM R, ST
66 Yuta Higuchi
$9,709
$504,868 Kashima Antlers Japan 28 M RC
67 Haruya Fujii
$9,576
$497,952 Nagoya Grampus Japan 24 D C
68 Hayao Kawabe
$9,576
$497,952 Sanfrecce Japan 29 DM, AM C
69 Takuma Nishimura
$9,310
$484,120 FC Machida Zelvia Japan 28 AM/F C
70 Teruhito Nakagawa
$9,310
$484,120 FC Tokyo Japan 32 AM RC, F C
71 Welton
$9,310
$484,120 Gamba Osaka Brazil 27 AM RL
72 Kyôsuke Tagawa
$9,310
$484,120 Kashima Antlers Japan 26 AM R, ST
73 Keita Endo
$9,310
$484,120 Kashiwa Reysol Japan 27 AM RL
74 Katsuya Nagato
$9,310
$484,120 Vissel Kobe Japan 30 D/WB L
75 Nassim Ben Khalifa
$9,177
$477,204 Avispa Switzerland 33 AM RLC, F C
76 Marco Túlio
$9,177
$477,204 Kyoto Sanga F.C. Brazil 27 AM RLC
77 Ryuta Koike
$8,911
$463,372 Kashima Antlers Japan 29 D/WB RL
78 Rubén Blanco
$8,911
$463,372 F Marinos Spain 29 GK
79 Sho Inagaki
$8,778
$456,456 Nagoya Grampus Japan 33 DM
80 Takumu Kawamura
$8,778
$456,456 Sanfrecce Japan 25 DM, AM C
81 Shusaku Nishikawa
$8,778
$456,456 Urawa Reds Japan 39 GK
82 Thiago Santana
$8,778
$456,456 Urawa Reds Brazil 32 ST
83 Takahiro Ohgihara
$8,778
$456,456 Vissel Kobe Japan 33 DM
84 Ayumu Ohata
$8,645
$449,540 Cerezo Osaka Japan 24 D/WB L
85 Dion Cools
$8,512
$442,624 Cerezo Osaka Malaysia 29 D RC, M R
86 Yûta Nakayama
$8,379
$435,708 FC Machida Zelvia Japan 28 D LC, DM
87 Yudai Kimura
$8,379
$435,708 Nagoya Grampus Japan 24 AM RLC, F C
88 Jesiel
$8,113
$421,876 Kawasaki Frontale Brazil 31 D C
89 Keigo Higashi
$7,980
$414,960 FC Tokyo Japan 34 DM, AM C
90 Koya Yuruki
$7,980
$414,960 Kashiwa Reysol Japan 30 AM LC
91 Yu Kobayashi
$7,980
$414,960 Kawasaki Frontale Japan 37 AM R, ST
92 Kensuke Nagai
$7,980
$414,960 Nagoya Grampus Japan 36 AM/F C
93 Kim Ju-Sung
$7,980
$414,960 Sanfrecce South Korea 24 D C
94 Kenta Inoue
$7,980
$414,960 Shimizu S-Pulse Japan 26 AM RL
95 Ryoma Watanabe
$7,581
$394,212 Urawa Reds Japan 28 AM LC
96 Thiago Andrade
$7,448
$387,296 Cerezo Osaka Brazil 24 AM RL, ST
97 Solomon Sakuragawa
$7,448
$387,296 Cerezo Osaka Japan 23 ST
98 Tomoki Hayakawa
$7,448
$387,296 Kashima Antlers Japan 26 GK
99 Tomoya Inukai
$7,448
$387,296 Kashiwa Reysol Japan 32 D C
100 Tsukasa Shiotani
$7,448
$387,296 Sanfrecce Japan 36 D C, DM

Frequently asked questions

Who is the highest paid player in J1 League?

Erik of Vissel Kobe, on $47,880 per week — $2,489,760 a year.

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

$1,365,112 per week and $70,985,824 per year, which is 57% of the entire J1 League payroll.

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

Vissel Kobe, with 10 of them, paying $217,987 a week across those players.

What does it take to make the top 100?

$7,448 per week — that is what Tsukasa Shiotani earns in 100th place.