RUSSIAN PREMIER LEAGUE · TOP 100

Highest paid Russian Premier League players

Q: Who is the highest paid player in Russian Premier League?

Wílmar Barrios of Zenit St. Petersburg, on $95,850 per week — $4,984,200 a year.

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

$3,025,350 per week and $157,318,200 per year, which is 73% of the entire Russian Premier League wage bill.

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

Zenit St. Petersburg, with 20 of them, paying $785,700 a week across those players.

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

$17,550 per week — that is what Alexandr Rudenko earns in 100th place.

Wílmar Barrios leads on $95,850 per week. These 100 players take $3,025,350 a week between them - 73% of the league's entire wage bill. We hold a wage for 262 of the 569 players in Russian Premier League.

TOP 100 WEEKLY $3m

SHARE OF LEAGUE BILL73%

MEDIAN AGE27

MOST IN THE LIST20 Zenit St. Petersburg

Russian Premier 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

Zenit St. Petersburg 20 $786k Spartak Moscow 18 $651k FC Krasnodar 13 $369k Dinamo Moscow 14 $354k CSKA Moscow 11 $347k Lokomotiv Moscow 11 $248k FC Sochi 4 $77k FC Rostov 3 $57k Rubin Kazan 2 $45k Akhmat Grozny 2 $39k Krylja Sovetov Samara 1 $35k Akron Togliatti 1 $19k

What each age band takes

Combined weekly wages of the top 100 by age

Under 23 8 $178k

23-26 36 $1.1m

27-30 44 $1.3m

Over 30 12 $486k

The shape of the top 100

Weekly wage by rank

#1 $96k #10 $55k #100 $18k

Wílmar Barrios earns 1.7× what the tenth best paid player in the list does, and 5.5× the 100th. Half of the $3m a week on this page goes to the first 32 players on it.

The top 100

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#	PLAYER	WEEKLY	YEARLY	TEAM	NATION	AGE	POSITION
01	Wílmar Barrios	$95,850	$4,984,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Colombia	31	DM
02	Wendel	$95,850	$4,984,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	27	DM, AM C
03	Jhon Córdoba	$89,100	$4,633,200	FC Krasnodar	Colombia	32	ST
04	Luiz Henrique	$85,050	$4,422,600	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	24	AM RL
05	Gedson Fernandes	$82,350	$4,282,200	Spartak Moscow	Portugal	26	DM, AM C
06	Matheus Reis	$76,950	$4,001,400	CSKA Moscow	Brazil	30	D LC
07	Mirlind Daku	$66,150	$3,439,800	Spartak Moscow	Albania	27	ST
08	Esequiel Barco	$58,050	$3,018,600	Spartak Moscow	Argentina	26	AM LC
09	Douglas Santos	$58,050	$3,018,600	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	31	D LC, DM
10	Maxim Glushenkov	$55,350	$2,878,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	25	AM RC

11	Roman Zobnin	$52,650	$2,737,800	Spartak Moscow	Russia	31	D R, DM
12	Alexandr Sobolev	$48,600	$2,527,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	28	ST
13	Pablo Solari	$45,900	$2,386,800	Spartak Moscow	Argentina	24	AM RL
14	Nail Umyarov	$43,200	$2,246,400	Spartak Moscow	Russia	25	DM
15	Bitello	$40,500	$2,106,000	Dinamo Moscow	Brazil	25	AM LC
16	Dmitry Barinov	$39,150	$2,035,800	CSKA Moscow	Russia	28	DM
17	Igor Akinfeev	$37,800	$1,965,600	CSKA Moscow	Russia	39	GK
18	Alexandr Maximenko	$37,800	$1,965,600	Spartak Moscow	Russia	27	GK
19	Ilzat Akhmetov	$35,100	$1,825,200	Krylja Sovetov Samara	Russia	27	AM RLC
20	Daniil Khlusevich	$33,750	$1,755,000	Spartak Moscow	Russia	24	D/WB/M R
21	Diego Costa	$32,400	$1,684,800	FC Krasnodar	Brazil	25	D C
22	Alexander Djiku	$32,400	$1,684,800	Spartak Moscow	Ghana	30	D C
23	Anton Miranchuk	$31,050	$1,614,600	Dinamo Moscow	Russia	29	AM LC
24	Felipe Augusto	$31,050	$1,614,600	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	21	AM RLC, F C
25	Ivan Oblyakov	$29,700	$1,544,400	CSKA Moscow	Russia	27	WB L, DM, AM C
26	Arthur Gomes	$29,700	$1,544,400	Dinamo Moscow	Brazil	27	AM RLC, F C
27	Luis Chávez	$29,700	$1,544,400	Dinamo Moscow	Mexico	29	DM
28	Danil Glebov	$29,700	$1,544,400	Dinamo Moscow	Russia	25	DM
29	Batxi	$29,700	$1,544,400	FC Krasnodar	Angola	27	AM RL
30	Artem Karpukas	$29,700	$1,544,400	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russia	23	DM
31	Nino	$29,700	$1,544,400	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	28	D C
32	Gustavo Mantuan	$29,700	$1,544,400	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	24	D/WB R, AM RL
33	Luciano Gondou	$28,350	$1,474,200	CSKA Moscow	Argentina	24	AM R, ST
34	Alerrandro	$28,350	$1,474,200	CSKA Moscow	Brazil	25	ST
35	Ivan Sergeev	$28,350	$1,474,200	Dinamo Moscow	Russia	30	ST
36	César Montes	$28,350	$1,474,200	Lokomotiv Moscow	Mexico	28	D C
37	Christopher Martins Pereira	$28,350	$1,474,200	Spartak Moscow	Luxembourg	28	DM
38	Andrey Mostovoy	$28,350	$1,474,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	27	AM RL
39	Jhonatan (Jhonatan dos Santos Rosa)	$28,350	$1,474,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	22	AM LC
40	Igor Diveev	$28,350	$1,474,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	25	D C

41	Douglas Augusto	$27,000	$1,404,000	FC Krasnodar	Brazil	28	DM, AM C
42	Alexandr Yerokhin	$27,000	$1,404,000	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	35	AM/F C
43	Danil Krugovoy	$25,650	$1,333,800	CSKA Moscow	Russia	27	D/WB L, AM R
44	Ilja Lantratov	$25,650	$1,333,800	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russia	29	GK
45	Alexandr Lomovitskiy	$25,650	$1,333,800	Rubin Kazan	Russia	27	AM RLC
46	Baqtiiar Zainutdinov	$24,300	$1,263,600	Dinamo Moscow	Kazakhstan	27	D LC, DM, M LC
47	Andrey Lunev	$24,300	$1,263,600	Dinamo Moscow	Russia	33	GK
48	Alexandr Chernikov	$24,300	$1,263,600	FC Krasnodar	Russia	25	DM
49	Marquinhos	$24,300	$1,263,600	Spartak Moscow	Brazil	25	AM L
50	João Victor	$22,950	$1,193,400	CSKA Moscow	Brazil	26	D RC
51	Magomed Ozdoev	$22,950	$1,193,400	FC Krasnodar	Russia	32	DM
52	Stanislav Agkatsev	$22,950	$1,193,400	FC Krasnodar	Russia	23	GK
53	Nikita Krivtsov	$22,950	$1,193,400	FC Krasnodar	Russia	22	DM, AM C
54	Alexandr Soldatenkov	$22,950	$1,193,400	FC Sochi	Russia	28	D C
55	Cristian Ramírez	$22,950	$1,193,400	Lokomotiv Moscow	Ecuador	30	D/WB L
56	Dmitry Vorobjov	$22,950	$1,193,400	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russia	27	ST
57	Srđan Babić	$22,950	$1,193,400	Spartak Moscow	Serbia	29	D C
58	Robert Renan	$22,950	$1,193,400	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	21	D C
59	Arsen Adamov	$21,600	$1,123,200	Akhmat Grozny	Russia	25	D RC
60	Moisés	$21,600	$1,123,200	CSKA Moscow	Brazil	30	D LC
61	Tormena	$21,600	$1,123,200	FC Krasnodar	Brazil	29	D C
62	Gerzino Nyamsi	$21,600	$1,123,200	Lokomotiv Moscow	Cameroon	28	D C
63	Anton Zinkovskiy	$21,600	$1,123,200	Spartak Moscow	Russia	29	AM L
64	Manfred Ugalde	$21,600	$1,123,200	Spartak Moscow	Costa Rica	23	ST
65	Vyacheslav Karavaev	$21,600	$1,123,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	30	D RC
66	Nüraly Älip	$21,600	$1,123,200	Zenit St. Petersburg	Kazakhstan	25	D LC
67	Daniil Fomin	$20,250	$1,053,000	Dinamo Moscow	Russia	28	DM
68	Dmitry Skopintsev	$20,250	$1,053,000	Dinamo Moscow	Russia	28	D/WB/M L
69	Alexandr Kutitskiy	$20,250	$1,053,000	Dinamo Moscow	Russia	23	D RLC, DM
70	Jubal	$20,250	$1,053,000	FC Krasnodar	Brazil	31	D C

71	Dmitry Chistyakov	$20,250	$1,053,000	FC Rostov	Russia	31	D C
72	Fasson	$20,250	$1,053,000	Lokomotiv Moscow	Brazil	24	D LC
73	Nikolay Komlichenko	$20,250	$1,053,000	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russia	30	ST
74	Alexandr Siljanov	$20,250	$1,053,000	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russia	24	D RL
75	Christopher Wooh	$20,250	$1,053,000	Spartak Moscow	Cameroon	23	D C
76	Ilja Pomazun	$20,250	$1,053,000	Spartak Moscow	Russia	28	GK
77	Ilja Samoshnikov	$20,250	$1,053,000	Spartak Moscow	Russia	27	D RL, AM R
78	Denis Adamov	$20,250	$1,053,000	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	27	GK
79	Yury Gorshkov	$20,250	$1,053,000	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	26	D L
80	Artem Dzyuba	$18,900	$982,800	Akron Togliatti	Russia	36	ST
81	Henrique	$18,900	$982,800	CSKA Moscow	Brazil	18	AM RL
82	Maxim Osipenko	$18,900	$982,800	Dinamo Moscow	Russia	31	D C
83	Rubens	$18,900	$982,800	Dinamo Moscow	Brazil	24	D/WB L, DM, M LC
84	Lucas Olaza	$18,900	$982,800	FC Krasnodar	Uruguay	30	D/WB L
85	Kevin Pina	$18,900	$982,800	FC Krasnodar	Cape Verde	28	DM
86	Alexey Mironov	$18,900	$982,800	FC Rostov	Russia	25	DM
87	François Kamano	$18,900	$982,800	FC Sochi	Guinea	29	AM RL, ST
88	Anton Mitryushkin	$18,900	$982,800	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russia	29	GK
89	Anderson Arroyo	$18,900	$982,800	Rubin Kazan	Colombia	25	D RLC
90	Danil Prutsev	$18,900	$982,800	Spartak Moscow	Russia	25	DM
91	Pedro	$18,900	$982,800	Zenit St. Petersburg	Brazil	19	AM RLC
92	Evgeny Latyshonok	$18,900	$982,800	Zenit St. Petersburg	Russia	27	GK
93	Egas Cacintura	$17,550	$912,600	Akhmat Grozny	Angola	27	AM RLC, F C
94	Ramiro Di Luciano	$17,550	$912,600	CSKA Moscow	Argentina	21	D R
95	Juan Cáceres	$17,550	$912,600	Dinamo Moscow	Paraguay	25	D/WB R
96	Juan Manuel Boselli	$17,550	$912,600	FC Krasnodar	Uruguay	25	AM RLC, F C
97	Ronaldo	$17,550	$912,600	FC Rostov	Brazil	24	WB/AM R
98	Alexandr Kovalenko	$17,550	$912,600	FC Sochi	Russia	21	DM, AM C
99	Gustavo Furtado	$17,550	$912,600	FC Sochi	Brazil	24	AM RL, ST
100	Alexandr Rudenko	$17,550	$912,600	Lokomotiv Moscow	Russia	26	AM RL, ST

Frequently asked questions

Who is the highest paid player in Russian Premier League?

Wílmar Barrios of Zenit St. Petersburg, on $95,850 per week — $4,984,200 a year.

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

$3,025,350 per week and $157,318,200 per year, which is 73% of the entire Russian Premier League wage bill.

Which Russian Premier League club has the most players in the top 100?

Zenit St. Petersburg, with 20 of them, paying $785,700 a week across those players.

What does it take to make the top 100?

$17,550 per week — that is what Alexandr Rudenko earns in 100th place.