The highest earners in the history of KAA Gent
Laurent Depoitre has earned £6.4m at KAA Gent across 6 seasons, more than any other player in our records. 17 of the twenty above have since left the club.
The 20 biggest earners in KAA Gent history
These 20 players took £36m between them, 73% of everything KAA Gent has paid the players we hold a wage for.
Every KAA Gent player we hold a wage for
Every player we hold a KAA Gent wage for, ranked on what the club has paid them. Totals run to the end of the 2025/26 season.
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| # | PLAYER | EARNED AT CLUB | SEASONS | YEARS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Laurent Depoitre | £6.4m | 6 | 2016-2024 |
| 2 | Núrio | £2.8m | 4 | 2021-2024 |
| 3 | Jordan Torunarigha | £2.2m | 3 | 2022-2024 |
| 4 | Hong Hyun-Seok Current squad | £2.1m | 4 | 2023-2026 |
| 5 | Roman Yaremchuk | £2.0m | 4 | 2018-2021 |
| 6 | Elisha Owusu | £1.9m | 3 | 2020-2022 |
| 7 | Giorgi Chakvetadze | £1.7m | 4 | 2018-2021 |
| 8 | Momodou Sonko Current squad | £1.7m | 3 | 2024-2026 |
| 9 | Stefan Mitrovic | £1.4m | 3 | 2017-2024 |
| 10 | Birger Verstraete | £1.4m | 3 | 2017-2019 |
| 11 | Lovre Kalinić | £1.4m | 2 | 2017-2018 |
| 12 | Jonathan David | £1.4m | 2 | 2019-2020 |
| 13 | Jens Petter Hauge | £1.3m | 1 | 2023 |
| 14 | Siebe Van der Heyden Current squad | £1.3m | 2 | 2025-2026 |
| 15 | Alexander Sørloth | £1.2m | 1 | 2019 |
| 16 | Alessio Castro-Montes | £1.1m | 4 | 2020-2023 |
| 17 | Anderson Esiti | £1.1m | 3 | 2017-2019 |
| 18 | Moses Simon | £1.0m | 2 | 2017-2018 |
| 19 | Deiver Machado | £998k | 3 | 2018-2020 |
| 20 | Arnaud Souquet | £988k | 1 | 2019 |
| 21 | Giorgi Kvilitaia | £957k | 2 | 2019-2020 |
| 22 | Aimé Omgba Current squad | £910k | 2 | 2025-2026 |
| 23 | Andreas Hanche-Olsen | £832k | 2 | 2021-2022 |
| 24 | Niklas Dorsch | £832k | 1 | 2021 |
| 25 | Thomas Kaminski | £832k | 2 | 2019-2020 |
| 26 | Paul Nardi | £811k | 2 | 2023-2024 |
| 27 | Dylan Bronn | £770k | 2 | 2018-2019 |
| 28 | Yûya Kubo | £744k | 2 | 2017-2018 |
| 29 | Samuel Gigot | £738k | 2 | 2017-2018 |
| 30 | Eric Smith | £707k | 2 | 2019-2020 |
| 31 | Thomas Foket | £499k | 2 | 2017-2018 |
| 32 | Jean-Luc Dompé | £473k | 1 | 2019 |
| 33 | Jean-Kévin Duverne | £426k | 2 | 2025-2026 |
| 34 | Hugo Cuypers | £322k | 1 | 2023 |
| 35 | Samuel Kalu | £322k | 2 | 2017-2018 |
| 36 | Kamil Piątkowski | £312k | 1 | 2023 |
| 37 | Leonardo Lopes Current squad | £312k | 2 | 2025-2026 |
| 38 | Omri Gandelman | £302k | 1 | 2024 |
| 39 | Anderson Arroyo | £286k | 1 | 2019 |
| 40 | Gift Orban | £270k | 1 | 2023 |
| 41 | Archie Brown | £234k | 1 | 2024 |
| 42 | Joseph Okumu | £218k | 2 | 2022-2023 |
| 43 | Maksim Paskotši Current squad | £198k | 2 | 2025-2026 |
| 44 | Hatem Abd Elhamed | £166k | 1 | 2017 |
| 45 | Aboubakary Koita | £130k | 1 | 2018 |
| 46 | Kalifa Coulibaly | £104k | 1 | 2017 |
| 47 | Nicolas Raskin | £99k | 1 | 2018 |
| 48 | William Troost-Ekong | £73k | 1 | 2017 |
| 49 | Malick Fofana | £65k | 2 | 2022-2023 |
| 50 | Steve Kapuadi | £19k | 1 | 2019 |
| 51 | Matias Fernandez-Pardo | £3k | 1 | 2022 |
Frequently asked questions
Who has earned the most money at KAA Gent?
Laurent Depoitre, with £6.4m across 6 seasons at KAA Gent.
How is a career total worked out?
Each season counts the wage the club paid that year, added to every other season we hold. A player who moved mid-season has that year credited to the club paying him more. Totals run to the end of the 2025/26 season.
How far back does this go?
It covers the 51 players we hold a KAA Gent wage for, from 2016 to 2026.