2. BUNDESLIGA · TOP 100
Highest paid 2. Bundesliga players Maximilian Arnold leads on £74,000 per week. These 100 players take £1,827,400 a week between them - 52% of the league's entire wage bill. We hold a wage for 503 of the 536 players in the 2. Bundesliga.
TOP 100 WEEKLY £1.8m
SHARE OF LEAGUE BILL 52%
MEDIAN AGE 27
MOST IN THE LIST 25 VfL Wolfsburg
Where the top 100 play Combined weekly wages of each club's players in this list
What each age band takes Combined weekly wages of the top 100 by age
Under 23 13 £268k
23-26 36 £585k
27-30 37 £609k
Over 30 14 £365k
The shape of the top 100 Weekly wage by rank #1 £74k #10 £32k #100 £9k
Maximilian Arnold earns 2.3 × what the tenth best paid player in the list does, and 8.2 × the 100th. Half of the £1.8m a week on this page goes to the first 29 players on it.
The top 100 Tap a column heading to re-rank # PLAYER WEEKLY YEARLY TEAM NATION AGE POSITION 01 Maximilian Arnold £74,000
£3,848,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 31 DM 02 Christian Eriksen £60,000
£3,120,000 VfL Wolfsburg Denmark 33 DM, AM RLC 03 Mattias Svanberg £46,000
£2,392,000 VfL Wolfsburg Sweden 26 DM, AM C 04 Yannick Gerhardt £42,000
£2,184,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 31 D L, DM 05 Vinicius Souza £38,000
£1,976,000 VfL Wolfsburg Brazil 26 DM 06 Joakim Mæhle £37,000
£1,924,000 VfL Wolfsburg Denmark 28 D/WB RL 07 Aster Vranckx £36,000
£1,872,000 VfL Wolfsburg Belgium 22 DM, AM C 08 Fabian Reese £35,000
£1,820,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 27 AM RL 09 Kamil Grabara £33,000
£1,716,000 VfL Wolfsburg Poland 26 GK 10 Denis Vavro £32,000
£1,664,000 VfL Wolfsburg Slovakia 29 D C
11 Moritz Jenz £32,000
£1,664,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 26 D C 12 Muhammed Damar £32,000
£1,664,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 21 AM RLC 13 Mohamed Amoura £32,000
£1,664,000 VfL Wolfsburg Algeria 25 AM L, ST 14 Rogério £31,000
£1,612,000 VfL Wolfsburg Brazil 27 D/WB/M L 15 Marcel Hartel £30,000
£1,560,000 Hannover 96 Germany 29 DM, AM C 16 Robert Glatzel £28,000
£1,456,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 31 ST 17 Aaron Zehnter £28,000
£1,456,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 20 D/WB L 18 Daniel-Kofi Kyereh £27,000
£1,404,000 VfL Osnabrück Ghana 29 AM RLC 19 Elvis Rexhbeçaj £27,000
£1,404,000 VfL Wolfsburg Kosovo 27 DM 20 Kento Shiogai £25,000
£1,300,000 VfL Wolfsburg Japan 20 AM RL, ST 21 Jonas Adjetey £25,000
£1,300,000 VfL Wolfsburg Ghana 21 D C 22 Patrick Mainka £24,000
£1,248,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 30 D C 23 Nicolas Cozza £24,000
£1,248,000 VfL Wolfsburg France 26 D LC 24 Saël Kumbedi £23,000
£1,196,000 VfL Wolfsburg France 20 D/WB R 25 Eric Smith £22,000
£1,144,000 FC St. Pauli Sweden 28 D C, DM 26 Hauke Wahl £21,000
£1,092,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 31 D C, DM 27 Budu Zivzivadze £20,000
£1,040,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Georgia 31 ST 28 Mika Faye £20,000
£1,040,000 1. FC Nürnberg Senegal 20 D LC 29 Márton Dárdai £19,000
£988,000 Hertha BSC Hungary 23 D C, DM 30 Diego Demme £19,000
£988,000 Hertha BSC Germany 33 DM 31 Marvin Wanitzek £19,000
£988,000 Karlsruher SC Germany 32 AM LC 32 Benedikt Gimber £17,000
£884,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 28 D C, DM 33 Kevin Vogt £17,000
£884,000 VfL Bochum 1848 Germany 33 D C, DM 34 Bence Dárdai £17,000
£884,000 VfL Wolfsburg Hungary 19 DM, AM C 35 Adrian Beck £16,000
£832,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 28 DM, AM C 36 Maximilian Bauer £16,000
£832,000 DSC Arminia Bielefeld Germany 25 D C 37 Ben Bobzien £16,000
£832,000 Dynamo Dresden Germany 22 AM RLC, F C 38 Martijn Kaars £16,000
£832,000 FC St. Pauli Netherlands 26 AM/F C 39 Mathias Pereira Lage £16,000
£832,000 FC St. Pauli Portugal 28 AM LC, F C 40 Dominique Heintz £16,000
£832,000 Fortuna Düsseldorf 1895 Germany 31 D LC
41 Erencan Yardımcı £16,000
£832,000 1. FC Kaiserslautern Türkiye 23 ST 42 Cleiton £16,000
£832,000 VfL Wolfsburg Brazil 22 D C 43 Jan Schöppner £15,000
£780,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 26 DM 44 Connor Metcalfe £15,000
£780,000 FC St. Pauli Australia 25 DM, AM RC 45 Boris Tomiak £15,000
£780,000 Hannover 96 Germany 26 D C, DM 46 Christian Clemens £15,000
£780,000 SV Darmstadt 98 Germany 28 M/AM (RL) 47 Branimir Hrgota £14,000
£728,000 FC St. Pauli Sweden 32 AM/F C 48 Joel Chima Fujita £14,000
£728,000 FC St. Pauli Japan 23 DM, AM C 49 David Nemeth £14,000
£728,000 FC St. Pauli Austria 24 D C 50 Deyovaisio Zeefuik £14,000
£728,000 Hertha BSC Netherlands 27 D/WB RL 51 Kilian Fischer £14,000
£728,000 VfL Wolfsburg Germany 24 D/WB RL 52 Marvin Pieringer £13,000
£676,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 25 AM/F C 53 Leart Paqarada £13,000
£676,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Kosovo 30 D/WB L 54 Adam Dźwigała £13,000
£676,000 FC St. Pauli Poland 29 D RC, DM 55 Louis Oppie £13,000
£676,000 FC St. Pauli Germany 23 D/WB L 56 Nikola Vasilj £13,000
£676,000 FC St. Pauli Bosnia & Herzegovina 29 GK 57 Kevin Sessa £13,000
£676,000 Hertha BSC Germany 25 DM, AM C 58 Josip Brekalo £13,000
£676,000 Hertha BSC Croatia 27 AM RLC 59 Ivan Prtajin £13,000
£676,000 1. FC Kaiserslautern Croatia 29 ST 60 Barış Atik £13,000
£676,000 1. FC Magdeburg Türkiye 30 AM LC 61 Aleksandar Vukotić £13,000
£676,000 SV Darmstadt 98 Serbia 29 D C 62 Karol Mets £13,000
£676,000 VfL Bochum 1848 Estonia 32 D C, DM 63 Christian Conteh £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 25 AM RLC 64 Jonas Föhrenbach £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 29 D LC 65 Julian Niehues £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 24 D C, DM 66 Mikkel Kaufmann £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Denmark 24 ST 67 Luca Kerber £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 23 DM 68 Marnon Busch £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 30 D RC 69 Finn Becker £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Nürnberg Germany 25 DM, AM C 70 Julian Justvan £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Nürnberg Germany 27 AM RC
71 Erik Ahlstrand £12,000
£624,000 FC St. Pauli Sweden 23 WB L, AM LC 72 Florian Kastenmeier £12,000
£624,000 Fortuna Düsseldorf 1895 Germany 28 GK 73 Jacob Rasmussen £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Kaiserslautern Denmark 28 D C 74 Fabian Kunze £12,000
£624,000 1. FC Kaiserslautern Germany 27 DM 75 Noah Weißhaupt £12,000
£624,000 SV Darmstadt 98 Germany 23 WB L, AM RL 76 Mathias Honsak £11,000
£572,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Austria 28 AM LC 77 Henri Koudossou £11,000
£572,000 DSC Arminia Bielefeld Germany 25 D/WB RL, M R 78 Noah Katterbach £11,000
£572,000 Eintracht Braunschweig Germany 24 D/WB L 79 Mathias Rasmussen £11,000
£572,000 FC St. Pauli Norway 27 DM, AM C 80 Matthias Zimmermann £11,000
£572,000 Fortuna Düsseldorf 1895 Germany 33 D/WB R, DM 81 Maurice Neubauer £11,000
£572,000 Hannover 96 Germany 29 D/WB RL 82 Mustapha Bundu £11,000
£572,000 Hannover 96 Sierra Leone 28 AM RLC 83 Linus Gechter £11,000
£572,000 Hertha BSC Germany 21 D RC 84 Paul Seguin £11,000
£572,000 Hertha BSC Germany 30 DM 85 Giorgi Kvilitaia £11,000
£572,000 Holstein Kiel Georgia 31 ST 86 Naatan Skyttä £11,000
£572,000 1. FC Kaiserslautern Finland 23 AM RC 87 Mërgim Berisha £11,000
£572,000 1. FC Kaiserslautern Germany 27 AM/F C 88 Semih Şahin £11,000
£572,000 1. FC Kaiserslautern Germany 25 DM 89 Tim Siersleben £10,000
£520,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 25 D C, DM 90 Robert Wagner £10,000
£520,000 Dynamo Dresden Germany 22 DM 91 Lino Tempelmann £10,000
£520,000 Eintracht Braunschweig Germany 26 DM 92 Taichi Hara £10,000
£520,000 FC St. Pauli Japan 26 AM RL, ST 93 Tomoya Ando £10,000
£520,000 FC St. Pauli Japan 26 D C 94 Leon Jensen £10,000
£520,000 Hertha BSC Germany 28 DM 95 Luca Itter £10,000
£520,000 SpVgg Greuther Fürth Germany 26 D LC 96 Emmanuel Iyoha £9,300
£483,600 1. FC Magdeburg Germany 27 D/WB/AM RL 97 Jordy de Wijs £9,100
£473,200 Fortuna Düsseldorf 1895 Netherlands 30 D C 98 Maximilian Breunig £9,000
£468,000 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 Germany 24 AM/F C 99 Ricky-Jade Jones £9,000
£468,000 FC St. Pauli England 22 AM L, ST 100 Lars Ritzka £9,000
£468,000 FC St. Pauli Germany 27 D LC
Frequently asked questions Who is the highest paid player in the 2. Bundesliga? Maximilian Arnold of VfL Wolfsburg, on £74,000 per week — £3,848,000 a year.
How much do the top 100 2. Bundesliga players earn between them? £1,827,400 per week and £95,024,800 per year, which is 52% of the entire 2. Bundesliga wage bill.
Which 2. Bundesliga club has the most players in the top 100? VfL Wolfsburg, with 25 of them, paying £808,000 a week across those players.
What does it take to make the top 100? £9,000 per week — that is what Lars Ritzka earns in 100th place.
