CROATIAN FIRST LEAGUE · TOP 100

Highest paid Croatian First League players

Q: Who is the highest paid player in the Croatian First League?

Ismaël Bennacer of GNK Dinamo Zagreb, on £117,000 per week — £6,084,000 a year.

Q: How much do the top 100 Croatian First League players earn between them?

£595,450 per week and £30,963,400 per year, which is 93% of the entire Croatian First League wage bill.

Q: Which Croatian First League club has the most players in the top 100?

GNK Dinamo Zagreb, with 25 of them, paying £314,029 a week across those players.

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

£637 per week — that is what Luka Jelenić earns in 100th place.

Ismaël Bennacer leads on £117,000 per week. These 100 players take £595,450 a week between them - 93% of the league's entire wage bill. We hold a wage for 269 of the 580 players in the Croatian First League.

TOP 100 WEEKLY £595k

SHARE OF LEAGUE BILL93%

MEDIAN AGE26

MOST IN THE LIST25 GNK Dinamo Zagreb

Croatian First 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

GNK Dinamo Zagreb 25 £314k

HNK Hajduk Split 16 £145k

NK Osijek 14 £51k

HNK Rijeka 11 £28k

NK Istra 1961 7 £17k

NK Lokomotiva Zagreb 8 £12k

NK Varaždin 9 £11k

HNK Gorica 6 £9k

HNK Vukovar 1991 2 £4k

NK Slaven Belupo 2 £3k

What each age band takes

Combined weekly wages of the top 100 by age

Under 23 30 £140k

23-26 29 £116k

27-30 20 £234k

Over 30 21 £105k

The shape of the top 100

Weekly wage by rank

#1 £117k #10 £12k #100 £637

Ismaël Bennacer earns 9.8× what the tenth best paid player in the list does, and 184× the 100th. Half of the £595k a week on this page goes to the first 10 players on it.

The top 100

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#	PLAYER	WEEKLY	YEARLY	TEAM	NATION	AGE	POSITION
01	Ismaël Bennacer	£117,000	£6,084,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Algeria	27	DM
02	Iker Almena	£52,000	£2,704,000	HNK Hajduk Split	Spain	21	AM RLC
03	Dominik Livaković	£35,000	£1,820,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	30	GK
04	Dion Drena Beljo	£19,000	£988,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	23	AM/F C
05	Marko Livaja	£19,000	£988,000	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	31	AM LC, F C
06	Ronaël Pierre-Gabriel	£15,000	£780,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	France	27	D/WB RL
07	Gabriel Vidović	£14,000	£728,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	21	AM LC
08	Miha Zajc	£12,000	£624,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Slovenia	31	DM, AM C
09	Scott McKenna	£12,000	£624,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Scotland	28	D C
10	David Čolina	£12,000	£624,000	NK Osijek	Croatia	24	D/WB L

11	Zvonimir Sarlija	£10,000	£520,000	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	28	D C
12	Hugo Guillamón	£9,200	£478,400	HNK Hajduk Split	Spain	25	D C, DM
13	Luka Stojković	£9,000	£468,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	21	AM RLC
14	Vladan Bubanja	£9,000	£468,000	NK Osijek	Montenegro	26	DM
15	Arbër Hoxha	£8,500	£442,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Albania	26	AM L, ST
16	Dino Perić	£8,400	£436,800	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	31	D C
17	Filip Krovinovic	£8,300	£431,600	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	29	DM, AM C
18	Raúl Torrente	£8,000	£416,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Spain	23	D C
19	Kévin Théophile-Catherine	£8,000	£416,000	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	France	35	D C
20	Niko Galešić	£7,900	£410,800	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	24	D RC
21	Ante Rebic	£7,500	£390,000	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	31	AM LC, F C
22	Dario Melnjak	£7,400	£384,800	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	32	D/WB/M L
23	Josip Mišic	£7,100	£369,200	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	31	DM
24	Juan José Córdoba	£7,100	£369,200	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Colombia	22	AM RL
25	Matteo Perez Vinlöf	£6,900	£358,800	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Sweden	19	D/WB L
26	Danijel Zagorac	£6,400	£332,800	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	38	GK
27	Chester Diallo	£6,100	£317,200	HNK Hajduk Split	Côte d’Ivoire	28	D LC
28	Adrion Pajaziti	£5,500	£286,000	HNK Hajduk Split	Albania	22	AM C
29	Arnel Jakupovic	£5,500	£286,000	NK Osijek	Austria	27	ST
30	Josip Radosevic	£5,100	£265,200	NK Istra 1961	Croatia	31	DM
31	Smail Prevljak	£4,600	£239,200	NK Istra 1961	Bosnia & Herzegovina	30	AM/F C
32	Abdoulie Sanyang	£4,500	£234,000	HNK Hajduk Split	Gambia	26	AM RL, ST
33	Ante Majstorović	£4,500	£234,000	HNK Rijeka	Croatia	31	D RC, DM
34	Ivan Nevistić	£4,100	£213,200	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	26	GK
35	Jon Mersinaj	£4,100	£213,200	NK Osijek	Albania	26	D C
36	Rokas Pukstas	£3,700	£192,400	HNK Hajduk Split	United States	20	AM C
37	Toni Fruk	£3,600	£187,200	HNK Rijeka	Croatia	24	AM/F C
38	Ante Erceg	£3,500	£182,000	HNK Gorica	Croatia	35	AM LC, F C
39	Bruno Durdov	£3,500	£182,000	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	17	AM R, ST
40	Amer Gojak	£3,500	£182,000	HNK Rijeka	Bosnia & Herzegovina	28	AM C

41	Šimun Hrgović	£3,000	£156,000	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	21	D/WB RL, AM L
42	Luka Vrbančić	£3,000	£156,000	NK Osijek	Croatia	20	AM C
43	Niko Sigur	£2,900	£150,800	HNK Hajduk Split	Canada	21	D R, DM
44	Merveil Ndockyt	£2,900	£150,800	HNK Rijeka	Congo	26	AM RLC, F C
45	Mladen Devetak	£2,900	£150,800	HNK Rijeka	Serbia	26	D/WB L
46	Nail Omerović	£2,900	£150,800	NK Osijek	Bosnia & Herzegovina	22	WB R, AM RL
47	Renan Guedes	£2,700	£140,400	NK Osijek	Brazil	27	D/WB R
48	Stjepan Radeljic	£2,600	£135,200	HNK Rijeka	Bosnia & Herzegovina	27	D C
49	Ante Oreč	£2,500	£130,000	HNK Rijeka	Croatia	23	D/WB R
50	Allen Obando	£2,500	£130,000	NK Istra 1961	Ecuador	19	ST
51	Anton Matković	£2,500	£130,000	NK Osijek	Croatia	19	AM RL, ST
52	Aleksa Latković	£2,500	£130,000	NK Varaždin	Montenegro	24	AM RLC
53	Dejan Petrovic	£2,400	£124,800	HNK Rijeka	Slovenia	27	M C
54	Domagoj Antolić	£2,400	£124,800	NK Lokomotiva Zagreb	Croatia	35	DM
55	Fran Topić	£2,300	£119,600	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	21	AM R, ST
56	Fran Karacic	£2,300	£119,600	NK Osijek	Australia	29	D/WB R
57	Ivica Ivusic	£2,100	£109,200	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	30	GK
58	Jakov-Anton Vasilj	£2,100	£109,200	NK Lokomotiva Zagreb	Croatia	23	AM RC
59	Žan Trontelj	£2,000	£104,000	HNK Gorica	Slovenia	25	D/WB/M R
60	Lovre Kulušić	£2,000	£104,000	HNK Vukovar 1991	Croatia	18	AM RC, F C
61	Leonardo Sigali	£2,000	£104,000	NK Lokomotiva Zagreb	Argentina	38	D C
62	Šimun Mikolčić	£2,000	£104,000	NK Osijek	Croatia	21	AM C
63	Noa Mikić	£1,900	£98,800	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	18	D/WB R
64	Muhamed Šahinović	£1,900	£98,800	HNK Gorica	Bosnia & Herzegovina	21	GK
65	Moreno Živković	£1,900	£98,800	HNK Vukovar 1991	Croatia	21	D C
66	Marcel Heister	£1,900	£98,800	NK Istra 1961	Germany	32	D/WB L
67	Marko Pajac	£1,900	£98,800	NK Lokomotiva Zagreb	Croatia	32	D/WB/M L
68	Marko Malenica	£1,900	£98,800	NK Osijek	Croatia	31	GK
69	Mihail Caimacov	£1,900	£98,800	NK Slaven Belupo	Moldova	26	DM, AM RC
70	Oliver Zelenika	£1,800	£93,600	NK Varaždin	Croatia	32	GK

71	Tiago Dantas	£1,600	£83,200	HNK Rijeka	Portugal	24	DM, AM C
72	Dušan Vuković	£1,400	£72,800	NK Lokomotiva Zagreb	Montenegro	22	AM RL, ST
73	Domagoj Bukvić	£1,400	£72,800	NK Osijek	Croatia	21	AM RL
74	Frane Maglica	£1,300	£67,600	NK Varaždin	Croatia	28	D RLC
75	Gustavo Albarracín	£1,200	£62,400	NK Istra 1961	Argentina	19	DM, M RC
76	Ivan Ćubelić	£1,100	£57,200	NK Slaven Belupo	Croatia	22	AM LC
77	Iuri Tavares	£1,100	£57,200	NK Varaždin	Cape Verde	24	AM RL, ST
78	Bruno Goda	£1,064	£55,328	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	27	D/WB/M L
79	Borna Barišić	£1,007	£52,364	NK Osijek	Croatia	32	D/WB L
80	Advan Kadušić	£975	£50,700	NK Istra 1961	Bosnia & Herzegovina	27	D RLC, DM
81	Mario Marina	£974	£50,648	NK Varaždin	Croatia	35	DM
82	Aleksandar Trajkovski	£945	£49,140	NK Lokomotiva Zagreb	North Macedonia	32	AM RLC, F C
83	Mateo Lisica	£907	£47,164	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	22	AM R
84	Marko Soldo	£900	£46,800	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	21	DM
85	Marin Leovac	£900	£46,800	NK Lokomotiva Zagreb	Croatia	36	D/WB L
86	Mario Mladenovski	£900	£46,800	NK Varaždin	North Macedonia	24	D C
87	Mateo Barac	£900	£46,800	NK Varaždin	Croatia	30	D C
88	Matej Vuk	£900	£46,800	NK Varaždin	Croatia	25	AM L, ST
89	Martin Zlomislić	£852	£44,304	HNK Rijeka	Bosnia & Herzegovina	26	GK
90	Mislav Ćutuk	£844	£43,888	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Croatia	18	AM RL, ST
91	Mody Boune	£844	£43,888	NK Lokomotiva Zagreb	France	23	D R
92	Mateo Les	£757	£39,364	HNK Gorica	Croatia	25	D LC
93	Samuele Vignato	£747	£38,844	HNK Rijeka	Italy	21	AM RLC, F C
94	Novak Tepšić	£747	£38,844	NK Varaždin	Croatia	23	D C, DM
95	Monsef Bakrar	£714	£37,128	GNK Dinamo Zagreb	Algeria	24	AM RL, ST
96	Jurica Pršir	£701	£36,452	HNK Gorica	Croatia	25	AM C
97	Roko Brajković	£700	£36,400	HNK Hajduk Split	Croatia	20	AM RL, ST
98	Antonio Maurić	£696	£36,192	NK Istra 1961	Croatia	21	D C, DM
99	Bruno Bogojević	£639	£33,228	HNK Gorica	Croatia	27	D/WB/AM R
100	Luka Jelenić	£637	£33,124	NK Osijek	Croatia	25	D C

Frequently asked questions

Who is the highest paid player in the Croatian First League?

Ismaël Bennacer of GNK Dinamo Zagreb, on £117,000 per week — £6,084,000 a year.

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

£595,450 per week and £30,963,400 per year, which is 93% of the entire Croatian First League wage bill.

Which Croatian First League club has the most players in the top 100?

GNK Dinamo Zagreb, with 25 of them, paying £314,029 a week across those players.

What does it take to make the top 100?

£637 per week — that is what Luka Jelenić earns in 100th place.