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Highest paid players from Italy

Mateo Retegui is the best paid player from Italy at £331,000 a week. We hold a wage for 1,003 of the 2,252 players in the squads we track who give Italy, and they earn £9,249,971 a week between them, across 23 leagues.

COMBINED WEEKLY£9.2m
COMBINED YEARLY£481m
PLAYERS IN SQUADS2,252
MOST AT ONE CLUB35 Benevento

The best-paid XI from Italy

The eleven highest-paid players from Italy that fit a 4-3-3, ranked on club wage alone.

Highest paid from Italy

Top 50 by weekly wage, 51% of every Italy wage we hold. Sortable.

The 50 highest paid footballers from Italy. Sortable by player, age, weekly and yearly wage.
# PLAYER WEEKLY ▼ YEARLY CLUB LEAGUE AGE POSITION
01 Mateo Retegui
£331,000
£17,212,000 Al-Qadsiah Football Club Saudi Pro League 26 ST
02 Gianluigi Donnarumma
£250,000
£13,000,000 Manchester City Premier League 26 GK
03 Nicolò Barella
£200,000
£10,400,000 Inter Milan Serie A 28 M C
04 Alessandro Bastoni
£169,000
£8,788,000 Inter Milan Serie A 26 D C
05 Sandro Tonali
£165,000
£8,580,000 Tottenham Hotspur Premier League 25 DM
06 Marco Palestra
£150,000
£7,800,000 Chelsea Premier League 20 D/WB/M R
07 Federico Dimarco
£123,000
£6,396,000 Inter Milan Serie A 27 D/WB L
08 Federico Chiesa
£120,000
£6,240,000 Liverpool Premier League 27 AM RLC, F C
09 Gianluca Mancini
£108,000
£5,616,000 Associazione Sportiva Roma Serie A 29 D C
10 Lorenzo Pellegrini
£108,000
£5,616,000 Associazione Sportiva Roma Serie A 29 DM, AM C
11 Giacomo Raspadori
£108,000
£5,616,000 Atalanta Serie A 25 AM RLC, F C
12 Matteo Politano
£108,000
£5,616,000 Napoli Serie A 31 AM RLC
13 Manuel Locatelli
£102,000
£5,304,000 Juventus Serie A 27 DM
14 Gianluca Scamacca
£100,000
£5,200,000 Atalanta Serie A 26 ST
15 Federico Gatti
£97,000
£5,044,000 Juventus Serie A 27 D C
16 Moise Kean
£95,000
£4,940,000 Como 1907 Serie A 25 ST
17 Alessio Romagnoli
£95,000
£4,940,000 Lazio Serie A 30 D C
18 Domenico Berardi
£94,000
£4,888,000 U.S. Sassuolo Calcio Serie A 30 AM R
19 Giovanni Di Lorenzo
£93,000
£4,836,000 Napoli Serie A 31 D RC
20 Lorenzo Insigne
£92,000
£4,784,000 Unione Calcio Sampdoria Serie B 34 AM L, ST
21 Jorginho
£91,000
£4,732,000 Flamengo Brasileirão Série A 33 DM
22 Mattia Zaccagni
£91,000
£4,732,000 Lazio Serie A 30 AM LC
23 Bryan Cristante
£89,000
£4,628,000 Associazione Sportiva Roma Serie A 30 DM
24 Davide Frattesi
£88,000
£4,576,000 Lazio Serie A 25 M C
25 Alessandro Buongiorno
£80,000
£4,160,000 Napoli Serie A 26 D C
26 Alex Meret
£80,000
£4,160,000 Napoli Serie A 28 GK
27 Andrea Cambiaso
£77,000
£4,004,000 Juventus Serie A 25 D/WB/M RL
28 Andrea Pinamonti
£77,000
£4,004,000 Lazio Serie A 26 ST
29 Samuele Ricci
£75,000
£3,900,000 Como 1907 Serie A 23 DM
30 Guglielmo Vicario
£69,000
£3,588,000 Juventus Serie A 28 GK
31 Destiny Udogie
£68,000
£3,536,000 Tottenham Hotspur Premier League 22 D/WB L
32 Nicolò Savona
£64,000
£3,328,000 Nottingham Forest Premier League 22 D/WB R
33 Riccardo Calafiori
£63,000
£3,276,000 Arsenal Premier League 23 D LC
34 Daniele Rugani
£63,000
£3,276,000 Juventus Serie A 30 D C
35 Ivan Provedel
£62,000
£3,224,000 Inter Milan Serie A 31 GK
36 Lorenzo Lucca
£61,000
£3,172,000 Napoli Serie A 24 ST
37 Michele Di Gregorio
£60,000
£3,120,000 AFC Bournemouth Premier League 27 GK
38 Nicolò Rovella
£60,000
£3,120,000 Lazio Serie A 23 DM
39 Riccardo Orsolini
£59,000
£3,068,000 Bologna FC 1909 Serie A 28 AM R
40 Federico Bernardeschi
£57,000
£2,964,000 Bologna FC 1909 Serie A 31 AM RLC, F C
41 Nicolò Zaniolo
£56,000
£2,912,000 Udinese Calcio Serie A 26 AM RLC, F C
42 Leonardo Spinazzola
£55,000
£2,860,000 Napoli Serie A 32 D/WB/M L
43 Fabiano Parisi
£54,000
£2,808,000 ACF Fiorentina Serie A 24 D/WB/M L
44 Nicolò Fagioli
£54,000
£2,808,000 ACF Fiorentina Serie A 24 DM, AM C
45 Matteo Gabbia
£54,000
£2,808,000 AC Milan Serie A 25 D C
46 Niccolò Pisilli
£54,000
£2,808,000 Associazione Sportiva Roma Serie A 20 DM, AM C
47 Cristiano Biraghi
£54,000
£2,808,000 Torino Serie A 32 D LC, M L
48 Raoul Bellanova
£53,000
£2,756,000 Atalanta Serie A 25 D/WB/M R
49 Giovanni Leoni
£51,000
£2,652,000 Liverpool Premier League 18 D C
50 Manuel Lazzari
£51,000
£2,652,000 Lazio Serie A 31 D/WB/M R

Where Italy players play

Players we hold a wage for, and what each league pays them

23 leagues in all

What each position earns

Average weekly wage, and share of the Italy wage total, across players aged 22 or over that we hold a wage for

Goalkeepers
£14,702 · 12%
Defenders
£15,376 · 31%
Midfielders
£19,646 · 24%
Attackers
£20,526 · 32%

Peak earning years

Average weekly wage by age band

£725 16-19
£9k 20-22
£14k 23-25
£26k 26-28
£21k 29-31
£14k 32-34
£9k 35+

Clubs with the most Italy players

Current squads, counting players we hold a wage for

Frequently asked questions

Players from Italy

Who is the highest paid footballer from Italy?

Mateo Retegui of Al-Qadsiah Football Club is the highest paid player from Italy in our data, on £331,000 per week (£17,212,000 per year).

How much do players from Italy earn?

We hold a wage for 1,003 of the 2,252 players from Italy in our data, so an average across them would describe those 1,003 rather than Italy as a whole. The 50 highest paid are listed above.

Which league has the most players from Italy?

Serie A has the most, with 397 players from Italy on wages we hold, ahead of Serie B on 384.

How many players from Italy do you cover?

2,252 players in the current squads we track give their nationality as Italy, and we hold a weekly wage for 1,003 of them (45%). Figures are club wages: this page is not a national-team squad.

Which club has the most players from Italy?

Benevento, with 35 players from Italy in its current squad.

Every player from Italy

584 with a page of their own, A-Z, including players we hold no current club for

Other nations

Every nation we hold wages for →