RUSSIAN PREMIER LEAGUE · TOP 100
Highest paid Russian Premier League players Wílmar Barrios leads on £71,000 per week. These 100 players take £2,236,000 a week between them - 73% of the league's entire wage bill. We hold a wage for 260 of the 559 players in the Russian Premier League.
TOP 100 WEEKLY £2.2m
SHARE OF LEAGUE BILL 73%
MEDIAN AGE 27
MOST IN THE LIST 21 Zenit St. Petersburg
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 8 £132k
23-26 38 £831k
27-30 42 £913k
Over 30 12 £360k
The shape of the top 100 Weekly wage by rank #1 £71k #10 £41k #100 £13k
Wílmar Barrios earns 1.7 × what the tenth best paid player in the list does, and 5.5 × the 100th. Half of the £2.2m a week on this page goes to the first 32 players on it.
The top 100 Tap a column heading to re-rank # PLAYER WEEKLY YEARLY TEAM NATION AGE POSITION 01 Wílmar Barrios £71,000
£3,692,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Colombia 31 DM 02 Wendel £71,000
£3,692,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 27 DM, AM C 03 Jhon Córdoba £66,000
£3,432,000 FC Krasnodar Colombia 32 ST 04 Luiz Henrique £63,000
£3,276,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 24 AM RL 05 Gedson Fernandes £61,000
£3,172,000 Spartak Moscow Portugal 26 DM, AM C 06 Matheus Reis £57,000
£2,964,000 CSKA Moscow Brazil 30 D LC 07 Mirlind Daku £49,000
£2,548,000 Spartak Moscow Albania 27 ST 08 Esequiel Barco £43,000
£2,236,000 Spartak Moscow Argentina 26 AM LC 09 Douglas Santos £43,000
£2,236,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 31 D LC, DM 10 Maxim Glushenkov £41,000
£2,132,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 25 AM RC
11 Roman Zobnin £39,000
£2,028,000 Spartak Moscow Russia 31 D R, DM 12 Alexandr Sobolev £36,000
£1,872,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 28 ST 13 Pablo Solari £34,000
£1,768,000 Spartak Moscow Argentina 24 AM RL 14 Nail Umyarov £32,000
£1,664,000 Spartak Moscow Russia 25 DM 15 Bitello £30,000
£1,560,000 Dinamo Moscow Brazil 25 AM LC 16 Dmitry Barinov £29,000
£1,508,000 CSKA Moscow Russia 28 DM 17 Igor Akinfeev £28,000
£1,456,000 CSKA Moscow Russia 39 GK 18 Alexandr Maximenko £28,000
£1,456,000 Spartak Moscow Russia 27 GK 19 Daniil Khlusevich £25,000
£1,300,000 Spartak Moscow Russia 24 D/WB/M R 20 Diego Costa £24,000
£1,248,000 FC Krasnodar Brazil 25 D C 21 Alexander Djiku £24,000
£1,248,000 Spartak Moscow Ghana 30 D C 22 Anton Miranchuk £23,000
£1,196,000 Dinamo Moscow Russia 29 AM LC 23 Felipe Augusto £23,000
£1,196,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 21 AM RLC, F C 24 Ivan Oblyakov £22,000
£1,144,000 CSKA Moscow Russia 27 WB L, DM, AM C 25 Arthur Gomes £22,000
£1,144,000 Dinamo Moscow Brazil 27 AM RLC, F C 26 Danil Glebov £22,000
£1,144,000 Dinamo Moscow Russia 25 DM 27 Luis Chávez £22,000
£1,144,000 Dinamo Moscow Mexico 29 DM 28 Clayton £22,000
£1,144,000 Fakel Voronezh Brazil 26 ST 29 Batxi £22,000
£1,144,000 FC Krasnodar Angola 27 AM RL 30 Gustavo Mantuan £22,000
£1,144,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 24 D/WB R, AM RL 31 Nino £22,000
£1,144,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 28 D C 32 Artem Karpukas £22,000
£1,144,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 23 DM 33 Alerrandro £21,000
£1,092,000 CSKA Moscow Brazil 25 ST 34 Luciano Gondou £21,000
£1,092,000 CSKA Moscow Argentina 24 AM R, ST 35 Ivan Sergeev £21,000
£1,092,000 Dinamo Moscow Russia 30 ST 36 César Montes £21,000
£1,092,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Mexico 28 D C 37 Christopher Martins Pereira £21,000
£1,092,000 Spartak Moscow Luxembourg 28 DM 38 Igor Diveev £21,000
£1,092,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 25 D C 39 Andrey Mostovoy £21,000
£1,092,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 27 AM RL 40 Jhonatan (Jhonatan dos Santos Rosa) £21,000
£1,092,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 22 AM LC
41 Douglas Augusto £20,000
£1,040,000 FC Krasnodar Brazil 28 DM, AM C 42 Alexandr Yerokhin £20,000
£1,040,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 35 AM/F C 43 Danil Krugovoy £19,000
£988,000 CSKA Moscow Russia 27 D/WB L, AM R 44 Ilja Lantratov £19,000
£988,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Russia 29 GK 45 Alexandr Lomovitskiy £19,000
£988,000 Rubin Kazan Russia 27 AM RLC 46 Baqtiiar Zainutdinov £18,000
£936,000 Dinamo Moscow Kazakhstan 27 D LC, DM, M LC 47 Andrey Lunev £18,000
£936,000 Dinamo Moscow Russia 33 GK 48 Alexandr Chernikov £18,000
£936,000 FC Krasnodar Russia 25 DM 49 Marquinhos £18,000
£936,000 Spartak Moscow Brazil 25 AM L 50 João Victor £17,000
£884,000 CSKA Moscow Brazil 26 D RC 51 Stanislav Agkatsev £17,000
£884,000 FC Krasnodar Russia 23 GK 52 Nikita Krivtsov £17,000
£884,000 FC Krasnodar Russia 22 DM, AM C 53 Magomed Ozdoev £17,000
£884,000 FC Krasnodar Russia 32 DM 54 Alexandr Soldatenkov £17,000
£884,000 FC Sochi Russia 28 D C 55 Cristian Ramírez £17,000
£884,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Ecuador 30 D/WB L 56 Dmitry Vorobjov £17,000
£884,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Russia 27 ST 57 Srđan Babić £17,000
£884,000 Spartak Moscow Serbia 29 D C 58 Robert Renan £17,000
£884,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 21 D C 59 Arsen Adamov £16,000
£832,000 Akhmat Grozny Russia 25 D RC 60 Moisés £16,000
£832,000 CSKA Moscow Brazil 30 D LC 61 Tormena £16,000
£832,000 FC Krasnodar Brazil 29 D C 62 Gerzino Nyamsi £16,000
£832,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Cameroon 28 D C 63 Anton Zinkovskiy £16,000
£832,000 Spartak Moscow Russia 29 AM L 64 Manfred Ugalde £16,000
£832,000 Spartak Moscow Costa Rica 23 ST 65 Vyacheslav Karavaev £16,000
£832,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 30 D RC 66 Nüraly Älip £16,000
£832,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Kazakhstan 25 D LC 67 Dmitry Skopintsev £15,000
£780,000 Dinamo Moscow Russia 28 D/WB/M L 68 Alexandr Kutitskiy £15,000
£780,000 Dinamo Moscow Russia 23 D RLC, DM 69 Daniil Fomin £15,000
£780,000 Dinamo Moscow Russia 28 DM 70 Jubal £15,000
£780,000 FC Krasnodar Brazil 31 D C
71 Dmitry Chistyakov £15,000
£780,000 FC Rostov Russia 31 D C 72 Nikolay Komlichenko £15,000
£780,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Russia 30 ST 73 Alexandr Siljanov £15,000
£780,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Russia 24 D RL 74 Fasson £15,000
£780,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Brazil 24 D LC 75 Ilja Samoshnikov £15,000
£780,000 Spartak Moscow Russia 27 D RL, AM R 76 Christopher Wooh £15,000
£780,000 Spartak Moscow Cameroon 23 D C 77 Ilja Pomazun £15,000
£780,000 Spartak Moscow Russia 28 GK 78 Yury Gorshkov £15,000
£780,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 26 D L 79 Denis Adamov £15,000
£780,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 27 GK 80 Artem Dzyuba £14,000
£728,000 Akron Togliatti Russia 36 ST 81 Henrique £14,000
£728,000 CSKA Moscow Brazil 18 AM RL 82 Rubens £14,000
£728,000 Dinamo Moscow Brazil 24 D/WB L, DM, M LC 83 Maxim Osipenko £14,000
£728,000 Dinamo Moscow Russia 31 D C 84 Lucas Olaza £14,000
£728,000 FC Krasnodar Uruguay 30 D/WB L 85 Kevin Pina £14,000
£728,000 FC Krasnodar Cape Verde 28 DM 86 Alexey Mironov £14,000
£728,000 FC Rostov Russia 25 DM 87 Anton Mitryushkin £14,000
£728,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Russia 29 GK 88 Anderson Arroyo £14,000
£728,000 Rubin Kazan Colombia 25 D RLC 89 Danil Prutsev £14,000
£728,000 Spartak Moscow Russia 25 DM 90 Evgeny Latyshonok £14,000
£728,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Russia 27 GK 91 Pedro £14,000
£728,000 Zenit St. Petersburg Brazil 19 AM RLC 92 Egas Cacintura £13,000
£676,000 Akhmat Grozny Angola 27 AM RLC, F C 93 Ramiro Di Luciano £13,000
£676,000 CSKA Moscow Argentina 21 D R 94 Juan Cáceres £13,000
£676,000 Dinamo Moscow Paraguay 25 D/WB R 95 Juan Manuel Boselli £13,000
£676,000 FC Krasnodar Uruguay 25 AM RLC, F C 96 Ronaldo £13,000
£676,000 FC Rostov Brazil 24 WB/AM R 97 Alexandr Kovalenko £13,000
£676,000 FC Sochi Russia 21 DM, AM C 98 Gustavo Furtado £13,000
£676,000 FC Sochi Brazil 24 AM RL, ST 99 Alexandr Rudenko £13,000
£676,000 Lokomotiv Moscow Russia 26 AM RL, ST 100 Aleksandar Jukić £13,000
£676,000 Rubin Kazan Austria 24 AM LC
Frequently asked questions Who is the highest paid player in the Russian Premier League? Wílmar Barrios of Zenit St. Petersburg, on £71,000 per week — £3,692,000 a year.
How much do the top 100 Russian Premier League players earn between them? £2,236,000 per week and £116,272,000 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 21 of them, paying £604,000 a week across those players.
What does it take to make the top 100? £13,000 per week — that is what Aleksandar Jukić earns in 100th place.
