RUSSIAN PREMIER LEAGUE · TOP 100
Highest paid Russian Premier League players
Wendel leads on £71,000 per week. These 100 players take £2,241,000 a week between them - 73% of the league's entire wage bill. We hold a wage for 262 of the 569 players in the Russian Premier League.
TOP 100 WEEKLY £2.2m
SHARE OF LEAGUE BILL73%
MEDIAN AGE27
MOST IN THE LIST20 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
The shape of the top 100
Weekly wage by rank #1 £71k #10 £41k #100 £13k
Wendel 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 | Wendel | £71,000 | £3,692,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 27 | DM, AM C |
| 02 | Wílmar Barrios | £71,000 | £3,692,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Colombia | 31 | DM |
| 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 | Ilzat Akhmetov | £26,000 | £1,352,000 | Krylja Sovetov Samara | Russia | 27 | AM RLC |
| 20 | Daniil Khlusevich | £25,000 | £1,300,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 24 | D/WB/M R |
| 21 | Diego Costa | £24,000 | £1,248,000 | FC Krasnodar | Brazil | 25 | D C |
| 22 | Alexander Djiku | £24,000 | £1,248,000 | Spartak Moscow | Ghana | 30 | D C |
| 23 | Anton Miranchuk | £23,000 | £1,196,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 29 | AM LC |
| 24 | Felipe Augusto | £23,000 | £1,196,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 21 | AM RLC, F C |
| 25 | Ivan Oblyakov | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | CSKA Moscow | Russia | 27 | WB L, DM, AM C |
| 26 | Arthur Gomes | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Brazil | 27 | AM RLC, F C |
| 27 | Luis Chávez | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Mexico | 29 | DM |
| 28 | Danil Glebov | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 25 | DM |
| 29 | Batxi | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | FC Krasnodar | Angola | 27 | AM RL |
| 30 | Artem Karpukas | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 23 | DM |
| 31 | Gustavo Mantuan | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 24 | D/WB R, AM RL |
| 32 | Nino | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 28 | D C |
| 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 | Magomed Ozdoev | £17,000 | £884,000 | FC Krasnodar | Russia | 32 | DM |
| 52 | Stanislav Agkatsev | £17,000 | £884,000 | FC Krasnodar | Russia | 23 | GK |
| 53 | Nikita Krivtsov | £17,000 | £884,000 | FC Krasnodar | Russia | 22 | DM, AM C |
| 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 | Manfred Ugalde | £16,000 | £832,000 | Spartak Moscow | Costa Rica | 23 | ST |
| 64 | Anton Zinkovskiy | £16,000 | £832,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 29 | AM L |
| 65 | Nüraly Älip | £16,000 | £832,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Kazakhstan | 25 | D LC |
| 66 | Vyacheslav Karavaev | £16,000 | £832,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 30 | D RC |
| 67 | Alexandr Kutitskiy | £15,000 | £780,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 23 | D RLC, DM |
| 68 | Dmitry Skopintsev | £15,000 | £780,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 28 | D/WB/M L |
| 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 | Fasson | £15,000 | £780,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Brazil | 24 | D LC |
| 73 | Alexandr Siljanov | £15,000 | £780,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 24 | D RL |
| 74 | Nikolay Komlichenko | £15,000 | £780,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 30 | ST |
| 75 | Ilja Pomazun | £15,000 | £780,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 28 | GK |
| 76 | Christopher Wooh | £15,000 | £780,000 | Spartak Moscow | Cameroon | 23 | D C |
| 77 | Ilja Samoshnikov | £15,000 | £780,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 27 | D RL, AM R |
| 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 | Kevin Pina | £14,000 | £728,000 | FC Krasnodar | Cape Verde | 28 | DM |
| 85 | Lucas Olaza | £14,000 | £728,000 | FC Krasnodar | Uruguay | 30 | D/WB L |
| 86 | Alexey Mironov | £14,000 | £728,000 | FC Rostov | Russia | 25 | DM |
| 87 | François Kamano | £14,000 | £728,000 | FC Sochi | Guinea | 29 | AM RL, ST |
| 88 | Anton Mitryushkin | £14,000 | £728,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 29 | GK |
| 89 | Anderson Arroyo | £14,000 | £728,000 | Rubin Kazan | Colombia | 25 | D RLC |
| 90 | Danil Prutsev | £14,000 | £728,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 25 | DM |
| 91 | Pedro | £14,000 | £728,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 19 | AM RLC |
| 92 | Evgeny Latyshonok | £14,000 | £728,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 27 | GK |
| 93 | Egas Cacintura | £13,000 | £676,000 | Akhmat Grozny | Angola | 27 | AM RLC, F C |
| 94 | Ramiro Di Luciano | £13,000 | £676,000 | CSKA Moscow | Argentina | 21 | D R |
| 95 | Juan Cáceres | £13,000 | £676,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Paraguay | 25 | D/WB R |
| 96 | Juan Manuel Boselli | £13,000 | £676,000 | FC Krasnodar | Uruguay | 25 | AM RLC, F C |
| 97 | Ronaldo | £13,000 | £676,000 | FC Rostov | Brazil | 24 | WB/AM R |
| 98 | Alexandr Kovalenko | £13,000 | £676,000 | FC Sochi | Russia | 21 | DM, AM C |
| 99 | Gustavo Furtado | £13,000 | £676,000 | FC Sochi | Brazil | 24 | AM RL, ST |
| 100 | Alexandr Rudenko | £13,000 | £676,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 26 | AM RL, ST |
Frequently asked questions
Who is the highest paid player in the Russian Premier League?
Wendel 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?
£2,241,000 per week and £116,532,000 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 20 of them, paying £582,000 a week across those players.
What does it take to make the top 100?
£13,000 per week — that is what Alexandr Rudenko earns in 100th place.