RUSSIAN PREMIER LEAGUE · TOP 100
Highest paid Russian Premier League players
Wendel 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 BILL73%
MEDIAN AGE27
MOST IN THE LIST21 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 | Defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder |
| 02 | Wílmar Barrios | £71,000 | £3,692,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Colombia | 31 | Defensive midfielder |
| 03 | Jhon Córdoba | £66,000 | £3,432,000 | FC Krasnodar | Colombia | 32 | Striker |
| 04 | Luiz Henrique | £63,000 | £3,276,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 24 | Winger |
| 05 | Gedson Fernandes | £61,000 | £3,172,000 | Spartak Moscow | Portugal | 26 | Defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder |
| 06 | Matheus Reis | £57,000 | £2,964,000 | CSKA Moscow | Brazil | 30 | Centre-back |
| 07 | Mirlind Daku | £49,000 | £2,548,000 | Spartak Moscow | Albania | 27 | Striker |
| 08 | Esequiel Barco | £43,000 | £2,236,000 | Spartak Moscow | Argentina | 26 | Attacking midfielder |
| 09 | Douglas Santos | £43,000 | £2,236,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 31 | Centre-back, defensive midfielder |
| 10 | Maxim Glushenkov | £41,000 | £2,132,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 25 | Attacking midfielder |
| 11 | Roman Zobnin | £39,000 | £2,028,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 31 | Right-back, defensive midfielder |
| 12 | Alexandr Sobolev | £36,000 | £1,872,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 28 | Striker |
| 13 | Pablo Solari | £34,000 | £1,768,000 | Spartak Moscow | Argentina | 24 | Winger |
| 14 | Nail Umyarov | £32,000 | £1,664,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 25 | Defensive midfielder |
| 15 | Bitello | £30,000 | £1,560,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Brazil | 25 | Attacking midfielder |
| 16 | Dmitry Barinov | £29,000 | £1,508,000 | CSKA Moscow | Russia | 28 | Defensive midfielder |
| 17 | Igor Akinfeev | £28,000 | £1,456,000 | CSKA Moscow | Russia | 39 | Goalkeeper |
| 18 | Alexandr Maximenko | £28,000 | £1,456,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 27 | Goalkeeper |
| 19 | Daniil Khlusevich | £25,000 | £1,300,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 24 | Right-back, right midfielder |
| 20 | Diego Costa | £24,000 | £1,248,000 | FC Krasnodar | Brazil | 25 | Centre-back |
| 21 | Alexander Djiku | £24,000 | £1,248,000 | Spartak Moscow | Ghana | 30 | Centre-back |
| 22 | Anton Miranchuk | £23,000 | £1,196,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 29 | Attacking midfielder |
| 23 | Felipe Augusto | £23,000 | £1,196,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 21 | Attacking midfielder, striker |
| 24 | Ivan Oblyakov | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | CSKA Moscow | Russia | 27 | Left wing-back, defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder |
| 25 | Luis Chávez | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Mexico | 29 | Defensive midfielder |
| 26 | Arthur Gomes | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Brazil | 27 | Attacking midfielder, striker |
| 27 | Danil Glebov | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 25 | Defensive midfielder |
| 28 | Clayton | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Fakel Voronezh | Brazil | 26 | Striker |
| 29 | Batxi | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | FC Krasnodar | Angola | 27 | Winger |
| 30 | Gustavo Mantuan | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 24 | Right-back, winger |
| 31 | Artem Karpukas | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 23 | Defensive midfielder |
| 32 | Nino | £22,000 | £1,144,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 28 | Centre-back |
| 33 | Luciano Gondou | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | CSKA Moscow | Argentina | 24 | Right winger, striker |
| 34 | Alerrandro | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | CSKA Moscow | Brazil | 25 | Striker |
| 35 | Ivan Sergeev | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 30 | Striker |
| 36 | César Montes | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Mexico | 28 | Centre-back |
| 37 | Christopher Martins Pereira | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | Spartak Moscow | Luxembourg | 28 | Defensive midfielder |
| 38 | Igor Diveev | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 25 | Centre-back |
| 39 | Jhonatan (Jhonatan dos Santos Rosa) | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 22 | Attacking midfielder |
| 40 | Andrey Mostovoy | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 27 | Winger |
| 41 | Douglas Augusto | £20,000 | £1,040,000 | FC Krasnodar | Brazil | 28 | Defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder |
| 42 | Alexandr Yerokhin | £20,000 | £1,040,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 35 | Attacking midfielder, striker |
| 43 | Danil Krugovoy | £19,000 | £988,000 | CSKA Moscow | Russia | 27 | Left-back, right winger |
| 44 | Ilja Lantratov | £19,000 | £988,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 29 | Goalkeeper |
| 45 | Alexandr Lomovitskiy | £19,000 | £988,000 | Rubin Kazan | Russia | 27 | Attacking midfielder |
| 46 | Baqtiiar Zainutdinov | £18,000 | £936,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Kazakhstan | 27 | Centre-back, defensive midfielder, central midfielder |
| 47 | Andrey Lunev | £18,000 | £936,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 33 | Goalkeeper |
| 48 | Alexandr Chernikov | £18,000 | £936,000 | FC Krasnodar | Russia | 25 | Defensive midfielder |
| 49 | Marquinhos | £18,000 | £936,000 | Spartak Moscow | Brazil | 25 | Left winger |
| 50 | João Victor | £17,000 | £884,000 | CSKA Moscow | Brazil | 26 | Centre-back |
| 51 | Stanislav Agkatsev | £17,000 | £884,000 | FC Krasnodar | Russia | 23 | Goalkeeper |
| 52 | Magomed Ozdoev | £17,000 | £884,000 | FC Krasnodar | Russia | 32 | Defensive midfielder |
| 53 | Nikita Krivtsov | £17,000 | £884,000 | FC Krasnodar | Russia | 22 | Defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder |
| 54 | Alexandr Soldatenkov | £17,000 | £884,000 | FC Sochi | Russia | 28 | Centre-back |
| 55 | Cristian Ramírez | £17,000 | £884,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Ecuador | 30 | Left-back |
| 56 | Dmitry Vorobjov | £17,000 | £884,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 27 | Striker |
| 57 | Srđan Babić | £17,000 | £884,000 | Spartak Moscow | Serbia | 29 | Centre-back |
| 58 | Robert Renan | £17,000 | £884,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 21 | Centre-back |
| 59 | Arsen Adamov | £16,000 | £832,000 | Akhmat Grozny | Russia | 25 | Centre-back |
| 60 | Moisés | £16,000 | £832,000 | CSKA Moscow | Brazil | 30 | Centre-back |
| 61 | Tormena | £16,000 | £832,000 | FC Krasnodar | Brazil | 29 | Centre-back |
| 62 | Gerzino Nyamsi | £16,000 | £832,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Cameroon | 28 | Centre-back |
| 63 | Manfred Ugalde | £16,000 | £832,000 | Spartak Moscow | Costa Rica | 23 | Striker |
| 64 | Anton Zinkovskiy | £16,000 | £832,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 29 | Left winger |
| 65 | Nüraly Älip | £16,000 | £832,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Kazakhstan | 25 | Centre-back |
| 66 | Vyacheslav Karavaev | £16,000 | £832,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 30 | Centre-back |
| 67 | Daniil Fomin | £15,000 | £780,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 28 | Defensive midfielder |
| 68 | Alexandr Kutitskiy | £15,000 | £780,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 23 | Defender, defensive midfielder |
| 69 | Dmitry Skopintsev | £15,000 | £780,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 28 | Left-back, left midfielder |
| 70 | Jubal | £15,000 | £780,000 | FC Krasnodar | Brazil | 31 | Centre-back |
| 71 | Dmitry Chistyakov | £15,000 | £780,000 | FC Rostov | Russia | 31 | Centre-back |
| 72 | Nikolay Komlichenko | £15,000 | £780,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 30 | Striker |
| 73 | Fasson | £15,000 | £780,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Brazil | 24 | Centre-back |
| 74 | Alexandr Siljanov | £15,000 | £780,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 24 | Full-back |
| 75 | Christopher Wooh | £15,000 | £780,000 | Spartak Moscow | Cameroon | 23 | Centre-back |
| 76 | Ilja Samoshnikov | £15,000 | £780,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 27 | Full-back, right winger |
| 77 | Ilja Pomazun | £15,000 | £780,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 28 | Goalkeeper |
| 78 | Yury Gorshkov | £15,000 | £780,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 26 | Left-back |
| 79 | Denis Adamov | £15,000 | £780,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 27 | Goalkeeper |
| 80 | Artem Dzyuba | £14,000 | £728,000 | Akron Togliatti | Russia | 36 | Striker |
| 81 | Henrique | £14,000 | £728,000 | CSKA Moscow | Brazil | 18 | Winger |
| 82 | Maxim Osipenko | £14,000 | £728,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Russia | 31 | Centre-back |
| 83 | Rubens | £14,000 | £728,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Brazil | 24 | Left-back, defensive midfielder, central midfielder |
| 84 | Lucas Olaza | £14,000 | £728,000 | FC Krasnodar | Uruguay | 30 | Left-back |
| 85 | Kevin Pina | £14,000 | £728,000 | FC Krasnodar | Cape Verde | 28 | Defensive midfielder |
| 86 | Alexey Mironov | £14,000 | £728,000 | FC Rostov | Russia | 25 | Defensive midfielder |
| 87 | Anton Mitryushkin | £14,000 | £728,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 29 | Goalkeeper |
| 88 | Anderson Arroyo | £14,000 | £728,000 | Rubin Kazan | Colombia | 25 | Defender |
| 89 | Danil Prutsev | £14,000 | £728,000 | Spartak Moscow | Russia | 25 | Defensive midfielder |
| 90 | Evgeny Latyshonok | £14,000 | £728,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Russia | 27 | Goalkeeper |
| 91 | Pedro | £14,000 | £728,000 | Zenit St. Petersburg | Brazil | 19 | Attacking midfielder |
| 92 | Egas Cacintura | £13,000 | £676,000 | Akhmat Grozny | Angola | 27 | Attacking midfielder, striker |
| 93 | Ramiro Di Luciano | £13,000 | £676,000 | CSKA Moscow | Argentina | 21 | Right-back |
| 94 | Juan Cáceres | £13,000 | £676,000 | Dinamo Moscow | Paraguay | 25 | Right-back |
| 95 | Juan Manuel Boselli | £13,000 | £676,000 | FC Krasnodar | Uruguay | 25 | Attacking midfielder, striker |
| 96 | Ronaldo | £13,000 | £676,000 | FC Rostov | Brazil | 24 | Right wing-back, right winger |
| 97 | Gustavo Furtado | £13,000 | £676,000 | FC Sochi | Brazil | 24 | Winger, striker |
| 98 | Alexandr Kovalenko | £13,000 | £676,000 | FC Sochi | Russia | 21 | Defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder |
| 99 | Alexandr Rudenko | £13,000 | £676,000 | Lokomotiv Moscow | Russia | 26 | Winger, striker |
| 100 | Aleksandar Jukić | £13,000 | £676,000 | Rubin Kazan | Austria | 24 | Attacking midfielder |
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?
£2,236,000 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.
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