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Cagliari Calcio 2016/17 - player wages
Wages as they stood in 2016/17 · top earner Marco Borriello on £30,000 per week · see the current Cagliari Calcio wage bill
WEEKLY WAGE BILL £335k
YEARLY WAGE BILL £17m
SQUAD SIZE73
AVERAGE WEEKLY, 22+ £13k
Then and now
Cagliari Calcio pay £466,930 a week in 2026/27 — 39% higher than the £335,490 of 2016/17.
Where the money went in 2016/17
Share of the weekly wage bill by position group · 5 players cover two groups and are counted half in each
2016/17 squad salaries
| Watch | PLAYER | WEEKLY ▼ | YEARLY | AGE | POSITION | NATION | EXPIRES | COMPARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marco Borriello | £30,000 | £1,560,000 | 34 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Bruno Alves | £28,000 | £1,456,000 | 34 | Centre-back | Portugal | JUN 2018 | ||
| Gabriel | £24,000 | £1,248,000 | 23 | Goalkeeper | Brazil | JUN 2017 | ||
| Mauricio Isla | £20,000 | £1,040,000 | 28 | Right-back, central midfielder | Chile | JUN 2019 | ||
| Simone Padoin | £19,000 | £988,000 | 32 | Midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Víctor Ibarbo | £19,000 | £988,000 | 26 | Winger, striker | Colombia | JUN 2018 | ||
| Artur Ionita | £15,000 | £780,000 | 25 | Central midfielder | Moldova | JUN 2019 | ||
| Diego Farias | £14,000 | £728,000 | 26 | Attacking midfielder | Brazil | JUN 2020 | ||
| Federico Melchiorri | £14,000 | £728,000 | 29 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Daniele Dessena | £14,000 | £728,000 | 29 | Right-back, defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Diego Farias | £14,000 | £728,000 | 26 | Attacking midfielder | Brazil | JUN 2020 | ||
| João Pedro Galvão | £11,000 | £572,000 | 24 | Attacking midfielder | Brazil | JUN 2020 | ||
| Luca Ceppitelli | £11,000 | £572,000 | 26 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Marco Sau | £11,000 | £572,000 | 28 | Left winger, striker | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Panagiotis Tachtsidis | £11,000 | £572,000 | 25 | Defensive midfielder | Greece | JUN 2017 | ||
| Bartosz Salamon | £9,500 | £494,000 | 25 | Centre-back | Poland | JUN 2020 | ||
| Bartosz Salamon | £9,500 | £494,000 | 25 | Centre-back | Poland | JUN 2020 | ||
| Davide Di Gennaro | £9,400 | £488,800 | 28 | Defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Nicola Murru | £8,900 | £462,800 | 21 | Full-back | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Fabio Pisacane | £6,300 | £327,600 | 30 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Marco Capuano | £5,900 | £306,800 | 24 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Roberto Colombo | £4,700 | £244,400 | 40 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Rafael (Rafael de Andrade Bittencourt Pinheiro) | £4,700 | £244,400 | 34 | Goalkeeper | Brazil | JUN 2017 | ||
| Nicolò Barella | £2,900 | £150,800 | 19 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Paolo Faragò | £2,800 | £145,600 | 23 | Attacking midfielder | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Santiago Colombatto | £2,600 | £135,200 | 19 | Defensive midfielder | Argentina | JUN 2019 | ||
| Senna Miangué | £1,600 | £83,200 | 19 | Centre-back | Belgium | JUN 2017 | ||
| Alessandro Deiola | £1,500 | £78,000 | 20 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Federico Serra | £600 | £31,200 | 18 | Winger | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Roberto Biancu | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Alberto Serra | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Matteo Cellino | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Simone Sau | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Stefano Ruiu | £220 | £11,440 | 15 | Left winger | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Manuel Uliana | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Roberto Nicotra | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Left-back, defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Lorenzo Camba | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Illya Bryukhov | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Centre-back | Ukraine | JUN 2018 | ||
| Giuseppe Ghiani | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Left-back | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Christopher Camilli | £220 | £11,440 | 18 | Centre-back | Venezuela | JUN 2017 | ||
| Alessio Parisio | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Attacking midfielder | Albania | JUN 2019 | ||
| Riccardo Doratiotto | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Riccardo Daga | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Thiago López | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Left-back | Brazil | JUN 2019 | ||
| Nicola Sarritzu | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Fabio Porru | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Right-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Giovanni Maxia | £220 | £11,440 | 18 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Fabio Doratiotto | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Mirko Bizzi | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Nicola Balloi | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Luca Floris | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Kevin Congiu | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Bruno Floris | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Federico Mastromarino | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Attacking midfielder | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Lorenzo Atzori | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Matteo Volteggi | £220 | £11,440 | 18 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Antonini | £220 | £11,440 | 18 | Defensive midfielder | Brazil | JUN 2017 | ||
| Andrea Porcheddu | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Gabriele Serra | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Mattia Pitzalis | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Left-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Vasco Oliveira | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Centre-back | Portugal | JUN 2019 | ||
| Andrea Cadili | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Riccardo Taccori | £220 | £11,440 | 18 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Moreno Lampis | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Nicholas Pennington | £220 | £11,440 | 17 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2018 | ||
| Mario Piras | £220 | £11,440 | 18 | Attacking midfielder, striker | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Andrea Mastino | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Aly Nader | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Emanuele Fini | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Left winger | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Luca Gagliano | £220 | £11,440 | 15 | Right winger | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Luca Crosta | £220 | £11,440 | 18 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
| Riccardo Ladinetti | £220 | £11,440 | 16 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Davide Arras | £130 | £6,760 | 18 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2017 | ||
Wage vs age, 2016/17
Each dot is a player - top-left is expensive and young
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Squad wage pyramid
Players per wage band in the 2016/17 squad, against the share of the bill they took
PLAYERS WEEKLY WAGE SHARE OF BILL
45 Under £1k 3%
2 £1k-£2k 1%
5 £2k-£5k 5%
6 £5k-£10k 15%
13 £10k-£25k 59%
2 £25k-£100k 17%
Top 5 earners took 36% of the squad wage bill, across the 73 players we hold a 2016/17 wage for.
Contract expiries
When the 2016/17 deals were due to run out
Frequently asked questions
Cagliari Calcio wages, 2016/17
What was Cagliari Calcio's wage bill in 2016/17?
Cagliari Calcio paid £335,490 a week in 2016/17 - £17,445,480 across the year - spread over a squad of 73. We hold a wage for all 73 players in that squad.
Who was the highest paid Cagliari Calcio player in 2016/17?
Marco Borriello was the highest earner in the 2016/17 squad on £30,000 a week, 2.2x the 22+ squad average of £13,383.
What was the average Cagliari Calcio salary in 2016/17?
The average Cagliari Calcio player aged 22 or over earned £13,383 a week in 2016/17, across the 23 we hold a wage for, against a squad of 73. The top five earners took 36% of the bill between them.
How do Cagliari Calcio's 2016/17 wages compare with now?
Cagliari Calcio pay £466,930 a week in 2026/27, 39% higher than the £335,490 of 2016/17. The current squad is 74 players against 73 then.