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Napoli 2020/21 - player wages
Wages as they stood in 2020/21 · top earner Kalidou Koulibaly on £195,000 per week · see the current Napoli wage bill
WEEKLY WAGE BILL £1.9m
YEARLY WAGE BILL £98m
SQUAD SIZE69
AVERAGE WEEKLY, 22+ £82k
Then and now
Napoli pay £1,611,328 a week in 2026/27 — 15% lower than the £1,888,828 of 2020/21.
Where the money went in 2020/21
Share of the weekly wage bill by position group · 13 players cover two groups and are counted half in each
2020/21 squad salaries
| Watch | PLAYER | WEEKLY ▼ | YEARLY | AGE | POSITION | NATION | EXPIRES | COMPARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kalidou Koulibaly | £195,000 | £10,140,000 | 29 | Centre-back | Senegal | JUN 2023 | ||
| Lorenzo Insigne | £150,000 | £7,800,000 | 29 | Left winger, striker | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Dries Mertens | £146,000 | £7,592,000 | 33 | Attacking midfielder, striker | Belgium | JUN 2022 | ||
| Kostas Manolas | £130,000 | £6,760,000 | 29 | Centre-back | Greece | JUN 2024 | ||
| Victor Osimhen | £120,000 | £6,240,000 | 21 | Striker | Nigeria | JUN 2025 | ||
| Hirving Lozano | £120,000 | £6,240,000 | 24 | Winger, striker | Mexico | JUN 2024 | ||
| Piotr Zielinski | £114,000 | £5,928,000 | 26 | Central midfielder, attacking midfielder | Poland | JUN 2024 | ||
| Tiémoué Bakayoko | £103,000 | £5,356,000 | 25 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | France | JUN 2022 | ||
| Diego Demme | £83,000 | £4,316,000 | 28 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Germany | JUN 2024 | ||
| Faouzi Ghoulam | £80,000 | £4,160,000 | 29 | Left-back | Algeria | JUN 2022 | ||
| Giovanni Di Lorenzo | £76,000 | £3,952,000 | 26 | Defender, right wing-back, right midfielder | Italy | JUN 2025 | ||
| Mário Rui | £67,000 | £3,484,000 | 29 | Left-back, left midfielder | Portugal | JUN 2025 | ||
| Andrea Petagna | £62,000 | £3,224,000 | 25 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2024 | ||
| Elseid Hysaj | £54,000 | £2,808,000 | 26 | Full-back | Albania | JUN 2021 | ||
| Amir Rrahmani | £51,000 | £2,652,000 | 26 | Defender | Kosovo | JUN 2024 | ||
| Matteo Politano | £51,000 | £2,652,000 | 26 | Right midfielder, attacking midfielder, striker | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Stanislav Lobotka | £51,000 | £2,652,000 | 25 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Slovakia | JUN 2024 | ||
| Fabián | £51,000 | £2,652,000 | 24 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder, attacking midfielder | Spain | JUN 2023 | ||
| David Ospina | £48,000 | £2,496,000 | 31 | Goalkeeper | Colombia | JUN 2022 | ||
| Eljif Elmas | £42,000 | £2,184,000 | 20 | Central midfielder, attacking midfielder | North Macedonia | JUN 2025 | ||
| Nikola Maksimovic | £38,000 | £1,976,000 | 28 | Centre-back | Serbia | JUN 2021 | ||
| Alex Meret | £36,000 | £1,872,000 | 23 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Nikita Contini | £9,000 | £468,000 | 24 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2025 | ||
| Karim Zedadka | £595 | £30,940 | 20 | Left-back, left midfielder | France | - | ||
| Brando Sami | £586 | £30,472 | 19 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Valerio Labriola | £484 | £25,168 | 19 | Central midfielder, attacking midfielder | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Riccardo Cataldi | £440 | £22,880 | 19 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Italy | - | ||
| Oscar Archimede Guarino | £385 | £20,020 | 19 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Vincenzo Mancino | £270 | £14,040 | 19 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Francesco Marrazzo | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Attilio Altomare | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Luca Maciariello | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Left-back | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Vicenzo Provitolo | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2024 | ||
| Domenico Di Dona | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Winger, striker | Italy | - | ||
| Giuseppe Ambrosino | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Valerio Boffelli | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2024 | ||
| Flavio Romano | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Left-back, left midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Daniel Hysaj | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Central midfielder | Italy | - | ||
| Alessandro Spavone | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Attacking midfielder | Italy | - | ||
| Pasquale Marranzino | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Attacking midfielder | Italy | - | ||
| Massimo Flora | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Italy | - | ||
| Mattia Di Leo | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | - | ||
| Alessandro Carnevale | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Central midfielder, attacking midfielder | Italy | - | ||
| Francesco Gioielli | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Italy | - | ||
| Pasquale Pontillo | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | - | ||
| Antonio Pesce | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Striker | Italy | - | ||
| Ciro Pinto | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Italy | - | ||
| Nathaniel Amoah | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Right-back | Ghana | JUN 2022 | ||
| Jonathan Spedalieri | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Andrea Pirone | £233 | £12,116 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Italy | - | ||
| Carmine Cretella | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Central midfielder, attacking midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Antonio Vergara | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Attacking midfielder | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Antonio Cioffi | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Left winger | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Giuseppe D'Agostino | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Right winger, striker | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Gennaro Iaccarino | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Hubert Idasiak | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Goalkeeper | Poland | JUN 2022 | ||
| Bruno Umile | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Left winger, striker | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Nello D'Onofrio | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Davide Costanzo | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Davide Acampa | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Right winger, striker | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Mauro Sepe | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Vincenzo Potenza | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Right-back, right midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Raffaele Virgilio | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Defensive midfielder, central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Antonio Pio Daniele | £233 | £12,116 | 18 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Benedetto Barba | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Armando Tipaldi | £233 | £12,116 | 17 | Left-back, central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Junior Nzila | £169 | £8,788 | 19 | Midfielder | France | - | ||
| Michele Picardi | £139 | £7,228 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Vincenzo Furina | £139 | £7,228 | 18 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
Wage vs age, 2020/21
Each dot is a player - top-left is expensive and young
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Squad wage pyramid
Players per wage band in the 2020/21 squad, against the share of the bill they took
PLAYERS WEEKLY WAGE SHARE OF BILL
46 Under £1k 1%
£1k-£2k
£2k-£5k
1 £5k-£10k 0%
£10k-£25k
14 £25k-£100k 42%
8 £100k+
57%
Top 5 earners took 39% of the squad wage bill, across the 69 players we hold a 2020/21 wage for.
Contract expiries
When the 2020/21 deals were due to run out
Frequently asked questions
Napoli wages, 2020/21
What was Napoli's wage bill in 2020/21?
Napoli paid £1,888,828 a week in 2020/21 - £98,219,056 across the year - spread over a squad of 69. We hold a wage for all 69 players in that squad.
Who was the highest paid Napoli player in 2020/21?
Kalidou Koulibaly was the highest earner in the 2020/21 squad on £195,000 a week, 2.4x the 22+ squad average of £81,667.
What was the average Napoli salary in 2020/21?
The average Napoli player aged 22 or over earned £81,667 a week in 2020/21, across the 21 we hold a wage for, against a squad of 69. The top five earners took 39% of the bill between them.
How do Napoli's 2020/21 wages compare with now?
Napoli pay £1,611,328 a week in 2026/27, 15% lower than the £1,888,828 of 2020/21. The current squad is 78 players against 69 then.