SERIE B · 2018/19 · ARCHIVE
Empoli Football Club 2018/19 - player wages
Wages as they stood in 2018/19 · top earner Diego Farias on £24,000 per week · see the current Empoli Football Club wage bill
WEEKLY WAGE BILL £336k
YEARLY WAGE BILL £17m
SQUAD SIZE77
AVERAGE WEEKLY, 22+ £12k
Then and now
Empoli Football Club pay £102,490 a week in 2026/27 — 69% lower than the £335,880 of 2018/19.
Where the money went in 2018/19
Share of the weekly wage bill by position group · 7 players cover two groups and are counted half in each
2018/19 squad salaries
| Watch | PLAYER | WEEKLY ▼ | YEARLY | AGE | POSITION | NATION | EXPIRES | COMPARE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diego Farias | £24,000 | £1,248,000 | 28 | Attacking midfielder, striker | Brazil | JUN 2021 | ||
| Diego Farias | £24,000 | £1,248,000 | 28 | Attacking midfielder, striker | Brazil | JUN 2019 | ||
| Francesco Caputo | £21,000 | £1,092,000 | 30 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Luca Antonelli | £19,000 | £988,000 | 31 | Left-back, left midfielder | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Antonino La Gumina | £19,000 | £988,000 | 22 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2023 | ||
| Afriyie Acquah | £19,000 | £988,000 | 26 | Defensive midfielder | Ghana | JUN 2021 | ||
| Matías Silvestre | £18,000 | £936,000 | 33 | Centre-back | Argentina | JUN 2019 | ||
| Domenico Maietta | £12,000 | £624,000 | 35 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Ismaël Bennacer | £12,000 | £624,000 | 20 | Defensive midfielder | Algeria | JUN 2021 | ||
| Cristian Dell'Orco | £12,000 | £624,000 | 24 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Giovanni Di Lorenzo | £11,000 | £572,000 | 24 | Defender, wide midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Rade Krunic | £11,000 | £572,000 | 24 | Attacking midfielder | Bosnia and Herzegovina | JUN 2021 | ||
| Rade Krunic | £11,000 | £572,000 | 24 | Attacking midfielder | Bosnia & Herzegovina | JUN 2021 | ||
| Kevin Diks | £11,000 | £572,000 | 21 | Right-back | Holland | JUN 2019 | ||
| Levan Mchedlidze | £10,000 | £520,000 | 28 | Striker | Georgia | JUN 2019 | ||
| Leonardo Capezzi | £10,000 | £520,000 | 23 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Marko Pajac | £9,000 | £468,000 | 25 | Left-back, left winger | Croatia | JUN 2019 | ||
| Marcel Büchel | £9,000 | £468,000 | 27 | Defensive midfielder | Liechtenstein | JUN 2019 | ||
| Manuel Pasqual | £9,000 | £468,000 | 36 | Left-back, left midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Frederic Veseli | £8,300 | £431,600 | 25 | Centre-back | Albania | JUN 2022 | ||
| Ivan Provedel | £8,100 | £421,200 | 24 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Jacob Rasmussen | £8,100 | £421,200 | 21 | Centre-back | Denmark | JUN 2022 | ||
| Dimitri Oberlin | £7,400 | £384,800 | 20 | Left winger, striker | Switzerland | JUN 2020 | ||
| Bartlomiej Dragowski | £6,500 | £338,000 | 20 | Goalkeeper | Poland | JUN 2019 | ||
| Matteo Brighi | £4,900 | £254,800 | 37 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
| Salih Uçan | £3,600 | £187,200 | 24 | Attacking midfielder | Türkiye | - | ||
| Dimitris Nikolaou | £2,400 | £124,800 | 19 | Centre-back, defensive midfielder | Greece | JUN 2019 | ||
| Lorenzo Polvani | £2,000 | £104,000 | 23 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Eduardo Baldé | £1,300 | £67,600 | 19 | Striker | Guinea-Bissau | - | ||
| Mouhamadou Sakho | £910 | £47,320 | 18 | Right midfielder | Senegal | - | ||
| Filippo Perucchini | £570 | £29,640 | 26 | Goalkeeper | Italy | - | ||
| Marco Curto | £480 | £24,960 | 19 | Centre-back | Italy | - | ||
| Tomas Cvancara | £290 | £15,080 | 17 | Striker | Czechia | JUN 2019 | ||
| Giorgio Chinnici | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Giorgio Caricchio | £230 | £11,960 | 15 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Hamed Traoré | £230 | £11,960 | 18 | Defensive midfielder, attacking midfielder | Côte d’Ivoire | JUN 2019 | ||
| Simone Serafino | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Lorenzo Riccioni | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Kristjan Asllani | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Central midfielder | Albania | JUN 2022 | ||
| Leandro Pratelli | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Pietro Lenzi | £230 | £11,960 | 15 | Attacking midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Klemen Hvalic | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Slovenia | JUN 2022 | ||
| Cesare Pulina | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Alessandro Arapi | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Left winger | Albania | JUN 2022 | ||
| Giovanni Pisano | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Left winger, striker | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Christian Gjini | £230 | £11,960 | 15 | Striker | Albania | JUN 2022 | ||
| Mattia Viti | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Luigi Vannucci | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Right winger | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Francesco Folino | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Salif Sidibe | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Defensive midfielder | Côte d’Ivoire | JUN 2021 | ||
| Matteo Martini | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Lorenzo Marinai | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Gianlorenzo Lupi | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Leonardo Pezzola | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Right-back, right midfielder | Italy | - | ||
| Luca Lombardi | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Striker | Italy | JUN 2022 | ||
| Kader Kalif Sidibé | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Left-back | Côte d’Ivoire | - | ||
| Emmanuel Ekong | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Striker | Sweden | - | ||
| Gabriele Perretta | £230 | £11,960 | 18 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Samuele Ricci | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Gianluca Saro | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Kleis Bozhanaj | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Attacking midfielder | Albania | JUN 2021 | ||
| Lorenzo Milani | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Left-back | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Pietro Lattanzi | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Francesco Noccioli | £230 | £11,960 | 18 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Giuseppe Montaperto | £230 | £11,960 | 18 | Attacking midfielder, striker | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Francesco Donati | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Dmitrijs Zelenkovs | £230 | £11,960 | 18 | Winger | Latvia | JUN 2020 | ||
| Federico Apolloni | £230 | £11,960 | 18 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Simone Canestrelli | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Defensive midfielder | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Davide Bertolini | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Left winger, striker | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Emanuele Matteucci | £230 | £11,960 | 18 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Niccolò Vivoli | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Goalkeeper | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Alessandro Seriani | £230 | £11,960 | 16 | Attacking midfielder, striker | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Luca Belardinelli | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Right midfielder | Italy | JUN 2021 | ||
| Niccolò Ricchi | £230 | £11,960 | 17 | Left-back | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Samuele Viligiardi | £230 | £11,960 | 18 | Central midfielder | Italy | JUN 2020 | ||
| Alessio Gianneschi | £140 | £7,280 | 18 | Centre-back | Italy | JUN 2019 | ||
Wage vs age, 2018/19
Each dot is a player - top-left is expensive and young
£24k £16k £8k 0
1722273136
AGE
Squad wage pyramid
Players per wage band in the 2018/19 squad, against the share of the bill they took
PLAYERS WEEKLY WAGE SHARE OF BILL
48 Under £1k 4%
1 £1k-£2k 0%
4 £2k-£5k 4%
8 £5k-£10k 19%
16 £10k-£25k 73%
Top 5 earners took 32% of the squad wage bill, across the 77 players we hold a 2018/19 wage for.
Contract expiries
When the 2018/19 deals were due to run out
Frequently asked questions
Empoli Football Club wages, 2018/19
What was Empoli Football Club's wage bill in 2018/19?
Empoli Football Club paid £335,880 a week in 2018/19 - £17,465,760 across the year - spread over a squad of 77. We hold a wage for all 77 players in that squad.
Who was the highest paid Empoli Football Club player in 2018/19?
Diego Farias was the highest earner in the 2018/19 squad on £24,000 a week, 2x the 22+ squad average of £11,977.
What was the average Empoli Football Club salary in 2018/19?
The average Empoli Football Club player aged 22 or over earned £11,977 a week in 2018/19, across the 23 we hold a wage for, against a squad of 77. The top five earners took 32% of the bill between them.
How do Empoli Football Club's 2018/19 wages compare with now?
Empoli Football Club pay £102,490 a week in 2026/27, 69% lower than the £335,880 of 2018/19. The current squad is 50 players against 77 then.