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SUPERLEAGUE GREECE · DEFENDERS · 2026/27

Highest paid Superleague Greece defenders

Stefan de Vrij is the best-paid defender in the Superleague Greece, on £117,000 a week at Panathinaikos AO, or £6,084,000 a year. David Carmo is next on £62,000 at Olympiacos SF Piraeus. We hold wages for 99 Superleague Greece defenders in 2026/27.

BEST PAID £117k
AVERAGE WAGE £10,420
SHARE OF WAGE BILL32%
TOP 10 A WEEK £450k
WAGES HELD99

The 50 best-paid Superleague Greece defenders

Weekly wage, 2026/27. A player who plays in two areas of the pitch is on both lists, at the full wage.

The best-paid defenders in the Superleague Greece in 2026/27, ranked by weekly wage, with the yearly wage, club, age, position and nationality.
# PLAYER WEEKLY YEARLY CLUB AGE POSITION NATION
1 Stefan de Vrij £117,000£117k £6,084,000£6.1m Panathinaikos AO 33 Centre-back Netherlands
2 David Carmo £62,000£62k £3,224,000£3.2m Olympiacos SF Piraeus 25 Centre-back Angola
3 Omar Richards £54,000£54k £2,808,000£2.8m AS Aris Salonika 27 Left-back England
4 Davide Calabria £43,000£43k £2,236,000£2.2m Panathinaikos AO 28 Right-back Italy
5 Victor Kristiansen £37,000£37k £1,924,000£1.9m Panathinaikos AO 22 Centre-back Denmark
6 Jonjoe Kenny £29,000£29k £1,508,000£1.5m AS PAOK Salonika 28 Right-back England
7 Panagiotis Retsos £28,000£28k £1,456,000£1.5m Olympiacos SF Piraeus 26 Centre-back Greece
8 Domagoj Vida £27,000£27k £1,404,000£1.4m AEK Athens 36 Centre-back Croatia
9 Dimitris Giannoulis £27,000£27k £1,404,000£1.4m AS PAOK Salonika 29 Left-back Greece
10 Harold Moukoudi £26,000£26k £1,352,000£1.4m AEK Athens 27 Centre-back Cameroon
11 Dimitris Kourbelis £24,000£24k £1,248,000£1.2m AGS Asteras Tripolis 31 Centre-back, defensive midfielder Greece
12 Sverrir Ingi Ingason £23,000£23k £1,196,000£1.2m Panathinaikos AO 31 Centre-back Iceland
13 Marcus Holmgren Pedersen £21,000£21k £1,092,000£1.1m Olympiacos SF Piraeus 24 Full-back Norway
14 Baba Rahman £21,000£21k £1,092,000£1.1m AS PAOK Salonika 31 Left-back Ghana
15 Greg Taylor £19,000£19k £988,000£988k AS PAOK Salonika 27 Left-back Scotland
16 Aritz Elustondo £19,000£19k £988,000£988k AS PAOK Salonika 31 Centre-back Spain
17 Filipe Relvas £18,000£18k £936,000£936k AEK Athens 25 Centre-back Portugal
18 Lazaros Rota £18,000£18k £936,000£936k AEK Athens 27 Right-back Greece
19 Rodinei £18,000£18k £936,000£936k Olympiacos SF Piraeus 33 Right-back, right winger Brazil
20 Giorgos Kyriakopoulos £17,000£17k £884,000£884k Panathinaikos AO 29 Left-back, left midfielder Greece
21 Gustavo Mancha £16,000£16k £832,000£832k Olympiacos SF Piraeus 20 Centre-back Brazil
22 Lorenzo Pirola £16,000£16k £832,000£832k Olympiacos SF Piraeus 23 Centre-back Italy
23 Erik Palmer-Brown £16,000£16k £832,000£832k Panathinaikos AO 28 Centre-back United States
24 Fabiano £14,000£14k £728,000£728k AS Aris Salonika 33 Centre-back Brazil
25 Martin Hongla £13,000£13k £676,000£676k AS Aris Salonika 27 Centre-back, defensive midfielder Cameroon
26 Jérémy Petris £13,000£13k £676,000£676k AS Aris Salonika 27 Right-back, right midfielder Martinique
27 Manolis Saliakas £13,000£13k £676,000£676k Olympiacos SF Piraeus 28 Right-back Greece
28 Pantelis Hatzidiakos £13,000£13k £676,000£676k AS PAOK Salonika 28 Centre-back Greece
29 Rick van Drongelen £12,000£12k £624,000£624k Panathinaikos AO 26 Centre-back Netherlands
30 Núrio £12,000£12k £624,000£624k NPS Volos 30 Left-back Angola
31 Boško Šutalo £8,500£9k £442,000£442k AS Aris Salonika 25 Centre-back Croatia
32 Giannis Michailidis £8,200£8k £426,400£426k AS PAOK Salonika 25 Centre-back Greece
33 Lorenzo Dickmann £8,000£8k £416,000£416k OFI Crete 28 Right-back, right midfielder Italy
34 Dimitris Nikolaou £7,400£7k £384,800£385k OFI Crete 26 Centre-back Greece
35 Giannis Kotsiras £7,200£7k £374,400£374k AGS Asteras Tripolis 32 Right-back, defensive midfielder, central midfielder Greece
36 Martin Georgiev £5,900£6k £306,800£307k AEK Athens 19 Centre-back Bulgaria
37 Bruno Onyemaechi £4,500£5k £234,000£234k Olympiacos SF Piraeus 26 Centre-back Nigeria
38 Moses Odubajo £3,900£4k £202,800£203k AEK Athens 31 Right-back, right midfielder Nigeria
39 Martin Frýdek £3,900£4k £202,800£203k AS Aris Salonika 33 Left-back Czechia
40 Nikos Athanasiou £3,900£4k £202,800£203k OFI Crete 24 Left-back Greece
41 Vasilis Lampropoulos £3,500£4k £182,000£182k OFI Crete 35 Centre-back Greece
42 Dylan Batubinsika £3,400£3k £176,800£177k AE Larisas 29 Centre-back Congo - Kinshasa
43 Gerasimos Mitoglou £3,200£3k £166,400£166k APS Atromitos Athens 25 Centre-back Greece
44 Goni Naor £3,200£3k £166,400£166k AE Larisas 26 Centre-back, defensive midfielder Lithuania
45 Kervin Arriaga £3,000£3k £156,000£156k AEK Athens 27 Centre-back, defensive midfielder Honduras
46 Kostas Thymianis £3,000£3k £156,000£156k AS PAOK Salonika 24 Centre-back, defensive midfielder Greece
47 Noah Fadiga £2,900£3k £150,800£151k AS Aris Salonika 25 Right-back, right winger Senegal
48 Mansur £2,900£3k £150,800£151k APS Atromitos Athens 32 Centre-back Brazil
49 Borja González £2,500£3k £130,000£130k OFI Crete 29 Right-back Spain
50 Davíð Kristján Ólafsson £2,400£2k £124,800£125k AE Larisas 30 Left-back, left midfielder Iceland

What each position earns in the Superleague Greece

Average weekly wage of the players aged 22 or over we hold a wage for

Goalkeepers £6,841 Defenders £10k Midfielders £7,533 Attackers £14k

Defenders take 32% of what the Superleague Greece pays its players of that age. The four shares add up to the whole bill, because a player who plays in two areas gives half the wage to each.

The clubs that pay their defenders the most

Every defender wage we hold at each Superleague Greece club, added together, a week

Panathinaikos AO £267k Olympiacos SF Piraeus £179k AS PAOK Salonika £141k AS Aris Salonika £110k AEK Athens £103k AGS Asteras Tripolis £40k OFI Crete £34k NPS Volos £20k AE Larisas £13k APS Atromitos Athens £12k

Panathinaikos AO pay 10 defenders £267,221 a week between them, and Stefan de Vrij takes 44% of it.

The best-paid defender at every Superleague Greece club

15 clubs, 2026/27, with where each ranks among the league's defenders

Each Superleague Greece club's best-paid defender in 2026/27, the weekly wage, and that player's rank among every defender in the league.
CLUB PLAYER WEEKLY RANK
Panathinaikos AO Stefan de Vrij £117,000£117k 1
Olympiacos SF Piraeus David Carmo £62,000£62k 2
AS Aris Salonika Omar Richards £54,000£54k 3
AS PAOK Salonika Jonjoe Kenny £29,000£29k 6
AEK Athens Domagoj Vida £27,000£27k 8
AGS Asteras Tripolis Dimitris Kourbelis £24,000£24k 11
NPS Volos Núrio £12,000£12k 30
OFI Crete Lorenzo Dickmann £8,000£8k 33
AE Larisas Dylan Batubinsika £3,400£3k 42
APS Atromitos Athens Gerasimos Mitoglou £3,200£3k 43
GFS Panetolikos Charis Mavrias £2,400£2k 52
AE Kifisias Yasser Larouci £2,300£2k 53
APO Levadeiakos Marios Vichos £1,900£2k 59
GS Iraklis Salonika No wage held - -
PS Kalamata No wage held - -

The best-paid defender in every men's league

43 leagues, ordered by their best-paid defender. The Superleague Greece ranks eighth.

The best-paid defender in each men's league we rank defenders in, the weekly wage, and the league's average defender wage over players aged 22 or over.
LEAGUE BEST PAID WEEKLY AVERAGE
Saudi Pro League Kalidou Koulibaly £497,000£497k £40,351£40k
Premier League Virgil van Dijk £350,000£350k £69,840£70k
Bundesliga Dayot Upamecano £331,000£331k £42,331£42k
Ligue 1 Lucas Hernández £316,000£316k £27,702£28k
La Liga João Cancelo £249,000£249k £37,418£37k
Serie A John Stones £200,000£200k £36,415£36k
Süper Lig Milan Škriniar £166,000£166k £15,078£15k
Superleague Greece Stefan de Vrij £117,000£117k £10,420£10k
Championship Kieran Trippier £115,000£115k £18,082£18k
Eredivisie Lutsharel Geertruida £99,000£99k £8,088£8k
Major League Soccer Jordi Alba £85,000£85k £7,805£8k
Scottish Premiership Ben Godfrey £80,000£80k £5,860£6k
Primeira Liga Jakub Kiwior £58,000£58k £5,910£6k
La Liga 2 David López £58,000£58k £4,473£4k
Russian Premier League Matheus Reis £57,000£57k £12,772£13k
Brasileirão Série A Guillermo Maripán £53,000£53k £8,284£8k
Belgian Pro League Matteo Dams £49,000£49k £5,133£5k
League One Wes Morgan £46,000£46k £5,700£6k
2. Bundesliga Yannick Gerhardt £42,000£42k £8,296£8k
Super Liga Nicolás Otamendi £41,000£41k £3,253£3k
Danish Superliga Rasmus Kristensen £39,000£39k £5,418£5k
Ekstraklasa Attila Szalai £36,000£36k £2,883£3k
Serie B Federico Baschirotto £33,000£33k £6,876£7k
Czech First League David Jurásek £29,000£29k £1,857£2k
Chinese Super League Matheus Jussa (Matheus Isaias dos Santos) £27,000£27k £4,788£5k
Liga MX Kenedy £25,000£25k £6,926£7k
Austrian Bundesliga Stefan Lainer £21,000£21k £4,095£4k
Ligue 2 Frédéric Guilbert £18,000£18k £4,556£5k
J1 League Gotoku Sakai £15,000£15k £3,457£3k
Croatian First League Ronaël Pierre-Gabriel £15,000£15k £2,078£2k
Thai League Erik Sviatchenko £14,000£14k £2,172£2k
Eliteserien Hrannar Snær Magnússon £13,000£13k £1,630£2k
Belgian Challenger Pro League Thomas Foket £8,600£9k £1,529£2k
League Two Alfie Dorrington £8,500£9k £2,352£2k
Categoría Primera A Frank Fabra £8,300£8k £3,994£4k
Scottish Championship Leon King £8,000£8k £952£952
A-League Jacob Farrell £6,100£6k £1,262£1k
Indian Super League Anwar Ali £4,500£5k £595£595
National League Jake Rooney £4,100£4k £1,165£1k
I-League Jamie McCart £4,100£4k £547£547
Veikkausliiga Alfie Cicale £2,500£3k £646£646
Canadian Premier League Curtis Ofori £1,400£1k £443£443
Meistriliiga Modou Tambedou £484£484 £152£152

Frequently asked questions

Who is the highest paid defender in the Superleague Greece?

Stefan de Vrij of Panathinaikos AO, on £117,000 a week in 2026/27, or £6,084,000 a year. David Carmo of Olympiacos SF Piraeus is second on £62,000 a week.

How much do Superleague Greece defenders earn?

The average Superleague Greece defender aged 22 or over earns £10,420 a week, and the median one £3,000. Defenders take 32% of what the Superleague Greece pays its players of that age.

Which Superleague Greece club pays its defenders the most?

Panathinaikos AO, £267,221 a week across the 10 defenders we hold a wage for, led by Stefan de Vrij on £117,000.

Who is the highest paid defender in football?

Of the 43 men's leagues we rank defenders in, the best-paid is Kalidou Koulibaly of Al-Hilal Saudi Football Club in the Saudi Pro League, on £497,000 a week. The best-paid in the Superleague Greece ranks eighth of the 43 leagues on that measure.

Where to next

The same Superleague Greece squads, cut a different way

See the highest paid Superleague Greece players in every position, the best-paid player at every club, what Superleague Greece players are paid at every age, or the Superleague Greece wage bill, club by club.