The 2025 ranking of the highest paid soccer coaches in the world: here are the richest on the bench, with Saudi Arabia having also revolutionised the coach market.
Who are the highest paid soccer coaches in the world? In a football that is increasingly more of a business, this question seems more than legitimate given that even the coaches can now count on pharaonic contracts, with salaries that are often much higher than those of the world’s top players.
After all, the coaches in many cases have become authentic managers - especially in England -, managing not only the locker room but also the managerial aspects and those relating to the transfer market.
The result is that the most highly rated coaches collect salaries that in some cases are even higher than the total wages of some teams in Italy Serie A.
The forceful entry of Saudi Arabia into the world of football - not to mention the follies of the Premier League - has further increased the flow of money that gravitates around the world of football, with players and coaches who have found their Eldorado in the peninsula.
Let’s see in detail who are the ten highest paid football managers in the world.
Highest paid coaches in the world, the ranking
If you think that footballers are overpaid, then you might be somewhat shocked to read the ranking according to Front Office Sports of the ten football managers currently highest paid in the world.
- Diego Simeone - Atletico Madrid - 34 million
- Pep Guardiola - Manchester City - 22.68 million
- Steven Gerrard- Al-Ettifaq - 17.2 million
- Mikel Arteta - Arsenal - 17 million
- Jorge Jesus - Al-Hilal - 11.34 million
- Carlo Ancelotti - Real Madrid - 10.88 million
- Luis Enrique - Psg - 10.75 million
- Simone Inzaghi - Inter - 10 million
- Unay Emery - Aston Villa - 9 million
- Ruben Amorim - Manchester United - 7.3 million
*Figures in euros
Diego Simeone would thus be the highest paid coach in the world, with Cholo who would collect a whopping 34 million from Atletico Madrid every year, clearly surpassing Pep Guardiola.
It is curious to see how on the lowest step of the podium there is Steven Gerrard, former Liverpool icon who is paid a lot of money to coach the Saudis of Al-Ettifaq.
Carlo Ancelotti is instead the highest paid Italian coach, surpassing in this special ranking Simone Inzaghi who has just renewed his contract with Inter.
Original article published on Money.it Italy. Original title: Gli allenatori più pagati al mondo, la classifica 2025
