Highest-Paid Football Managers in the World 2024
About This Dataset
Highest-Paid Football Managers in the World 2024
Football managers ranked by estimated annual salary including performance bonuses in 2024, measured in millions of euros. Diego Simeone of Atlético Madrid is the world's highest-paid football manager — his long-term loyalty and consistent delivery of Champions League football has been rewarded with a contract reportedly exceeding €40 million per year, far above any other coach in the game.
Analysis
Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid) (40), Pep Guardiola (Manchester City) (23) and Carlo Ancelotti (Real Madrid) (18) take the top three in Annual Salary (Million EUR) in 2024. Values run from 40 at the top to 5.50 at the bottom, a spread of 34.5. First and second are separated by 17, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Only 2 of the 8 reach even half the leader's figure (20 or more).
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid) leads in Annual Salary (Million EUR) with 40 in 2024.
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Average Annual Salary (Million EUR) in 2024: 16 · median: 12.
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Gap in 2024: Diego Simeone (Atletico Madrid) is 7.3× larger than Xabi Alonso (Bayer Leverkusen).
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2024 · 8 observations
- Measure
- Annual Salary (Million EUR)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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