Ligue 1's top 30 gross salaries, PSG take 17 spots | OneFootball

This Thursday, L’Equipe devoted several pages to Ligue 1 players’ gross salaries, including a top 30 for the 2025-2026 season. Unsurprisingly, Paris Saint-Germain features heavily. But it is still worth noting that the club has a “starting” team and substitutes, even with a project built around fewer “stars.”

The top 30 monthly gross salaries, according to L’Equipe’s estimates.

Even if the sports daily may have a good sense of salaries before publishing such a ranking, a degree of caution is still needed. There have already been denials in response to figures published this way by the newspaper, which makes clear here that these are estimates. They are not guaranteed amounts.

Even so, it is easy to assume that PSG are ahead of the other clubs thanks to their financial resources. And those do not come only “from Qatar,” as some still claim. There is now, above all, a solid foundation in terms of image and marketing that generates significant revenue. That is necessary for Financial Fair Play.

It is also notable that Olympique de Marseille are very present, which fits quite well with their 3rd place in Ligue 1, even if Marseille supporters only like to talk about budgets when comparing themselves to PSG. By contrast, RC Lens, 2nd in the league, do not appear, a sign that money is not everything. Even if it is an advantage. This is even clearer in the salary rankings, where Lens are 10th and Nice 7th, while Paris FC are 9th, far from their battles to avoid relegation in the sporting standings.

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