Top 10 Highest Paid Football Managers in 2015
- futbalista
- Jan 1, 2016
- 4 min read
Football manager is often regarded as a challenging position. As a football manager, he has to lead the club’s or national’s football team to perform at its best in any football competition and manage the team. Often, manager with remarkable achievements get offered a very good salary contract. Hereby, we present the top 10 highest paid football managers in 2015.
No.10 Manuel Pellegrini £3.47m
Manuel Pellegrini is the manager of Manchester city football club. Upon retiring from football, he proceed into coaching in his native Chile and later on Argentina. He is well known for leading Villarreal to the third place finish in La Liga in 2004/2005, a Champions League semi-final in 2005/06 and a second place finish in La Liga in 2007/08. Before he became the manager of Manchester City on a three years contract, he used to be the manager of Real Madrid for one season and Malaga for three seasons. The 62 years old Chilean’s yearly salary is reported to be £3.47 million during his service in Manchester City.
No.9 TATA Martino £4.5m
Gerardo “Tata” Martino, the former Argentine footballer is currently the manager of Argentina. He was chosen as the manager of Spanish giants FC Barcelona on July 22, 2013 on a two-year contract, before he become the Manager of Argentina. He has a yearly salary of £4.5m that makes him number 9 in the highest paid football Managers in 2015.
No.8 Jurgen Klopp £5m
Jurgen debuted his managerial career in Mainz for 7 years after he spent his entire 12-years playing for Mainz. The German manager’s contribution on bringing Borussia Dortmund out of dark ages is well recognised as he was named the “German Football Manager of the Year” in 2011 and 2012. In October 2015, Jurgen was hired to replace Brendan Rodgers who was sacked as the new Liverpool manager. Based on the three year contract, Jurgen will earn £5m a year, rising to £7m with bonuses for a Premier League title or Champions League qualification making him the highest paid manager in Liverpool’s history.
No. 7 Carlo Ancelotti £6.26m
Real Madrid is paying £6.26m per year to Ancelotti, the manager of the club. The 56 years old Italian football manager and Bob Paisley are the only managers to have won the European Cup three times. He serves Chelsea as a manager in 2009 and helped Chelsea win the Premier League title and FA Cup in 2009/10. In 2011, he was appointed as the head coach of Paris Saint-Germain and lead PSG win the French Ligue 1 before he became the manager of Real Madrid.
No.6 Fabio Capello £6.51m
Fabio Capello is an Italian football manager who is the manager of Russia’s National Football Team since 2012, however he was sacked by the Russian FA. He used to be the manager of Milan, Real Madrid, Roma, Juventus, England national team before he was appointed as the manager of Russia National Team. During his service in Russia, he made £6.51million per year.
No.5 Arsene Wenger £6.89m
As Arsenal’s longest-serving manager, Wenger has helped the club build the Arsenal team of today. Under his leadership, Arsenal has won three Premier League, six FA Cups and six FA Community Shields. In 2003/2004 season, he led Arsenal made history by winning the Premier League without a single defeat. The 66 years old Frenchman was named “Premier League Manager of the Season” in 1998, 2002 and 2004 and the “French Manager of the Year” in 2008. He is now earning £6.89 million per year making him the top 5 highest paid football managers in 2015.
No.4 Louis Van Gaal £7m
The Dutch football manager who was appointed by Manchester United to replace Moyes in 2014 with a contract of £7million per year. Van Gaal was the manager of Netherlands National Team from 2012 to 2014 and take Netherlands towards the World Cup 2014 Semi Final.
No.3 Marcello Lippi £8.34m
Marcello Lippi served as Italian national team head coach from 2004 to 2006 and he was the world cup winning manager with the team in 2006. Throughout his career, he has won one World Cup title, five Serie A titles, three Chinese Super League titles, one Coppa Italia, one Chinese FA Cup, four Italian Supercup, oneUEFA Champions League, one AFC Champions League, one UEFA Supercup and one Intercontinental Cup. In 2007, he was included in The Times’ list of the top 50 managers of all time. Before he resigned as a Guangzou Evergrande’s director of football, he spent four years coaching Guangzhou Evergrande football team.
No. 2 Jose Mourinho £8.37m
The Portuguese football manager is one of the most successful managers in the club football history. In total, he has managed four clubs in four different leagues, and won at least three titles in each for them. His most notable achievement is he guided Porto to win 2003/2004 Champions League, two consecutive Premier League title with Chelsea, two Sea A and one Champions league in 2009/2010 with Internazionale and La Liga title in 2011/2012 with Real Madrid. In 2013, he was hired as the manager of Chelsea for the second time on a four years contract which he is being paid £8.37million per year.
No. 1 Pep Guardiola, £14.8m
At age of 44 years old, Pep Guardiola is one of the most successful manager in football history with the winning of 14 titles including 3 La Liga titles, 2 UEFA Champions League, 2 UEFA Super Cup and 2 FIFA Club World Cup with Barcelona in four years and five titles including 2 Bundesliga, 1 UEFA Super Cup and 1 FIFA Club World Cup with Bayern Munich in less than three years. In 2013, Guardiola joined Bayern Munich as their football manager after he announced his resignation as Barcelona manager. He is currently the highest-paid football manager in the world, with a salary of £14.8million per year, which is higher than most of footballer including Lionel Messi, one of the highest paid footballer in the world.
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