La Liga - Teams & Player Salaries
La Liga is top division in Spain's football pyramid and they are only behind Premier League in terms of yearly revenue and popularity worldwide. Real Madrid and Barcelona are probably the two most renouned clubs in the world. Naturally these two clubs are also way ahead of interms of spending power in Spain.
2025/26 La Liga Wage Bills: Real Madrid has the highest wage bill in La Liga with them spending over €279 million a year on player wages. Barcelona has wage bill of around €201 million a year. However, the third highest wage bill is not even half of Real Madrid and that is where the league competitive edge takes bit of an hit. Ateltico Madrid has wage bill of only €136 million a year. While 10 clubs in the league has wage bill less then €30 million a year. That is roughly 10% of what Real Madrid spend on players yearly. Or you could put it another way that Real Madrid are paying Kylian Mbappe more money then 14 of La Liga clubs yearly wage bills.
On this page you will find every La La Liga team and how much these each club is spending on player wages. If you click on the any team you will find there whole squad breakdown with yearly salaries as well as their current contracts with the clubs. All the financial numbers quoted on this website are verified via some of the trusted sources from spain. Having said that only player contracts are usually disclosed but their financial details are never made publish. So even the highly trusted sports news agencies only post estimated player salary numbers.
CLUB | WAGE BILL | SALARY CAP |
Real Madrid | €272 million | €754.8million |
FC Barcelona | €192 million | €463.6 million |
Atletico Madrid | €136 million | €304.8 million |
Athletic Bilbao | €59.3 million | €105.8 million |
Sevilla | €58.7 million | €684,000 |
Real Betis | €50.5 million | €108.3 million |
Villarreal | €43.8 million | €135.9million |
Real Sociedad | €40.9million | €160.2 million |
Valencia | €37.5 million | €80 million |
Girona | €37.1 million | €98.8 million |
Celta Vigo | €32.8 million | €77.5 million |
Las Palmas | €27 million | €38.9 million |
Getafe | €23.3 million | €39.17 million |
Mallorca | €22.5 million | €58.6 million |
Osasuna | €22.4 million | €52.8 million |
Rayo Vallecano | €21.7 million | €45.3 million |
Espanyol | €20.8 million | €7.8 million |
Alaves | €19 million | €20.8 million |
Valladolid | €18.8 million | €47 million |
Leganes | €16.7 million | €34.6 million |