Liga Portugal Salary Database

Complete wage bill breakdown and highest-paid players for all clubs in the Football Liga Portugal

Clubs by Wage Bill & Top Player

Club Wage Bill Highest Paid Player Salary
FC Benfica FC Benfica €42.3m Ukraine Flag Anatoliy Trubi... €3.9m
FC Porto FC Porto €35.6m Poland Flag Jakub Kiwior €3.5m
Sporting Lisbon Sporting Lisbon €33.4m Portugal Flag Francisco Trin... €3.9m
Braga Braga €17.5m Uruguay Flag Rodrigo Zalaza... €1.2m

Highest Paid Players

1 Portugal Flag
Francisco Trincão

Sporting Lisbon

€3.9m
2 Ukraine Flag
€3.9m
3 Poland Flag
€3.5m
4 Poland Flag
€3.5m
5 Colombia Flag
Luis Suárez

Sporting Lisbon

€3m
6 Portugal Flag
Pedro Gonçalves

Sporting Lisbon

€3m
7 Spain Flag
Gabri Veiga

FC Porto

€3m
8 Colombia Flag
Richard Ríos

FC Benfica

€3m
9 Belgium Flag
€3m
10 Greece Flag
$3m
11 Norway Flag
€3m
12 Luxembourg Flag
€2.5m
13 Argentina Flag
€2.5m
14 Argentina Flag
€2m
15 Sweden Flag
Samuel Dahl

FC Benfica

€2m
16 Brazil Flag
€2m
17 Bosnia and Herzegovina Flag
Amar Dedić

FC Benfica

€2m
18 Argentina Flag
Alan Varela

FC Porto

€2m
19 Netherlands Flag
€2m
20 Portugal Flag
Diogo Costa

FC Porto

€2m
21 Denmark Flag
Morten Hjulmand

Sporting Lisbon

€2m
22 Portugal Flag
€1.8m
23 Argentina Flag
€1.8m
24 Spain Flag
€1.8m
25 Denmark Flag
Alexander Bah

FC Benfica

€1.8m

Liga Portugal Salary Insights

Portuguese Primeira Liga have 18 clubs with combined wage bill of around €155 million which put them 6th highest in European leagues. In 2025/26 season Benfica has the highest wage bill in the league with them spending around €37 million in player salaries followed by Sporting Lisbon (€25.8m) and FC Porto (€22.5m). 

Average annual salary in the league is around €130,000 (gross) per season but that jumps to €850,000 (gross) per season for the top four clubs in the league. Sporting Lisbon's Trincão is the highest paid player in the league with salary of around €3.9 million (gross) per season. 

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