Top 20 Highest Paid Football Managers in the World Currently

We listed 20 highest paid football players in the world in 2016/2017 in one of our previous post. Every football club requires a football manager the manage the team affairs. In the world of soccer, managers are seen as the brain behind the success and failures of the club. It is their philosophy that guides the team and they come under fire when they don’t meet their target in a particular football season.

Top football leagues in the world like the English Premiership, La Liga, German Bundesliga and so on, not just boast of having the world’s best soccer players but also the best football coaches in the world. Top Managers like Arsene Wenger, Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, Conte of Chelsea, Carlo Ancelotti of Bayern Munich and so on signed mega contracts that saw them enter the Forbes list of highest paid football managers in the world which sees their net worth rise.

Also note that the best football manager in the world currently is Pep Guardiola who signed with Manchester City in a deal which will see him earn a salary of £15 million yearly which automatically sees Guardiola as the highest paid soccer manager in the world. Jose Mourinho on the other hand, signed a 3 year deal with Manchester United in a deal that will fetch him £13.8 million as his wage/salary.

Below is a table according to totalsportek, showing the current world’s highest paid football managers for the 2016/2017 season, their clubs, figure of salary and deal.