Top 10 Highest Paid African Footballers

Professional football is one of the magnificent codes football with evidence of Africa as a nucleus of talents that has enhanced this course. Over the years, the continent has remained a source of support for well known players and what has also developed interesting is the list of the highest paid African footballers.

This article will focus on such gifted athletes particularly those who play soccer and_dat will search for information on their story of how they started to climb up to the level of the most talented sportsmen and women in the football field and financially. How great it was to take this tour in their lives of these kadet pioneers in turning dreams into reality, shattering the stereotypical walls of their generation to rise up and build Africa as a footballing nation across the world.

Without further delay here are the highest paid African footballers in 2024.

1. Sadio Mane – £650,000 Per Week

Sadio Mane confirmed a transfer from Bayern Munich to Saudi Arabia’s Al Nassr Football Club that plays in the Saudi Arabian Pro League. He penned a contract which will render him eligible till 2027 and relative the player can make about £136,025,000 in line with the testimonial earnings formula within contract duration.

Last summer for £35 million 31 years old footballer signed a three years contract to shift helm from Liverpool to Bayern. However, this status changed in the team after a clash that saw him eject his teammate Leroy Sane after a match defeat in the Champions League against Manchester City in April.

2. Riyad Mahrez – £481,000 Per Week

The last among them was Riyad Mahrez who recently joined the Saudi club Al Ahli from Manchester City for a record £30 million. He will now be earning an exorbitant £750k a week notwithstanding playing for the two-year contract in the desert.

In his fabulous spell at the Etihad Stadium, the Algerian footballer was also able score for the club in more than 200 games and in five seasons of football coaching he was able to claim four Barclays English Premier League titles the team.

3. Kalidou Koulibaly – £412,000 Per Week

A £21.5 million transfer on the Deadline Day, was formed by Al Hilal when it signed Kalidou Koulibaly for Chelsea. But as Koundé highlighted, despite having signed for Koulibaly’s Chelsea only the summer before, the latter was sparingly used in 2022-’23 featuring in only 23 games.

Then the start of a new chapter of ownership of Todd Boehly at Stamford Bridge Koulibaly signed for £34 million from Napoli and joined Chelsea. Consequently, Napoli benefited from him with more than 300 appearances in 8 years, along with four Serie A Team of the Year memberships. Besides, in 2019 he was the MVP of the defenders in the Italian championship.

4. Mohamed Salah – £350,000 Per Week

From the above analysis it is quite clear that this Liverpool and Egypt forward has been among the best players of the best clubs in the world during the last one and half years.

He also performed tremendously in his next season with Liverpool after which scored 43 for the reds before signing a new contract which saw him receive £200,000 per week.

A recent contract signed put him in this bracket and therefore among some of the most paid players at Anfield. He now earns as much as £350,000 in a week and ranks among the best earners in the English Premier League.

5. Franck Yannick Kessié – £334,000 Per Week

Although the Ivorian player joined the Barcelona team of football almost just one year ago, the later transferred to Al Ahli from Barca. This move emerged because he was deprioritized in the Barcelon team when the club bought Ilkay Gundogan and Orient Romeu from Southampton team.

Al Ahli and Barca had fixed a cut price of £11 million to effect the proper transfer of Kessie. In the last season, the midfielder but played just in 43 matches but mostly he was a substitute player.

6. Edouard Mendy – £227,000 Per Week

The other inspirational goalkeepers include; Edouard Mendy who features in Ligue 1, Stade Rennais FC and joined Chelsea in September 2020. Gorgeous displays from him tightened Chelsea’s defensive nadir thus leading the club to an enthralling victory in the UEFA Champions League for the 2020-2021 season.

He added that the position for the Saudi-based Pro League, the Al-Ahli team announced signing 31-year-old Edouard Mendy as a Senegalese goal tender. Mendy signed a relatively sweet three year contract in Jeddah and media reports suggest Al-Ahli forked out £16 million to Chelsea in a bid to sign Mendy.

7. Thomas Partey – £200,000 Per Week

Dead summer of 2020 transfer window can still be named, when Arsenal has bought Thomas Partey from Atletico Madrid for £ 45m release clause.

There are still allegations that Partey had agreed to join the Arsenal and was putting pen to paper on a four-year deal with an option to extend by one year at the emirates. More to the point, he will be receiving £200 000 a week, which is almost four times that which he was paid at Atletico Madrid.

8. Yassine Bounou – £200,000 Per Week

Interestingly, the Moroccan international goalkeeper, Yassine Bounou signed for Al Hilal a football club in Saudi Arabia from Sevilla in 2023 and transfer for $23 million with three years contract.

Bounou has been Sevilla’s primary goalkeeper at only 32, and he took the Spanish side to two Europa league triumphs. He also assisted the Moroccan team to get a place in the World Cup Semi-finals to be held in Qatar next year.

9. Sébastien Haller – £180,000 Per Week

For the off season of year 2022, Borussia Dortmund parted ways with Sebastien Haller and offered the star player a four year contract with other outfit Ajax Amsterdam having had a rather impressive season as the top scorer for the dutch champions team with thirty-four goals.

After only 1.5 years in the role of the Dutch league’s champions, the forward will become the main striker of the German club, and possibly replace Haaland.

10. Achraf Hakimi – £160,000 Per Week

Moroccan rose through the ranks to play for Inter and this season joined PSG after having a good season with Inter.

In return for this service, the Parisians offered the Nerazzurri$ 71 million to kick start the deal, the other $ 9milllion is the contingent based on certain performance goals that are expected to be achieved, and an extra $ 4 million of an addon.

He usually gets £160, 000 every week, which attributes him to being among the best paid defenders in the world adorning the current generation.