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Top 10 Lowest-paid English Premier League Footballers 2024
Modern professional footballers are multi-millionaires, but not all players get paid the same. These are the top 10 lowest-paid English Premier League players in 2024.
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Modern professional footballers earn massive salaries for entertaining fans in the English Premier League. Kevin de Bruyne is the highest-paid Premier League player in 2024. He earns £400,000 per week at Manchester City. Kai Havertz is the tenth-highest-paid footballer in England’s top division, earning £280,000, a week at Arsenal.
Alex Mighten was the lowest-paid footballer in the Premier League in 2023/24. The average Premier League salary is £3,535,800, per annum. The 511 players get paid a combined £1,8 billion, which makes England’s top division the most lucrative in the world. Manchester City’s wage bill is the most expensive. City fork out £222,270,530 to 24 first-team squad players.
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Not all top-flight football players earn hundreds of thousands of pounds per week. Many do not make tens of thousands of pounds per week because of age or the clubs the players are employed by. Young academy players earn junior contracts depending on their age. Reserve goalkeepers are also lowly paid compared to their outfield counterparts.
Nevertheless, these low-paid layers still earn princely sums compared to the man on the street. Only CEOs, bankers and politicians can match professional salaries. At SportsBoom, we have listed the lowest-paid footballers in the English Premier League in 2024.
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Mighten tops the charts for the ten lowest-paid footballers in the Premier League. Mighten earned £3,462 per week, equivalent to £180,024 a year. The Nottingham Forest academy player was loaned out twice last season. He went to Belgium First Division (Jupiler Pro League) club KV Kortrijk in the first half of the 2023/24 campaign. The Forest winger spent the second half of the season on loan to EFL League Two side Port Vale.
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The Nottingham club were promoted the previous season. Still, despite all the television money that runs the Premier League, they were fourteenth for league annual salaries paid. Burnley, Sheffield United, and Luton Town were all promoted to the Premier League and then relegated back to the EFL Championship after turbulent seasons in the top flight. This is no surprise. They had the three lowest wage bills in the Premier League.
Six of the ten lowest-paid Premier League footballers came from two 2022/23 EFL Championship promoted clubs. Sheffield United’s Rhys Norrington-Davies was the second-lowest-paid player, earning £4,000 a week. Luton’s Jordan Clarke, James Shea, and Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu are all the next lowest-paid footballs in the English Premier League.
10 Lowest-Paid Premier League Footballers 2024
| Rank | Player | Football Club | Per Week | Per Year |
| 1 | Alex Mighten | Nottingham Forest | £3,462 | £180,024 |
| 2 | Rhys Norrington-Davies | Sheffield United | £4,000 | £208,000 |
| 3 | Jordan Clarke | Luton Town | £5,000 | £260,000 |
| =4 | James Shea | Luton Town | £7,500 | £390,000 |
| =4 | Pelly Ruddock Mpanzu | Luton Town | £7,500 | £390,000 |
| 6 | Kourtney Hause | Aston Villa | £8,077 | £420,004 |
| =7 | Loris Karius | Newcastle United | £10,000 | £520,000 |
| =7 | George Baldock | Sheffield United | £10,000 | £520,000 |
| =7 | Tommy Doyle | Wolverhampton Wanderers | £10,000 | £520,000 |
| =7 | Max Lowe | Sheffield United | £10,000 | £520,000 |
*Salaries quoted are the players’ weekly and annual earnings paid by their clubs for the duration of their contracts.
**The players’ personal endorsements, image rights, and other off-field earnings are not disclosed in this article.
Kourtney Hause is the last of the six players earning less than five figures per week at Aston Villa. Hause took home £8,077 per week for Villa in 2023/24. Several players make £10,000 per week.
Newcastle United back-up goalkeeper Loris Karius, Wolverhampton Wanderers academy player Tommy Doyle, and Sheffield United’s Max Lowe and George Baldock all get paid 10k a week. Despite earning more than half a million pounds a year, these four make the top 10 lowest-paid footballers in the Premier League in 2024.
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These players are thrust into the “most exciting league in the world” due to injuries in the first team, or because managers are blooding them slowly into the first team. Promoted clubs might not have the big budgets of the Premier League teams because they have never been promoted to the top flight, or the club’s owners do not have the cash of an oligarch or state-owned petrol-dollar-run side.
Sheffield United had the lowest wage bill. The Blades shelled out £22,438,219 to 25 players. This is evident in the top 10 lowest-paid Premier League players list. Three Sheffield first-teamers make the list. Luton Town is another promoted EFL Championship club with three players on the lowest-paid chart.
Luton had the nineteenth-lowest wage bill. The Hatters paid 25 footballers £23,553,612 during their only year in the Premier League. Burnley had the third-worst wage bill, paying 27 players a combined £33,991,215 for the year.
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FAQs
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Kaylan Geekie is a sports fanatic. He attended Durban High School before moving to Scotland, where he lived for 15 years. During his time in the United Kingdom, Kaylan graduated with a first-class BA Honours Degree in Sports Journalism at the University of the West of Scotland. Kaylan worked for nine years as the Match-Day Editor of SuperXV.com, reporting on Super Rugby, The Rugby Championship, the 2015 Men's Rugby World Cup and the 2017 British & Irish Lions series for the website.