Financial gendarme of the French elite, the National Control and Management Directorate plays the transparency card each year by revealing the budgets of professional football clubs and the share devoted to the wage bill. Either the main component of spending on training playing in Ligue 1.
As for the 2023-2024 season, as for the previous ones, the palm in the matter obviously returns to PSG which, with Kylian Mbappé in its ranks, has granted more than 658 million euros to its players. It's four times, and a little more, the salary budget of the second club in this ranking – OL – perched at nearly 162 million euros.
OM far from the account, Brest outperforms
The podium of the best paying teams their footballers is supplemented by OM (148.2 million) in front of Stade Rennais (111.6) and AS Monaco (104.8). The fifth place of the Principality club being of course to be qualified in view of the tax advantages that the rock offers, with the more advantageous net emoluments for the men of Adi Hütter.
Note some anomalies in the budget-performance report since OL, OM and Rennes, second, third and fourth in this hierarchy, finally finished the championship in sixth, eighth and tenth positions. Conversely, Brest, flanked by the 14e L1 wage bill, knew how to finish third in the classification. Same thing for the LOSC which, eighth in budgetary terms, has hung on the fourth place final.
The classification of salary masses in L1 for the 2023-2024 season:
1. PSG: € 658.5 million
2. OL: 161.9 M €
3. OM: € 148.2 million
4. Rennes: € 111.6 million
5. Monaco: € 104.8 million
6. Nice: 93 M €
7. Lens: € 84.7 million
8. LOSC: € 74.7 million
9. Reims: € 56.6 million
10. Nantes: € 56.5 million
11. Montpellier: € 51.7 million
12. Strasbourg: € 51.2 million
13. Lorient: € 47.1 million
14. Brest: € 41.5 million
15. Toulouse: € 38.2 million
16. Le Havre: € 30.9 million
17. Metz: € 30.4 million
18. Clermont: € 22.9 million
