France Ligue 1 Club’s Wage Bills in 2018 (Revealed)

French League known as Ligue 1 has come along way in past few seasons with PSG not only dominating in France but also locking horns with European big boys in Champions League. They have done so by spending huge amount of money to bring in top stars with the likes of Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva, Di Maria, Cavani and Neymar to name a few in recent years. Currently PSG has the most expensive wage bill in football wile other French teams like Monaco and Marseille have been doing pretty well in Europe as well. We take a look at how each and every top flight team in France stands regarding their financial health and wage bill in 2018.

Monaco have trimmed down their spending over the last few years but they still have the 3rd highest wage bill in France at €170m. Other clubs like Lyon and Marseille are also not afraid to spend big money when it comes to transfers and Lyon’s €240m million wage bill put them only second behind PSG.

France Ligue 1 Clubs Wage Bill For 2017-18 Season

NO#	CLUB	2017-18
1	PSG	€540m
2	Lyon	€240m
3	AS Monaco	€170m
4	Olympique Marseille	€125m
5	Lille LOSC	€90m
6	Saint-Étienne	€68m
7	Bordeaux	€65m
8	Rennes	€50m
9	Nantes	€45m
10	Nice	€45m
11	Montpellier	€43.5m
12	Toulouse (relegated)	€34m
13	Metz (relegated)	€33m
14	Caen	€32m
15	Dijon	€32m
16	Strasbourg	€30m
17	Angers	€28m
18	Guingamp	€26m
19	Troyes (relegated)	€26m
20	Amiens	€25m

Even spend so much money on players contracts clubs like Toulouse, Metz, and Troyes suffer relegation. No one is expecting the relegation of such big team like Toulouse. The club suffered 19 defeats in the league that becomes the major point of the relegation with just 4 points less than Caen and Strasbourg they are out of the Ligue 1 competition for year 2018-19.

There is no doubt that Ligue 1 becomes the money league in the world. Big football players looking to get transfer call from the French football league. Monaco spend big money to give a tough challenge to arch rivals PSG for the ligue 1 title in year 2018-19. The details of club wages updated just before the new season kickoff in August 2018.