Managers in the Premier League, La Liga and Liga Portugal are among the richest head coaches based on their net worth in 2026.
When it comes to the richest football managers, data isn’t widely available, but there have been multiple reports on the richest coaches and their estimated net worth.
Based on the latest earnings of each manager, these are the 10 richest football managers in 2026 based on their estimated net worth.
1. Diego Simeone – £102million
The Atletico Madrid coach is currently the highest-paid manager in world football, taking home a whopping £25.9million per year.
He’s been at Atletico Madrid since 2011 and his current contract runs until the summer of 2027.
=2. Jose Mourinho – £100million
Mourinho’s estimated net worth is £100million, placing him third on this list.
Amazingly, he’s estimated to have earned around £84million just in compensation money from being sacked from various jobs throughout his career.
His biggest payout came in 2007 when he first left Chelsea and received a reported payout of £17million.
=2. Pep Guardiola – £100million
Estimates around Guardiola’s net worth range from £50-£100million. For the purposes of this article, we’ve given him the benefit of the doubt and have gone with the higher figure.
As things stand, he’s the third-highest-paid manager in world football, only behind Simeone at Atletico Madrid and Simone Inzaghi at Al-Hilal.
Reports have hinted that he could leave Manchester City at the end of the season, although Guardiola is yet to come to a final decision.
4. Zinedine Zidane – £91.6million
Zidane has been out of work since leaving Real Madrid in 2021.
However, given he’s sitting on an estimated net worth of over £90million, he hasn’t been in any rush to return to the stress of day-to-day management.
We’ve included Zidane, as opposed to the likes of Wayne Rooney, because it appears as though his return to the dugout is imminent.
He’s been waiting for the right job, and it appears as though that will arrive after the World Cup, when his former Les Bleus team-mate Didier Deschamps finally vacates his post as France manager.
5. Carlo Ancelotti – £41million
Now the manager of the Brazil national team, Ancelotti’s net worth sits at an estimated £41million.
He landed his first managerial job in 1995 and 31 years later is still going strong today at the age of 66. Talk about longevity.
Earning €9.5million per year with Brazil, he’s currently the highest-paid international manager, ahead of Thomas Tuchel and Mauricio Pochettino.
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