The 15 highest-paid football managers in the world

Jose Mourinho.Shaun Botterill / Getty Images

It’s not just footballers who have been raking it in with mega contracts in recent seasons — managers have been negotiating some handsome deals, too.

The highest-earning manager on our list manages to take home almost twice as much in a single day (£50,000) as the average UK worker does in an entire year.

Football managers even make as much as the Neymars, Messis, and Ronaldos of the world.

Using data from The Guardian, The Telegraph, Sky Sports, talkSPORT, China Daily, and Chronicle Live, Business Insider has put together a list of the 15 highest-earning managers in the world of international and club football.

Here they are, ranked by annual salary in ascending order.