Football: who are the best paid Africans in Ligue 1?

Morocco's Achraf Hakimi, Ivorian Eric Bailly, and Congo's Chancellor Mbemba are the best Africans in Ligue 1. © RFI montage/AFP photos

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With just over a million euros in monthly salary, Moroccan Achraf Hakimi is the highest-paid African player in the France football league, according to the newspaper L'Equipe.

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There is PSG and the others. With 11 players out of the 30 best paid in the France championship, the wealthy Parisian club sits at the top of the remuneration in Ligue 1. In this ranking, unveiled each year by the newspaper L'Equipe, the first African is the Moroccan Achraf Hakimi, in sixth place, with 1.08 million euros, far from the emoluments of the trio Mbappé (6 million euros), Neymar (3.6 million) and Messi (3.3 million).

The Atlas Lion still widens the gap with his neighbors on the African podium, the Ivorian Eric Bailly (450,000 euros) and his teammate at OM Chancel Mbemba (320,000 euros). In the top 10 of the best Africans are three Ivorians (Bailly, Nicolas Pépé and Seko Fofana). After the departures of Idrissa Guèye and Abdou Diallo from the France championship, only one player represents Senegal in this ranking: Krépin Diatta.

Note the great jump of Nigerian Terem Moffi who was less than 100,000 euros in Lorient and who now receives 275,000 euros after his transfer to Nice.

The Top 10 best paid African players in Ligue 1 (in euros)

1. Achraf Hakimi (PSG/Morocco) €1,083,000

2. Eric Bailly (OM/Ivory Coast) €450,000

3. Mbemba (OM/DR Congo) €320000

4. Nicolas Pépé (Nice/Ivory Coast) 300,000

5. Terem Moffi (Nice/Nigeria) 275 0000

6. Toko Ekambi (Rennes/Cameroon) 270,000

7. Krépin Diatta (Monaco/Senegal) 200,000

8. Seko Fofana (Lens/Ivory Coast) 190,000

9. Andy Delort (Nantes/Algeria) 180,000

10. Wahbi Khazri (Montpellier/Tunisia) 180,000

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