Morocco’s Walid Regragui Among Highest-Paid African National Team Coaches

With a monthly salary of 70,000 euros, Walid Regragui is one of the best paid national team coaches in Africa. He ranks fourth in the top 10. The Franco-Moroccan technician owes this position to the feats he has accomplished with Morocco, which has made history by becoming the first African team to reach the semi-finals of a World Cup.

Vladimir Petkovic (Algeria) tops the ranking. With a monthly salary of 135,000 euros, the Croatian naturalized Swiss technician is the highest paid national team coach in Africa. He is followed by Hugo Broos of South Africa (75,000 euros/month) and Emerse Faé of Côte d’Ivoire, crowned champion of the 2023 CAN (75,000 euros/month). James Kwesi Appiah of Sudan takes fifth place with 48,000 euros/month. Then come Aliou Cissé (46,000 euros/month), fired on Wednesday, October 2 from his position as coach of the Senegalese national team, Otto Addo of Ghana (45,300 euros/month) and Marc Brys of Cameroon (44,000 euros per month).

At the bottom of the ranking of the ten highest salaries, we find Hossam Hassan of Egypt (30,000 euros/month) and Tom Saintfiet (Mali) Amir Abdou (Mauritania) who each receive a monthly salary of 20,000 euros/month.