€75,000 a week is the ceiling in Portuguese football this season, and three players sit on it. Clément Lenglet, Francisco Trincão and Anatoliy Trubin each collect that figure, which works out to €3.9m a year, according to the salaryleaks.com Primeira Liga 2026-27 ranking.

Lenglet is the newcomer among them. The centre-back joined Benfica this summer from Atletico Madrid on a season-long loan that automatically converts into a permanent three-year contract, with no transfer fee reported.

“I’m very proud to be here. A big city, a huge club. I’m very eager to embrace the challenge ahead of me, to play for a club like this,” Lenglet said on his unveiling.

“It seemed like a very good project for my career. It’s a club that competes for everything, that competes to win titles in the country, but also abroad.”

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The chasing pack sits €7,700 a week behind

Porto’s top two, Jakub Kiwior and Jan Bednarek, each earn €67,300 a week, or €3.5m a year. That leaves the highest-paid Porto player €7,700 a week short of the three-way tie above.

Six players share the next bracket at €57,700 a week, or €3m a year:

• Luis Suárez (Sporting)

• Pedro Gonçalves (Sporting)

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• Dodi Lukébakio (Benfica)

• Fredrik Aursnes (Benfica)

• Richard Ríos (Benfica)

• Gabri Veiga (Porto)

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Below them, Sporting midfielder Sergi Altimira takes €50,000 a week, followed by Benfica’s Vangelis Pavlidis on €49,890 and Leandro Barreiro on €48,000. No player from outside Benfica, Sporting or Porto appears in the published top 15.

Benfica lead the wage-bill table

Benfica carry the largest total wage bill in the Primeira Liga at €49.7m for the 2026-27 season, the salaryleaks.com club page shows. Porto follow on €40m and Sporting on €38.5m.

The league-wide weekly average is €11,767. The three players tied at the top earn roughly six-and-a-half times that figure, and Porto’s Kiwior and Bednarek almost six times. Sporting’s own top earner, Trincão, also picks up €1.2m in bonuses on top of his €3.9m base, the salaryleaks Sporting page states.

The Durán deal that dwarfs the wage ranking

Benfica’s biggest single-player commitment for 2026-27 is not on the wage table at all. On Monday, 20 July, the club signed Colombia striker Jhon Durán on loan from Al-Nassr through the end of the season, Onefootball reported.

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“The club said in a statement that the operation totals 6.1 million euros, covering the loan fee, the player’s gross wages, insurance, social security, solidarity payments and intermediary costs,” the report noted.

A fixed €30m buy option is attached to the deal, along with a right of first refusal to loan Durán again for 2027-28 if Benfica choose not to make the move permanent. Even without those clauses being triggered, the €6.1m single-season outlay is larger than any base salary on the Primeira Liga’s published 2026-27 ranking, including the three players tied at €75,000 a week.

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