Updated April 15, 2026
Every number on this site comes from one of three declared sources. No scraping, no speculation.
Sources
Transfermarkt
Player identity, club, position, nationality, date of birth, market value, peak market value, image URL. Sourced from the public Transfermarkt dataset published under CC BY.
FBref
2025/26 season performance: matches played, minutes, goals, assists, per-90 output. Only covers top leagues.
Public wage datasets
Football Manager community wage datasets re-released on public data platforms. Named entries for nine well-known top earners; the remainder are anonymised rows used only for aggregate wage-band benchmarks (median, 25th percentile, 75th percentile) grouped by league and age bracket.
How Wage Estimates Work
Named rows
Nine players with publicly verified salaries are shown as verified in the stat cards. No estimation.
Band estimate
For every other player, we show a 25th–75th percentile wage band drawn from the observed distribution of contracts in his league and age bucket. The band is clearly labelled as an estimate on the page and in the stat card.
Why a band
A single median figure implies a precision we don’t have. A band reflects actual contract dispersion and lets users interpret wage alongside market value.
Update Cadence
Weekly sync
A scheduled task re-downloads all three sources every Monday at 04:00 UTC and regenerates affected posts.
Manual corrections
Reported errors are corrected within 48 hours and logged on our editorial policy page.