Richest Female Soccer Players in the World Right Now

Marta’s career earnings still outrank most of today’s highest-paid active players, even though Manchester City’s Khadija Shaw now takes home a bigger single-season paycheck. That split — legends who built fortunes over 15-20 years versus a new wave of record-breaking contracts — is the real story of wealth in women’s football heading into the 2025-26 season. Clubs rarely disclose wages in this sport, so every number below is a reported estimate from salary databases, league reporting, and net-worth trackers, not an audited figure.

At a Glance: The Richest Female Soccer Players

How Female Football Players Build Wealth

Club salary alone rarely explains a top player’s total income the way it does in the men’s game. Most of the names below combine several income streams, and for veterans like Marta, Rapinoe, and Morgan, endorsements have outweighed salary for most of their careers:

• Club salary, which now varies enormously by league, from six-figure NWSL and WSL deals down to far smaller pay in less-funded leagues.
• National team pay, substantial in well-funded federations like the USWNT and, increasingly, England’s Lionesses.
• Endorsements and sponsorships, still the biggest line item for the most recognizable names, active or retired.
• Social media and personal brand, a fast-growing income channel on its own for younger stars.

Marta

Brazil’s Marta Vieira da Silva is the most decorated individual player, male or female, in the sport’s history, with a record six FIFA World Player of the Year awards and the most goals ever scored across men’s and women’s World Cups combined. Now playing out her career with Orlando Pride on a reported salary in the $400,000-$1 million range, her estimated net worth of $13-15 million reflects more than two decades of salary, Nike and Puma endorsements, and Guaraná Antarctica sponsorship in her native Brazil — a longer earning runway than almost anyone else on this list.

Megan Rapinoe

Megan Rapinoe retired from professional soccer in 2023 with an estimated net worth around $5 million, built mostly on endorsements rather than salary. Two USWNT World Cup wins and a willingness to speak up publicly turned her into one of the most valuable commercial profiles in women’s sport, with major partners including Nike, Visa, Samsung, BodyArmor, Hulu, and Victoria’s Secret. Her soccer salary reportedly topped out around $200,000-$400,000 a year — the endorsement deals did the heavy lifting.

Alex Morgan

Alex Morgan retired from soccer in 2025 after a long career split between San Diego Wave FC and the USWNT, leaving with an estimated net worth of roughly $3 million. Endorsements with Nike, Coca-Cola, Panasonic, and Bridgestone formed the bulk of her earnings, on top of tournament bonuses that included roughly $245,000 for the 2019 World Cup win alone. She’s since branched into media and business ventures, including a bestselling children’s book series and a TV adaptation.

Khadija Shaw

Jamaica’s Khadija “Bunny” Shaw is the highest-paid active female footballer heading into 2026, earning a reported £30,770 a week — about £1.6 million ($2 million) a year — on her Manchester City contract. The record deal reflects both her scoring form in the WSL and the growing willingness of top English clubs to pay for proven strikers, marking one of the clearest signs yet that women’s club wages are catching up fast.

Trinity Rodman

USWNT forward Trinity Rodman signed a record-breaking contract extension with Washington Spirit that made her one of the two or three highest-paid players in club women’s soccer, reportedly worth around £1.48 million ($1.9 million) a year. Daughter of NBA legend Dennis Rodman, she’s built her own commercial profile separate from that name, anchored by consistent NWSL and national team production in her early-to-mid 20s.

Aitana Bonmatí

Barcelona and Spain midfielder Aitana Bonmatí became the first woman ever to win three consecutive Women’s Ballon d’Or awards, taking the prize in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Her Barcelona salary is reported around £856,000 ($1.1 million) a year, the highest club wage among Barça’s stacked squad, and her commercial value has climbed fast since Spain’s 2023 World Cup win and her Euro 2025 Player of the Tournament award.

Alexia Putellas

Alexia Putellas won the Ballon d’Or in back-to-back years, 2021 and 2022, while anchoring Barcelona’s midfield, and remains one of the highest-earning players in the women’s game at a reported £607,000 ($670,000) a year. Injury setbacks briefly slowed her career, but she’s returned to form alongside Bonmatí, and Spain’s growing women’s football market has kept her commercial value high even as new Ballon d’Or winners emerge.

Sam Kerr

Australia’s captain Sam Kerr has been among the highest-paid players in the WSL throughout her Chelsea career, with a reported salary around £466,000 ($541,000) a year. One of the sharpest strikers in the women’s game, her profile spans both Australia and the UK, which widens her commercial reach considerably beyond most of her Chelsea teammates.

Sophia Wilson

USWNT forward Sophia Wilson (formerly Sophia Smith) earns a reported £739,000 ($936,000) a year at Portland Thorns, among the highest salaries in the NWSL. A regular starter for the national team since her early 20s, her combination of youth, scoring output, and USWNT profile has made her one of the league’s most commercially valuable players even before factoring in endorsements.

Ada Hegerberg

Norwegian striker Ada Hegerberg, long the face of Olympique Lyonnais’ women’s team, won the first-ever Women’s Ballon d’Or in 2018 and has collected an unusual number of UEFA Women’s Champions League titles with Lyon since. Her reported salary of around £345,000 ($470,000) a year, combined with a steady endorsement pipeline built over nearly a decade at Europe’s most successful club, keeps her among the sport’s highest earners.

Wendie Renard

Lyon captain Wendie Renard is the most decorated player in UEFA Women’s Champions League history, with more continental titles than almost anyone in the women’s game. Her reported salary of roughly £309,000 ($452,000) a year reflects both her longevity at one of Europe’s top clubs and her standing as one of the most respected defenders the sport has produced.

How We Ranked Them

This list blends two measures because women’s football wealth data works differently than the men’s game: for retired legends like Marta, Rapinoe, and Morgan, cumulative net-worth estimates are the best available figure, since annual salary alone would understate decades of endorsement income. For active players still earning club wages, reported annual salary — sourced from contract reporting and league salary data — is the more current number. Clubs almost never confirm exact wages, so treat every figure here as an informed estimate, and expect this list to shift as record deals like Shaw’s and Rodman’s become more common.

For more context on how these numbers compare across the sport, see our breakdown of football’s biggest earners overall, our list of the highest-paid soccer players in the men’s game, and our overview of the sport’s biggest records at the FIFA Women’s World Cup. You can also browse more football and soccer coverage for the latest on where these figures are heading next.