The salary of French referee Clément Turpin, who will officiate for the first match of Euro 2024, has been revealed.
Annual salaries in professional football can often turn the head of anyone who is not familiar with the ecosystem and economic environment that surrounds this popular sport, the most followed on the planet. Between salary, signing bonus or transfer bonus, right to use their image and personal sponsorship with different brands, the annual salary of the biggest players on the planet can reach several tens, even hundreds of millions of euros, or even more so for football superstars.
However, not all professional players reach these salary amounts. If the average monthly salary at Paris Saint-Germain approaches one million euros gross according to the newspaper “L’Equipe” (€937,000), at the bottom of the ranking in Ligue 1, Clermont football pays on average a gross monthly salary of €28,000. However, it must be remembered that all these salaries are well above the average salary in France, which is €2,600 net monthly. But also that of the referees.
As Euro 2024 begins this Friday, June 14, the newspaper L’Equipe also revealed the salaries of the main Ligue 1 referees. Among them Clément Turpin, who will be on the whistle for the opening match of the Euro between Germany and Scotland. An experienced referee who has officiated for many years at the highest European and international level, Clément Turpin is the highest paid French referee, with an annual salary of €260,000.
If he is much better paid than his counterparts in Ligue 1, who receive on average €100,000 less, this is largely due to his summons to referee in European and international competitions, the Champions League and the major competitions like the Euro.
Indeed, the whistle referees during this Euro in Germany will receive a salary of €10,000 per match from UEFA. As for the championship, all salaries of Ligue 1 referees are paid in full by the LFP. If these sums received by Ligue 1 referees seem significant, it must still be remembered that referees receive on average more than half as much as the average salary of the Ligue 1 club with the smallest payroll.