Article by Costi Pruna – published on Friday, August 29, 2025, 16:32 / Updated on Friday, August 29, 2025:32
The champion of France, PSG, starts in the new season with the largest budget in the men's handball, over 17 million euros.
After PSG managed to win the Champions League last season, the club president, Nasser El Khelaifi approved a budget of 17.008.198 euros for the handball team, in the hope of winning the Supreme Trophy by Luka Karabatic, Elohim Prandi and their colleagues.
Clubs in France have a total budget of over 93 million euros!
Since 2012, since the handball team are the same investors as in football, PSG has had every year among the largest budgets in European handball, but only managed to play the Champions League final, lost with 23-24, in front of Vardar Skopje.
In the handball championship of France, after PSG, the largest budgets have about 11.1 million and Montpellier for 9 million euros. All budgets are expressed in a gross amount before taxes.
The total official amount of the budgets of the 16 teams in the Professional League of France is 93,275,593 million euros. Each band is obliged to declare its budget, as it is formed and to submit a financial guarantee before the start of the new season.
Luka Karabatic has a contract of 1.5 million euros per season!
Nikola Karabatic and his brother, Luka Photo: Imago
The French professional league is composed of 16 teams, and the average salary for a player is 6421 gross euros per month. According to the press in France, there are some celebrities who earn over 10,000 euros, but most of the players in the championship are paid with amounts between 4-6000 euros a month. Only the PSG and Nantes stars have much higher salaries than the average professional league in “Hexagon”.
The best -paid player in the French championship is Luka Karabatic Pivot. At 37, the Olympic, World and European Champion has a 1.5 million euro contract in France at PSG.
In the French championship, 56% French players and 44% foreign athletes from 32 other countries are active. The salaries of the handball players in France decreased on average by 3% compared to the previous season.
The salaries of the coaches also decreased by about 9%. Only the top coaches are paid with amounts of over 10,000 euros a month, while the average of the main technicians is 7713 euros per month, and that of the seconds is 4779 euros.
