Atlanta United payroll

What Atlanta United paid its players in each season on record. The club's games, rosters and history are at soccerstats.us.

Seasons on record

season players total pay highest paid pay
2026 29 $27,884,035 Miguel Almiron $7,871,000
2025 30 $28,479,597 Miguel Almiron $7,871,000
2024 29 $15,230,938 Aleksey Miranchuk $3,685,441
2023 33 $19,847,184 Thiago Almada $2,332,000
2022 37 $22,431,357 Luiz Araujo $4,480,333
2021 33 $20,058,025 Luiz Araujo $3,941,667
2020 31 $14,047,996 Josef Martinez $3,308,333
2019 32 $12,957,119 Josef Martinez $3,058,333
2018 32 $11,606,330 Miguel Almiron $2,297,000
2017 32 $9,395,516 Miguel Almiron $2,297,000
2016 6 $523,619 Hector Villalba $170,258

Pay is guaranteed compensation where the source gives it and base salary where it does not. Total pay sums it across every player on record that season.

Valuations

Forbes Sportico Expansion fee $50M $100M $200M $500M $1B $2B 2018 Forbes: $330,000,000 2019 Forbes: $500,000,000 2023 Forbes: $850,000,000 2024 Forbes: $900,000,000 2025 Forbes: $975,000,000 2026 Forbes: $1,000,000,000 2021 Sportico: $845,000,000 2022 Sportico: $855,000,000 2024 Sportico: $1,050,000,000 2025 Sportico: $1,080,000,000 2026 Sportico: $1,140,000,000 2014 Atlanta United expansion fee: $70,000,000 2026 2024 2022 2020 2018 2016 2014 2012 2010 2008 2006 2004 2002 2000 1998 1996

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Estimated value by year, with any expansion fee and sale, on a logarithmic scale: each gridline step is a doubling or more. A line joins only consecutive years, so a year with no list is a gap.
season publisher rank value revenue operating income sources
2026 Forbes 5 $1,000,000,000 $105,000,000 $10,000,000 1 2
2026 Sportico 4 $1,140,000,000 $117,000,000 — 1 2
2025 Forbes 4 $975,000,000 $105,000,000 $10,000,000 1 2
2025 Sportico 4 $1,080,000,000 $131,000,000 — 1 2
2024 Forbes 4 $900,000,000 $95,000,000 $9,000,000 1 2
2024 Sportico 2 $1,050,000,000 $123,000,000 — 1 2
2023 Forbes 3 $850,000,000 $81,000,000 $6,000,000 1 2
2022 Sportico 3 $855,000,000 $103,000,000 — 1 2
2021 Sportico 2 $845,000,000 — — 1 2
2019 Forbes 1 $500,000,000 $78,000,000 $7,000,000 1 2
2018 Forbes 1 $330,000,000 $47,000,000 -$2,000,000 1 2

Estimates, not sale prices. Forbes values the team alone, its revenue and operating income are for the season before the list; Sportico includes the team's real estate and related businesses. Every club's valuations.

Ownership

Atlanta United joined MLS in 2017 for an expansion fee of $70,000,000, awarded in 2014.

operator from to note sources
Arthur Blank 2014 present 1

Every club's ownership, sales and expansion fees.

Sponsorships

sponsor named seasons a year in all note sources
American Family Insurance shirt 2017– — — terms not disclosed 1

Figures are as reported, mostly press estimates; one in grey italics is worked out from the other figure and the deal's length. Seasons are the first and last the deal covers. Sources are numbered links to the reports. Every club's sponsorships.