Alessia Russo: Biography, Net Worth, Salary & Football Career

Few players have shifted the conversation around English women’s football as quickly as Alessia Russo. The 2-7-year-old forward was part of England’s Euro 2022-winning squad before she moved from Manchester United to Arsenal in July 2023 (SportsBrief, player fact file), and yet the numbers around her pay remain remarkably hard to pin down. This profile separates what’s verified — her roots, her club record, her place in the England squad — from what’s estimated, and puts her earnings in context against the world’s highest-paid players.

Age: 27 (born February 8, 1999) · Height: 174 cm (5 ft 8.5 in) · Current club: Arsenal Women · Position: Forward · Jersey number: 23

Her public profile is the easy half: the numbers below check out across player databases (Salary Sport, player contract tracker), while the salary figures that follow come with far less certainty.

The catch: everything above is public record; everything about her pay is not.

Where is Alessia Russo from?

Russo was born in Maidstone, England, and her route to the top was anything but standard: after coming up through the youth system, she went to college in the United States — a path few England forwards take.

That college stretch is more than a footnote. It took her out of the academy conveyor belt, put her in a different training culture, and helped her grow into the player who would later anchor Arsenal’s attack and England’s Euro 2022-winning squad.

Does Russo have a partner?

• On the record: private — Russo has not publicly confirmed a partner, as noted in the snapshot above.
• Off the record: speculation exists online, but none of it is verified.

This is one area where curiosity outruns evidence. The same privacy that protects her personal life means any answer beyond “not confirmed” is guesswork, and the sources that track her career don’t have a name to offer.

Are Ella Toone and Alessia Russo still best friends?

• Friendship: documented since their Manchester United youth days.
• Shared stage: both were in England’s Euro 2022-winning squad.

By every public signal, yes — the two have spoken about each other warmly in interviews, and the friendship is one of the few personal topics Russo discusses at all. The pattern: her closest documented bond in football is with a teammate, which says a lot about how she keeps her private life private.

The pattern: the public part of Russo’s life is football; the private part is deliberately small — worth remembering the next time a “net worth” list tries to reduce her to a number.

How much is Alessia Russo’s net worth?

The short answer is that none of it is official. Neither Arsenal, England nor Russo has published a verified salary figure, so every number attached to her name is a third-party estimate (see the snapshot above).

How much does Alessia Russo get paid per week?

• Salary Sport’s tracker: £5,500 per week, about £286,000 a year, with a reported contract to 30 June 2029 (Salary Sport, player contract tracker).
• SportsBrief’s fact file: over £100,000 a year, with net worth estimated in the $1–5 million range (SportsBrief, player fact file).
• SportsDunia’s profile: net worth around £1–3 million, plus a 2023 earnings figure near £1.9 million that isn’t independently substantiated (SportsDunia, player stats profile).

Three sources, three different methodologies, zero official confirmation. That’s not a failure of reporting — it’s the reality of a league that keeps contracts private.

The implication: until Arsenal or Russo publishes a real contract number, every figure above is an estimate dressed up as a fact.

Who is the richest female soccer player?

If you’re looking for the richest female soccer player in 2025, the name at the top of most lists is Barcelona’s Alexia Putellas.

Three reference points, one pattern: only Putellas’s pay has a repeatedly cited number — Russo’s is a spread, and the older names are a legacy.

Putellas renewed with Barcelona in 2024 for two more seasons, with an option for a further year (DAZN, 2025 salary list) — which locks her reported number in as the benchmark for the next few windows.

Who are the top 10 richest female footballers in the world?

• Every top-10 ranking reviewed here is a media calculation, not a league document — the lists are built from reported wages and estimated endorsements.
• The names that recur behind Putellas: Alex Morgan, Megan Rapinoe and Ada Hegerberg, usually on endorsement strength rather than published club contracts.

The honest take: a top-10 list tells you who has the strongest commercial profile, not who cashes the biggest club cheque.

Who is the richest Lionesses player?

There is no verified answer, and that’s the answer itself. England players are paid by their clubs through private contracts and by the FA through match fees and bonuses; neither side publishes a complete women’s salary register.

How much does Chloe Kelly earn a year?

• Chloe Kelly’s exact annual earnings are not published in the reviewed sources.
• Media profiles count her among the higher-profile Lionesses, but a verified figure doesn’t exist to cite.

Kelly’s case is the same as Russo’s: a prominent England forward whose club contract is private. Any number attached to her is an estimate, not a record.

How much do Lionesses get paid?

• England players receive match fees, tournament bonuses and commercial income on top of club wages.
• A full, public breakdown of the women’s team pay does not exist in the reviewed sources.

The result is a pay system that can’t be audited from outside. “How much do Lionesses get paid?” has a real answer — just not a public one.

Who is the highest paid female footballer in the UK?

• The candidates are usually strikers at the top clubs in the Women’s Super League — the same tier Russo plays in.
• No official figure exists, so the title is assigned by tracker estimates, not verified fact.

For Russo specifically, the defensible statement is simple: she’s one of the most prominent forwards in the UK market, and every estimate places her in the upper tier. “Upper tier” is a range, though, not a ranking.

Who is the best woman footballer of all time?

This one is a debate, not a fact-check. The all-time conversation usually runs through Marta, Mia Hamm and Birgit Prinz; the current-era candidates are led by Alexia Putellas and Aitana Bonmatí.

• Marta — the name that defined attacking brilliance for a generation.
• Mia Hamm — the player who made the United States the reference point for the women’s game.
• Birgit Prinz — Germany’s dominant striker of the 2000s.
• Alexia Putellas and Aitana Bonmatí — the current Barcelona era, with its trophy-heavy case.

The trade-off is simple: the older greats played in a less professional era, while today’s stars face stronger competition but shorter public memory. The debate stays alive because it forces people to name what they value: medals, longevity or pure skill.

The trade-off: “best ever” is a generational vote — what’s measurable is that this generation is the first where top players are paid on a scale the legends never saw.

Two claims from the record worth reading with their sources attached:

“Russo joined Arsenal from Manchester United in July 2023 on a free transfer after her Manchester United contract expired.”

— SportsBrief, player fact file

“Public online salary estimates for Russo vary widely, from roughly £35,000 annually in older reporting to approximately £286,000 or more than £1 million in other estimates.”

— Regional Report, career and salary review

Russo’s story is a useful stress test for women’s football coverage: the on-pitch facts are solid, the financial facts are not. That will change the moment a club or player publishes a real contract number — and the reported 2029 end of her Arsenal deal makes that the most likely moment for a market reset. For Arsenal, the decision window is clear: extend her before the deal runs out, or let a competitor set the next UK benchmark for a women’s forward.

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