Victor Wanyama announced his retirement from football on 3 April 2026, aged 34. The career took him from Nairobi to Celtic, the Premier League and Major League Soccer. His last contract was a short stint at Dunfermline Athletic in 2025. We found no published Tottenham Hotspur wage for him, and no net worth figure from Wanyama himself. The record is thin.
| At a glance | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 June 1991, Nairobi, Kenya |
| Position | Defensive midfielder |
| Clubs | Beerschot, Celtic, Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, CF Montréal, Dunfermline Athletic |
| Kenya caps | 64, international retirement September 2021, eligibility restored December 2022 |
| Published pay | US$3.09m total compensation in 2022, US$1.8m guaranteed in 2024, per the MLS Players Association |
| Aggregator estimate | About £25,000 a week at CF Montréal, per SalarySport |
| Net worth | Not public |
| Status as of 10 November 2026 | Retired, says he wants to coach |
What Victor Wanyama has been paid
Only Major League Soccer has put numbers on the record. The players' union publishes a salary guide each year, and it shows Wanyama as the highest earner at CF Montréal in 2022 with US$3,091,667 in total compensation, based on data as of 15 April 2022. By the 2024 guide, reported in May 2024, his base salary had settled at US$1,440,000 and his guaranteed compensation at US$1,800,000, a package built for a much busier player than the one Montréal now had.
That is a fall of roughly 42 per cent, though it sets total compensation in 2022 against guaranteed pay in 2024.
Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur never published his wage. Kenyan outlets repeated a rumour that he earned KSh 1 million a day at Tottenham Hotspur, and no answer was reported when he was asked about it on television. Treat it as a rumour.
The aggregator SalarySport lists him at £25,000 a week and £1.3 million a year for CF Montréal. That is below the 2022 union figure and close to the 2024 one, so it reads as a rough model and nothing more. The same site totals his career wages at about £21.7 million over nine recorded seasons, which says little about what he owns today. Its page is also inconsistent on contract dates, one more reason to read the weekly figure as an estimate and not as a payslip.
Net worth: why there is no real number
There isn't one.
Net worth needs assets, debts and tax. We found no disclosure from Wanyama on any of them. SalarySport itself publishes career wages only, with no net worth line. Any dollar figure on a profile page is a guess. Ours would be too.
For other Kenyans, our Harambee Stars salary guide sets out what is public for the current squad, and the Michael Olunga salary and net worth profile applies the same test.
Career: from Beerschot to Dunfermline Athletic
The rise was quick. Wanyama signed for Beerschot in 2008 after youth football in Sweden with Helsingborg, and Celtic paid £900,000 for him in July 2011. On 7 November 2012 he scored in Celtic's 2-1 win over Barcelona, the first goal by a Kenyan in the Champions League.
Southampton followed in July 2013 for a claimed £12.5 million. He made his debut on 17 August 2013, the first Kenyan to play in the Premier League, and three seasons on the south coast earned him a move to north London. Tottenham Hotspur signed him for £11 million on a five-year contract in June 2016. The 2019 Champions League final ended in defeat with Wanyama an unused substitute. CF Montréal announced his signing in March 2020.
The end was quieter, when Wanyama signed a short-term deal with Dunfermline Athletic on 26 March 2025, reuniting with Neil Lennon, his former Celtic manager. He played four games. His debut was a 3-0 loss to Ayr United and he was sent off in the 84th minute for handball. In a podcast reported by Pulse Sports on 6 December 2025, he looked back on the spell in one line: “All in all, we tried and gave everything, but it just didn't work out the way we wanted.” The retirement post of 3 April 2026 read: “I announce my retirement from football.” Coaching may be next, because he has said he wants to complete his UEFA A Licence and move into coaching. That would be the next chapter for a man who captained his country and scored against Barcelona.
The Montréal minutes
Our table uses Sportmonks season data for his five MLS years. Minutes per game are our arithmetic.
| Season | Appearances | Starts | Minutes | Minutes per game | Goals | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 22 | 22 | 1,980 | 90 | 2 | 7.13 |
| 2021 | 26 | 26 | 2,296 | 88 | 2 | 7.09 |
| 2022 | 34 | 32 | 2,816 | 83 | 1 | 7.12 |
| 2023 | 25 | 20 | 1,789 | 72 | 0 | 6.79 |
| 2024 | 12 | 4 | 412 | 34 | 0 | 6.72 |
He started all 22 of his appearances in a 23-game season and averaged a full 90 minutes. His 2,816 minutes in 2022 are about 92 per cent of the 3,060 available in a 34-game campaign.
After that the minutes fall sharply. He played 1,789 minutes in 2023 and just 412 in 2024, around 13 per cent of the total. Sportmonks' average rating slips from above 7.00 to 6.72 over the same stretch, which fits a player moving from automatic starter to option.
Set that against the pay. On the union's figures, 2022 cost Montréal roughly US$1,100 per minute played, while 2024 cost about US$4,400, though the two numbers measure slightly different things. A contract built for a 90-minute anchor was by then paying for a squad role.
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