Football clubs spent a maximum of eleven billion euros on international transfers last year. This emerges from the Global Transfer Report of the world football association Fifa. The number of transfers also reached a new high with a total of 86,158 transfers in men’s and women’s professional football as well as among amateurs. In the previous year, the balance of international transfers was around 7.2 billion euros.

Investments in Germany are therefore estimated at 1.07 billion euros. The leaders in the men’s sector are the clubs from England – both in terms of expenditure and income. Last year, 3.2 billion euros were spent on new players in the English leagues. With up to 150 million euros for Florian Wirtz, a record sum also flowed from Liverpool FC to the Bundesliga. Revenues were similar at 1.47 billion in England and 1.24 billion euros in Germany.

Record spending also among women

Investments in women’s football jumped by more than 80 percent last year. 756 clubs worldwide spent 23.92 million euros on new players. With 2,440 international transfers, the figures from 2024 were exceeded by 6.3 percent.

There are also record numbers in the amateur sector. Worldwide, 59,162 amateur players moved abroad. This means an increase of 9.4 percent compared to the previous year.