List of most expensive association football transfers

The following is a list of most expensive association football transfers, which details the highest transfer fees ever paid for players, as well as transfers which set new world transfer records. The first recorded record transfer was of Willie Groves from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa for £100 in 1893[1] (equivalent to £11,000 today). This occurred just eight years after the introduction of professionalism by the Football Association in 1885.[2] The current transfer record was set by the transfer of Neymar from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for €222 million (£198 million) in August of 2017.[3][4][5][6]

Neymar, currently the most expensive footballer

Highest transfer payments in association football

Most of the transfers on this list are to clubs under UEFA's jurisdiction, and most of the purchasing clubs are from England, France, Italy and Spain.

Three players appear on the list twice: Romelu Lukaku, Ángel Di María and Cristiano Ronaldo. All of the players on the list are of European (UEFA), South American (CONMEBOL), North America (CONCACAF) and African (CAF) origin. Following the transfer of American Christian Pulisic of the CONCACAF confederation in 2019, there are currently no players on the list from the remaining regions; Asia (AFC) and Oceania (OFC).

As of 4 September 2020

  Fee broke the world football transfer record at the time of the transfer
  Fee broke the record for a teenager at the time of the transfer
  Fee broke the national league record at the time of the transfer
  Fee broke the record for a South American player at the time of the transfer
  Fee broke the record for an African player at the time of the transfer
  Fee broke the record for a North American player at the time of the transfer
  Fee broke the record for a goalkeeper at the time of the transfer
  Fee broke the record for a defender at the time of the transfer
Top 50 most expensive association football transfers
Rank Player From To Position Fee
(€ mln)		 Fee
(£ mln)		 Year Born Reference
1 Neymar Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain Forward €222[lower-alpha 1] £198 2017 1992 [3][7][5][6]
2 Kylian Mbappé Monaco Paris Saint-Germain Forward €180 £163 2018[lower-alpha 2] 1998
3 Philippe Coutinho Liverpool Barcelona Midfielder €145 £105[lower-alpha 3] 2018 1992 [8]
4 João Félix Benfica Atlético Madrid Forward €126[lower-alpha 4] £114.1 2019 1999 [9]
5 Antoine Griezmann Atlético Madrid Barcelona Forward €120 £107 2019 1991 [10]
6 Ousmane Dembélé Borussia Dortmund Barcelona Forward €105[lower-alpha 5] £97 2017 1997 [11][12]
Paul Pogba Juventus Manchester United Midfielder €105[lower-alpha 6] £89 2016 1993 [13][14][15]
8 Eden Hazard Chelsea Real Madrid Forward €100 £89[lower-alpha 7] 2019 1991 [16]
Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid Juventus Forward €100[lower-alpha 8] £88 2018 1985 [17]
Gareth Bale Tottenham Hotspur Real Madrid Forward €100 £86 2013 1989 [18]
11 Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United Real Madrid Forward €94 £80 2009 1985 [19][20]
12 Gonzalo Higuaín Napoli Juventus Striker €90 £75.3 2016 1987 [21][22]
13 Harry Maguire Leicester City Manchester United Defender €87 £80 2019 1993 [23]
14 Romelu Lukaku Everton Manchester United Striker €85 £75[lower-alpha 9] 2017 1993 [24][25]
15 Virgil van Dijk Southampton Liverpool Defender €84.5 £75 2018 1991 [26][27]
16 Luis Suárez Liverpool Barcelona Striker €82.3 £65 2014 1987 [28]
17 Romelu Lukaku Manchester United Internazionale Striker €80 £74 2019 1993 [29][30][31][32]
Nicolas Pépé Lille Arsenal Winger €80 £72 2019 1995 [33]
Kepa Arrizabalaga Athletic Bilbao Chelsea Goalkeeper €80[lower-alpha 10] £71.6 2018 1994 [34]
Lucas Hernandez Atlético Madrid Bayern Munich Defender €80 £68 2019 1996 [36]
21 Kai Havertz Bayer Leverkusen Chelsea Midfielder €77 £70 2020 1999 [37]
22 Zinedine Zidane Juventus Real Madrid Midfielder €76[lower-alpha 11] £46.6 2001 1972 [39][40][41]
23 Ángel Di María Real Madrid Manchester United Midfielder €75.6 £59.7 2014 1988 [42][43]
24 Matthijs de Ligt Ajax Juventus Defender €75[lower-alpha 12] £67.5 2019 1999 [44][45][46]
Frenkie de Jong Ajax Barcelona Midfielder €75[lower-alpha 13] £65 2019 1997 [47][48]
James Rodríguez Monaco Real Madrid Midfielder €75 £63 2014 1991 [49][50][51]
Kevin De Bruyne VfL Wolfsburg Manchester City Midfielder €75 £55 2015 1991 [52][53]
28 Arthur Barcelona Juventus Midfielder €72 £66 2020 1996 [54]
29 Victor Osimhen Lille Napoli Forward €70 £65 2020 1998 [55]
Rodri Atlético Madrid Manchester City Midfielder €70 £63 2019 1996 [56]
Thomas Lemar Monaco Atlético Madrid Midfielder €70 £63 2018 1995 [57]
32 Zlatan Ibrahimović Internazionale Barcelona Striker €69.5[lower-alpha 14] £56 2009 1981 [58][59][60][61]
33 Rúben Dias Benfica Manchester City Defender €68 £61.64 2020 1997 [62]
34 Riyad Mahrez Leicester City Manchester City Forward €67.8 £60 2018 1991 [63]
35 Kaká Milan Real Madrid Midfielder €67[lower-alpha 15] £56 2009 1982 [64][65][66]
36 Álvaro Morata Real Madrid Chelsea Striker €65.5 £58[lower-alpha 16] 2017 1992 [67]
37 Aymeric Laporte Athletic Bilbao Manchester City Defender €65.2 £57 2018 1994 [68]
38 João Cancelo Juventus Manchester City Defender €65 £24.7[lower-alpha 17] 2019 1994 [69]
39 Edinson Cavani Napoli Paris Saint-Germain Striker €64.5 £55 2013 1987 [70][71]
40 Christian Pulisic Borussia Dortmund Chelsea Forward €64 £58 2019 1998 [72]
Ángel Di María Manchester United Paris Saint-Germain Midfielder €64 £44 2015 1988 [73]
42 Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang Borussia Dortmund Arsenal Striker €63.7 £56.1 2018 1989 [74][75]
43 Alisson Roma Liverpool Goalkeeper €62.5 £56[lower-alpha 18] 2018 1992 [76]
Raheem Sterling Liverpool Manchester City Forward €62.5 £44[lower-alpha 19] 2015 1994 [77]
45 Luís Figo Barcelona Real Madrid Midfielder €62 £37 2000 1972 [78][79]
46 Oscar Chelsea Shanghai SIPG Midfielder €61[lower-alpha 20] £52 2017 1991 [80]
47 Miralem Pjanić Juventus Barcelona Midfielder €60[lower-alpha 21] £54.8 2020 1990 [54]
Luka Jović Eintracht Frankfurt Real Madrid Forward €60 £52.4 2019 1997 [81]
Tanguy Ndombele Lyon Tottenham Hotspur Midfielder €60[lower-alpha 22] £53.8 2019 1996 [82]
Naby Keïta RB Leipzig Liverpool Midfielder €60 £52.75 2018 1995 [83]
Radamel Falcao Atlético Madrid Monaco Striker €60[lower-alpha 23] £51 2013 1986 [84][85]

Notes

  1. Neymar paid his own termination clause, as is mandatory in Spain, making him a free agent.
  2. On loan since 2017, permanent move in July 2018
  3. Initial £105 million plus reported £37 million bonuses
  4. Initial fee of €126m plus €1.2m of solidarity contribution
  5. Initial €105 million plus reported €40 million bonuses
  6. Fee was to be paid over time with an initial €105 million, plus another €5 million in additional bonuses; Pogba's agent Mino Raiola also received a reported €27m from Juventus, from a portion of aforementioned transfer fee from Manchester United.
  7. Initial £89 million plus reported £60 million bonuses
  8. €100m plus €5m of solidarity contribution and €12m broker fee
  9. Fee was to be paid over time with an initial £75 million, plus another £15 million in additional bonuses.
  10. Kepa paid his own termination clause, as is mandatory in Spain, making him a free agent.[34] He subsequently signed for Chelsea.[35]
  11. fee originally in 150 billion lire; the fixed exchange rate between euro and lire was 1:1936.27. The fee was paid in 4 annual installments;[38] on accounting purpose, the fee was listed as approx. €75m[38]
  12. Initial €75 million, payable in 5 financial years, plus additional €10,5 million broker fee
  13. Initial €75 million plus reported €11 million bonuses
  14. Initial transfer fee for Ibrahimović is indeterminable. According to Barcelona's press release, Ibrahimović signed a 5-year contract, for €46 million fee in installments and the exchange of Eto'o (valued at €20 million) and the loan of Alexander Hleb (with an option to buy for a €10 million fee), with a €250 million release clause, making Ibrahimović worth €66 million plus the undisclosed loan fee of Hleb. However, the Hleb deal collapsed. Eventually Ibrahimović cost Barcelona €69.884 million according to their financial report, which included other fees. As per the Inter book the fee was €69.5 million, but part of the Inter fee (max. 5% according to FIFA regulation) were deducted and distributed by Barcelona to youth clubs of Ibrahimović: Malmö FF and AFC Ajax as solidarity contribution.
  15. The fee broke the world record in pound sterling, but not in euro (Zinedine Zidane was the most expensive in euro at that time); as the fee was paid in installments, the accountant that prepared the financial report adjusted the value to €66.073 million as the present value to reflect the loss in interest
  16. Fee was to be paid over time with an initial £58 million, plus another £12 million in additional bonuses.
  17. Cancelo's transfer equates to €65 million as part-exchange deal, where Danilo would be sent to Juventus.
  18. Initial fee of £56 million with reported performance related bonuses of £9 million.
  19. Fee was to be paid over time with an initial £44 million, plus another £5 million in additional bonuses.
  20. Estimated figure. The transfer fee has not been disclosed.
  21. Initial €60 million plus reported €10 million bonuses
  22. Initial €60 million plus reported €10 million bonuses
  23. Estimated figure. The transfer fee has not been disclosed.

World football transfer record

The first player to ever be transferred for a fee of over £100 was Scottish striker Willie Groves when he together with Jack Reynolds (£50) made the switch from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa in 1893,[2] eight years after the legalisation of professionalism in the sport. It took just another twelve years for the figure to become £1000, when Sunderland striker Alf Common moved to Middlesbrough.[86][87]

It was not until 1928 that the first five-figure transfer took place. David Jack of Bolton Wanderers was the subject of interest from Arsenal, and in order to negotiate the fee down, Arsenal manager Herbert Chapman got the Bolton representatives drunk.[88][89] Subsequently, David Jack was transferred for a world record fee when Arsenal paid £10,890 to Bolton for his services, after Bolton had asked for £13,000, which was double the previous record made when Sunderland signed Burnley's Bob Kelly a fee of for £6,500.[87]

Diego Maradona and Ronaldo were twice transferred for world record fees.[90]

The first player from outside Great Britain to break the record was Bernabé Ferreyra, a player known as La Fiera for his powerful shot. His 1932 transfer from Tigre to River Plate cost £23k,[89] and the record would last for 17 years (the longest the record has lasted) until it was broken by Manchester United's sale of Johnny Morris to Derby County for £24k in March 1949. The record was broken seven further times between 1949 and 1961, when Luis Suárez Miramontes was sold by FC Barcelona to Inter Milan for £152k, becoming the first ever player sold for more than £100k.[87]

In 1968, Pietro Anastasi became the first £500k player when Juventus purchased him from Varese,[89] which was followed seven years later with Giuseppe Savoldi becoming the first million pound player when he transferred from Bologna to Napoli.[87][89]

After Alf Common and David Jack, the third player to twice be transferred for world record fees is Diego Maradona.[87][89] His transfers from Boca Juniors to Barcelona for £3m, and then to Napoli for £5m, both broke the record in 1982 and 1984 respectively. The most recent is Ronaldo with his record-breaking move from PSV Eindhoven to Barcelona in 1996 for £13.2m, although Alan Shearer's transfer to Newcastle broke the record the same summer. A year later Inter Milan paid £19.5m for Ronaldo and again he became the player with the highest transfer fee.

In the space of 61 days in 1992,[89] three transfers broke the record,[87] all by Italian clubs: Jean-Pierre Papin transferred from Marseille to A.C. Milan, becoming the first ever £10m player.[89] Almost immediately, rivals Juventus topped that with the signing of Gianluca Vialli for a fee of £12m from Sampdoria. Milan then completed the signing of Gianluigi Lentini for a fee of £13m which stood as the record for three years.

The 1996 transfer of Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers to Newcastle United, for a fee of £15m,[91] kickstarted a year-by-year succession of record breaking transfers: Ronaldo moved the following year to Inter Milan from FC Barcelona for a fee of £17m,[92] which was followed in 1998 by the shock transfer of his fellow countryman Denílson from São Paulo to Real Betis for a fee of approximately £21m.[87][89][93]

In 1999 and 2000, Italian clubs returned to their record-breaking ways, with Christian Vieri transferring from Lazio to Inter Milan for £28m,[94] while Hernán Crespo's transfer from Parma to Lazio ensured he became the first player to cost more than £30m.[87][95] The transfer prompted the BBC to ask "has the world gone mad"?[96] It took two weeks for the record to be broken when Luís Figo made a controversial £37m move from Barcelona to rivals Real Madrid.[87][97] A year later, Real increased the record again with a signing of Zinedine Zidane for £48 million (150 billion lire).[98]

Zidane's record stood for 8 years, the longest since the 1940s. Real Madrid continued with the Galácticos policy by buying Kaká from Milan for €67 million (£56 million),[99] which was the world record in pound sterling. However, both world record in euro and in pound sterling were broke by Real themselves when signing Cristiano Ronaldo for £80m (€94m) from Manchester United in the same transfer window,[87][100] 4 years later Real Madrid broke the record again after completed the signing of Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013. Although Real initially insisted that the transfer cost €91.59 million, slightly less than the Ronaldo fee, the deal was widely reported to be around €100 million (around £85.1 million).[101][102] Documents leaked in 2016 by Football Leaks revealed that installments brought the final Bale fee up to a total of €100,759,418.[87][103] In 2016, Manchester United eventually took the record away from Real Madrid, signing French midfielder Paul Pogba for €105 million (£89 million),[104] four years after having released him to Juventus for training compensation.

A year after the Pogba transfer, however, there was a major jump in the record fee. Paris St. Germain matched the €222 million buyout fee of Barcelona's Neymar, converted to a reported £198 million[5][6] or £200 million[3][7] by different sources. This was the first time that the record fee was paid by a French club.

Historical progression

Comparison of fees in different nations is complicated by varying exchange rates. This table uses British Pound Sterling prior to 1999 and Euro from 1999 to present.

Year Player Selling club Buying club Fee (£) Fee (€)
1893 Willie Groves West Bromwich Albion Aston Villa100[2]–
1903 Ben Green Barnsley Small Heath 500[105] –
1904 Alf Common (1) Sheffield United Sunderland520[106]–
1904 Andy McCombie Sunderland Newcastle United700[107]–
1905 Alf Common (2) Sunderland Middlesbrough1,000[108]–
1913 Daniel Shea West Ham United Blackburn Rovers2,000[109]–
1913 Tommy Barber Bolton Wanderers Aston Villa2,000[110]–
1914 Percy Dawson Heart of Midlothian Blackburn Rovers2,500[111]–
1920 David Jack (1) Plymouth Argyle Bolton Wanderers3,500[112]–
1921 Tom Hamilton Kilmarnock Preston North End4,600[113]–
1922 Syd Puddefoot West Ham United Falkirk5,000[114]–
1922 Warney Cresswell South Shields Sunderland5,500[115]–
1925 Bob Kelly Burnley Sunderland6,500[116]–
1928 David Jack (2) Bolton Wanderers Arsenal10,890[117]–
1932 Bernabé Ferreyra Tigre River Plate23,000[117]–
1949 Johnny Morris Manchester United Derby County24,000[116]–
1949 Eddie Quigley Sheffield Wednesday Preston North End26,500[116]–
1950 Trevor Ford Aston Villa Sunderland30,000[116]–
1951 Jackie Sewell Notts County Sheffield Wednesday34,500[116]–
1952 Hans Jeppson Atalanta Napoli52,000[117]–
1954 Juan Schiaffino Peñarol Milan72,000[117]–
1957 Enrique Omar Sivori River Plate Juventus93,000[117]–
1961 Luis Suárez Barcelona Internazionale152,000[117]–
1963 Angelo Sormani Mantova Roma250,000[117]–
1967 Harald Nielsen Bologna Internazionale300,000[118]–
1968 Pietro Anastasi Varese Juventus500,000[117]–
1973 Johan Cruyff Ajax Barcelona922,000[117]–
1975 Giuseppe Savoldi Bologna Napoli1,200,000[117]–
1976 Paolo Rossi Vicenza Juventus1,750,000[117]–
1982 Diego Maradona (1) Boca Juniors Barcelona3,000,000[117]–
1984 Diego Maradona (2) Barcelona Napoli5,000,000[117]–
1987 Ruud Gullit PSV Eindhoven Milan6,000,000[117]–
1990 Roberto Baggio Fiorentina Juventus8,000,000[117]–
1992 Jean-Pierre Papin Marseille Milan10,000,000[117]–
1992 Gianluca Vialli Sampdoria Juventus12,000,000[117]–
1992 Gianluigi Lentini Torino Milan13,000,000[117]–
1996 Ronaldo (1) PSV Eindhoven Barcelona13,200,000[117]–
1996 Alan Shearer Blackburn Rovers Newcastle United15,000,000[119]–
1997 Ronaldo (2) Barcelona Internazionale19,500,000[117]–
1998 Denílson São Paulo Real Betis21,500,000[120][121]–
1999 Christian Vieri Lazio Internazionale32,000,000[122]49,000,000
2000 Hernán Crespo Parma Lazio35,500,000[122]55,000,000
2000 Luís Figo Barcelona Real Madrid37,000,000[122]62,000,000
2001 Zinedine Zidane Juventus Real Madrid46,600,000[122][41]77,500,000
2009 Kaká Milan Real Madrid56,000,000[123]67,000,000
2009 Cristiano Ronaldo Manchester United Real Madrid80,000,000[124][125]94,000,000
2013 Gareth Bale Tottenham Hotspur Real Madrid86,000,000[126][127]100,000,000
2016 Paul Pogba Juventus Manchester United89,000,000[128]105,000,000
2017 Neymar Barcelona Paris Saint-Germain198,000,000[3][7][5][6]222,000,000[3][7][5][6]

Number of records by country
Country Player records Record selling Record buying
England 15 19 18
Italy 8 14 18
Argentina 5 3 1
Brazil 5 1 0
France 3 1 1
Scotland 3 1 1
Netherlands 2 3 0
Wales 2 0 0
Portugal 2 0 0
Spain 1 5 9
Uruguay 1 1 0
Denmark 1 0 0
Sweden 1 0 0

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