Premier League dominates global transfer spending
Prem clubs contributed a third of the ENTIRE global spending on players this summer as spending figures across Planet Football were compiled by Fifa.
According to the Zurich number crunchers, Prem clubs contributed £2.38bn of the worldwide total £7.28bn spent across the window which opened on June 1 before closing on Monday.
Fifa said the market in men’s football “continues to register unprecedented levels of activity and expenditure”.
According to the world body there were just under 12,000 international transfers concluded in the summer window with spending up more than 50 per cent on the 2024 figures.
Fifa said: “England consolidated its position as the leading global investor in talent, committing the highest amount ever spent by a single association.
“In terms of the number of incoming transfers, England, Portugal and Brazil occupied the top three positions.
With more than 1,100 deals completed, the growth of the women’s game was also noticed by world chiefs, with a new record total of £9.2m spent, a third of which was paid out by teams in the USA, ahead of Germany and England.
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