PREMIER LEAGUE clubs contributed a third of the ENTIRE global spending on players this summer.
In the latest confirmation of English football’s financial dominance, spending figures across Planet Football were compiled by Fifa.
According to the Zurich number crunchers, Prem clubs contributed £2.38billion 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 £9.2million spent, a third of which was paid out by teams in the USA, ahead of Germany and England.
Fifa legal chief Emilio Garcia Silvero said: “We have observed a transfer market in full swing both in men’s and women’s football.
“While this is a relevant development in men’s football a year ahead of the World Cup, the increasing figures in women’s football transfers are equally remarkable as they confirm the exponential growth of the women’s game at club level.”
The eye-watering number of transfers made this summer resulted in a record global spend from clubs.
The Prem, unsurprisingly, had the five biggest transfers of the window.
Alexander Isak’s deadline day departure from Newcastle to Liverpool was the biggest, with the Merseysiders shelling out £130million for the Swede’s services after forking out £116m and £69m respectively for Bayer Leverkusen playmaker Florian Wirtz and Eintracht Frankfurt hitman Hugo Ekitike.
Benjamin Sesko’s £66m move to Manchester United, which could rise to £74m with add-ons, was the fourth biggest transfer of the summer.
And the fifth was Bryan Mbeumo’s £65m move from Brentford to Old Trafford.
The Bundesliga and Serie A were the second and third biggest spenders of this summer.
Clubs in Germany spent a combined £730m bolstering their squads.
And between them, the 20 clubs in the Italian top-flight dropped £706m on new players.
Ligue 1 and La Liga round off the top five, with clubs in both divisions spending £543 and £495m respectively.
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