Revealed: 2018 transfer spending exceeds $7 billion

30 gen 2019

The FIFA Global Transfer Market Report has been released for 2018, detailing the figures and statistics of all the money spent across the year. Total transfer expenditure exceeded 7 billion dollars, with a new record high of 7.03 billion dollars spent; 10.3% higher than what was spent in 2017.

A new record for total number of transfers was set too, with 16,533 - a 5.6% increase over 2017 with 175 different nationalities involved in these trades.

78.2%, however, of all the spending came from clubs belonging to the UEFA confederation, indicating how centralised all the money in world football is - France having the highest net balance of 467.2 million dollars and England the lowest, with a net balance of -1.05 billion dollars.

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