Transfers: 21,801 international transfers (+6.9%) for a total of $9.6bn (+48%) in 2023 (FIFA TMS)

Men's professional football clubs spent $9.6bn (€8.7bn as of 31/12/2023) on international transfer fees in 2023, a 48.1% increase on 2022 ($6.5bn/€6.1bn), according to the Global Transfer Report 2023 published by FIFA on 30/01/2024.

"An all-time record of 74,836 cross-border transfers were made in 2023. Some 23,689 (31.7%) of these moves involved professionals (men and women), with the other 51,147 (68.3%) transfers being those of amateurs. The top ten player transfers alone generated more than 10% of the entire amount spent on transfer fees in 2023. Similarly, of the 3,279 transfers that included fees, the top 100 were responsible for more than 45% of all money spent on transfer fees, with English clubs once again topping the list with $2.96bn," explained the report by FIFA TMS, the platform that records international transfers.

This latest edition of the Global Transfer Report also includes, for the fifth year running, international transfers for women's football (1,888 transfers in 2023, +20%), which generated $6.1m in fees (+84.2%).

To view the FIFA Global Transfer Report 2023…