European Top 5: Chelsea has the most expensive squad (€1.314bn) in 2025-26 (CIES)

News Tank Football - Paris - News #411692 - Published on 17/09/25 at 08:40
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Ecuadorian Moisés Caicedo joined Chelsea for €134m - ©  Chelsea FC

Chelsea FC (Premier League) is the club in the European Top 5 leagues to have spent the most on building its squad for 2025-26, with €1.314bn spent on transfers, according to the CIES Football Observatory in its "Weekly Post", which presents the Top 100 teams according to the cost of assembling their squad for the current season, published on...

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Ecuadorian Moisés Caicedo joined Chelsea for €134m - ©  Chelsea FC

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