*transfer spending includes add-ons<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\nNow that the summer transfer windows are over globally, one can analyse the ongoing trends in transfer expenditures in football. According to the latest analysis from CIES, football clubs spent a total of \u20ac10.96 billion during 2024. This figure includes the money spent on transfers in both winter and summer transfer windows.<\/span><\/p>\nThe money spent on transfers in 2024 represents a significant downturn from what was spent in 2023, as clubs had spent around \u20ac12.24 billion on transfers last year. Thus, the transfer expenditure <\/span>witnessed a decrease of<\/span> \u20ac1.28 billion, or 10.5%, in 2024.<\/span><\/p>\nA look at the past data from 2015 onwards informs that the global transfer spend increased from \u20ac5.88 billion in 2015 to \u20ac9.99 billion in 2019. The growth was gradual, <\/span>with the exception of<\/span> 2018 when the transfer spending took a dip from the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\nCOVID-19 hit the footballing world in 2020, and the clubs were financially incapacitated. Understandably, the transfer expenditure took a hit, and the spending on transfers dropped by almost 25% to \u20ac7.51 billion. In 2021, the <\/span>spending<\/span> further decreased by 20.2% to \u20ac5.99 billion, almost down to the levels of the expenditure in 2015.<\/span><\/p>\nHowever, the footballing industry rebounded from the pandemic in 2022, and the expenditure on transfers rocketed to \u20ac9.34 billion, indicating an increase of 56%. A further increase of 31% followed in 2023 as the clubs globally spent a record total of \u20ac12.24 billion.<\/span><\/p>\nUnexpectedly, the global transfer market took a hit in 2024 as clubs decided to be more cautious with their money this year. As stated above, the spending on transfers dropped by 10.5% to \u20ac10.96 million this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two years of growth, the footballing world witnessed a decline in the expenditure on transfers in 2024. According to numbers presented by SafeBettingSites.com, football clubs spent a total of \u20ac10.96 billion on transfers in 2024. This amount represented a decline of 10.5% from the amount of money spent on transfers last year. Spend on … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":3835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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