MADRID, 30 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The number of international transfer in the world of professional and female professional football and amateur This Thursday.
In 2024, a historical record of 78,742 international players in professional and female amateur and amateur soccer was recorded. After the clubs established a new record in terms of compensation for transfer in 2023 (9,266.41 million euros), the total amount disbursed in 2024 was lower (8,240 million), but still exceeded more than 15% Previous record, 2019 (7,031, 34 million).
According to the study, almost 40% of total spending on male professional football corresponded to 2.5% of the “largest” operations, which led to costs of almost 20 million euros per transfer.
In 2024, specifically, English clubs were both the ones that most spent the most for transfer costs, with disbursements of more than 1.8 billion in hiring and revenues of more than 1,285 million for sales or assignments. As for the total number of signings, it is headed by the Brazilian clubs, which signed 1,102 players and sold or yielded to another 1,113.
Six Premier League clubs were among the 20 European teams that most spent, with Manchester United after Paris Saint-Germain, after a summer in which he signed Leny Yoro, Joshua Zirkzee, Matthijs de Ligt and Manuel Ugarte. France, Italy, Spain and Germany are followed by England.
However, only an operation in which an English club participated appeared among the five major of the year in the FIFA World Transfers Report: the signing of Yoro for the United from the Lille.
The sale of Julián Álvarez del Manchester City to Atlético de Madrid also appears among the top five.
The others were Gonçalo Ramos and João Neves from Benfica to Paris Saint-Germain, and Dani Olmo from the RB Leipzig to Barcelona.
Regarding women’s football, in 2024, the total spending on signings reached almost 15 million euros, a record amount and more than 2 times more than the previous year. A total of 695 clubs (+11.6%) participated in international transfer, of which 109 invested in at least one signing (+23.9%) and 124 received indemnities for sales or assignments (+27.8%).
“These figures give a good account of the extraordinary progress that has starred in women’s football, in which there are more and more professional players,” said FIFA. And it is that in 2024 2,284 international transfer of professional players were registered, which represents an increase of 20.8% compared to 2023. The number of international transfer in women’s professional football has increased by more than 20% for the sixth consecutive year and It is more than triple than in 2018, an exercise in which they began to account.