Football, The Peoples game and the worlds most popular sport. Played In at least 200 countries, with 250 million players worldwide. This website will examine the data behind the transfers. By looking at the top 250 transfers every season from the last 19 seasons. Please click on the data button below, or the stats button above to take the journey. Also check out our football transfer history section for more Infomation.
The Growth of Football Transfers
Position of The of The Players
This pie-chart displays position of the players who were transferred from last 19 seasons. As you can see center forwards where the most signed players. If you hover over a slice of the pie it will display the percentage of the total of players signed for each position. The graph is also dynamic and will interact with all the other graphs. Click on one of the position and you will see how it interacts with every other graph on the page. If you click on any of the slices all players from that position will be displayed on the scatterplot graph and in the same color.
Every Transfer By Season
This graph shows every single transfer across every season. Hover over any of the dots and a transfer will be revealed. It will display the season, the clubs where the players were transferred from and what team they were transferred too as well as the amount they were transferred for. The chart is dynamic and will change when they other charts are clicked. Displaying every player that was transferred by a certain club, leauge or position. The color of each dot is also linked to the players position which is displayed in the pie chart above.
The total amount spent per season
This graph shows the total amount spent per season on the top 250 transfers, by all teams in all leagues. The spending peaked 2017/2018 season In which 4.7 billion was spent nearly 5 times what was spent in the lowest spending season. Please hover over the dots from every season this will give you each total. This chart is also interactive and will change dynamically when all other charts are clicked displaying what was spent by each league, team or even on what was spent on players in a certain position.
The Top Ten Leagues For Spending
This graph displays the top ten highest spending leagues from the last 19 seasons. As you can see the premier league has spent double what the closet other highest spending league has spent. If you hover over the graph it will display the total for each league. The graph is also dynamic and will interact with all the other graphs. Click on one of the leagues and you will see how it interacts with every other graph on the page.
Top Ten Spending Teams
This graph displays the top ten highest spending teams from the last 19 seasons. As you can see chelsea are the highest spenders. If you hover over the graph it will display the total for each team. The graph is also dynamic and will interact with all the other graphs. Click on one of the teams and you will see how it interacts with every other graph on the page. If you click on one of the leagues on the top spending leagues chart just above. This chart will change to the top spending teams for that league.
The History of Football Transfers
The Frist Transfer In Football History
In professional football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player under contract moves between clubs. This is a picture of the first player ever to be transfered the history of football. The player was transferred for a fee of over £100 was Scottish striker Willie Groves when he made the switch from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa in 1893, eight years after the legalisation of professionalism in the sport.
Top First Million Pound Footballer
Giuseppe Savoldi was born on January 21 1947, in Gorlago, a municipality in the province of Bergamo, a town you can find about 60 kilometres northeast of Milan. Gorlago is a “blink and you could miss it” kind of place with a population of around 5,000 gorlaghesi.Napoli spent 2 billion Italian Lira (£1.2 million) on attacker Giuseppe Savoldi from Bologna in 1975, making him football’s first million pound player.
The First 100 Hundred Million Euro Footballer
On 1 September 2013, Spanish club Real Madrid announced that they had reached an agreement for the transfer of Bale, signing a six-year deal in a then world record deal.The Spanish press reported that Bale had cost £77 million (€91 million), while the British press reported a world record transfer fee of £85.3 million (€100 million), which would be above Cristiano Ronaldo's transfer record fee of £80 million (€94 million).However, in January 2016, documents pertaining to the transfer were leaked by Football Leaks which confirmed a world record transfer fee of €100.8 million
The Most Expensive Footballer of All Time.
The current transfer record was set by the transfer of Neymar from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for €222 million (£198 million) in August of 2017.Neymar's move from Barcelona to PSG in 2017 didn't so much break the world transfer record as smash it into a million pieces. He became the first player to command a nine-figure sum, with the £198m fee being more than double the previous record of Paul Pogba.
Is Money Ruining The Beautiful Game?
The big clubs make millions, and spend millions, often ploughing revenue back into the club to attain success. Lower down the leagues however, clubs struggle to make ends meet, have to sell their best players, and often flirt with the threat of administration. Watch this short youtube documentary an decide for your self has the money being spent on transfers runied the worlds most popular sport?