Highest Transfer Fees in Football History
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Neymar leads in Transfer Fee (Million EUR) with 222 in 2024.
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2017 recorded the highest combined total across all categories.
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Gap in 2024: Neymar is 2.3× larger than Antony.
About This Dataset
Highest Transfer Fees in Football History
The most expensive player transfers ever recorded in the history of professional football, in millions of euros. Neymar's 2017 transfer from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for €222 million remains the highest transfer fee ever paid.
Analysis
Neymar (222), Kylian Mbappé (180) and Ousmane Dembélé (135) take the top three in Transfer Fee (Million EUR) in 2024. Values run from 222 at the top to 95 at the bottom, a spread of 127. First and second are separated by 42, so the leader sits inside the field rather than apart from it. Below the top two the field is tightly packed: the remaining 6 run from 135 down to 95.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2017–2024 (6 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Transfer Fee (Million EUR)
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2024.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
Data Sources & References
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