Expenditures and Revenues by League in the Summer Transfer Market 2013/14

The summer transfer season ended at midnight on Monday, September 2nd, 2013. Let's take a look at the transfer balances for each one of the top European leagues. What part of Europe did football talent move to this summer?

Please note that 'expenditures' relate to player purchases and 'revenues' relate to player sales. Players on loans are also included in the calculations.

League: Expenditures - Revenues = Total

English Premier League: 669.530.400 £ - 241.376.960 £ = (-428.153.440 £)

French Ligue 1: 335.016.000 £ - 201.036.000 £ = (-133.980.000 £)

German Bundesliga: 231.048.400 £ - 180.272.400 £ = (-50.776.000 £)

Russian Premier Liga: 236.170.000 £ - 221.276.000 £ = (-14.894.000 £)

Italian Serie A: 361.156.400 £ - 363.246.400 £ = 2.090.000 £

Spanish La Liga: 351.956.000 £ - 442.085.600 £ = 90.129.600


English Premier League (EPL) is where most of the football talent moved to this summer. It was a record-breaking season for the EPL where the team expenditures totalled 669.530.400 £.

The EPL teams that strengthened the most, according to the numbers, are Manchester CIty with the balance of -91.777.840 £, Chelsea FC with the balance of -57.376.000 £ and Arsenal with the balance of -33.836.000 £.

Thanks to big spenders AS Monaco and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), French Ligue 1 was the league that strengthened the most after the EPL. PSG summer transfer season balance is -74.272.000 £, while AS Monaco's summer balance stands at an astonishing -140.756.000 £.

It is interesting to note that the Spanish La Liga lost out on talent this summer, despite the high profile transfers of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid and Neymar to FC Barcelona.

We will follow this article with the breakdown for each league.

For the list of the top summer transfers please click here.


Source: TransferMarkt