“FIFA” announces shocking figures about the transfer market for players in the world, which amounted to 50 billion dollars

The transfer market saw spending of $48.5 billion (41.1 billion euros) between 2011 and 2020, according to a FIFA report released on Monday that also pointed to a growing share of player agents.

Players worth about 50 billion dollars over the last ten years, an amount equivalent to the International Monetary Fund's plan to eliminate the Corona epidemic.

The report indicated, according to the big data analyzed during the period 2011-2020, thanks to the TMS (International Transfer Matching) system developed by the International Federation in October 2010, that the transfer period witnessed a remarkable growth until 2019, before it was affected by the “Covid” crisis. -19" last year.

He added that the value of spending rose from 2.85 billion dollars (2.41 billion euros) in the first year of the establishment of this system (2011), to 7.35 billion (6.22 billion euros) in 2019, before declining by 23 percent. % in 2020 ($5.63 billion, €4.77 billion) due to the coronavirus pandemic.

According to this study, the 30 most spending clubs are all European, including 12 clubs from the English Premier League, five from Spain, another from Italy, three from Germany, two from France, the same from Portugal, and one from Russia, noting that these 30 clubs represent alone. 47% of all transfer spending worldwide during this period.

And she added that the club that spent the most in this decade is Manchester City (the report did not mention any numbers), ahead of its compatriot Chelsea and Barcelona.

Paris Saint-Germain, France, ranks fourth.

On the other hand, the study showed that the two clubs that received the most money from the transfer market during this period are Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, the Portuguese.

Monaco, the first French club in the ranking of clubs that sell most players, came in eighth place, ahead of Lyon (14), Lille (16) and Paris Saint-Germain (18).

If the net profit is compared in the transfer market (the balance of buying and selling players), a third Portuguese club joins Benfica and Sporting Lisbon, which is Porto.

Lyon ranks 5th and Lille 6th.

Not surprisingly, the Premier League is the biggest spender, with purchases reaching $12.4 billion in ten years, ahead of Spain ($6.7 billion) and Italy ($5.6 billion).

France ranks fifth ($4 billion), while China, which is trying to build a strong league, ranks seventh ($1.7 billion).

Outside of Europe, the clubs most greedy for transfers by confederations are China's Guangzhou Evergrande in Asia, Egypt's Pyramids in Africa, Brazil's Flamengo in South America and Mexico's Tigres Unal in CONCACAF.

- Brazil is the largest supplier of players - Players

' "big data" highlighted that the main supplier of footballers in the world remains Brazil, with 15,128 transfers during this period, ahead of Argentina (7444), Britain (5523) and France (5027).

But in terms of total value, France ranked second ($4.497 billion) behind Brazil ($7,071 billion).

The report touched on the huge rise in the commissions of players’ agents, as it indicated that the total amount paid to intermediaries went from 131.1 million dollars (111.1 million euros) in 2011, to 640.5 million dollars (542.8 million euros) in 2019 , an "astonishing" increase, according to FIFA.

The International Federation also expressed its concern about the decrease in the formation compensation paid to the player's home club in a subsequent transfer process.

After rising to $63.4 million in 2019, we are down 40% to $38.5 million in 2020, which is significantly higher than the drop in transfer volumes during the same period.

At the same time, the report noted "a sharp decline in the volume of solidarity contributions, with the total in 2020 ($38.5 million) closer to what it was in 2011 ($38 million)."

FIFA considered in a statement that "this decline shows the need to establish a clearing house," recalling that such a body had been established in order to "guarantee the payment of training compensation and solidarity contributions" amounting to 300 million per year.

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