In the Bundesliga
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18 of the 25 biggest market value winners in the 2024 Bundesliga are no older than 23 years, ten play for the German national team and most of the top 25 come from VfB Stuttgart (5) ahead of FC Bayern, RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund ( 4 each).
The biggest market value winner this year applies to both the U23 age group and the status as a DFB national player. If he hadn’t been out for a longer period of time with a broken collarbone, another plus might have been possible in the latest update. Nevertheless, no one had a steeper market value curve in the Bundesliga in 2024 than Bayern’s own Aleksandar Pavlovic (20). The defensive midfielder, who was worth €2 million at the start of the year, has climbed to €50 million over the last twelve months, making him one of the biggest winners internationally.
In addition to Pavlovic, there are two other players who climbed by at least 40 million euros in 2024: Omar Marmoush (25) and Florian Wirtz (21). The first-mentioned Frankfurter was recently the top winner in the league with an increase of 20 million to 60 million euros, and overall the Egyptians went up by 45 million euros in 2024. In the history of the SGE, only one player has been more valuable, Randal Kolo Muani, who was valued at 80 million euros at the time of his move to PSG.
Wirtz is now one of the elite club of players with a valuation of at least 100 million euros, which the Leverkusen jewel increased by 40 million to 140 million euros over the course of the year. On par with FC Bayern’s Jamal Musiala (21; +30 million euros), who together recently set another record as the most valuable German footballers in history and are approaching the top in the world.
“Wirtz and Musiala have made a leap in development this season. Wirtz is also showing his enormous potential on the Champions League stage and Musiala has developed into the Munich player who carries the offensive. “For fans and experts, Musiala is now Bayern’s most important player, on whom the welfare and woe of the entire club depends,” said market value expert Julius Weißenstein (“Savarez09”), justifying the increase in value of the duo by 10 million to 140 million euros each .
Market value winner Bundesliga: Stuttgart 5x there – biggest plus for Stiller
Runner-up Stuttgart, with five players, has the most of the 25 professionals who improved the most. The market value curve was steepest for Angelo Stiller (23), who started the year with 14 million euros and is now valued at 32 million euros. The defensive midfielder developed into one of the key players under Sebastian Hoeneß and also played for the DFB team for the first time in September.
His club colleagues Jamie Leweling (23; +15.5 million euros), Maximilian Mittelstädt (27; +15 million euros) and Deniz Undav (28; +11 million euros), also made their debut under Julian Nagelsmann market value winners of the year. Fifth in the VfB league is the Frenchman Enzo Millot (22) with an increase of 17 million euros.
At BVB, the market value curve went up most clearly for an English player with Jamie Gittens (20; +22 million euros), and in Leipzig for a Slovenian with Benjamin Sesko (21; +20 million euros). The Red Bulls had the top winner of the year in 2023, who is also in the top 25 this time, but “only” in 24th place. After a jump of 52 million euros, the currently injured PSG loanee Xavi Simons climbed (21) 2024 by 10 million to 80 million euros.
This is how transfer market market values work
The transfer market market values are created taking into account various pricing models as well as a strong involvement of the transfer market community, which deals with the values in detailed discussions. The transfer market market values cannot generally be equated with the transfer fees actually paid.
The goal is not to predict a price, but rather an expected value. When determining the market value, both individual transfer modalities and situational conditions are relevant to a certain extent. Examples of this will be here listed. Transfermarkt does not use an algorithm (for a detailed definition of market value).