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In the summer transfer window, Bundesliga clubs invested a total of 485 million euros in 136 newcomers. In the ranking of the top European leagues, the German upper house is in fifth place in terms of expenditure – this was offset by EUR 530 million in income and thus a transfer balance of EUR 45 million. Compared to the previous year, the plus was a little smaller this time – in 2021/22, today’s first division clubs also reported a plus of EUR 98 million due to corona. Transfermarkt took a look at the database and checked what the transfer balance sheet of the Bundesliga looks like over the past decade.
Current 18 Bundesliga clubs: The transfer balance of the past 10 years
Which club has had the biggest transfer plus since 2013/14, the season before the World Cup in Brazil and Mario Götze’s first season in Munich after leaving Dortmund? And who is faced with the most negative balance after comparing the numbers of purchases and sales? It is hardly surprising that FC Bayern provided the right answer to the second question because of its sporting and financial possibilities – even if sports director Hasan Salihamidzic earned public praise for the expensive sales of bench pressers and supplementary players this year.
Bayern’s “chasers”, on the other hand, are quite surprising (see gallery), even though financially strong sponsors explain the high expenses in the background at VfL Wolfsburg and RB Leipzig. Unlike BVB, where some expensive sales like Götze and most recently Erling Haaland ensure the second-biggest plus in the league and a difference of around 420 million euros to the record champions. In an international comparison, twelve clubs have a transfer balance sheet with a higher minus: Primus Manchester United, Manchester City, Paris Saint-Germain and other clubs spent significantly more.
When looking at the transfer balances of the past ten years, it is noticeable that only seven current Bundesliga clubs show a minus in the statistics – eleven clubs have therefore earned more from player changes than they have invested since 2013/14. The year with the most spending was immediately before the 2019/20 corona pandemic, when the German first division clubs ended the transfer summer and winter with a minus of 237 million euros. That season only three clubs took in more than was transferred to them on sales. From 2013 to today, the transfer minus of the 18 Bundesliga clubs is a total of 411 million euros.
For comparison: for the same period, the current 20 clubs in the English Premier League come up with an astonishing minus of 7.4 billion euros! The Spanish LaLiga is close to the Bundesliga with a transfer minus of 654 million euros, while the Italian Serie A is in the red with around 1.3 billion. However, Ligue 1 is stepping out of line: since 2013/14, the current French first division clubs have earned EUR 211 million more than they put on the table for newcomers, even though PSG alone recorded a loss of EUR 835 million in the same period.
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