Global spending on winter market transfers reached pre-pandemic levels, with more than 1,000 million dollars (900 million euros) investedaccording to a FIFA report published on Tuesday.
After more than a year of caution, world football has returned to its financial habits: in January, 1,030 million dollars (902 million euros) were spent on transferswhich represents an increase of 74.7% compared to the same period last year, in the midst of a health crisis.
In 2020, just before the pandemic, $1.16 billion was spent in January (1,015 million euros), compared to 1,100 million dollars in January 2019, about (963,000 million euros).
“In men’s football, transfer market activity has almost returned to pre-pandemic levels,” FIFA said in a statement.
As expected, the English clubs were the ones that invested the most, with 349.5 million dollars (306 million euros), compared to only 75.2 million dollars (65.9 million euros) of their French counterparts.
After the opulent English clubs followed the Italians with 113 million dollars (99 million euros) and the Spanish with 110 million dollars (97 million euros).
France, on the other hand, is much better positioned in terms of income during this period: the French teams received 99.2 million dollars (86.9 million euros) in January, only behind the English clubs, with 108 million dollars (95 million euros).
FIFA has also noted an increase in the number of transfers in women’s football, even exceeding pre-Covid standards.
In January, some 487,800 dollars (427,000 euros) were spent on players, a record widely surpassed after the 310,100 dollars (272,000 euros) invested last year.
In a report released Thursday, February 3, For its part, UEFA had estimated the cost of covid-19 in two seasons for European football at 7,000 million euros (7,991 million dollars), emphasizing above all a 40% reduction in income from transfers during the summer windows of 2020, January 2021 and summer 2021.
Global spending on winter market transfers reached pre-pandemic levels, with more than 1,000 million dollars (900 million euros) investedaccording to a FIFA report published on Tuesday.
After more than a year of caution, world football has returned to its financial habits: in January, 1,030 million dollars (902 million euros) were spent on transferswhich represents an increase of 74.7% compared to the same period last year, in the midst of a health crisis.
In 2020, just before the pandemic, $1.16 billion was spent in January (1,015 million euros), compared to 1,100 million dollars in January 2019, about (963,000 million euros).
“In men’s football, transfer market activity has almost returned to pre-pandemic levels,” FIFA said in a statement.
As expected, the English clubs were the ones that invested the most, with 349.5 million dollars (306 million euros), compared to only 75.2 million dollars (65.9 million euros) of their French counterparts.
After the opulent English clubs followed the Italians with 113 million dollars (99 million euros) and the Spanish with 110 million dollars (97 million euros).
France, on the other hand, is much better positioned in terms of income during this period: the French teams received 99.2 million dollars (86.9 million euros) in January, only behind the English clubs, with 108 million dollars (95 million euros).
FIFA has also noted an increase in the number of transfers in women’s football, even exceeding pre-Covid standards.
In January, some 487,800 dollars (427,000 euros) were spent on players, a record widely surpassed after the 310,100 dollars (272,000 euros) invested last year.
In a report released Thursday, February 3, For its part, UEFA had estimated the cost of covid-19 in two seasons for European football at 7,000 million euros (7,991 million dollars), emphasizing above all a 40% reduction in income from transfers during the summer windows of 2020, January 2021 and summer 2021.
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