Uploaded December 2019 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The Most expensive Football Player; Which football player has the record highest transfer fee. The most expensive football player is Neymar. We present every moments when most expensive transfer record list revised from 1997 summer's football transfers to 2019 summer's transfer. Here we also show the highest transfer fee, the date of new record breaking transfer occured, the player's age when the biggest football transfer occured.

We will also show the events
- Top 10 Football player transfer until 2019.
- The clubs which the player moved from/to when the football players transfered.

Currently, the most expensive transfer world record was set by the transfer of Neymar from Barcelona to Paris Saint-Germain for €222 million (£198 million) in August of 2017.

Our transfer record history clip begins from 1997 summer when Brazil Ronaldo decided to move to Inter Milan.
Before our snapshot begin, the 1996 transfer of Alan Shearer from Blackburn Rovers to Newcastle United, for a fee of £15m was happened (new highest transfer fee record / 1996 summer).
Next year new record breaking transfers: Ronaldo moved the following year to Inter Milan from FC Barcelona for a fee of £17m (new highest transfer fee record / 1997 summer), which was followed in 1998 by the shock transfer of his fellow countryman Denílson from São Paulo to Real Betis for a fee of approximately £21m (new biggest transfer record / 1997 summer).

In 1999 and 2000, Italian clubs returned to their record-breaking ways, with Christian Vieri transferring from Lazio to Inter Milan for £28m (new highest transfer fee record / 1999 summer), while Hernán Crespo's transfer from Parma to Lazio ensured he became the first player to cost more than £30m. The transfer prompted the BBC to ask "has the world gone mad"? It took two weeks for the record to be broken when Luís Figo made a controversial £37m move from Barcelona to rivals Real Madrid(new record breaking transfer / 2000 summer). A year later, Real increased the record again with a signing of Zinedine Zidane for £48 million (new biggest transfer fee record / 2001 summer).

Zidane's transfer record stood for 8 years, the longest since the 1940s. Real Madrid continued with the Galácticos policy by buying Kaká from Milan for €67 million (£56 million), which was the world record in pound sterling. However, both world record in euro and in pound sterling were broke by Real themselves when signing Cristiano Ronaldo for £80m (€94m) from Manchester United in the same transfer window (world record transfer / 2009 summer), 4 years later Real Madrid broke the record again after completed the signing of Gareth Bale from Tottenham Hotspur in 2013(new most expensive transfer/2013 summer). Although Real initially insisted that the transfer cost €91.59 million, slightly less than the Ronaldo fee, the deal was widely reported to be around €100 million (around £85.1 million). Documents leaked in 2016 by Football Leaks revealed that installments brought the final Bale fee up to a total of €100,759,418. In 2016, Manchester United eventually took the record away from Real Madrid, signing French midfielder Paul Pogba for €105 million (highest football transfer fee record / 2016 summer), four years after having released him to Juventus for training compensation.

A year after the Pogba transfer, however, there was a major jump in the record fee. Paris St. Germain matched the €222 million buyout fee of Barcelona's Neymar, converted to a reported £198 million or £200 million by different sources(new most expensive transfer fee record / 2017 summer). This was the first time that the record fee was paid by a French club.


Data is derived from transfermarkt.
Now(2019.12.4), our TOP 10 football transfer record is still valid.

The Final TOP 10 Football transfer records is
1. Neymar - transfer 2017 at age 25 (world record breaking/most expensive football player)
2. Coutinho - transfer 2017 at age 25
3. Mbappe - transfer 2018 at age 19
4. Felix - transfer 2019 at age 19
5. Dembele - transfer 2017 at age 20
6. Griezmann - transfer 2019 at age 28
7. Ronaldo - transfer 2018 at age 33
8. Pogba - transfer 2016 at age 23 (world record breaking)
9. Bale - transfer 2013 at age 24 (world record breaking)
10. Hazard - transfer 2019 at age 28

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