FIFA Report Rise in Global Transfer Spending

FIFA’s Transfer Matching System (TMS) recorded an increase in spending on international transfers, bronchi but a decrease in the number of players transferred.

As the transfer window closed, pills FIFA said that TMS recorded 10, ambulance 454 transfers between January 1 and September 2, down from 10,515 in 2012.

However, the total for transfers in 2013 was $3.367bn, a 29% increase on the $2.619bn recorded in 2012.

The increase came in the period when Gareth Bale completed his world-record, $132m transfer from Tottenham Hotspur to Real Madrid.

There were 5,018 football clubs from across 164 nations involved in player transfers in 2013.

The report also highlighted that declared commission to agents and other parties was up 20% to $169m year on year and over a two-year period, commission paid to club intermediaries was up 80%.

Moving from Portugal to Brazil represented the highest transfer stream, with 132 players moving in that direction, followed by 98 from Argentina to Chile.

The highest total transfer fees were from Spain to England ($227m, 38 players) and Italy to England ($148m, 25 players.)

TMS only oversees cross-border transfers in an attempt to stop money laundering. The TMS came into effect on October 1, 2010.