100 Most Expensive Transfer Fees

Rank	Player	From	To	Fee (M £)	Fee (M €)	Year	Ref.
1	Gareth Bale	Tottenham Hotspur	Real Madrid	£85.3	€100	2013	[3][4]
2	Cristiano Ronaldo	Manchester United	Real Madrid	£80	€94.4	2009	[5][6][7][8]
3	Luis Suárez	Liverpool	Barcelona	£75	€94	2014	[9][10][11][12]
4	James Rodríguez	AS Monaco	Real Madrid	£63	€79.5	2014	[13][14][15][16]
T-5	Ángel Di María	Real Madrid	Manchester United	£59.7	€75	2014	[17][18][19]
T-5	Zinedine Zidane	Juventus	Real Madrid	£46	€75	2001	[20][21]
7 1	Zlatan Ibrahimović	Inter	Barcelona	£59	€69	2009	[22][23]
8	Kaká	Milan	Real Madrid	£56	€65	2009	[24][25][26][27]
9	Edinson Cavani	Napoli	Paris Saint-Germain	£55	€64	2013	[28][29][30][31]
10	David Luiz	Chelsea	Paris Saint-Germain	£50	€62.6	2014	[32][33][34]
11	Luís Figo	Barcelona	Real Madrid	£37	€62	2000	[2][35][36]
12	Radamel Falcao	Atlético Madrid	AS Monaco	£51	€60	2013	[37][38]
13	Fernando Torres	Liverpool	Chelsea	£50	€58	2011	[39][40]
14 2	Hernán Crespo	Parma	Lazio	£35.5	€56.5	2000	[41][42]
15	Carlos Tevez	MSI	Manchester City	£47	€53	2009	[43]
16	Mesut Özil	Real Madrid	Arsenal	£42.4	€50	2013	[44][45][46]
17	Rui Costa	Fiorentina	Milan	£30	€49.7	2001	[47]
18	Gaizka Mendieta	Valencia	Lazio	£29	€48	2001	[48][49]
19	Ronaldo	Inter	Real Madrid	£30	€46	2002	[50]
T-20	James Rodríguez	Porto	AS Monaco	£38.5	€45	2013	[51][52]
T-20 3	Gianluigi Buffon	Parma	Juventus	£32.6	€45	2001	[53]
22	Hulk	Porto	Zenit Saint Petersburg	£35.5	€44.7	2012	[54][55]
23	Lucas Moura	São Paulo	Paris Saint-Germain	£35.5	€45	2013	[56][57]
24	Sergio Agüero	Atlético Madrid	Manchester City	£38	€45	2011	[58][59]
T-25	Juan Mata	Chelsea	Manchester United	£37.1	€44.8	2014	[60][61]
T-25	Rio Ferdinand	Leeds United	Manchester United	£30	€44.8	2002	[62][63]
27	Thiago Silva	Milan	Paris Saint-Germain	£35	€44.4	2012	[64][65]
28	Alexis Sánchez	Barcelona	Arsenal	£35	€44	2014	[66][67]
29	Andriy Shevchenko	Milan	Chelsea	£30	€43.78	2006	[68]
30 4	Christian Vieri	Lazio	Inter	£28	€43	1999	[69][70]
31	Juan Sebastián Verón	Lazio	Manchester United	£28.1	€42.6	2001	[71][72]
32	Robinho	Real Madrid	Manchester City	£32.5	€42.5	2008	[73][74]
33	Javier Pastore	Palermo	Paris Saint-Germain	£36.6	€41.9	2011	[75][76]
34	Luka Modrić	Tottenham Hotspur	Real Madrid	£33	€41.6	2012	[77][78]
T-35	Pavel Nedvěd	Lazio	Juventus	£25	€41	2001	[79]
T-35	Karim Benzema	Lyon	Real Madrid	£35	€41	2009	[80][81]
37	Andy Carroll	Newcastle United	Liverpool	£35	€40.9	2011	[82][83]
38	Marc Overmars	Arsenal	Barcelona	£25	€40.6	2000	[84][85]
T-39	Eliaquim Mangala	Porto	Manchester City	£32	€40.1	2014	[86][87]
T-39	Radamel Falcao	Porto	Atlético Madrid	£35	€40.1	2011	[88][89]
T-39	Diego Costa	Atlético Madrid	Chelsea	£32	€40.1	2014	[90][91]
T-42	Fernandinho	Shakhtar Donetsk	Manchester City	£34	€40	2013	[92][93]
T-42	Axel Witsel	Benfica	Zenit Saint Petersburg	£34	€40	2012	[54][55]
44	Javi Martínez	Athletic Bilbao	Bayern Munich	£31.6	€39.9	2012	[94][95]
45	Cesc Fàbregas	Arsenal	Barcelona	£34	€39.8	2011	[96][97]
46	David Villa	Valencia	Barcelona	£34.2	€39.8	2010	[98][99]
47	Wayne Rooney	Everton	Manchester United	£27	€39.4	2004	[100][101]
T-48	Gonzalo Higuain	Real Madrid	Napoli	£34.5	€39	2013	[102]
T-48	Asier Illarramendi	Real Sociedad	Real Madrid	£34	€39	2013	[103]
50	Dimitar Berbatov	Tottenham Hotspur	Manchester United	£30.75	€37.9	2008	[104][105]
51	Eden Hazard	Lille	Chelsea	£32	€37.5	2012	[106]
52	Luke Shaw	Southampton	Manchester United	£30	€37.4	2014	[107][108]
53	Mario Götze	Borussia Dortmund	Bayern Munich	£31.5	€37	2013	[109][110]
54	Ander Herrera	Athletic Bilbao	Manchester United	£29	€36.25	2014	[111][112]
55	Arjen Robben	Chelsea	Real Madrid	£24.3	€36	2007	[113][114]
56	Didier Drogba	Marseille	Chelsea	£24	€35.97	2004	[115][116]
57	David Beckham	Manchester United	Real Madrid	£25	€35.9	2003	[117][118]
58	Lilian Thuram	Parma	Juventus	£22	€35.85	2001	[119][120]
59	Daniel Alves	Sevilla	Barcelona	£28.5	€35.67	2008	[121][122]
60	Nicolas Anelka	Real Madrid	Paris Saint-Germain	£22	€35.65	2000	[123][124]
61	Xabi Alonso	Liverpool	Real Madrid	£30	€35.4	2009	[125]
62	Nicolas Anelka	Arsenal	Real Madrid	£23.5m	€35.2	1999	[126]
63	Romelu Lukaku	Chelsea	Everton	£28	€35	2014	[127][128]
64	Marquinhos	A.S. Roma	Paris Saint-Germain	£30.1	€34.95	2013	[129][130]
65	Willian	Anzhi Makhachkala	Chelsea	£30	€34.9	2013	[131]
66	Willian	Shakhtar Donetsk	Anzhi Makhachkala	£30	€34.5	2013	[132]
67	Yaya Touré	Barcelona	Manchester City	£28	€33.8	2010	[133][134]
68	Cesc Fàbregas	Barcelona	Chelsea	£27	€33.5	2014	[135][136]
69	Alessandro Nesta	Lazio	Milan	£21	€33.1	2002	[137][138]
70	Wilfried Bony	Swansea City	Manchester City	£25	€32.6	2015	[139][140]
71	Edin Džeko	Wolfsburg	Manchester City	£27	€32.45	2011	[141][142]
72	Marouane Fellaini	Everton	Manchester United	£27.5	€32.4	2013	[143][144]
73	Oscar	Internacional	Chelsea	£25	€31.9	2012	[145][146]
74	James Milner	Aston Villa	Manchester City	£26	€31.4	2010	[147][148]
75	Adam Lallana	Southampton	Liverpool	£25	€31.3	2014	[149][150]
76	Ruud van Nistelrooy	PSV Eindhoven	Manchester United	£19	€31	2001	[151][152]
77	Denílson	São Paulo	Real Betis	£21	€30.9	1998	[153]
78	Juan Cuadrado	Fiorentina	Chelsea	£23.3	€30.89	2015	[154]
T-79	Robin van Persie	Arsenal	Manchester United	£24	€30.5	2012	[155][156]
T-79	Shaun Wright-Phillips	Manchester City	Chelsea	£21	€30.5	2005	[157][158]
T-81	Ricardo Carvalho	Porto	Chelsea	£20	€30.2	2004	[159][160]
T-81	Érik Lamela	A.S. Roma	Tottenham Hotspur	£25.8	€30.2	2013	[161][162]
83	Fábio Coentrão	Benfica	Real Madrid	£27	€30.1	2011	[163][164]
T-84	Mehdi Benatia	A.S. Roma	Bayern Munich	£23.9	€30	2014	[165][166]
T-84	Danny	Dynamo Moscow	Zenit Saint Petersburg	£24	€30	2008	[167]
T-84	Antoine Griezmann	Real Sociedad	Atlético Madrid	£24	€30	2014	[168][169]
T-84	Ezequiel Lavezzi	Napoli	Paris Saint-Germain	£24.1	€30	2012	[170][171]
T-84	Roberto Soldado	Valencia	Tottenham Hotspur	£26	€30	2013	[172][173]
89	David Silva	Valencia	Manchester City	£25	€29.95	2010	[174][175]
90	Ronaldinho	Paris Saint-Germain	Barcelona	£21	€29.6	2003	[176][177]
91	Mario Balotelli	Inter	Manchester City	£24	€29.3	2010	[178][179]
92	André Schürrle	Chelsea	Wolfsburg	£22	€29.1	2015	[180]
93	Emmanuel Adebayor	Arsenal	Manchester City	£25	€28.95	2009	[181][182]
94	Filippo Inzaghi	Juventus	Milan	£17	€28.5	2000	[183]
95	Samir Nasri	Arsenal	Manchester City	£25	€28.4	2011	[184][185]
96	Henrikh Mkhitaryan	Shakhtar Donetsk	Borussia Dortmund	£24	€27.9	2013	[186][187]
97	Isco	Málaga	Real Madrid	£23.1	€27	2013	[188][189]
98	Juan Mata	Valencia	Chelsea	£23.5	€26.9	2011	[190][191]
T-99	Jaap Stam	Manchester United	Lazio	£16.4	€26	2001	[192][193]
T-99	Alexis Sánchez	Udinese	Barcelona	£23	€26	2011	[194][195]

  Fee broke the world football transfer record at the time of the transfer

  Fee broke the national club record

  Fee broke the record for a teenager

  Fee broke the record for a South American

  Fee broke the record for an African