Bundesliga leaves series A behind
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In April 2025, 50 million euros of the market value are still necessary to get a place among the 100 most valuable footballers in the world. 121 players worldwide come to at least this value after the updates in spring, one less than at the beginning of the year. Of them are 58, almost half of them, in the Premier League (+1). The others are distributed on Laliga (23 players), Bundesliga (16 /+1), Serie A (11 /-4), Ligue 1 (9 /+1), Liga Portugal (2), the Süper Lig (1) and the Brazilian Série A (1). The reasons for the market value changes of the individual leagues can be found here.
After the winter transfer window and the March updates, Manchester City and Real Madrid continue to have 1.37 billion and 1.27 billion euros (for statistics). However, both with eight or seven do not continue to provide most players in the top 100: the Liverpool FC (€ 994 million), FC Barcelona (€ 1.02 billion) and again Arsenal FC (€ 1.13 billion) in ranks three to five have ten professionals with 50 million euros in the market or more in the team. With nine professionals, Paris Saint-Germain is followed by City and Real, who is on par with Bayern in this discipline. Manchester United, represented with ten professionals last autumn, now only has four due to the bad season.
Complete list: The most valuable players / the most valuable squad worldwide
Where Real and City are ahead, the players are in the 100 million club. Furthermore, a total of 17 professionals have a three-digit million market value, three of which are under contract with the Skyblues and even five with the Blancos-including the double leadership Erling Haaland and Vinicius Junior with EUR 200 million each. Newcastle striker Alexander Isak (100 million) is new to this ranks after a 25-million euro plus plus, while Inter-Torjäger Lautaro Martínez (95 million) falls out. There were also changes among the most valuable players in the world at Reals Kylian Mbappé (+10 million) to € 170 million), City’s Phil Foden (-10 to 130 million), Barcelonas Pedri (+10 to 120 million) and Arsenals Martin Ødegaard (-10 to 100 million). Bavaria’s Jamal Musiala and Bayer Leverkusens Florian Wirtz still share seventh with 140 million euros and are therefore the most valuable German professionals in market value history.
Of the 16 Bundesliga professionals among the 100 most valuable footballers, three play three at Werkelf (+1), four at RB Leipzig (+-0) and one more at BVB and Eintracht Frankfurt. While the record champions Michael Olise is new to the top 25 with his jump to 80 million euros, Xavi Simons is out there to EUR 70 million. Despite the departure of Omar Marmoush (Man City), Eintracht is still represented in the ranking, since Hugo Ekitiké is now with 55 million euros. In addition to the French young striker, the Leverkusener Piero Hincapié as well as Désiré Doué, Ethan Nwaneri, Jarrad Branthwaite, Morgan Gibbs-White, Curtis Jones, Jurrien Timber and Morgan Rogers are new among the top 100. Rasmus Højlund, Dušan Vlahović, Bernardo Silva, Alejandro Garnacho, Gonçalo Ramos, Lisandro Martínez, Diogo Jota, Teun Koopmeiners, Theo Hernández and former Leipzig Christopher Nkunku are no longer assessed with 50 million euros or more. In addition to the Dortmunders and Frankfurters, 13 other teams with one player are represented.
This is how the transfer market market values work
The transfer market market values are taken into account, taking into account various pricing models and a strong inclusion of the transfer market community, which deals with the values in detailed discussions. The transfer market values are not to be equated with the transfer sums actually paid.
The goal is not to predict a price, but an expectation value. When collecting the market value, both individual transfer modalities and situational framework conditions are relevant to a certain extent. Examples will be here listed. Transfer market does not use algorithm (For detailed market value definition).
