In the recently released FIFA TMS’ third consecutive annual report covering the international transfer of professional players, the transfer activity rose by four per cent to 12,309 transfers last year for a combined transfer compensation value of USD 3.7 billion.
The comprehensive report gives break ups for countries, players and club details patterns. It includes various insights in to the trends that have developed in the international transfer market over the 2013 calendar year from a national, regional and global perspective.
This includes compelling analysis of market activity and mobility patterns, transfer fee spending, player characteristics and the involvement of club intermediaries in player transfers.
Global Transfer Market 2014 is based on data from the International Transfer Matching System (ITMS) – an online system that became mandatory for all international transfers of professional male players for eleven-a-side football in 2010.
ITMS is a complimentary service that provides support to more than 200 of FIFA’s member associations and around 6,000 clubs.
Highlights of the report include:
• In 2013, FIFA TMS handled 12,309 international transfers (increase of four per cent on 2012) with a combined transfer compensation value of USD 3.7 billion (increase of 41 per cent).
• Brazil, with 1,402 transfers, was again the most active country for both incoming and outgoing transfers.
• England spent more than any other country on transfer fees with USD 913 million, representing 25 per cent of the total.
• The average age of players transferred internationally was 25 years and 3 months.
• There was an increase of 30 per cent in club intermediary commissions paid, but a decrease in the actual number of transfers involving intermediaries – only 14 per cent compared to 17 per cent in 2012.
~Source: FIFA.com
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