Record spending by English Premier League clubs fuelled a recovery in the international transfer market in 2022 with a total outlay of some $6.5 billion, according to a report published by FIFA on Thursday.
The figure represents an increase in the last two years as football recovers from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic but is still below the levels of 2019 ($7.35 billion), just before the health crisis, the sport’s world governing body said in its Global Transfer Report.
The report only takes into account international transfers, in which over 20,000 were recorded and fewer than three thousand involved a fee.
English clubs’ spending “reached a record high of almost $2.2 billion”, the report said, with six of the 10 biggest international transfers involving moves to Premier League sides.
