List of most expensive association football transfers

The following is a list of most expensive association football transfers, which details the highest transfer fees ever paid for players, as well as transfers which set new world transfer records. The first confirmed record transfer was of Willie Groves from West Bromwich Albion to Aston Villa for ₤100 in 1893 (equivalent to £11,000 in 2025), made just eight years after the introduction of professionalism by the Football Association in 1885.

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