Transfer & Loan Activity
Transfer and loan activity is a fundamental part of the football ecosystem and acts a direct solidarity system for talent developers. Many meaningful insights can be drawn from analysing general trends in transfer activity across the whole market or part of the market. In addition detailed analysis by volume/price, segmentation of transfers by level/type, mapping of transfer flows, player types etc can drive further important analysis. The UEFA Intelligence Centre delivers real-time transfer window assessments to key UEFA decision makers as well as transfer market analysis in the annual benchmarking report. Numerous proprietary dashboards have been built allowing detailed tailoring of transfer analysis at player / club / league / country / global level.
Supporting Data
The Intelligence Centre Composite Transfer database brings together real-time transfer data covering football clubs and leagues across Europe and beyond. The database is compiled using a range of sources including club submitted data (covering circa 40% of individual deals by value), audited club submitted transfer values (covering 90% of aggregate global transfer activity), FIFA TMS (sanity checks restricted to cross border transfers) OPTA and Transfermarkt. Significant time investments have been made to sanitize and transform data quality with specific algorithms dictating source priority, to obtain the most complete transfer picture built. The database links numerous data sets including:
Transfer spending and income trends and insights
Mapping of transfer flows
Recruitment locally trained players and youth players
Transfer database covering 2,000,000+ transfers
Use of loan system by clubs
Global transfer window timings
Example Questions We Can Answer
By combining our network of databases together with professional industry experience, the Intelligence Centre can provide answers to a range of strategic off-pitch football questions.
