The switch market within the ladies’s recreation has taken a very long time to evolve to the place it’s right this moment.
For a years feminine participants could be sure to the lengths of their contracts, with golf equipment not keen to spend extra finance on switch charges to signal new recruits. Nevertheless, in latest occasions that has modified. Gamers have began to understand their very own price, with the market rising in worth with each passing 12 months.
We’re nonetheless awaiting the primary £1 million ladies’s participant – though that now seems to be a query of when, relatively than if. However who presently holds the switch file within the ladies’s recreation?
The costliest ladies’s participant of all time
The present file holder for the most costly switch price in historical past is Zambian ahead Racheal Kundananji. Kundananji, 24, price American membership Bay FC £685,000 (€805,000) when she signed from Spanish membership Madrid CFF.
The striker turned the primary ever African participant to carry the title – in both the boys’s or ladies’s recreation. Her worldwide teammate Barba Banda makes it a Zambia one-two on the present listing.
Banda’s transfer from Shanghai to Orlando Pleasure, one other NWSL membership, had an connected switch price of £582,000.
Each transfers came about in 2024, main many to invest that the primary £1million deal could possibly be nearer than beforehand thought.
The Kundananji switch was truly the second time the file had been smashed in 2024, with a WSL membership beforehand in prime spot on the all-time listing.
When Chelsea signed Mayra Ramirez from Levante within the January window, the Colombian price £426,000 – a world file till Kundananji claimed set a brand new benchmark the next month.
Which English gamers have held the world switch file?
Till Ramirez signed for the Blues, the world file spot was occupied by a present Lioness.
Keira Walsh‘s transfer from Manchester Metropolis to Barcelona, solely weeks after serving to England win Euro 2022, price the Catalan membership £400,000 (€470,000). Walsh had beforehand been at Metropolis for eight years and had a 12 months left on her contract.
It was a switch that smashed the earlier file on the time, which was Pernille More durable’s £250,000 swap to Chelsea in 2020.
The file home deal solely between two WSL golf equipment was Bethany England‘s £250,000 switch in January 2023, when she moved throughout London from Chelsea to Tottenham. The massive price proved worthwhile to Spurs, with England’s objectives nearly single-handedly seeing them keep away from relegation that season.
| Rank | Value | Participant | From | To |
| 1 | £685K | Racheal Kundananji | Madrid CFF | Bay FC |
| 2 | £582K | Barbra Banda | Shanghai | Orlando Pleasure |
| 3 | £426K | Mayra Ramirez | Levante | Chelsea |
| 4 | £400K | Keira Walsh | Manchester Metropolis | Barcelona |
| 5 | £390K | Tarciane | Corinthians | Houston Sprint |
| 6 | £384K | Lena Oberdorf | VfL Wolfsburg | Bayern Munich |
| 7 | £378K | Priscila | SC Internacional | Membership America |
| 8 | £339K | Kika Nazareth | Benfica | Barcelona |
| 9 | £338K | Ewa Pajor | VfL Wolfsburg | Barcelona |
| 10 | £300K+ (add-ons) | Jill Roord | VfL Wolfsburg | Manchester Metropolis |
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