Premier League Club Netspend since 2003
The Premier League Netspend Table 2003 is a record of the amount of money spent in transfer fees and rocovered from transfer sales , ie the netspend by every English Premier League Football Club since 2003.
Why 2003? The Reason for choosing 2003 as the starting point for this table is that this was the year which heralded the begining of hugely wealthy global business tycoons buying football clubs with Roman Abramovich's purchase of Chelsea . Sind then the amount of money invested in and generated by the game has increased in multiples. With billions of pounds availabal from globa tv rights and telephone numbers for wages this site tracks the growth in footbal revenue and investment.
The table also shows new investment ( netspend ) which owners have made available to their club managers. The new investment can be seen season by season on the Club page from the teams individual page from the site main menu.
The "Purchased" column in this table shows the money spent on players in transfer fees by all the English Premier League clubs since 2003.
The "Sold" column shows the money received by the football club from the sale of players in the same period.
In the Netspend column the total of transfer fees received from the sale of players is subtracted from the total money spent in transfer fees on purchasing players since 2003 giving teh netspend . This Netspend figure is the "new investment" made available each season to the manager to buy players.
The "per season" column is the Netspend total divided by the number of years that have passed since 2003 giving an average of the money spent in transfer fees by each premiership club each season since 2003.
Premier League Club Netspend since 2003
| # | Nett Spend 03/04 - To Date | Purchased Gross | Sold | Nett | Per Season |
| 1 | Manchester City | £1614.4 M | £541.1 M | £1073.2 M | £63.1 M |
| 2 | Chelsea | £1580.9 M | £876.5 M | £704.4 M | £41.4 M |
| 3 | Manchester United | £1204.6 M | £516.4 M | £688.2 M | £40.5 M |
| 4 | Liverpool | £1079.1 M | £750.2 M | £328.9 M | £19.3 M |
| 5 | Arsenal | £833.8 M | £502.1 M | £331.7 M | £19.5 M |
| 6 | Aston Villa | £521.5 M | £191.7 M | £329.8 M | £19.4 M |
| 10 | Everton | £729.1 M | £425.4 M | £303.6 M | £17.9 M |
| 7 | West Ham | £493.4 M | £270.4 M | £223.0 M | £13.1 M |
| 8 | Tottenham | £823.9 M | £644.5 M | £179.4 M | £10.6 M |
| 9 | Brighton & Hove Albion | £222.8 M | £31.2 M | £191.6 M | £11.3 M |
| 11 | Leicester | £422.8 M | £279.7 M | £143.1 M | £08.4 M |
| 12 | AFC Bournemouth | £211.2 M | £75.5 M | £135.7 M | £08.0 M |
| 15 | Crystal Palace | £231.7 M | £149.7 M | £82.0 M | £04.8 M |
| 14 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | £277.6 M | £84.9 M | £192.7 M | £11.3 M |
| 15 | Newcastle United | £499.5 M | £379.6 M | £119.9 M | £07.1 M |
| 17 | Watford | £217.3 M | £150.0 M | £67.3 M | £04.0 M |
| 16 | Burnley | £155.0 M | £124.9 M | £30.1 M | £01.8 M |
| 18 | Sheffield United | £83.3 M | £47.2 M | £36.1 M | £02.1 M |
| 19 | Southampton | £404.0 M | £397.7 M | £06.3 M | £00.4 M |
| 20 | Norwich City | £131.3 M | £149.2 M | -£17.9 M | -£01.1 M |