| Updated: The football 2025 year is almost over. After taking into consideration player and team performances during the first half of the 2025/26 season, market values have been updated to reflect the current hierarchy at the very top of the game. The result is a compact but extremely concentrated group of stars whose valuations now define the upper edge of the transfer market. The latest Sportingpedia report unveils that for the first time, three footballers stand together at the summit on €200 million: Lamine Yamal, Kylian Mbappe and Erling Haaland.
Another curious observation is that among the six highest valued players, only Haaland is not playing in La Liga for either Real Madrid or Barcelona. In total, 19 players finish the calendar year valued at €100 million or more, and all of them are spread across just 9 clubs. Real Madrid lead the way with four such players (Mbappe, Vinicius Junior, Jude Bellingham and Federico Valverde), followed by PSG with three (Vitinha, Joao Neves and Ousmane Dembele), while Barcelona, Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Liverpool each have two. Manchester City and Atletico Madrid have one representative apiece.
Methodology
The ranking is based on updated market valuations for the end of the 2025 calendar year, reflecting performances during the first half of the 2025/26 season. Only players valued at €100 million or more are included. Club and nationality breakdowns are calculated from this 19-player group only.
Football players with market values of €100 million or more
Data Source: Transfermarkt
The €200 million trio
At the very top of the list, three names share an identical €200 million valuation. Barcelona’s Lamine Yamal, Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappe and Manchester City’s Erling Haaland now occupy joint first place as the most valuable footballers in the world. Yamal’s presence in this bracket confirms his status as the standout teenage talent in the sport, while Mbappe’s switch to Real Madrid has preserved his position as one of football’s defining superstars. Haaland remains the only player outside La Liga’s big two inside this top tier, reflecting his extraordinary scoring output and central role in Manchester City’s attack.
Just behind the leading trio sits Jude Bellingham on €160 million, followed by Vinicius Junior on €150 million. Pedri and Jamal Musiala complete the upper group at €140 million each. That means five of the six highest valued players in the world now play in Spain, split between Real Madrid and Barcelona, with Haaland the only name breaking the La Liga duopoly at this level.
The €130–€120 million band
The next valuation band collects players whose importance for their clubs is already firmly established. Michael Olise and Bukayo Saka are each valued at €130 million. Olise, now at Bayern Munich, combines creativity and end product in a way that places him among Europe’s most coveted wide forwards, while Saka continues to be a central reference point in Arsenal’s attacking structure.
Three Premier League players sit at €120 million: Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Declan Rice (Arsenal) and Alexander Isak (Liverpool). Palmer’s rapid rise has transformed him into one of the Premier League’s most valuable attacking midfielders. Rice anchors Arsenal’s midfield as one of the most complete holding players in the game, while Isak is enduring a mixed start to his Liverpool career. This tier further underlines the influence of English clubs, with Premier League sides accounting for five of the seven players valued at €130 million or €120 million.
The €110-€100 million group
Just below them is the €110 – €100 million group, where valuations still sit comfortably in nine-figure territory. Moises Caicedo of Chelsea, PSG’s Portuguese duo of Joao Neves and Vitinha, and Florian Wirtz of Liverpool are all valued at €110 million. Caicedo shows the premium attached to elite ball-winning and possession-controlling midfielders. Neves and Vitinha are positioned at the heart of PSG’s long-term midfield plan, while Wirtz gives Liverpool another creative and goal-threatening presence between the lines.
Julian Alvarez and Ousmane Dembele complete the list at €100 million each. Alvarez represents Atletico Madrid’s sole entry in the €100 million club as it underlines his evolution to a key attacking figure in Diego Simeone’s team. Ousmane Dembele, the 2025 Ballon d’Or winner, rounds off PSG’s trio in the ranking, reflecting both his technical profile and his role alongside the club’s other high-value attacking options.
Football clubs with the highest count of €100 million players in their squads
Data Source: Transfermarkt
Nine clubs control the entire €100 million club
All 19 players valued at €100 million or more are concentrated in just nine clubs: Barcelona, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, PSG and Atletico Madrid. Real Madrid stand out with four names: Mbappe, Vinicius Junior, Bellingham and Valverde give them unmatched depth at the top of the market across forward and midfield positions.
PSG follow with three representatives in Vitinha, Joao Neves, and Dembele, confirming that the Paris club remain one of the few teams able to cluster multiple €100 million assets in a single squad. Barcelona, Arsenal, Chelsea, Bayern Munich and Liverpool each contribute two players, enough to mark them out as part of the sport’s financial and sporting elite. Manchester City and Atletico Madrid appear once each, but both through players sitting exactly at €200 million and €100 million, ensuring they are still tied directly to the very top of the valuation ladder.
Count of football players valued at €100 million or more by country
Data Source: Transfermarkt
Nationalities represented at €100 million and above
By nationality, England leads this ranking with four players: Bellingham, Saka, Rice and Palmer. Their presence across Premier League contenders and Real Madrid underlines how English talent now occupies key roles in both domestic and European heavyweights. France follow with three names – Mbappe, Olise and Dembele – spread between Real Madrid, Bayern Munich and PSG.
Spain, Germany and Portugal each provide two players. Spain’s representatives are Lamine Yamal and Pedri, both at Barcelona, highlighting the concentration of local talent at one club. Germany’s pair, Musiala and Wirtz, are split between Bayern Munich and Liverpool, while Portugal’s Joao Neves and Vitinha both feature for PSG.
The remaining countries in the ranking – Norway (Haaland), Brazil (Vinicius Junior), Uruguay (Valverde), Sweden (Isak), Ecuador (Caicedo) and Argentina (Alvarez) – each have a single player in the €100 million club. Together, they ensure the list retains a global flavour, even as the bulk of the value is controlled by a small group of clubs in La Liga, the Premier League and Ligue 1.