Football Manager is finally available to the masses, and with that, heightened anticipation on which team to take over to begin your FM journey. A significant factor in this for many is what funds a club has to reshape or modify the way the club plays by bringing in new faces to do just that. In this article, we'll look at the transfer budgets available to clubs in 5 of the top divisions in Football Manager 2024; we will be focusing on real-world budgets.
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English Premier League Transfer Budgets
Team | Transfer Budget | Wage Budget |
Arsenal | £5m | £3.55m |
Aston Villa | £3m | £2.65m |
Bournemouth | £5m | £1.37m |
Brentford | £30m | £1.11m |
Brighton & Hove Albion | £80m | £1.46m |
Burnley | £0m | £1.01m |
Chelsea | £6m | £4.13m |
Crystal Palace | £7m | £1.74m |
Everton | £1m | £1.97m |
Fulham | £20m | £1.55m |
Liverpool | £64m | £3.8m |
Luton Town | £2m | £930k |
Manchester City | £35m | £3.45m |
Manchester United | £6m | £4.86m |
Newcastle United | £5m | £2.62m |
Nottingham Forest | £0 | £1.71m |
Sheffield United | £0 | £644k |
Tottenham Hotspur | £19.4m | £3.26m |
West Ham United | £24m | £2.15m |
Wolverhampton Wanderers | £2.5m | £1.44m |
So this season, the highest transfer budget in the Premier League belongs to Brighton, while three clubs, Burnley, Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United, start the first season with nothing to spend.
Spanish La Liga Transfer Budgets
Team | Transfer Budget | Wage Budget |
Alavés | £1.7m | £163k |
Almería | £943k | £256k |
Athletic Club de Bilbao | £21.4m | £1m |
Atlético de Madrid | £4.3m | £3.1m |
CA Osasuna | £0m | £1.1m |
Cádiz CF | £0m | £348k |
Celta Vigo | £34.3m | £358k |
FC Barcelona | £2.1m | £3.35m |
Getafe | £857k | £411k |
Girona | £4.3m | £447k |
Granada | £857k | £212k |
Rayo Vallecano | £857k | £356k |
RCD Mallorca | £857k | £349k |
Real Betis | £2.6m | £790k |
Real Madrid | £21.4m | £5.33m |
Real Sociedad | £1.3m | £790k |
Sevilla | £4.3m | £1.11m |
UD Las Palmas | £1.7m | £253k |
Valencia | £1.7m | £493k |
Villareal | £12.9m | £851k |
Celta Vigo came out on top with a sizeable £34.3m budget, closely followed by Real Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, while both Osasuna and Cádiz must look to wheel and deal to generate funds.
Italian Serie A Transfer Budgets
Team | Transfer Budget | Wage Budget |
Atalanta | £17.1m | £996k |
Bologna | £6.9m | £607k |
AC Monza | £8.6m | £634k |
Cagliari | £4.3m | £608k |
Empoli | £5.1m | £587k |
Fiorentina | £7.3m | £1.1m |
Frosinone | £4.3m | £387k |
Genoa | £6.3m | £647k |
Hellas Verona | £5.1m | £479k |
Inter Milan | £12.9m | £2.46m |
Juventus | £12.9m | £2.38m |
Lazio | £12.9m | £1.36m |
Lecce | £4.3m | £343k |
AC Milan | £17.1m | £1.75m |
SSC Napoli | £30m | £1.44m |
AS Roma | £8.6m | £2.1m |
Salernitana 1919 | £4.3m | £547k |
Sassuolo | £12.9m | £712k |
Torino | £6m | £801k |
Udinese | £6.9m | £516k |
The Serie A club with the largest budget is last year's Scudetto winners, Napoli, with a £30m war chest, with four sides sharing the smallest budget of £4.3m.
German Bundesliga Transfer Budgets
Team | Transfer Budget | Wage Budget |
1. FC Heidenheim | £0m | £301k |
1. FC Köln | £429k | £528k |
1. FSV Mainz 05 | £2.6m | £640k |
Bayer 04 Leverkusen | £6.8m | £1.61m |
Bayern Munich | £17.1m | £4.48m |
Borussia Dortmund | £8.6m | £2.67m |
Borussia Mönchengladbach | £2.6m | £917k |
Darmstadt 98 | £429k | £287k |
Eintracht Frankfurt | £4.3m | £989k |
FC Augsburg | £857k | £597k |
RB Leipzig | £17.1m | £2.28m |
SC Freiburg | £1.3m | £681k |
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | £7.7m | £919k |
Union Berlin | £857k | £753k |
VFB Stuttgart | £4.7m | £762k |
VFL Bochum | £0 | £431k |
VFL Wolfsburg | £6m | £1.1m |
Werder Bremen | £180k | £564k |
Both Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig share the top budget in the Bundesliga with £17.1m, whilst Bochum is the only side in the league with no transfer kitty.
French Ligue 1 Transfer Budgets
Team | Transfer Budget | Wage Budget |
AS Monaco | £25.7m | £883k |
Clermont Foot | £429k | £190k |
FC Lorient | £2.1m | £307k |
FC Metz | £2.6m | £178k |
FC Nantes | £857k | £437k |
Le Harve AC | £257k | £154k |
Lille OSC | £3.4m | £495k |
Olympique Lyonnais | £3m | £790k |
Marseille | £857k | £1.2m |
Montpellier HSC | £3.4m | £330k |
OGC Nice | £2.7m | £453k |
Paris Saint-Germain | £25.7m | £4.3m |
RC Lens | £1.7m | £448k |
Reims | £2.6m | £266k |
Stade Brestois 29 | £4.7m | £246k |
Stade Rennais | £12.9m | £517k |
Strasbourg | £1.3m | £517k |
Toulouse FC | £429k | £198k |
It's no real surprise that Parisian powerhouse PSG sits at the top of the budget table alongside Monaco with a whopping £25.7m to spend. Le Harve, in comparison, has a transfer budget the size of a PSG player's wage at £257k.
Which top divisions will you be heading to in your first save? Will you join an already established giant of the game with a colossal budget, or will you start with a smaller side with a lesser budget to challenge yourself? For more Football Manager 2024 content, stick with Ginx.TV.