Women’s transfer record history: List of the most expensive players in women’s football

As women’s football continues to grow worldwide, the sport’s transfer record does too. In fact, in 2025 alone, the world-record fee has been broken no fewer than three times. It means that the money Chelsea parted with back in the summer of 2020 to sign Pernille Harder for the greatest fee in the history of the women’s game is now some way down the list of the most expensive transfers, with 18 more lucrative deals having been made in the short time since.

Keira Walsh took Harder’s place and moved to the top of that list in the summer of 2022, but her transfer from Manchester City to Barcelona is now only eighth, with the England midfielder herself actually part of a more expensive deal in January 2025, when she moved back to England to join Chelsea.

So, what are the most lucrative transfers in the history of women’s football? GOAL breaks down the most expensive deals the sport has seen to date…