Women’s transfer market growing, but big leagues dominate a market still to reach maturity, finds report

January 23 – The women’s transfer market is growing with transfer volume rising rapidly, and more clubs are working internationally, but fee-paying transactions are still a minority of overall activity.

A report by Football Benchmark finds that while the women’s transfer market is “scaling quickly it is still in the early stages of structural maturity.”

The report says that transfers “involving fees are central to value creation and redistribution, allowing selling clubs to reinvest...