Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-15
The Window Ledger
€9.2m in, €15.8m out: the J1 League's 2025/26 ledger across 506 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 98% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the J1 League recorded 506 incoming moves. 11 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 495 (98%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€9.2m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€15.8m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
−€6.6m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
98%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haruya Fujii | KV Kortrijk | Nagoya Grampus | €2.0m |
| Lazar Romanić | Vojvodina | Kawasaki Front. | €1.5m |
| Dean David | Maccabi Haifa | Yokohama F. M. | €1.1m |
| Ju-sung Kim | FC Seoul | Sanf. Hiroshima | €1.1m |
| Neta Lavi | Gamba Osaka | Machida Zelvia | €800k |
| Filip Uremovic | Hajduk Split | Kawasaki Front. | €800k |
| Abdelrahman Boudah | Hammarby | Albirex Niigata | €625k |
| João Pedro | EC Vitória | Kyoto Sanga | €425k |
A league ledger measures money moved, not quality bought. The share of business done without a fee is the number most often skipped, and it is usually the majority of it.
Transfer record, fees and market values: ACTUAL TRANSFER MARKET (actualtransfermarket.com). Analysis: ACTUAL SPORT INTELLIGENCE.
Confidence HighEvidence Actual Sport IntelligencePublished 2026-08-15Partial wages, amortisation withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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