Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-13
The Window Ledger
€2.4m in, €5.9m out: the K League 1's 2025/26 ledger across 236 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 97% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the K League 1 recorded 236 incoming moves. 8 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 228 (97%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€2.4m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€5.9m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
−€3.5m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
97%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bong-soo Kim | Jeju SK | Daejeon Hana C. | €638k |
| Jeong-hoon Kim | Jeonbuk Hyundai | FC Anyang | €430k |
| Jae-hyeon Mo | Gyeongnam FC | Gangwon FC | €346k |
| Gytis Paulauskas | Michalovce | Jeju SK | €300k |
| Patryk Klimala | Slask Wroclaw | FC Seoul | €300k |
| Ye-sung Kim | Jeonnam Dragons | Pohang Steelers | €167k |
| Jin-yong Lee | Daegu FC | FC Anyang | €86k |
| Seung-bin Kim | Slovacko | Bucheon FC | €85k |
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 2026-08-13Partial wages, amortisation withheld — the evidence didn't support it
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