Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-13
The Window Ledger
€55.2m in, €6.3m out: the Qatar Stars League's 2025/26 ledger across 224 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 91% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the Qatar Stars League recorded 224 incoming moves. 20 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 204 (91%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€55.2m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€6.3m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
+€48.9m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
91%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuta | Eintracht Frankfurt | Al Duhail | €15.0m |
| Wesley | Internacional | Al Rayyan | €8.5m |
| Roberto Firmino | Al-Ahli | Al Sadd | €7.0m |
| Jean-Charles Castelletto | FC Nantes | Al Duhail | €4.0m |
| Adil Boulbina | Paradou AC | Al Duhail | €3.3m |
| Álex Collado | Real Betis Balompié | Al Shamal SC | €2.5m |
| Jassem Gaber | Al-Riyadh Saudi Club | Al Rayyan | €2.4m |
| Michel Vlap | FC Twente Enschede | Al-Ahli Doha | €2.0m |
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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