Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-15
The Window Ledger
€52.1m in, €96.5m out: the Swiss Super League's 2025/26 ledger across 259 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 85% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the Swiss Super League recorded 259 incoming moves. 40 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 219 (85%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€52.1m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€96.5m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
−€44.4m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
85%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metinho | Troyes | Basel | €4.0m |
| Alvyn Sanches | Lausanne-Sport | Young Boys | €3.5m |
| Samuel Essende | Augsburg | Young Boys | €3.0m |
| Ryan Andrews | Watford | Young Boys | €3.0m |
| Philip Otele | Al-Wahda | Basel | €3.0m |
| Stefan Bukinac | Vojvodina | Young Boys | €2.5m |
| Alan Virginius | Lille | Young Boys | €2.5m |
| Andrej Bacanin | Cukaricki | Basel | €2.3m |
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