Football · The Window LedgerPublished · 2026-08-13
The Window Ledger
€71.1m in, €86.6m out: the Ukrainian Premier League's 2025/26 ledger across 338 moves
What the league paid, what it recouped, and the 83% of its business that carried no fee at all.
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Across 2025/26, the Ukrainian Premier League recorded 338 incoming moves. 56 of them carried a disclosed fee; the other 282 (83%) were frees, loans or undisclosed.
Spent
€71.1m
Disclosed incoming fees, 2025/26.
Banked
€86.6m
Disclosed fees received, 2025/26.
Net
−€15.6m
Spend minus receipts. Not a profit-and-loss — wages and amortisation are not in this record.
Deals with no disclosed fee
83%
Undisclosed is a real outcome, not a missing number, and is never estimated here.
| Player | From | To | Fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luca Meirelles | Santos | Shakhtar D. | €12.0m |
| Lucas Ferreira | São Paulo | Shakhtar D. | €12.0m |
| Isaque | Fluminense | Shakhtar D. | €10.0m |
| Prosper Obah | LNZ Cherkasy | Shakhtar D. | €4.5m |
| Vladislav Blănuță | FC U Craiova | Dynamo Kyiv | €2.0m |
| Oleg Fedor | Karpaty Lviv | Polissya | €1.8m |
| Nicolás Arévalo | Millonarios | Metalist 1925 | €1.7m |
| Cauan Baptistella | Cruzeiro | Metalist 1925 | €1.5m |
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