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World Record Transfer Fee Transfer Date: 09/07/2001 Name: Zinedine Zidane (Fra) Position: AM Age: 31 From: Juventus (Ita) To: Real Madrid (Spa) Fee: £45.62m Worlds Highest transfer fees. Player's Name Pos. From Club To Club Fee Year Zinedine Zidane (Fra) AM Juventus (Ita) Real Madrid (Spa) £45.62m 2001 Luis Figo (Por) RW Barcelona (Spa) Real Madrid (Spa) £37m 2000 Hernan Crespo (Arg) ST Parma (Ita) Lazio (Ita) £35.5m 2000 Gianluigi Buffon (Ita) GK Parma (Ita) Juventus (Ita) £32.6m 2001 Christian Vieri (Ita) ST Lazio (Ita) Inter Milan (Ita) £32m 1999 Rio Ferdinand (Eng) CD Leeds United (Eng) Manchester United (Eng) £29.1m 2002 Gaizka Mendieta (Spa) MF Valencia (Spa) Lazio (Ita) £29m 2001 Ronaldo (Bra) ST Inter Milan (Ita) Real Madrid (Spa) £28.49m 2002 Juan Veron (Arg) AM Lazio (Ita) Manchester United (Eng) £28.1m 2001 Rui Costa (Por) AM Fiorentina [old] (Ita) AC Milan (Ita) £28m 2001 Pavel Nedved (Cze) MF Lazio (Ita) Juventus (Ita) £25.5m 2001 Nicolas Anelka (Fra) ST Arsenal (Eng) Real Madrid (Spa) £23.5m 1999 Denilson de Oliveira (Bra) LW Sao Paulo (Bra) Real Betis (Spa) £22m 1998 Gabriel Batistuta (Arg) ST Fiorentina [old] (Ita) AS Roma (Ita) £22m 2000 Lilian Thuram (Fra) CD Parma (Ita) Juventus (Ita) £22m 2001 Claudio Lopez (Arg) ST Valencia (Spa) Lazio (Ita) £22m 2000 Marc Overmars (Ned) WG Arsenal (Eng) Barcelona (Spa) £21.6m 2000 Ronaldinho (Bra) AM Paris-SG (Fra) Barcelona (Spa) £21.25m 2003 Nicolas Anelka (Fra) ST Real Madrid (Spa) Paris-SG (Fra) £20.29m 2000 Alessandro Nesta (Ita) CD Lazio (Ita) AC Milan (Ita) £19.12m 2002 Hidetoshi Nakata (Jap) AM AS Roma (Ita) Parma (Ita) £19.1m 2001 Christian Vieri (Ita) ST Atletico Madrid (Spa) Lazio (Ita) £19m 1998 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Ned) ST PSV (Ned) Manchester United (Eng) £19m 2001 Antonio Cassano (Ita) FW Bari (Ita) AS Roma (Ita) £19m 2001 Rio Ferdinand (Eng) CD West Ham United (Eng) Leeds United (Eng) £18m 2000 Ronaldo (Bra) ST Barcelona (Spa) Inter Milan (Ita) £18m 1997 Marcio Amoroso (Bra) ST Udinese (Ita) Parma (Ita) £18m 1999 Juan Veron (Arg) AM Parma (Ita) Lazio (Ita) £18m 1999 Francesco Toldo (Ita) GK Fiorentina [old] (Ita) Inter Milan (Ita) £18m 2001 David Beckham (Eng) RM Manchester United (Eng) Real Madrid (Spa) £17.25m 2003 Filippo Inzaghi (Ita) ST Juventus (Ita) AC Milan (Ita) £17m 2001 Damien Duff (Ire) LW Blackburn Rovers (Eng) Chelsea (Eng) £17m 2003 Hernan Crespo (Arg) ST Inter Milan (Ita) Chelsea (Eng) £16.8m 2003 Hernan Crespo (Arg) ST Lazio (Ita) Inter Milan (Ita) £16.57m 2002 Jaap Stam (Ned) CD Manchester United (Eng) Lazio (Ita) £16.5m 2001 Andriy Shevchenko (Ukr) ST Dynamo Kyiv (Ukr) AC Milan (Ita) £16.23m 1999 Rivaldo (Bra) FW Deportivo la Coruna (Spa) Barcelona (Spa) £16m 1997 Marcio Amoroso (Bra) ST Parma (Ita) Borussia Dortmund (Ger) £15.8m 2001 Adrian Mutu (Rom) FW Parma (Ita) Chelsea (Eng) £15.8m 2003 Javier Saviola (Arg) ST River Plate (Arg) Barcelona (Spa) £15.7m 2001 Jimmy-Floyd Hasselbaink (Ned) ST Atletico Madrid (Spa) Chelsea (Eng) £15m 2000 Alan Shearer (Eng) ST Blackburn Rovers (Eng) Newcastle United (Eng) £15m 1996 Vincenzo Montella (Ita) ST Sampdoria (Ita) AS Roma (Ita) £15m 1999 Stefano Fiore (Ita) CM Udinese (Ita) Lazio (Ita) £14.94m 2001 Giuliano Giannichedda (Ita) MF Udinese (Ita) Lazio (Ita) £14.6m 2001 Matias Almeyda (Arg) MF Lazio (Ita) Parma (Ita) £14.6m 2000 Fabio Cannavaro (Ita) CD Parma (Ita) Inter Milan (Ita) £14.57m 2002 David Trezeguet (Fra) ST Monaco (Fra) Juventus (Ita) £14m 2000 Pablo Aimar (Arg) FW River Plate (Arg) Valencia (Spa) £13.6m 2001 Clarence Seedorf (Ned) CM Real Madrid (Spa) Inter Milan (Ita) £13.5m 1999
Worlds Highest transfer fees.