robbiejdunne / transfers

european football player transfers, 1992/93 - 2019/20 seasons

transfers

Data on European football clubs' player transfers, through 1992/93 to 2019/20 seasons (as found on Transfermarkt).

Data

Transfers can be found in the data directory, in .csv format. There's a sub-directory for each year/season (e.g. 2018/19 season is in data/2018) containing data for each of these leagues:

• English Premier League
• English Championship
• French Ligue 1
• German 1.Bundesliga
• Italian Serie A
• Spanish La Liga
• Portugese Liga NOS
• Dutch Eredivisie
• Russian Premier Liga

Common variables:

• club_name (club)
• player_name (player name
• age (player age at time of scrape)
• position (player position)
• club_involved_name (other club involved in transfer)
• fee (raw transfer fee information)
• transfer_movement (transfer in/out)
• fee_cleaned (numeric fee, GBP)
• league_name (league)
• year (year)
• season (season, interpolated from year)

Code

All source code found in /src.

Usage

Sources

All squad data was scraped from Transfermarkt, in accordance with their terms of use.