Transfermarkt: Football Player Valuations and Transfer History

This football analytics dataset, updated in March 2026 by dcaribou, contains structured data on professional players, clubs, and transfers extracted from Transfermarkt. It employs dbt for data transformation to provide analytics-ready tables for soccer-related research and modeling.

Use Cases

• Predicting player market value trends using historical valuation data
• Calculating club-level transfer net spend by aggregating fee columns
• Analyzing player career trajectories across different professional leagues

Strengths

• CC0-1.0 license allows for unrestricted public and commercial use
• Uses dbt for standardized data modeling and transformation

Limitations

• Specific row counts and column schemas are not provided in the source metadata
• Data accuracy is dependent on the quality of the original Transfermarkt web source

Provenance

Source

Transfermarkt

Collection Method

Scraped

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026

Geography

Global