Progression of the most expensive transfer in Serie A

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The following list shows the chronological progression of the most expensive transfer in the history of the Serie A. All the buying teams are Italian.

The cost does not include the salary of the player, an aspect that in the last few decades the sports press usually merged.

However, the list is not complete, since in some cases between two consecutive transfers listed it is possible that there is a third one that for a period was the new record.

DatePlayerFromToCost
July 1942 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Valentino Mazzola and Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Ezio Loik Venezia Torino ₤1.25 million+ [1] [2] [3]
19 September 1945 Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg Silvio Piola Lazio Juventus ~₤2 million [4] [5] [6]
20 August 1946 Flag of Italy.svg Osvaldo Fattori Vicenza Sampdoria ₤10 million [7] [8]
25 June 1949 Flag of Italy.svg Giuseppe Moro Bari Torino ₤53 million [9] [10]
June 1952 Flag of Sweden.svg Hasse Jeppson Atalanta Napoli ₤75 million [11] [12] [13]
27 May 1957 Flag of Argentina.svg Omar Sívori River Plate Juventus ~₤150 million ($ARS10 million) [14] [15]
10 July 1975 Flag of Italy.svg Giuseppe Savoldi Bologna Napoli ₤2 billion [16] [17]
June 1983 Flag of Brazil.svg Zico Flamengo Udinese ~₤6 billion ($US4 million) [18]
30 June 1984 Flag of Argentina.svg Diego Maradona Barcelona Napoli ~₤12.75 billion ($7.5 million) [19] [20]
17 May 1990 Flag of Italy.svg Roberto Baggio Fiorentina Juventus ₤16 billion [21] [22]
30 June 1992 Flag of Italy.svg Gianluigi Lentini Torino A.C. Milan ₤23 billion [23]
July 1997 Flag of Brazil.svg Ronaldo Barcelona Inter Milan ~₤48 billion (Pta4 billion) [24] [25]
8 June 1999 Flag of Italy.svg Christian Vieri Lazio Inter Milan ₤90 billion [26] [27]
10 July 2000 Flag of Argentina.svg Hernán Crespo Parma Lazio ₤110 billion ($35.5 million) [28] [29] [30]
26 July 2016 Flag of Argentina.svg Gonzalo Higuain Napoli Juventus €90 million [31] [32]
10 July 2018 Flag of Portugal.svg Cristiano Ronaldo Real Madrid Juventus €100 million [33]

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  2. ↑ "Loik e Mazzola hanno firmato per il Torino" (in Italian). La Stampa. 8 July 1942. p. 2. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Eugenio Danese (1 October 1942). "Il terzo campionato di guerra e i suoi probabili protagonisti" (in Italian). Il Littoriale. pp. 1, 3. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  4. ↑ The agreement was structured as follows: ₤1.5 million in cash to be paid to Lazio and a friendly match to be played in Rome with tickets revenue (estimated around ₤0.5 million) in favor of Lazio itself.
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  11. ↑ The 105 million, often reported in recent sources, consisted 75 million to Atalanta and 30 million salary to the player for the three years contract.
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  16. ↑ Napoli paid Bologna ₤1.4 billion in cash with additional transfers of Sergio Clerici and Rosario Rampanti (co-owned with Turin), for the total amount of ₤2 billion.
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