List of most expensive women's association football transfers

The following is a list of the most expensive women's association football transfers, which details the highest transfer fees ever paid for players, as well as transfers which set new world transfer records.

The first transfer in women's football reported as a record was that of Milene Domingues from Fiammamonza to Rayo Vallecano in 2002, two decades before professionalism in Spanish women's football. The current transfer record was set by the transfer of Grace Geyoro from Paris Saint-Germain to London City Lionesses for £1.43million in September 2025 as they began their first season in the English top-flight Women's Super League.

The most expensive transfer to a team not in the top tier is the €300,000 potential total fee for the transfer of from Sevilla to Barcelona B set in March 2026; also the highest transfer fee between two Spanish teams at the time it was agreed, the total fee includes bonuses contingent on Torres ultimately playing for Barcelona's first team. The only known transfer fee for a player not in the top two flights was paid for Weronika Araśniewicz of Barcelona C when VfL Wolfsburg exercised their purchase option in July 2026, though Araśniewicz was signed to join their first team in the top tier.

In 2020, the Spanish then-Primera División introduced its Compensation List, a means for signatory clubs to retain the rights of under-23 players whose contracts had expired until another Spanish club paid a fee set by the owning club. Intended to compensate the costs of youth development, the fees were instead set disproportionately high for the global and internal market (all requests would have been records); unable to find new clubs in Spain, the players named on the Compensation List either stayed at clubs that did not wish to play them or moved abroad, with the list scrapped by the end of the year without having facilitated a transfer.

Later that year, the USA's National Women's Soccer League introduced allocation money, giving its constituent clubs options to make fee-involved trades and exchange the allocation money credits for the NWSL to purchase players from other leagues. The NWSL began phasing out allocation money in 2024, with an aim to stop its use by 2026, as part of its measures to shift to a more international transfer system and in recognition of other leagues financially outpacing it.