Chelsea is the most spending team in Premier League history, and they go beyond rivals like Man City or MU with huge distance. However, the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 champion currently owns 5 Premier League titles to prove that the huge investment is reasonable.
Since Todd Boehly took over the club, the Blues has spent £ 1.3 billion in just 3 years. And that has helped them rise to the number one position in the list of the most spending teams of all time in the Premier League.
According to data from Transfermarkt, this summer transfer window with contracts like Joao Pedro, Liam Delap and Jamie Gittens has pushed Chelsea's total spending over 4 billion pound milestones. This means that they have spent more than £ 1 billion than the nearest competitor, Man City.
The Citizens ranked second, slightly better than the team in the city of Man United about £ 300 million. However, most of the money that Man City spent from 2008, the time when sheikh Mansour took over the club. Specifically, Man City spent a total of £ 3.1 billion, while the number of Man United was 2.8 billion pounds.
The rest of the “Big Six” group also appeared in the top six most spending teams. Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham both have surpassed the 2 billion pound milestones. The recent Liverpool deals like Florian Wirtz, Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez helped them overcome Arsenal in terms of expenses. Tottenham ranked sixth with a spending of about 2 billion pounds. Teams like Everton, Newcastle, West Ham and Aston Villa have spent about £ 1.3 billion for many years.
It is the top 10 teams most and also the only group that has ever passed 1 billion investment table. Southampton is the name standing right after the top 10, with a total spending of about 840 million pounds since 1992. Brighton and Bournemouth are also on the list, although only playing in the Premier League in 2017 and 2015. Meanwhile, Nottingham Forest is currently ranked 20th in the list of the most spending teams.
Chelsea used to perform two deals over 100 million pounds, Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo. In addition, Romelu Lukaku and Mykhailo Mudryk also approached three numbers. Their strong spending phase has begun under Roman Abramovich since 2003, but really exploded when Todd Boehly came to power.
Man City is still trying to chase Chelsea in this financial race. They spent 203 million pounds in January and added 102 million pounds in the summer, not to mention the possibility of continuing shopping in the near future.