List of most expensive women's association football transfers

The following is a list of 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 Racheal Kundananji from Madrid CFF to Bay FC for €805,000 in February 2024.

Prior to women's football teams having oversight from football federations, compensation was still paid for some transfers. The first compensated transfer of a female footballer was of Molly Walker, from Lancaster Ladies to Dick, Kerr Ladies in 1918; Walker was offered expenses paid as well as payment in lieu for joining the team.^[1][2] In the 1970s, various teams in Italy, and Olímpico de Villaverde in Spain, offered a signing fee for some players;^[3][4] in 1973, Conchi Sánchez was paid P^ts 75,000 (approximately €300 at the time) to leave Villaverde and join Gamma 3 Padova in Italy,^[4] with Stade de Reims in France offering P^ts 1 million for Villaverde's Victoria Hernández a few weeks later.^[5] Padova paid transfer fees in 1973 for Christia Nusser and Monika Bardof that exceeded those paid for male footballers in Spain's Tercera and even Segunda divisions.^[6]