How many tickets do Premier League clubs need to sell to cover their transfer costs?

The current top flight clubs have spent an estimated average of £182.4m on players over the last five seasons 

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Match day attendances in the Premier League would have to average over 63,000 if fans want the cheapest tickets to cover transfer spending.

The current top flight clubs have spent an estimated average of £182.4million on players over the last five seasons according to figures taken from transferleague.co.uk .

The clubs would each have had to sell a whopping 6m of their cheapest adult matchday tickets in order to match that spending, with the cheapest costing £31 each on average according to the BBC Price of Football survey.
That works out at 63,619 for every home league match over the last five seasons.

That's based on total spend though.

Net spend on transfers over the last five seasons has been "just" £88.4m per club on average, less than half the total spend figure.

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The clubs would each have had to sell 30,005 of their cheapest matchday tickets at every home game over the last five season in order to match the net cost.

The transfer costs could be met by other matchday revenue options.The most expensive match day tickets at Premier League grounds are priced at £56.63 on average according to the BBC's study.

The clubs would each have had to sell 34,826 of these tickets per home game to match the cost of total transfer spend over the last five seasons or 16,425 for net spend.

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However, each club's fans would have had to have bought as many as 588,709 at every home league game over the last five season in order to match the total transfer spend or 277,658 for the net spend.

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Clubs could have tried to cover transfers through shirt sales.
An average adult Premier League replica shirt costs £49.68 according to the BBC's survey.

That means that the club would have needed to sell 754,253 a year for five seasons to match the amount that they had spent on transfers or 355,735 to match net spend.
 
*Swansea have not been included in any of the figures in this article as they did not take part in the BBC's survey.

How many of the cheapest tickets does each team need to sell per game to match their transfer spend?

Arsenal: 100828
 
Aston Villa: 56682
 
Bournemouth: 15707
 
Chelsea: 96348
 
Crystal Palace: 34158
 
Everton: 36902
 
Leicester: 30622
 
Liverpool: 100740
 
Man City: 118496
 
Man United: 146927
 
Newcastle: 64133
 
Norwich: 31026
 
Southampton: 55449
 
Stoke: 37284
 
Sunderland: 51128
 
Tottenham: 83766
 
Watford: 11886
 
West Brom: 31474
 
West Ham: 50779
 
AVERAGE: 63619