Bournemouth
Squad cost ratio (SCR) for the 2026/27 season: the Orange Ledger's independent estimate for the Premier League's 1 March 2027 test, updated as new data arrives.
Where the revenue goes
Costs exceed revenue by £11.5m
- Player and head-coach wages £134.4m
- Transfer amortisation £86.8m
- Agents' fees £14.1m
- Other squad costs (loans, net) £3.0m
- Remaining revenue
The squad costs the same £238.3m in both rings; only what it is measured against changes. Adding the three-year average profit on player sales (£52.1m a year) to revenue takes the ratio from 105.1% to 85.4%: that gap is what selling players is worth to Bournemouth under the rule.
Squad costs and revenue: the Orange Ledger's estimate for the 1 March 2027 test, rolled forward from the 2024/25 accounts; three-year average of player-sale profit. The 85% tick marks the rule's limit on each ring.
Filed accounts, 2024/25
- Revenue, £m
- 181.7
- Profit before tax, £m, as filed
- 14.9
- Net assets, £m
- 134.5
Premier League, club company accounts as filed at Companies House, read twice. Losses and net liabilities in brackets.
20 seasons of finances →How the SCR is built
Estimate for the 1 March 2027 test, £m
| Player and head-coach wages | 134.4 |
| Transfer fees, spread over contracts | 86.8 |
| Agents' fees | 14.1 |
| Loans, net: players borrowed, less relief on players lent | 3.0 |
| Squad costs | 238.3 |
| Revenue counted by the rule | 226.8 |
| Three-year average profit on player sales | 52.1 |
| Revenue plus averaged sale profit | 278.9 |
| SCR under the rule | 85.4% |
| Before player-sale profit | 105.1% |
SCR = squad costs ÷ (revenue counted by the rule + three-year average profit on player sales).
Latest filed accounts
2024/25, year to 30 June 2025, £m
| Turnover | 181.7 |
| Premier League income | 148.0 |
| Sponsorship and advertising | 18.1 |
| Matchday | 15.6 |
| Staff costs, all employees | 158.4 |
| Transfer fees written off (amortisation) | 69.1 |
| Profit on player sales | 91.0 |
| Squad book value (player registrations) | 222.1 |
AFC Bournemouth Limited (company 06632170), as filed at Companies House. The SCR uses the club's accounts, rolled forward to 2026/27.
SCR 2026/27 articles
- Summer window Bournemouth's squad cost ratio: the profitable selling has stopped, and the rule has not noticed yet 12 September 2026
Figures are from the latest completed checkpoint. They are the Orange Ledger's estimates, not official figures. Bournemouth's finances, season by season · All 20 clubs.
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