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AFC Bournemouth

Value$630MHeartbreak#2867.5

Bournemouth, Bournemouth · England · Premier League

Power-ranking history

Rank (1 = best)1327Score (per-season normalised)0.00.51.019/2024/25

Against expectation

Every English top-flight match this club has played, scored against the odds an Elo rating gave it before kick-off. Over 9 seasons from 2015-16 to 2025-26 it has beaten them by +7.2 match points.

2015-16 to 2025-26one bar per season · height in match points

Best season against expectation
2024-25 +7.5 league pts
56 points on 48.5 expected as AFC Bournemouth
Worst season against expectation
2019-20 −7.5 league pts
34 points on 41.5 expected as AFC Bournemouth

Season points use that season’s own scoring, two for a win before 1981-82 and three after; the bars use match points so the whole series is comparable.

Bournemouth against expectation →How this is measured →

Title chances

This side's chance in each title race we forecast, frozen and scored like every forecast here.

Full odds: FA Cup · Europa League · every title race

What the squad was worth

Total market value of the squad, EUR millions, by month; the player count beside it is the size of the priced squad.

How this is measured

Drawn as a step, not a curve: Transfermarkt reprices every squad in December and June (marked with a small tick on the axis) and revalues continuously between, so the line only moves when a real valuation changed, never by interpolation.

A month renders no value at all once the priced squad falls below 15 players, so a thin squad is never shown as a cheap one. The series is floored at July 2012 on purpose: earlier Transfermarkt totals reflect which players happened to be priced yet rather than the squad’s real worth, and are excluded rather than shown misleadingly low.

Upstream (dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets) has been paused since July 2026, so the series ends where the source ends rather than where the season does.

Player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

What the squad was worth€566m
030661113-1415-1617-1819-2021-2223-2425-26

Peak
€566m in Jun 2026 · 27 players valued
Most recent
€566m in Jun 2026 · 27 players valued

Bournemouth on the rankings →

Who controls the club

The entity that holds control today, one per franchise; co-controllers and minority holders are listed, never summed.

How this is measured

Exactly one control entity is recorded per franchise, so a portfolio can never count a club twice. Co-controllers and minority holders are shown as published and carry no weight in any total.

The chip names the evidence. Sourced: a primary source is linked (league, club, filing or tier-one outlet). Cross-checked: matched against the ownership-change sweep. Contested: disputed or mid-sale. Rows are reviewed weekly.

Stakes are as published, often only “majority”, and are not pro-rated. A record of control is not a claim about anyone’s intent or conduct.

Who controls the clubBill Foley (Black Knight Football Club)
Bill Foley (Black Knight Football Club)individual· Majority
Sourcedas of 28 Jan 2026

Black Knight also became sole shareholder of FC Lorient in Jan 2026 and holds Hibernian and Auckland FC. Foley owns the Vegas Golden Knights.

Also controls

Bill Foley (Black Knight Football Club) on the owners board →

The money ledger

Fees paid and received each season, and what the squad was worth once the trading is netted out.

How this is measured

Spent is the fees paid for players arriving, received the fees for players leaving, both in EUR millions by the July-to-June season of the move. A move with no fee on record (a free, a loan, an undisclosed sum) is counted, never priced: the small figure beside each total is the moves with a fee, plus those without (so 4+3 is four priced arrivals and three unpriced), and a quiet window is not mistaken for a cheap one. Wages are not here: they are estimates nobody licenses, and fees are documented.

Appreciation is the season’s change in squad value with the net spend taken out: buy 100m of players and finish 100m higher is zero; finish 120m higher and the club made 20m of players better, or the market repriced them. It needs a priced squad at both ends of the season (the same 15-player floor as the value chart), so it is blank rather than guessed for a season that lacks one.

The source has been paused since 6 July 2026, so the final row holds only the opening days of its window.

Transfer fees and player valuations from Transfermarkt via github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-datasets (CC0).

The money ledger−€221m
Spent
€776m
52 arrivals with a fee
Received
€555m
24 departures with a fee
Net
−€221m
176 moves with no fee
Appreciation
+€352m
13 seasons with a priced squad

Grown or bought: in 2026-27, trading −€5m and appreciation —. Over the last 5 seasons (2022-23–2026-27), trading −€165m and appreciation unpriced.

The director’s ledger: 86 arrivals graded since 2022-23, 81% EV-positive. €552m deployed for a 1.5× multiplier.

2026-27 spent €19m received €14mto 6 July 2026
in: Álex Jiménez €19m
—
unpriced
2025-26 spent €177m received €245m
in: Bafodé Diakité €35m
+€172m
squad gain
2024-25 spent €134m received €129m
in: Evanilson €37m
+€91m
squad gain
2023-24 spent €130m received —
in: Tyler Adams €27m
−€42m
squad gain
2022-23 spent €93m received —
in: Ilya Zabarnyi €33m
+€9m
squad gain
2021-22 spent €10m received €27m
in: Kieffer Moore €4m
+€70m
squad gain
2020-21 spent — received €94m
out: Nathan Aké €45m
−€41m
squad gain
2019-20 spent €48m received €33m
in: Philip Billing €17m
−€41m
squad gain

Money against football

Every priced club-season in the six leagues: points against expectation across, squad value gained beyond the net spend up. This club’s seasons are joined.

● the frontier: no other club-season beat it on both axes · ● this club, season by season, the largest dot the latest

Every club’s return on the transfer window →

Greatest games

AFC Bournemouth's top matches by the club Game Score: closeness, stakes, quality and upset over one unified rating of league and European play. H, A and N mark home, away and a neutral venue; a ★ is a curated all-time classic (tap it for the model's own score).All-time board.

1
2026-04-11 · Premier League
60.1
game score
2
1950-01-07 · FA Cup · Round 3
56.2
game score
3
1957-03-02 · FA Cup · Quarterfinals
54.7
game score
4
2017-12-20 · League Cup · Quarterfinals
52.7
game score
5
2018-12-19 · League Cup · Quarterfinals
52.7
game score
6
1957-01-26 · FA Cup · Round 4
52.0
game score
7
1948-01-10 · FA Cup · Round 3
51.4
game score
8
2026-01-24 · Premier League
51.3
game score
9
2026-04-18 · Premier League
50.6
game score
10
2023-04-15 · Premier League
50.3
game score

Footprint

Tiers played
L1, L2, L3, L4
Top-flight (L1) seasons
10
Lower-tier league seasons
88
First season
1924
Most recent season
2026

The Heartbreak Index7.5 · #286

The Tortured · Never won it, waiting since 1924

7.5
Heartbreak
#286
of 1,138 clubs
#177
in Football
7.5
agony
The clocks
  • First major trophy since 192412.6
Heaviest wounds

relegated from the top flight, 2020 · survived a relegation scare, 2023 · survived a relegation scare, 2016 · relegated from the second tier, 1990

One formula, every club the site covers. See the whole board →

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subscribers gained since 23 Oct 2026

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Season-by-season

Most recent season first. Covers Levels 1 through 5 of the English pyramid. Rows tagged "national playoff" are pre-modern formats where the workbook records only playoff participants, not round-robin standings.

2027
Premier League (1) · P7● live
9 P · 3-3-3 · 14:13 · +1
12
pts
2026
Premier League (1) · P6
38 P · 13-18-7 · 58:54 · +4
57
pts
EL
2025
Premier League (1) · P9
38 P · 15-11-12 · 58:46 · +12
56
pts
2024
Premier League (1) · P12
38 P · 13-9-16 · 54:67 · -13
48
pts
2023
Premier League (1) · P15
38 P · 11-6-21 · 37:71 · -34
39
pts
2022
Championship (2) · P2↑
46 P · 25-13-8 · 74:39 · +35
88
pts
2021
Championship (2) · P6PO
46 P · 22-11-13 · 73:46 · +27
77
pts
2020
Premier League (1) · P18↓
38 P · 9-7-22 · 40:65 · -25
34
pts
2019
Premier League (1) · P14
38 P · 13-6-19 · 56:70 · -14
45
pts
2018
Premier League (1) · P12
38 P · 11-11-16 · 45:61 · -16
44
pts
2017
Premier League (1) · P9
38 P · 12-10-16 · 55:67 · -12
46
pts
2016
Premier League (1) · P16
38 P · 11-9-18 · 45:67 · -22
42
pts