How much can Barnsley spend under SCR?

Barnsley has a guaranteed SCR spending limit of £5.1m — 50% of estimated football revenue of £10.3m.

What is Barnsley's SCR headroom?

Barnsley's estimated SCR headroom is £1.2m — the difference between their 50% limit of £5.1m and their estimated £4m squad cost. Squad cost is 38.6% of revenue, which is High spending power.

League One SCMP

How much can Barnsley spend?

Under the EFL's Salary Cost Management Protocol (SCMP) rules, Barnsley have a guaranteed spending limit of £5.1m — 50% of estimated football revenue of £10.3m. Against their estimated squad cost that leaves £1.2m of headroom.

Barnsley: the SCR breakdown

Estimated revenue (football) reported £10.3m
50% SCR limit £5.1m
Estimated squad cost estimated £4m
Headroom vs 50% limit +£1.2m

High spending power - squad cost is 38.6% of revenue

What this means

On these estimates, Barnsley sit comfortably inside the 85% Green Threshold. They have room to invest in the squad without straining the rules.

League One clubs are governed by SCMP, a wage-to-turnover cap, not SCR. The figures above run the club through the same calculator at the 50% SCMP threshold for comparability; the League One page shows the club's SCMP ratio and threshold directly.

Note on this club's figures. Revenue is headline turnover from Barnsley Football Club Limited's filed accounts for the year ended 30 June 2025 (League One, filed at Companies House 20 March 2026, OCR'd from the scanned PDF): turnover £10,276,916 (note 3: EFL distributions £3.10m, matchday £3.86m boosted c.£0.8m by the Carabao Cup tie at Man Utd, sponsorship £1.04m, catering £0.82m, other £1.01m), up from £8,969,422 in the prior 13-month period to 30 June 2024. Note 4 gives TOTAL wages and salaries of £10,180,070 (total staff costs incl. NI/pension £11,455,540) across 131 footballing, 22 admin and 270 matchday staff; player trading swung to a £171k loss from £6.78m profit, so pre-tax loss widened to £6,582,340 (2024: £2,844,894). Caveat: the Companies House PDF for this filing is mis-collated - its first ten pages are Wigan Athletic's strategic report, audit report and P&L; Barnsley's own notes (turnover, employees, operating loss) are intact and are what is used here; the Barnsley KPI/strategic report pages are absent, so the accounts' player-only wage figure could not be read and squad_cost is NOT taken from the accounts. The 2026/27 wage bill is SalarySport's 2026/27 estimate (£3,964,636/yr, £76,243/wk, 53 players); Capology's 2025/26 estimate via Football League World (25 Dec 2025) was £4.49m/yr (£86,500/wk, fifth-lowest in L1). Capology, Spotrac, Insider Media, Yorkshire Post and Barnsley Chronicle pages returned 403 and were not read. Ratio = 3,964,636 / 10,276,916 = 0.39, nominally well inside the 50% cap, but flagged within_but_watch because the estimator figures are only c.40% of the audited all-staff wage line (£10.18m) and the true SCMP player-wage base is likely materially higher; the 2025/26 accounts (due by 31 March 2027) will be the first to show a post-50%-cap season. 2024/25 wages ratio on the all-staff basis was 99% of turnover, so compliance depends on the 2025/26 squad-cost cuts and player-sale receipts.
Source.

Compare Barnsley with another club

Peterborough United Stockport County Huddersfield Town AFC Wimbledon Reading Leyton Orient

← All League One SCMP clubs ranked by SCR headroom

Figures are illustrative estimates from published accounts, named analyst estimates and public reporting, not official SCR submissions. SCR uses adjusted football revenue, which differs from headline turnover. Last reviewed 2026-09-03. Full rules explainer →