How much can Brighton & Hove Albion spend under SCR?

Brighton & Hove Albion has a guaranteed SCR spending limit of £270.8m — 85% of adjusted football revenue of £318.6m. The Red Threshold, beyond which points deductions apply, is £366.4m (115%).

What is Brighton & Hove Albion's SCR headroom?

Brighton & Hove Albion's estimated SCR headroom is £36.1m — the difference between their 85% limit of £270.8m and their estimated £234.7m squad cost. Squad cost is 73.7% of adjusted revenue, which is High spending power.

Are Brighton & Hove Albion at risk under UEFA's squad cost rule?

Brighton & Hove Albion also play in the UEFA Conference League in 2026/27, so UEFA's separate squad cost rule applies: a 70% limit of £223m against the same adjusted revenue, leaving −£11.7m of headroom. Their UEFA status is amber. UEFA assesses to the calendar year and sanctions with fines and squad-registration limits, not points.

Did Brighton & Hove Albion spend beyond their SCR headroom in the summer 2026 window?

Brighton & Hove Albion recorded a net sale of −£10.4m in the summer 2026 window against a pre-window effective SCR headroom of £36.1m (the 85% limit plus any owner top-up or allowance, minus estimated squad cost). That is £46.5m inside their calculated effective headroom. Spending beyond headroom is not automatically a breach: transfer fees are amortised over the length of the contract, sales offset signings, and none of it reaches SCR squad cost until the next accounts are filed.

Premier League SCR

How much can Brighton & Hove Albion spend?

Under the Premier League's Squad Cost Ratio rules, Brighton & Hove Albion have a guaranteed spending limit of £270.8m — 85% of adjusted football revenue of £318.6m. Against their estimated squad cost that leaves £36.1m of headroom. Their Red Threshold — the 115% ceiling beyond which points deductions apply — is £366.4m.

£318.6m is adjusted revenue: headline turnover of £222.4m plus a three-season average of £96.2m profit on player sales, which is the denominator SCR actually uses.

Brighton & Hove Albion: the SCR breakdown

Estimated revenue (football) reported £222.4m
+ Player trading profit/loss (3-yr average) +£96.2m
Latest single season was +£57m not used alone
= Adjusted revenue (SCR basis) £318.6m
85% SCR limit £270.8m
Estimated squad cost estimated £234.7m
Components not itemised — squad cost is anchored to a published analyst estimate rather than composed from wages, amortisation and agents' fees.
Headroom vs 85% limit +£36.1m
Red Threshold (115% of adjusted revenue) £366.4m
Headroom vs Red Threshold +£131.7m

UEFA squad cost rule (UEFA Conference League) — a separate regulator's rule, running alongside the domestic one

UEFA limit (70% of adjusted revenue) £223m
Headroom vs UEFA limit −£11.7m

UEFA: Balanced

High spending power - squad cost is 73.7% of adjusted revenue

For reference, Transfermarkt's current squad market value is £530.9m (source) — a transfer-market valuation, not the same thing as squad cost. It's shown purely as a sanity-check on the scale of the composed wage/amortisation figure above, not as an input to the SCR calculation itself.

What this means

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

UEFA's rule is separate. Because Brighton are in the UEFA Conference League, UEFA's 70%/100% squad cost rule applies alongside the Premier League's. On the same adjusted revenue the 70% line is £223m, leaving −£11.7m — UEFA status amber. A club can be green with the Premier League and amber with UEFA at the same time; UEFA fines and restricts squad registration rather than deducting points. Brighton & Hove Albion's UEFA squad cost position in full → · How the two rules differ →

Summer 2026 window vs SCR headroom

Window spend (gross) £154.5m
Window sales £164.8m
Net sale estimated −£10.4m
Pre-window effective SCR headroom (85% limit plus any top-up or allowance) £36.1m

Within headroom

A net sale of −£10.4m leaves £46.5m of the £36.1m of effective headroom Brighton had before the window opened — the 85% limit plus any owner top-up or allowance, minus estimated squad cost, the same basis as the transfer-window table.

football365's net-spend table (published at window close): spend £154.45m, income £164.81m, net -£10.36m (net profit). Key deals: in - Vuskovic (~£46-50m from Spurs), Costinha (£11m), Zadok Yohanna (~£21.5-26m), Struijk (£18m), Hadjam (£11.1m); out - Baleba (£70m to Man Utd), van Hecke (£52m to Spurs), Rushworth (~£25m to Coventry), Coppola (£17m). Other outlets diverge (Sports Mole: -£30.7m net) reflecting different cutoff dates and add-on treatment; all sources agree the window closed net-positive for Brighton.
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Spending beyond calculated headroom is not automatically a breach: transfer fees are amortised over the contract, sales offset signings, and none of it reaches SCR squad cost until the next accounts are filed. Every club's window spend vs headroom →

Old rules vs new: PSR compared to SCR

Brighton were comfortably PROFIT-making across this PSR window, not loss-making: post-tax profits of approximately £122.8m (2022/23) and £73.9m (2023/24), followed by a swing to a loss in 2024/25 (pre-tax loss £55.8m/£56m, post-tax £51m) driven by a near-halving of player trading profit (£110m to £57m) alongside record transfer spend (£210.5m gross). Greg Cordell (gregcordell.substack.com) estimates Brighton retained roughly £318.5m of PSR headroom/cushion entering the most recent period. Because psr_three_year_losses has no schema field for a net profit, and the club's PSR position for this window is a net profit, not a loss, this field is left null rather than forcing a fabricated negative figure — see the CLAUDE.md known-issue about Watford/Derby County storing profits as positive losses; Brighton's case is the same trap and null avoids repeating it.

Note on this club's figures. 2024/25 filed-accounts basis: revenue £222.4m (Brighton FY2024/25 annual accounts, reported via matchdayfinance/wearebrighton), player trading profit £57.0m (down from £110m the prior year). No analyst publishes an exact 2024/25 SCR percentage for Brighton (unlike 2023/24, where theesk.org computed an explicit 62% green-zone figure). The anchored squad_cost here (~£234.7m, ~84%) follows analyst Greg Cordell (gregcordell.substack.com), who states Brighton's 'very rough estimates for 2021/22 through 2024/25 indicate the club consistently remain within the green threshold limit of 85.0%' — taken as just-under-85%. Independently composing from filed-accounts components (wages £164.6m + amortisation £82m, both widely reported via matchdayfinance/Swiss Ramble-sourced coverage of the 2024/25 accounts) gives £246.6m, i.e. ~88.3% of the £279.4m adjusted-revenue denominator (£222.4m + £57.0m) — matching the expected ~89% composed figure. The ~£12m gap between anchor and components likely reflects non-playing staff/administrative costs folded into the £164.6m 'total wages' line that the analyst anchor implicitly excludes, plus agents' fees not being separately disclosed. Per data convention, the anchored figure is stored as squad_cost and the three components are set to null rather than storing a set that would sum to a contradictory total. Separately, matchdayfinance's PL-wide 2024/25 review notes Brighton sat below UEFA's stricter 70% threshold on a THREE-SEASON-AVERAGE basis, 'boosted by two years of very high player trading profits (2022/23, 2023/24)' that 'will roll out of the calculation by 2026/27' — a caveat that the single-year figures stored here do not capture, and which implies Brighton's true multi-year-smoothed ratio is more favourable than the single-year composed figure suggests, but will likely rise as those exceptional years drop out. Brighton finished 8th in the Premier League in 2025/26 and qualified for the UEFA Conference League play-off round for 2026/27, hence uefa_competition is set to conference_league. 3-YEAR TRADING PROFIT / TRANSFERMARKT NOTE: 2023/24 player trading profit corrected to £110.3m (not the £110.0m/£110m round figure previously assumed) — sourced via Greg Cordell's Substack analysis of Brighton's 2023/24 accounts (gregcordell.substack.com/p/brighton-and-hove-albion-202324-financial), itself drawing on Swiss Ramble's published breakdown; corroborated by wearebrighton.com's accounts coverage. Driven mainly by Moises Caicedo's British-record sale to Chelsea. 2022/23 figure of £121.4m (not £110m's prior comparator of exactly £122.8m — that £122.8m is the club's overall post-tax PROFIT figure, not the player-trading line) sourced from the same Greg Cordell article, which states a £11.1m year-on-year decrease from 2022/23 to 2023/24 (£121.4m minus £110.3m ≈ £11.1m), and cross-checked against wearebrighton.com's 2022-23 accounts article citing '£121.4 million profit... from outgoing transfers' driven by Cucurella, Trossard and Maupay sales. Three-year picture: £121.4m (2022/23) -> £110.3m (2023/24) -> £57.0m (2024/25, per existing dataset) — a real, sustained decline, not a single-year anomaly, so smoothing materially lowers the multi-year average versus using 2024/25 alone. Transfermarkt squad value: current total squad market value shown as €619.50m on the Transfermarkt squad page (fetched via transfermarkt.us mirror since transfermarkt.com was unreachable); converted to GBP at an EUR/GBP rate of 0.857 (approximate spot rate as of August 2026) giving ~£530.9m. This is a sanity-check figure only, not squad cost — Transfermarkt market value is an independent crowd-sourced estimate of player worth, unrelated to SCR's wage+amortisation+agents'-fees definition. Summer 2026 window: spend £133.0m, sales £173.0m, net sales £40.0m (Sky Sports/GiveMeSport, transfer fees not accounting profit — the P&L profit on disposal is fee less remaining book value, so this is an upper bound on the player-trading profit that will land in FY2026/27). The stored player_trading_profit remains the filed figure and is NOT adjusted for this window.
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Figures are illustrative estimates from published accounts, named analyst estimates and public reporting, not official SCR submissions. Premier League squad cost is composed from wage, amortisation and agents' fee components or anchored to a published analyst estimate, because no club discloses the SCR split — which is why it is always flagged estimated. Last reviewed 2026-09-03. Full rules explainer →