Premier League SCR head-to-head
Bournemouth vs Brighton
Side by side
AFC Bournemouth
- Estimated revenue (football) reported £182m
- + Player trading profit/loss (3-yr average) +£31.1m
- Latest single season was +£91m not used alone
- = Adjusted revenue (SCR basis) £213.1m
- 85% SCR limit £181.1m
- Estimated squad cost estimated £187.5m
- 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 −£6.4m
- Red Threshold (115% of adjusted revenue) £245m
- Headroom vs Red Threshold +£57.5m
UEFA squad cost rule (UEFA Europa League) — a separate regulator's rule, running alongside the domestic one
- UEFA limit (70% of adjusted revenue) £149.2m
- Headroom vs UEFA limit −£38.3m
For reference, Transfermarkt's current squad market value is £491m (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.
Brighton & Hove Albion
- 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
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 drives the difference
Neither club has an owner top-up to lean on: Premier League SCR is 85% of adjusted revenue, full stop, with a 30% allowance above it that shrinks after any breach. Adjusted revenue nets in profit on player sales averaged over three seasons — Bournemouth +£31.1m, Brighton +£96.2m — so a club that sells well buys itself headroom without touching its wage bill. Bournemouth and Brighton are also bound by UEFA's stricter 70% rule this season, which is the tighter constraint of the two for most clubs in Europe.