Premier League SCR head-to-head
Ipswich vs Hull City
Side by side
Ipswich Town
- Estimated revenue (football) reported £155.4m
- + Player trading profit/loss (3-yr average) +£6.3m
- Latest single season was +£15.4m not used alone
- = Adjusted revenue (SCR basis) £161.7m
- 85% SCR limit £137.4m
- Estimated squad cost estimated £117.3m
- Player wages £77.1m
- Player amortisation £34m
- Agents' fees £6.2m
- Squad cost = player wages + player amortisation + agents' fees. Composed estimate — no club discloses the SCR split.
- Headroom vs 85% limit +£20.1m
- Red Threshold (115% of adjusted revenue) £186m
- Headroom vs Red Threshold +£68.7m
For reference, Transfermarkt's current squad market value is £239.2m (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.
Hull City
- Estimated revenue (football) reported £25.8m
- + Player trading profit/loss (3-yr average) +£18.9m
- Latest single season was +£33.1m not used alone
- = Adjusted revenue (SCR basis) £44.7m
- 85% SCR limit £38m
- Estimated squad cost estimated £40.9m
- Player wages £29.4m
- Player amortisation £10.4m
- Agents' fees £1.1m
- Squad cost = player wages + player amortisation + agents' fees. Composed estimate — no club discloses the SCR split.
- Headroom vs 85% limit −£2.9m
- Red Threshold (115% of adjusted revenue) £51.4m
- Headroom vs Red Threshold +£10.5m
For reference, Transfermarkt's current squad market value is £96.8m (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 — Ipswich +£6.3m, Hull City +£18.9m — so a club that sells well buys itself headroom without touching its wage bill.