Football (Soccer) vocabulary · Transfers & Contracts

Sell-on clause

Meaning in football (soccer), with examples

nounAdvanced term

In football (soccer), sell-on clause means: A transfer agreement term giving a former club a share of a later sale, calculated as the agreement specifies.

In Turkish: sonraki satıştan pay maddesi

How it is used

Reports should distinguish a share of the sale price from a share of the profit.

Example sentences

  1. The sell-on clause gave the former club a share when the player moved again.

    The payment arises from a later transfer rather than the first move alone.

  2. The clubs disagreed over whether the sell-on clause referred to profit or total fee.

    The calculation base matters when interpreting this contract term.

Common collocations

  • include a sell-on clause
  • sell-on percentage
  • sell-on clause payment

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