The largest leak in the history of sports reveals murky financial transactions in the world of European professional football and exposes the tax tricks employed by some of the Continent's biggest stars.
The data includes 18.6 million documents, including original contracts with secret subsidiary agreements, emails, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and photos. The data set extends into the year 2016. EIC partners will publish their findings in the coming weeks, allowing for an unprecedented look into the gloomy depths of the modern football industry.
For the Football Leaks weekly diggest, please read this blog post for the first week, this one for the second week and here the one for the last week during 2016.
We are also uploading all our main stories below, published in different languages and on different platforms.
For latest developments follow #FootballLeaks and #EICFootball. For stories published during 2018, please follow this dedicated project page.
Initiators
DER SPIEGEL (Rafael Buschmann)
Participants
Reporting
Rafael Buschmann, Jürgen Dahlkamp, Christoph Henrichs, Roman Lehberger, Udo Ludwig, Andreas Meyhoff, Nicola Naber, Jörg Schmitt, Alfred Weinzierl, Michael Wulzinger, Peter Ahrens, Thomas Heise, Jule Lutteroth, Gerhard Pfeil, Maximilian Popp at DER SPIEGEL; Paula Guisado, Javier Sánchez, Quico Alsedo, Pablo Herraiz at El Mundo; Pedro Candeias, Miguel Prado, Raquel Albuquerque at Expresso; Lukas Matzinger, Joseph Redl at Falter; Vittorio Malagutti, Stefano Vergine at L’Espresso; Alain Lallemand, Joel Matriche, Stephane Vande Velde at Le Soir; Michaël Hajdenberg, Michel Henry, Donatien Huet, Martine Orange, Yann Philippin at Mediapart; Milorad Ivanovic, Blaž Zgaga at NewsWeek Serbia; Hanneke Chin, Hugo Logtenberg, Merijn Rengers, Esther Rosenberg at NRC; Jakob Sorgenfri Kjær, Jeppe Laursen Brock at Politiken; Michael Bird, Zeynep Sentek, Craig Shaw, Vlad Odobescu, Costin Stucan, Stefan Candea at RCIJ/TBS; Jonathan Calvert, George Arbuthnott, David Collins at The Sunday Times.
Information Design (choreography by Paula Guisado)
Pablo Medina, Alberto Hernández, Paula Guisado at El Mundo; Donatien Huet at Mediapart; Martin Brinker at DER SPIEGEL; Frederik Storm at Politiken
Technology
Stephan Heffner, DER SPIEGEL; Xavier De Cock, Le Soir; Nicolas Barthe-Dejean, Mediapart; Alex Morega, Gabriel Vijiala, Dan Achim, Raluca Ciubotaru, Dragoș Catarahia, Victor Avasiloaei, RCIJ/TBS
Project Guide
Stefan Candea, RCIJ/TBS
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