Meaning of total_market_value field in clubs asset

[CarlosTjoeNij]

I was wondering from what year the 'total_market_value' from clubs.csv was extracted? Or is this always the most recent amount.
If it is possible I would like to get the total market value of each club for each year. Feel free to email me as well: [email protected]

Thanks in advance

[dcaribou]

Hi @CarlosTjoeNij,

I'm sorry for the late response.

The total_market_value value maps to that in a club main page in transfermarkt, which I believe corresponds to the current market value.

I don't recall transfermarkt having a record of historical values for a club market value that we can scrape from. If there's we can consider adding a new crawler in https://github.com/dcaribou/transfermarkt-scraper for it.

Another option could be to use the existing player_valuations asset (which does contain market value history), but you'd need figuring out historical membership of a player belonging to a club...

In summary, it does not sound easy 😄