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The money in Serie D

What it takes to play in Serie D, what it pays, and how its clubs do.

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Fees every season: €18.3k; plus €3,200 on deposit
Guarantee every season: €31k; posted, not spent
Central money per club: up to €50k; Youth prize, 2026-27budget

What it takes to play here

The 2026-27 rules from the league’s and federation’s own regulations, sorted by when they cost money.

Paid every season

By every club in the league, whether it has just arrived or been here for years.

Serie D registration€16kSource: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale
Under 19 registration€2,000Source: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale
LND association fee€300Source: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale
Expenses on account€3,200Source: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale
Insurance of registered players and officialsby the number of players and officials registered at 30 June 2026, computed in the online registrationSource: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale

Guarantees, every season

Collateral posted each season. Not spent unless called; the cost is the bank's fee or the cash tied up.

Guarantee€31kSource: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale

Once, on arrival

Paid in the season a club joins, and again each time it comes back.

Contribution to FIGC (minimum)€300k (minimum)new club of a city whose professional club was not admitted. art. 52 c. 10 NOIF. Source: FIGC
Extraordinary contribution€50kclubs admitted by repechage (not entitled to Serie D). Source: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale

Penalties

Charged only if a club breaks a rule.

Charge for not entering an Under 19 team€15kSource: Lega Nazionale Dilettanti
Economic control: unpaid wages1 point and a €5,000 fine for each month not paid in fullSource: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale

Conditions, pay, squad, ground and reporting rules 1

Squad

Youth rule1 born 2006 or later; 1 born 2007 or later; 1 born 2008 or later (players on the pitch throughout each match)Source: Lega Nazionale Dilettanti

Money in from the league and federation

Central payments to the division’s clubs, the latest season first. A maximum is the most a club can get, not what it received.

Youth prizebudgetup to €50k per club2026-27, paid by LND, €1.03m in all. For the top clubs of each Serie D girone in the young-player ranking. Shared by girone (€ per girone in the evidence) among the clubs that field the most young players, by a points ranking.Earlier: 2025-26 up to €50k per club.Sources: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale, LND – Dipartimento Interregionale

Discipline prizebudgetup to €10k per club2025-26, paid by LND. For the Serie D club with the best disciplinary record. Source: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale

Cup prizebudget€2,500–€10k per club2025-26, paid by LND. For Coppa Italia Serie D winner, finalist and semi-finalists. Source: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale

Youngest squad prizebudgetup to €5,000 per club2025-26, paid by LND. For the Serie D club fielding the youngest starting players on average. Source: LND – Dipartimento Interregionale

The division’s accounts

Every club in the division added together, from the league’s or federation’s annual report, season by season. The latest season is the brighter column.

Every line, season by season

All clubs together	2025-26
Total spending	€155.0m

Source: SerieD.it

A typical club here

Each club’s latest published figures, one dot a club, the white mark the median. Only clubs that publish are counted, so the sample may lean towards larger or better-run clubs.

What Serie D clubs earn and spend

Every figure a club or its league publishes, on one scale: what comes in, what goes out on staff, and the caps that limit it. Each lane says what its amounts are; a cap is not money spent.

Money in
Money out
A limit, not money spent

Contracted paycontracted · 10 clubs

Read as a table

Club	Contracted pay
Bra	€1.10m (2025-26)
Fiorenzuola	€703k (2022-23)
Gelbison	€545k (2022-23)
Montevarchi	€594k (2022-23)
Pontedera	€1.07m (2025-26)
Pro Patria	€1.87m (2025-26)
Siracusa	€2.33m (2025-26)
Trapani	€6.83m (2025-26)
Triestina	€5.18m (2025-26)
Virtus Verona	€792k (2025-26)