Canada forward Olivia Smith has become the most expensive player in women’s soccer history at a cost of one million pounds ($1.34 million) after Arsenal signed her from Liverpool.

Arsenal's Olivia Smith has become the first £1m transfer in women's football, so here is the evolution of the transfer record from the past few decades.

European champions Arsenal shattered the women's transfer record by signing Canadian forward Olivia Smith from Liverpool, for a fee of one million pounds according to media reports, making the 20-year-old the first female player to break the seven-figure barrier.