Before a football agent can negotiate a transfer, secure a new contract, or represent a player, coach, or club in a transaction, there must be a valid football Representation Agreement in place. Under the FIFA Football Agent Regulations (FFAR), a football agent may only provide football agent services after entering into a written Representation Agreement
For many exams, staying up all night before the test is a familiar strategy. You read through your notes, try to cover the major topics, memorise as many key points as possible, and hope you can remember enough when you sit down to write the exam the next morning. But the FIFA Agent Exam is
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The numbers are stark. In 2025, only 18% of FIFA agent exam candidates passed. That’s roughly one in five people who registered for the exam making it through. If you’re looking at that statistic and wondering if it applies to you, this post is for you. The 2027 exam window is coming, and understanding why
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A lot of aspiring FIFA agents ask if they need a legal background to become FIFA Licensed Agents. If you’re imagining years of law school or complex legal training, stop. The path is simpler than you think. But simpler doesn’t mean easy. Here’s what you need to know about FIFA Agent Exam. The FIFA Agent
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One of the objectives of FIFA Football Agent Regulations (FFAR) is to prevent conflicts of interest in a transaction. As a result, there is a limit on how many parties a football agent can represent in a single transaction. This general rule on how many parties an agent can represent also comes with an exception.
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The FIFA Football Agent Regulations (FFAR) set the maximum percentage a football agent can charge for providing football agent services. This is known as service fee caps Before the introduction of the FFAR in 2023, the industry was largely unregulated and there was no limit on what an agent could charge. The clearest example of this
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You can always tell which football agents are serious and which ones are still figuring it out. Not by what they say, but what they send you. The contract comes through looking hastily formatted, their business card may not exist, the player presentation isn’t properly curated, and when you ask a follow-up question, you wait
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Whenever a football agent negotiates a transfer or provides any football agent service, most people assume the agent receives a percentage of the transfer fee. But how football agents get paid depends on which party the agent represents in the transaction. When a club pays £50 million to sign a player, an agent is not
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FIFA Football agents make money by providing football agent services (negotiating player employment contracts, representing the club, organising trials) and other services such as scouting, consultancy, image-rights management and commercial work for players, coaches or clubs, depending on who hired the agent. The client who hires the agent for the services pays the agent, as
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