admin In 2019, FIFA figures show spending on football agents topped £500m which is a 19.3 per cent increase on the whole of 2018.
It has revealed that in 2019, over 17,000 transfers have been completed and 3,557 of those deals involved at least one intermediary.
The FIFA Council endorsed a recommendation from its football stakeholders’ committee to put limits on intermediary spending in October. It included limits to 10 per cent of the transfer fee, the amount an agent representing a selling club.
It also proposed a limit of three per cent of a player’s salary where an agent is representing a player, and three per cent of a player’s salary where an agent is working on behalf of the buyer.
Additionally, ITMS data showed that 242 deals registered since January 1, 2019 involved at least one intermediary in the women’s game and spending on commission to intermediaries in the the game has more than tripled compared to 2018.
All 211 FIFA member countries and over 7,500 professional clubs around the world are using The ITMS. And, clubs in France, England, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and Spain accounted for over 80 per cent of the total spend on commission wherein Portuguese clubs spending almost half as much on intermediary fees as on transfer fees.
The data showed that £79.4 million was spent on commissions on international transfers in England which was a 33 per cent drop from 2018, where the figure was over £119m.
Fifa says 80% of that total was paid by clubs from Italy, England, Germany, Portugal, Spain and France combined. Fifa announced a series of measures to restrict fees paid to players’ agents earlier this year meaning agents of the selling club receive a maximum of 10% of the transfer fee.
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