Agents & Agencies
Agents and agencies have a significant influence in the club football landscape. They represent players and head coaches in player contract negotiations and work for clubs and players, sometimes both at the same time, on transfer negotiations. The larger agents/agencies are powerful partly because they negotiate on multiple deals with multiple clubs and therefore know the landscape better than the individual clubs they negotiate with. As player contracts and transfers have increased over time, so have the agent commissions and general unrest at how much money is ‘going out of football’. The FIFA Transfer Taskforce is exploring various approaches to the agent landscape and the UEFA Intelligence Centre has provided various studies to inform this process.
Supporting Data
The Intelligence Centre Agent database combines detailed player representation data from agent websites with agent commission data supplied directly by clubs which covers a healthy cross section of global transfer activity. The database links numerous datasets including:
Overview agents/ agencies
Searchable agent listing by player/ league
Agent transfer commission levels and trends
Agent influence and concentration
Agent registration trends
Example Questions We Can Answer
By combining our network of databases together with professional industry experience, the Intelligence Centre can provide answers to a range of strategic off-pitch football questions.
