FIFA and The FA public registers, and what they do and do not prove
Football agent list: the two registers that actually verify one
Searching for a list of football agents turns up paid contact databases, scraped directories and a great deal of nothing. The lists that matter are free, published by the governing bodies, and answer a different and better question than a contact list does. FIFA publishes a directory of every agent it has licensed. The FA publishes its registered football agents and, separately, the details of agent transactions. Between them you can establish in a few minutes whether somebody may lawfully act, which is the question a player or a parent should be asking first.
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FIFA's directory of all Football Agents licensed by FIFA, published openly rather than sold
Two registers
FIFA's licensed agents directory and The FA's registered football agents, which answer overlapping but different questions
1 June 2026
the date The FA Football Agent Regulations for the 2026/27 season came into effect
Question 1
Why do you need a list of agents?
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Scope of this checker
- FIFA's public directory of licensed football agents
- The FA's register of registered football agents in England
- The FA's published agent transaction details, which almost nobody knows exist
- What a paid contact list actually sells you, and what it does not
- The questions that matter when the player is a minor
- Based on FIFA and FA published material read on 15 August 2026. Verification only: this site holds no list of its own
Football Agent Index is an independent site operated by Ellul Solutions Ltd. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to FIFA, The Football Association, any league, club or agency, and it is not a football agency, a law firm or a regulated adviser. It holds no list of agents of its own and sells no contact details: it points at the free public registers published by the governing bodies, which are better sources than anything we could assemble. Nothing here is legal advice, and the rules on representation, particularly of players under 18, sit in The FA Football Agent Regulations, which this site deliberately does not paraphrase. Every statement is taken from FIFA or FA published material cited on this page and read on the date shown at the top of it. Registers change, so verify any name against the live register rather than against any copy of one.
Where football agents are actually published, 2026
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The lists worth having are free and published by the governing bodies. Paid contact databases sell a different thing entirely, and it is not verification.
Every source in this table is one published by FIFA or The FA and read on 15 August 2026. FIFA's page states that its Agents Department manages the licence applications to become and remain a FIFA-licensed Football Agent and the procedures relating to disputes involving football agents decided by the Agents Chamber of the Football Tribunal, and links a directory with the words: please click here to access all Football Agents licensed by FIFA. The FA's player status and agents page carries a register with a find function, standard representation agreements available to download, published agent transaction details, and the statement that The FA Football Agent Regulations for the 2026/27 season come into effect from 1st June 2026. No count of agents appears in this table, because a register is a live snapshot and a number published here would be wrong within weeks. No fee, commission rate or market figure appears either, because none is published by a governing body and an invented range would be a guess given the appearance of a benchmark. This site holds no list of its own and does not sell contact details.
| Source | What it tells you | What it does not tell you | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| FIFA directory of licensed football agents | Whether a person holds a FIFA licence, which is the international credential | Whether they are taking on players, whether they work at your level, or anything about their record | Free |
| The FA register of registered football agents | Whether a person is registered to act in England, with a find function | The same limits. Registration is permission, not a recommendation | Free |
| The FA published agent transaction details | The deals agents have actually been involved in, on the public record rather than by claim | Why a deal happened, or what the agent contributed to it | Free |
| The FA standard representation agreements | What a straightforward representation contract looks like, downloadable before you are handed one | Whether the terms offered to you match it, which is the point of reading it first | Free |
| The FA Football Agent Regulations | The rules in force, with the 2026/27 season regulations effective from 1 June 2026 | Nothing. This is the governing document, and it is the thing to read rather than a summary of it | Free |
| FIFA Agents Chamber of the Football Tribunal | That there is a forum where disputes involving football agents are decided | How any individual dispute would be resolved | Free to know it exists |
| A paid contact database | Contact details, which is a different product from verification | Whether the person is licensed, registered, active, or interested. None of that comes with an email address | Charged |
- FIFA publishes a directory giving access to all Football Agents licensed by FIFA, free, rather than selling it.
- The FA publishes a register of FA Registered Football Agents in England with a find function, also free.
- The FA separately publishes agent transaction details, so agent involvement in deals is a matter of public record rather than of claim.
- The FA publishes standard representation agreements for download, which means a player can read what a normal contract looks like before being handed one.
- The FA Football Agent Regulations for the 2026/27 season came into effect from 1 June 2026.
- FIFA's Agents Department manages both the licence applications to become and remain a licensed agent and the procedures relating to agent disputes decided by the Agents Chamber of the Football Tribunal.
- Being on a register establishes permission to act, and says nothing about whether an agent is active, suitable or interested in a particular player.
Cite this page
“Where football agents are actually published, 2026”, Football Agent Index, https://footballagentindex.com/ (updated 2026-08-15). Every source in this table is one published by FIFA or The FA and read on 15 August 2026. FIFA's page states that its Agents Department manages the licence applications to become and remain a FIFA-licensed Football Agent and the procedures relating to disputes involving football agents decided by the Agents Chamber of the Football Tribunal, and links a directory with the words: please click here to access all Football Agents licensed by FIFA. The FA's player status and agents page carries a register with a find function, standard representation agreements available to download, published agent transaction details, and the statement that The FA Football Agent Regulations for the 2026/27 season come into effect from 1st June 2026. No count of agents appears in this table, because a register is a live snapshot and a number published here would be wrong within weeks. No fee, commission rate or market figure appears either, because none is published by a governing body and an invented range would be a guess given the appearance of a benchmark. This site holds no list of its own and does not sell contact details.
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Common questions
Is there a public list of football agents?
Yes, two, and both are free. FIFA publishes a directory giving access to all Football Agents licensed by FIFA. The FA publishes a register of FA Registered Football Agents in England, with a find function. Between them they answer whether a person may lawfully act, which is a better question than a contact list answers. The FA also publishes agent transaction details separately, which puts agent involvement in actual deals on the public record.
How do I check whether a football agent is legitimate?
Search the exact name on The FA's register of registered football agents and on FIFA's directory of licensed football agents, then look at The FA's published agent transaction details to see whether they have actually been involved in deals. All three are free and the whole check takes about five minutes. Search name variants too, because agents often operate through an agency under a different name. A name absent from all three, attached to someone asking for money, is not an administrative oversight.
Should I pay a football agent up front?
In professional football the ordinary model pays the agent in connection with a transaction rather than out of a family's savings, so a fee demanded before any transaction exists is a departure from the norm that requires an explanation. Before responding at all, do the free checks on both registers and on the published transaction record. If the person is registered, the question becomes what specifically the fee buys, who else pays them in relation to this player, and what happens to the money if nothing comes of it, all in writing.
Will a paid agent contact list get me representation?
It sells contact details, which is a different product from verification and from access. An email address tells you nothing about whether the holder is licensed, registered, active or interested. For a player the constraint is rarely knowing where to send a message: an unsolicited approach from an unknown player is the least effective route into representation there is. The free registers answer the questions that decide whether somebody should be dealt with at all, and The FA's transaction record shows who actually operates at a given level.
What rules apply to agents representing under-18s?
They sit in The FA Football Agent Regulations, which were updated for the 2026/27 season with effect from 1 June 2026 and are published in full. This site deliberately does not paraphrase them, because a summary of a document that changes each season is a snapshot of somebody's reading of it and the cost of getting it wrong here falls on a child. What is safe to say is the sequence: check both registers, read the regulations or have somebody read them, use The FA's published standard representation agreement, settle who pays in writing, and take independent advice.
What is the FIFA Agents Chamber?
FIFA's page states that its Agents Department manages the procedures relating to disputes involving football agents decided by the Agents Chamber of the Football Tribunal, as well as the licence applications to become and remain a FIFA-licensed Football Agent. For a player the practical significance is that there is a forum in which disputes about agents are actually determined, which is the answer to what happens when representation goes wrong, and it is part of what makes the licence a credential rather than a description.
Does being on a register mean an agent is any good?
No, and this is the limit of both lists. A register establishes permission to act, which is the floor rather than a recommendation. It says nothing about whether an agent is currently taking on players, whether they work at the level a particular player is at, or what they have achieved. The closest public source for that is The FA's published agent transaction details, which shows involvement in actual deals, and even that shows involvement rather than contribution.
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