In 2025, world football paid over one billion euros in commissions to agents and agents. A tax that continues to grow and takes a mountain of money out of the system
A tax of 1.2 billion euros, paid by the world football system to agents and agents during 2025. This is the photograph that emerged from the usual FIFA’s Football Agents Report which analyzed the numbers entered by clubs in the compulsory registration system that accompanies every market movement. An increasing tax compared to 2024 (+90%), a sign that football is unable to find countermeasures to a problem that often dredges up resources without reinvesting them.
The one billion and 200 million euros represent the highest figure ever recorded since FIFA compiled its report. The previous record was 756 million euros in 2023. The vast majority of agent fees are paid where there is the greatest transfer market movement: Europe. And inside the Old Continent it is there Premier League to take the lion’s share with a cost of up to 319 million euros.
Here is the ranking of nations for commission expenses. The presence of the Saudi Pro League which, now, also develops a turnover for agents which places the Arabs at the level of the major European championships. France, which is experiencing a moment of crisis due to problems related to the valorization of TV rights, is coming behind the Saudis and Portugal which is traditionally a transit market.
- England: 319.2 million euros
- Germany: 140.3 million euros
- Italy: 121.2 million euros
- Spain: 92.0 million euros
- Portugal: 873.9 million euros
- Saudi Arabia: 68.3 million euros
- France: 67.5 million euros
- Holland: 23.2 million euros
- Sweden: 12.4 million euros
- Denmark: 12.3 million euros
- Serbia: 11.5 million euros
