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FIFA Football Agent Exam

The exam every football agent must pass: the agent regulations, representation and fees, minors, the transfer rules, training rewards, the disciplinary system — and what it all means for the manager across the table.

US$100 exam fee (about £75) · one exam edition a year, applied for on the FIFA agent platform · 20 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes, open book on the official study materials · pass mark 75%

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Free lesson · The agent regulations and becoming licensed

The FIFA Football Agent Exam: what you are sitting

The FIFA Football Agent Exam is the knowledge test behind the mandatory global licence to work as a football agent. The licence was reintroduced by the FIFA Football Agent Regulations (FFAR), in force since 9 January 2023, with a 2025 edition in force from 1 January 2025 and a further edition applying for 2026. Only licensed natural persons may provide football agent services anywhere in the world, and the exam is the gate. There are no educational or professional prerequisites, and lawyers, accountants and former players receive no exemption from it.

The real exam (2026 edition)
ApplyingOne edition a year, applied for on the FIFA agent platform. 2026: applications 20 January – 6 March, exam 28–30 April, results 4 June. A mandatory pre-exam readiness check comes first.
FeeUSD 100 flat (about £75), paid at application; non-refundable and non-transferable.
Format20 multiple-choice questions in 60 minutes — about three minutes each. One or more answers may be correct and only a fully correct answer scores; 5% a question; no negative marking.
Pass mark75% — 15 of 20.
ConditionsOpen book on the official study materials, digital only: no printed notes, websites or third-party help. Fully online with remote invigilation — laptop webcam plus a smartphone running the exam app, a private room, no breaks.
LanguagesEnglish, French, Spanish and German. Each candidate gets a unique question set drawn from one database.
RetakesUnlimited, across editions, paying the fee each time.

The syllabus is the official study materials — roughly 500 to 1,000 pages across seven regulatory areas: the FFAR; the Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP); the Clearing House Regulations; the Statutes; the Code of Ethics; the Disciplinary Code with the Football Tribunal’s procedural rules; and the FIFA Guardians child-safeguarding toolkit, plus designated circulars. This course has one module for each area where the marks lie, and its final draws 20 items at 75% exactly as the real exam does.

Pass rates: 52% at the first exam in April 2023 (1,962 of 3,800 candidates), falling to roughly 18–20% by 2025 as standards tightened. Most failures are navigation failures — candidates who know the material but cannot find the article in time — which is why every module here ends with the numbers you must know cold.

Source: Management & administration reference · 14. FIFA Football Agent Licence

The syllabus: 7 modules, 35 lessons

  1. 1

    The agent regulations and becoming licensed

    • The FIFA Football Agent Exam: what you are sitting free preview
    • The licence you cannot hold while you manage
    • What the FFAR are for, and the words they use
    • Becoming licensed: four steps and the eligibility test
    • Fees, periods, CPD — and how a licence is lost
    • How to pass: the 75% playbook
  2. 2

    Representation agreements and dual representation

    • In writing, before anything: the representation agreement
    • Two years, two months, fourteen days
    • Conflicts, connections and the duties every agent owes
    • Dual representation: the one permitted form
    • The manager’s side of the table
  3. 3

    Minors: the protected category

    • Six months, and not a day earlier
    • Representing a minor: signatures, courses and the fee
    • Article 19: moving a minor across a border
    • The club’s side: the first professional contract
  4. 4

    Service fees: the 3/5/6/10% machine

    • What the percentage is a percentage of
    • The cap table: 3, 5, 6 and 10
    • The client pays — with one exception
    • Instalments, expiry and the 24-month presumption
    • Worked figures: the arithmetic you must do in two minutes
  5. 5

    The transfer rules: status, registration and movement of players

    • Status and registration: three clubs, two of them for matches
    • Registration periods: twelve weeks and four
    • Loans and bridge transfers
    • Contract stability: the protected period and its sanctions
    • The manager’s window: build, repair, sell at the peak
    • Loans from the manager’s side
  6. 6

    Training compensation, solidarity and the Clearing House

    • Training compensation: who trained him pays nothing, who signs him pays
    • The solidarity mechanism: 5% and the distribution key
    • The Clearing House and the Electronic Player Passport
    • The Football Tribunal: three chambers, a single judge, two years
    • CAS: the court at the end of every road
  7. 7

    Discipline, ethics and safeguarding

    • The Disciplinary Code: the sanction menu and the big offences
    • The Code of Ethics: loyalty, disclosure, no bribes, no bets
    • How an agent is sanctioned — and what it means for the club
    • FIFA Guardians: record and report, never investigate yourself