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Prepare to Pass the FIFA Football Agent Exam on Your First Attempt

Study the regulations, work through original cases, and practice timed mock exams.

This course covers the topics and regulations assessed in the FIFA Football Agent Exam, with lessons, original cases and timed mock exams.

Key facts

Video
14 h 34 min
Estimated study time
51 h total
14 h 34 min of video and 36.4 h of activities
Suggested pace
4, 6, or 10 weeks
Level
Introductory
No prior knowledge required.
Format
Recorded
Course language
English
Dubbed English audio, with subtitles
Access
Access until the next FIFA Football Agent Exam
Next FIFA exam: 2027 (date to be confirmed by FIFA). Access lasts until that exam and at least 90 days from purchase.
Certificate
Certificate of Completion

Last updated:

What you will learn

By the end of the course, you can:

  • Prepare for the exam.
  • Qualify and stay licensed.
  • Build a valid representation relationship.
  • Meet an agent’s professional obligations.
  • Register and transfer players.
  • Read employment and contract cases.
  • Protect minors in transfers and trials.
  • Calculate training rewards.
  • Work through the Clearing House.
  • Understand FIFA authority and procedure.
  • Apply discipline and ethics rules.
  • Safeguard children and recruit responsibly.
  • Read the published 2027 changes.
  • Plan your final review and exam day.
  • Short video lessons with English captions and transcripts
  • Original practice cases and timed mock exams
  • Feedback linked to the relevant provisions
  • Lesson briefs, glossary and calculation worksheets
  • Study planner, error log and review tools
  • Official English source directory
  • A verifiable Minerva certificate of completion

The exam track follows the January 2026 syllabus. Published 2027 changes are studied separately by edition and effective date.

Enrollment options

Recorded

Recorded, self-paced

FIFA Football Agent Exam — access until the next exam

Study at your own pace during your access period.

Access
Next FIFA exam: 2027 (date to be confirmed by FIFA). Access lasts until that exam and at least 90 days from purchase.
Course language
English · Dubbed English audio, with subtitles
Includes
  • 84 lessons
  • 107 activities
  • Downloadable materials
  • Certificate when course requirements are met
Price

USD 769

United States

Or 4 interest-free payments of USD 192.25 every two weeks with Klarna / Afterpay, subject to approval.

Buy course

Full price and terms

Who this is for

Candidates preparing for the FIFA Football Agent Exam, including first-time candidates and football professionals.

Prerequisites

No prior legal training or agent work is assumed. The course is taught in English.

Syllabus

16 modules · 84 lessons · 107 activities

Getting started

3 lessons · 15 min

Account setup and exam readiness.

  1. Your path to becoming a FIFA football agent

    5 min

  2. Practice: Your path to becoming a FIFA football agent: practice

    6 min estimated

  3. Set up your FIFA Agent Platform account

    5 min

  4. Practice: Set up your FIFA Agent Platform account: practice

    6 min estimated

  5. Prepare your devices and complete the readiness check

    5 min

  6. Practice: Prepare your devices and complete the readiness check: practice

    6 min estimated

Module 1Prepare for the exam

4 lessons · 37 min

  1. Prepare for the FIFA Agent Exam

    Free sample9 min

  2. Practice: Prepare for the FIFA Agent Exam

    5 min estimated

  3. Navigate the Official Rulebook

    9 min

  4. Practice: Navigate the Official Rulebook

    5 min estimated

  5. Solve Single- and Multiple-Answer Questions

    10 min

  6. Practice: Solve Single- and Multiple-Answer Questions

    5 min estimated

  7. Build Your Study Schedule and Error Log

    9 min

  8. Practice: Build Your Study Schedule and Error Log

    6 min estimated

  9. Assessment: Module 01: Exam preparation and study method

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 2Qualify and stay licensed

6 lessons · 1 hr 10 min

  1. Who may act as a football agent?

    12 min

  2. Practice: Who may act as a football agent?

    11 min estimated

  3. Eligibility: conflicts, convictions and financial history

    13 min

  4. Practice: Eligibility: conflicts, convictions and financial history

    15 min estimated

  5. Apply, sit the exam and obtain a licence

    12 min

  6. Practice: Apply, sit the exam and obtain a licence

    9 min estimated

  7. Annual fees and continuing professional development

    10 min

  8. Practice: Annual fees and continuing professional development

    6 min estimated

  9. Suspension, withdrawal and the return to practice

    11 min

  10. Practice: Suspension, withdrawal and the return to practice

    8 min estimated

  11. Agencies, employees and the responsibility of the agent

    11 min

  12. Practice: Agencies, employees and the responsibility of the agent

    6 min estimated

  13. Assessment: Licensing and professional status

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 3Build a valid representation relationship

7 lessons · 1 hr 11 min

  1. Identify the client and the transaction

    10 min

  2. Practice: Identify the client and the transaction

    6 min estimated

  3. The representation agreement: required terms

    10 min

  4. Practice: The representation agreement: required terms

    5 min estimated

  5. Duration, renewal and termination

    11 min

  6. Practice: Duration, renewal and termination

    8 min estimated

  7. Independent legal advice and written confirmation

    10 min

  8. Practice: Independent legal advice and written confirmation

    5 min estimated

  9. Exclusivity, approaches and existing agreements

    10 min

  10. Practice: Exclusivity, approaches and existing agreements

    5 min estimated

  11. Dual representation and connected agents

    10 min

  12. Practice: Dual representation and connected agents

    5 min estimated

  13. Representing minors: age, consent and accreditation

    10 min

  14. Practice: Representing minors: age, consent and accreditation

    9 min estimated

  15. Assessment: Module 03: Representation agreements and clients

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 4Meet an agent’s professional obligations

6 lessons · 1 hr 6 min

  1. Act in the client’s interests

    10 min

  2. Practice: Act in the client’s interests

    8 min estimated

  3. Report transactions and keep accurate records

    11 min

  4. Practice: Report transactions and keep accurate records

    5 min estimated

  5. Conflicts, benefits and prohibited conduct

    11 min

  6. Practice: Conflicts, benefits and prohibited conduct

    6 min estimated

  7. International and domestic authority

    12 min

  8. Practice: International and domestic authority

    6 min estimated

  9. Disputes, enforcement and cooperation

    11 min

  10. Practice: Disputes, enforcement and cooperation

    5 min estimated

  11. Service fees: the text, the suspension and the exam boundary

    12 min

  12. Practice: Service fees: the text, the suspension and the exam boundary

    6 min estimated

  13. Assessment: Agent obligations and regulatory scope

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 5Register and transfer players

6 lessons · 1 hr 2 min

  1. Amateur and professional status

    10 min

  2. Practice: Amateur and professional status

    5 min estimated

  3. Registration, club limits and eligibility to play

    10 min

  4. Practice: Registration, club limits and eligibility to play

    8 min estimated

  5. Registration periods and their exceptions

    10 min

  6. Practice: Registration periods and their exceptions

    6 min estimated

  7. International transfer certificates and TMS

    10 min

  8. Practice: International transfer certificates and TMS

    6 min estimated

  9. Loans: duration, limits and return

    11 min

  10. Practice: Loans: duration, limits and return

    8 min estimated

  11. Bridge transfers and third-party rights

    13 min

  12. Practice: Bridge transfers and third-party rights

    35 min estimated

  13. Assessment: Module 05: Status, registration and transfers

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 6Read employment and contract cases

6 lessons · 1 hr 3 min

  1. Contract duration and essential protections

    11 min

  2. Practice: Contract duration and essential protections

    8 min estimated

  3. Just cause and outstanding salaries

    10 min

  4. Practice: Just cause and outstanding salaries

    6 min estimated

  5. Sporting just cause and the protected period

    10 min

  6. Practice: Sporting just cause and the protected period

    8 min estimated

  7. Breach of contract: the applicable edition

    11 min

  8. Practice: Breach of contract: the applicable edition

    9 min estimated

  9. Overdue payables and enforcement

    11 min

  10. Practice: Overdue payables and enforcement

    11 min estimated

  11. Female players, coaches and employment protection

    12 min

  12. Practice: Female players, coaches and employment protection

    11 min estimated

  13. Assessment: Module 06: Employment and contractual stability

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 7Protect minors in transfers and trials

5 lessons · 47 min

  1. International transfers of minors: the starting rule

    10 min

  2. Practice: International transfers of minors: the starting rule

    8 min estimated

  3. Family relocation and border exceptions

    9 min

  4. Practice: Family relocation and border exceptions

    6 min estimated

  5. Education, exchange and humanitarian exceptions

    10 min

  6. Practice: Education, exchange and humanitarian exceptions

    6 min estimated

  7. Academies and registration duties

    9 min

  8. Practice: Academies and registration duties

    6 min estimated

  9. Trials: consent, costs, duration and duty of care

    9 min

  10. Practice: Trials: consent, costs, duration and duty of care

    8 min estimated

  11. Assessment: Module 07: Minors, academies and trials

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 8Calculate training rewards

5 lessons · 48 min

  1. Training compensation: triggering events

    11 min

  2. Practice: Training compensation: triggering events

    12 min estimated

  3. Training years, categories and calculation

    9 min

  4. Practice: Training years, categories and calculation

    9 min estimated

  5. Exceptions and special EU/EEA rules

    9 min

  6. Practice: Exceptions and special EU/EEA rules

    6 min estimated

  7. Solidarity contributions: allocate each training year

    9 min

  8. Practice: Solidarity contributions: allocate each training year

    11 min estimated

  9. Mixed calculations and electronic player passports

    10 min

  10. Practice: Mixed calculations and electronic player passports

    6 min estimated

  11. Assessment: Module 08: Training rewards and calculation

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 9Work through the Clearing House

4 lessons · 42 min

  1. Identify a training-reward trigger

    11 min

  2. Practice: Identify a training-reward trigger

    9 min estimated

  3. Review the electronic player passport

    10 min

  4. Practice: Review the electronic player passport

    9 min estimated

  5. Allocation statements, compliance and payment

    11 min

  6. Practice: Allocation statements, compliance and payment

    11 min estimated

  7. Non-compliance, disputes and procedural deadlines

    11 min

  8. Practice: Non-compliance, disputes and procedural deadlines

    11 min estimated

  9. Assessment: Clearing House decisions and payment workflow

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 10Understand FIFA authority and procedure

4 lessons · 45 min

  1. FIFA membership, bodies and decision-making

    12 min

  2. Practice: FIFA membership, bodies and decision-making

    6 min estimated

  3. National-team eligibility and changes of association

    11 min

  4. Practice: National-team eligibility and changes of association

    11 min estimated

  5. Which chamber has jurisdiction?

    11 min

  6. Practice: Which chamber has jurisdiction?

    6 min estimated

  7. Bring a claim and read procedural deadlines

    11 min

  8. Practice: Bring a claim and read procedural deadlines

    8 min estimated

  9. Assessment: FIFA authority and procedural decisions

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 11Apply discipline and ethics rules

6 lessons · 1 hr 11 min

  1. Disciplinary scope and available measures

    12 min

  2. Practice: Disciplinary scope and available measures

    11 min estimated

  3. Liability, limitation periods and evidence

    11 min

  4. Practice: Liability, limitation periods and evidence

    11 min estimated

  5. Appeals, enforcement and failure to pay

    13 min

  6. Practice: Appeals, enforcement and failure to pay

    14 min estimated

  7. Ethical duties, conflicts and disclosure

    11 min

  8. Practice: Ethical duties, conflicts and disclosure

    8 min estimated

  9. Gifts, bribery and improper benefits

    11 min

  10. Practice: Gifts, bribery and improper benefits

    6 min estimated

  11. Confidentiality, reporting and ethical proceedings

    13 min

  12. Practice: Confidentiality, reporting and ethical proceedings

    17 min estimated

  13. Assessment: Disciplinary and ethics reasoning

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 12Safeguard children and recruit responsibly

7 lessons · 1 hr 24 min

  1. Recognise harm and safeguarding responsibilities

    13 min

  2. Practice: Recognise harm and safeguarding responsibilities

    20 min estimated

  3. Listen to a disclosure and respond safely

    11 min

  4. Practice: Listen to a disclosure and respond safely

    9 min estimated

  5. Report concerns and manage immediate risk

    12 min

  6. Practice: Report concerns and manage immediate risk

    11 min estimated

  7. Safer environments, travel and online contact

    12 min

  8. Practice: Safer environments, travel and online contact

    14 min estimated

  9. Build and review a safeguarding system

    12 min

  10. Practice: Build and review a safeguarding system

    12 min estimated

  11. Ethical recruitment: families and informed decisions

    13 min

  12. Practice: Ethical recruitment: families and informed decisions

    23 min estimated

  13. Spot exploitation and respond to recruitment risks

    13 min

  14. Practice: Spot exploitation and respond to recruitment risks

    26 min estimated

  15. Assessment: safeguarding and ethical recruitment

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 13Read the published 2027 changes

3 lessons · 32 min

  1. Publication dates, effective dates and exam editions

    10 min

  2. Practice: Publication dates, effective dates and exam editions

    6 min estimated

  3. Contract stability, compensation and new transfer rights

    11 min

  4. Practice: Contract stability, compensation and new transfer rights

    6 min estimated

  5. Minors’ contracts, ITCs and procedural changes

    11 min

  6. Practice: Minors’ contracts, ITCs and procedural changes

    6 min estimated

  7. Assessment: Module 13: Published changes effective in 2027

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 14Plan your final review and exam day

3 lessons · 29 min

  1. Use mock results to repair weak topics

    9 min

  2. Practice: Use mock results to repair weak topics

    5 min estimated

  3. A full exam strategy: allocation, search and review

    9 min

  4. Practice: A full exam strategy: allocation, search and review

    5 min estimated

  5. Exam-day readiness and the final study week

    10 min

  6. Practice: Exam-day readiness and the final study week

    5 min estimated

  7. Assessment: examination strategy and readiness

    Required for the certificate25 min estimated

Module 15Advanced case workshops

9 lessons · 1 hr 30 min

  1. Agent practice: national rules and licensing files

    10 min

  2. Practice: Agent practice: national rules and licensing files

    14 min estimated

  3. Disciplinary cases: conduct, sanctions and exact wording

    11 min

  4. Practice: Disciplinary cases: conduct, sanctions and exact wording

    8 min estimated

  5. Disciplinary procedure: deadlines, appeals and carry-over

    11 min

  6. Practice: Disciplinary procedure: deadlines, appeals and carry-over

    8 min estimated

  7. Ethics workshop: responsibility, assistance and plea enforcement

    10 min

  8. Practice: Ethics workshop: responsibility, assistance and plea enforcement

    6 min estimated

  9. Safeguarding workshop: indicators, disclosure barriers and recruitment risks

    10 min

  10. Practice: Safeguarding workshop: indicators, disclosure barriers and recruitment risks

    8 min estimated

  11. Contract protection and regulatory agreement in 2027

    9 min

  12. Practice: Contract protection and regulatory agreement in 2027

    6 min estimated

  13. Tribunal interest, transitions and enforcement

    10 min

  14. Practice: Tribunal interest, transitions and enforcement

    6 min estimated

  15. Temporary contract measures: scope, dates and consequences

    9 min

  16. Practice: Temporary contract measures: scope, dates and consequences

    6 min estimated

  17. Suspended agent rules: what they say if FIFA reactivates them

    10 min

  18. Practice: Suspended agent rules: what they say if FIFA reactivates them

    11 min estimated

Final course activities

  • Practice: Starting diagnostic

    25 min estimated

  • Practice exam 1

    60 min estimated

  • Practice exam 2

    60 min estimated

  • Practice exam 3

    60 min estimated

  • Practice exam 4

    60 min estimated

  • Practice exam 5

    60 min estimated

  • Practice exam 6

    60 min estimated

  • Practice exam 7

    60 min estimated

  • Final assessment: Final practice exam

    Required for the certificate60 min estimated

Sample lesson

Prepare for the FIFA Agent Exam

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How you will practice

Each lesson includes practice with answer explanations. Module activities help you apply what you learned.

Why videos include questions

Assessment

Original practice cases, module assessments and timed mock exams.

Certificate

Certificate of Completion

How to earn it: Complete all required lessons and pass all 14 module assessments and the final assessment with at least 75%. Course completion does not confer a FIFA licence.

The certificate records your name, course and version, issue date, topics covered, estimated study time and assessment type. Its code can be verified online.

Materials

  • Loan review and cap calculator worksheet · Exercise

  • Licence status decision map · Exercise

  • Service-fee entitlement and historical reference · Exercise

  • FIFA authority and decision map · Exercise

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  • Football Tribunal jurisdiction map · Exercise

  • Agency roles and interests review · Exercise

  • Conduct analysis worksheet · Exercise

  • Appeal and enforcement calendar · Exercise

  • Official source navigation worksheet · Exercise

  • Facts and options decision worksheet · Exercise

  • Weekly study planner and error log · Exercise

  • Eligibility review matrix · Exercise

  • Client and transaction mapping worksheet · Exercise

  • Representation agreement review sheet · Exercise

  • Duration and termination timeline · Exercise

  • Existing agreement and approach checklist · Exercise

  • Independent legal advice evidence log · Exercise

  • Who needs a licence? Decision sheet · Exercise

  • Connected agents and source-status map · Exercise

  • Minor representation eligibility worksheet · Exercise

  • Client-interest decision record · Exercise

  • Transaction reporting and records register · Exercise

  • Player status and timeline worksheet · Exercise

  • Registration and appearance ledger · Exercise

  • Registration window and exception matrix · Exercise

  • ITC and TMS process worksheet · Exercise

  • Your exam preparation starting record · Exercise

  • Employment contract clause review · Exercise

  • Outstanding salary and just-cause record · Exercise

  • Sporting just cause and protected-period map · Exercise

  • Edition and breach-consequence worksheet · Exercise

  • Overdue payment and enforcement timeline · Exercise

  • Minor registration route map · Exercise

  • Parental relocation and border checklist · Exercise

  • Education, exchange and humanitarian route matrix · Exercise

  • Academy reporting and safeguarding map · Exercise

  • Pre-trial compliance worksheet · Exercise

  • Training-compensation trigger record · Exercise

  • Training-compensation calculation worksheet · Exercise

  • Training-compensation exceptions and EU/EEA worksheet · Exercise

  • Solidarity allocation worksheet · Exercise

  • Mixed calculation and EPP evidence workbook · Exercise

  • Training-reward trigger record · Exercise

  • EPP review and evidence worksheet · Exercise

  • Allocation and payment process worksheet · Exercise

  • International and domestic scope map · Exercise

  • Claims, conduct and licensing triage · Exercise

  • Clearing House failure and remedy table · Exercise

  • Representative eligibility and release worksheet · Exercise

  • Claim and deadline workbook · Exercise

  • Disciplinary offence and measure map · Exercise

  • Responsibility, clocks and evidence workbook · Exercise

  • Conflict and disclosure decision sheet · Exercise

  • Benefit and financial conduct assessment · Exercise

  • Confidential ethics process record · Exercise

  • Safeguarding recognition worksheet · Exercise

  • First-response practice sheet · Exercise

  • Safeguarding reporting route · Exercise

  • Youth event safeguarding plan · Exercise

  • Five-step safeguarding review · Exercise

  • Disciplinary case comparison sheet · Exercise

  • Disciplinary procedure worksheet · Exercise

  • Ethics decision record · Exercise

  • Safeguarding source and action record · Exercise

  • Contract protection and regulatory agreement in 2027 worksheet · Exercise

  • Tribunal interest, transitions and enforcement worksheet · Exercise

  • Temporary contract measures: scope, dates and consequences worksheet · Exercise

  • Agent file review · Exercise

  • Family recruitment decision note · Exercise

  • Ethical recruitment decision record · Exercise

  • Edition and transition decision record · Exercise

  • 2027 compensation and participation comparison sheet · Exercise

  • 2027 minors, ITCs and procedure checklist · Exercise

  • Mock review and repair plan · Exercise

  • Timed mock strategy record · Exercise

  • Final week and exam readiness · Exercise

  • My licensing path · Exercise

  • Bridge, influence and economic-rights review · Exercise

  • Female employment rights matrix · Exercise

  • Device and exam readiness record · Exercise

  • Account and identity setup record · Exercise

  • Licensing pathway and source tracker · Exercise

  • Licence and CPD tracker · Exercise

  • Your study plan · Template

  • Calculation sheets · Exercise

  • Official English sources · Reading

  • Plain-English glossary · Guide

  • Suspended FFAR provisions: reactivation sheet · Exercise

  • Rule locator · Tool

  • Editable study workbook · Tool

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Price and terms

Total price: USD 769. Access until the next FIFA Football Agent Exam.

Support: Use Help in the campus for course access or technical issues.

Frequently asked questions

How much time does it take?

51 h total (14 h 34 min of video and 36.4 h of activities). Suggested pace: 4, 6, or 10 weeks.

How long is my access?

Recorded, self-paced: access until the next FIFA Football Agent Exam. Next FIFA exam: 2027 (date to be confirmed by FIFA). Access lasts until that exam and at least 90 days from purchase.

Which certificate can I earn?

Certificate of Completion. Complete all required lessons and pass all 14 module assessments and the final assessment with at least 75%. Course completion does not confer a FIFA licence.

What does the course cover?

This course covers the topics and regulations assessed in the FIFA Football Agent Exam, with lessons, original cases and timed mock exams.

Do I need prior knowledge?

No prior legal training or agent work is assumed. The course is taught in English.