Introduction
FIFA’s new Regulations on Working with Intermediaries[1] (the 2015 FIFA Regulations) came into force on 1 April 2015 and represent a momentous change in player and club representation in professional football. Since 2001, FIFA has sought to regulate the activity of players’ agents, under its FIFA Player Agent Regulations[2] (the last edition of which was in 2008) (FIFA Regulations). The most significant element of the FIFA Regulations was the introduction of examinations as a pre-requisite to the issuing of player agents licences. Whilst acknowledging this international framework, the English FA (The FA) introduced regulations at a domestic level for the first time in 2006, which were duly replaced by new regulations in 2007 and the latest...
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