The FIFA football agent exam: format, dates, fees and how to pass

The FIFA football agent exam is the one step nobody can skip on the way to a licence, unless they qualify for one of two narrow exemptions. It is short, open book and unforgiving: 20 questions, 60 minutes, and a pass mark of 75%. This guide sets out how it works as of the 2026 edition, what is on it and how to prepare. FIFA changes details between editions, so check its exam page before you apply.

When is the FIFA agent exam?

Since 2025 there has been one exam edition a year. Article 6 of the FIFA Football Agent Regulations (FFAR) leaves the format, frequency and dates to be set by circular, and FIFA has so far announced each edition in January.

The 2026 timeline, from FIFA circular 1956 and FIFA's exam page, was:

• Application window: 20 January to 6 March 2026 (23:59 CET)
• Deadline for medical accommodation requests and changes to time slot, location or language: 29 March 2026
• Pre-Exam Readiness Check closes: 14 April 2026
• Exam days: 28, 29 and 30 April 2026, with 5, 6 and 7 May opened only if the April sessions filled
• Results: 4 June 2026
• Review period for candidates who failed: ends 7 June 2026

FIFA said these were the only sessions of 2026. As of October 2026 it has not published dates for 2027. If the pattern holds, the next window will open early in the year and last around 45 days, but treat that as an expectation, not a date. Applications are accepted only during the window.

How much does the FIFA agent exam cost?

You pay FIFA an exam fee as part of your application, which covers part of the cost of running the exam. FIFA does not print the amount in its public guidance: it says the cost, payment method and payment period are shown to each candidate on the FIFA Agent Platform before they submit. Rely on the amount the Platform shows you when you apply.

Three rules about the fee are worth knowing. Member associations may not charge anything in relation to the exam. The fee is not refunded if your application is rejected, even within the refund deadline. And it cannot be carried forward to a later edition.

The exam fee is separate from the annual licence fee you pay after passing, which you must pay within 90 days or your application is void.

What is the format of the FIFA agent exam?

As of the 2026 edition, according to FIFA's licensing guidance and the FIFA Football Agent Exam Rules:

• 20 multiple-choice questions, each worth 5%. One or more answers may be correct.
• Only a fully correct answer scores. If a question has two correct answers and you tick one, you get nothing for it. There are no half marks and no negative marks.
• The pass mark is 75%, so you need 15 questions fully right.
• You have 60 minutes, and answers submit automatically when time runs out. All questions appear on a single page.
• Every candidate gets a unique set of questions drawn automatically from the same FIFA database.
• It is an electronic open-book exam: the official study materials are available on the exam platform, with a calculator and an unofficial translator tool.
• The exam is offered in English, French, German and Spanish. The study materials are in English, French and Spanish.

Open book sounds generous. In practice you have three minutes a question, many questions turn on a specific paragraph, and multiple-answer questions punish half-knowledge. The materials help you confirm what you already know. They are too long to learn from during the exam.

Where do you sit it? The online exam rules

The exam has been held exclusively online with remote invigilation since 2025. You do not travel to a venue, and where you sit it makes no difference to your licence: FIFA, not the member association, issues it. The technical and room rules are strict, and breaking them means your application is rejected. The main ones:

• A laptop or desktop with a working camera and microphone, plus a smartphone as a second camera placed to show you and the room.
• The FIFA Football Agent Exam mobile app on the phone, and the Safe Exam Browser installed and configured on the computer.
• The original of the government-issued photo ID you used in your application.
• A private, quiet room with nobody else in it, no pets and no extra monitors. Cars, cafés, hotel lobbies and other public places are not allowed.
• No VPN, no printed materials, no notes. You may have a blank sheet of paper and a pen, which you destroy afterwards.
• No breaks of any kind, including toilet breaks. Leaving counts as withdrawal.

Timing matters on the day. The session opens 60 minutes before the start, and if your devices are not connected 30 minutes before the start, you will not be admitted. Before any of that, you must complete the mandatory Pre-Exam Readiness Check, a practice run on the Platform that tests your setup. It does not count towards your mark, but missing its deadline gets your application rejected.

Breaching the rules of conduct (communicating with anyone, recording the exam, using other software) leads to disqualification and a ban from the next exam session.

What is on the FIFA agent exam?

FIFA describes the exam as testing knowledge of the regulations governing the transfer system and other relevant material. The January 2026 licensing guidance lists:

• the FIFA Football Agent Regulations
• the FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (RSTP)
• the FIFA Clearing House Regulations
• the FIFA Statutes
• the FIFA Code of Ethics
• the FIFA Disciplinary Code
• other materials such as case studies, the FIFA Guardians Child Safeguarding Toolkit and the FIFA Ethical Recruitment Guide

FIFA may add other regulations, and it publishes a study materials pack for each edition. Always work from the newest version on the Platform. Expect questions to be practical: a fact pattern about a transfer, a minor, a contract termination or a fee, and a choice of outcomes. RSTP topics worth knowing thoroughly include training compensation, the solidarity mechanism, the protected period, registration periods, loans, minors and international transfers. On the FFAR side, know representation agreements, the rules on minors, eligibility and licensing.

One trap: some FFAR provisions, including the service fee cap and the prohibition of double representation, have been suspended worldwide since FIFA circular 1873 of 30 December 2023. The exam tests the regulations and study materials as FIFA publishes them, so learn the text, and know which parts are suspended for your work.

How to prepare for the FIFA agent exam

FIFA does not offer a mock exam, and it does not organise or endorse preparation courses. It says the official study materials are the only resource candidates need. That still leaves plenty you can do yourself:

1. Download the current study materials and the FFAR from FIFA as soon as the edition is announced. Read the FFAR and the RSTP end to end once, slowly.
2. Make your own index of where things live: which article covers training compensation, which annexe covers minors, where the time limits are. In the exam, knowing where to look saves more time than anything else.
3. Learn the numbers cold: deadlines, durations, percentages and age bands. These are the questions where looking up costs time you do not have.
4. Practise multiple-answer questions specifically. Train yourself to check every option, because one missed correct answer scores zero.
5. Sit timed practice papers under exam conditions: 20 questions, 60 minutes, one screen, no notes.
6. Do the Pre-Exam Readiness Check early, on the exact devices, room and connection you will use on the day.

We built a free mock exam for the last two steps. It is not a FIFA product and its questions are our own, but it follows the same format, and every answer is explained and cited to the regulations.

What happens if you fail the FIFA agent exam?

Results arrive on the Platform and by email within 30 days of the last exam session. If you fail, the results include the correct answers, and you can review your attempt for up to three days through a link sent by email.

You can ask FIFA to review your attempt within that window, by email to [email protected], with clear arguments identifying the specific questions. FIFA only considers fundamental and obvious errors in the application of the regulations and study materials. Technical complaints do not count as grounds for review. Exam results are final, with no right of appeal.

You can attempt the exam once per edition. To try again, you submit a new licence application in the next window and pay the exam fee again.

After you pass

Passing starts a 90-day clock. Under article 7 of the FFAR you must pay the annual licence fee within 90 days, or your application is automatically void and you would have to sit the exam again. Once the fee is paid, your licence is issued and your CPD obligations begin: 20 credits a year for new agents, in a CPD year that runs from 1 October to 30 September.

Test yourself

The fastest way to find your gaps is to sit a timed paper. Try the free mock exam at /fifa-agent-exam-practice/mock-exam (20 questions in 60 minutes), then work through the practice questions at /fifa-agent-exam-practice.