Soccer brokers earned $494.4m (£430.8m) in the latest transfer window, says governing entire body Fifa.
They introduced a snapshot report detailing examination of worldwide transfer action over the summer.
It reveals that football agents collectively banked nearly 10% of the $5bn (£4.36bn) complete benefit of male player transfers.
This year also noticed record-superior quantities of male and woman player transfers across the world.
The report showed that the ratio of agent services charges to transfer costs all through the mid-12 months registration window has developed from 6.1% to 9.9% in the previous 10 decades.
This year’s full male transfer window value of $5bn (£4.36bn) surpasses the prior year’s, escalating by 29.7%.
Most of the transfer business enterprise from the summer season was carried out in English soccer, with the Leading League investing a record £1.9bn.
Additional records had been damaged, with Manchester United’s £81.3m signing of Antony turning out to be the Leading League’s most highly-priced remaining day transfer ever.
Whilst English football’s deadline-day was the very first of September, the transfer window for a number of European countries this sort of as Turkey ends these days.
Women’s football recorded 684 worldwide transfers – an maximize on very last year’s determine of 14.4%. Meanwhile, the men’s recreation saw an raise of 16.2% with 9717 registered transfers.
