League reveal agents' fees
Payments to agents by Football League clubs fell by over £150,000 last season.
Payments to player agents by Football League clubs fell by over £150,000 during the last campaign.As part of their policy for transparency, The Football League published their fifth report on fees to agents for the period between July 1, 2005 and June 30, 2006.
According to the latest report, League clubs committed a total of £7.66 million to agents last season - a drop of two percent from the £7.82 million that was committed during the 2004/05 season.
Of the £7.66 million committed to agents in fees, £3.27 million was paid out during the latter six months of last season - this despite only 11 percent (356) of the 3,284 player transactions that took place during that period requiring agents' fees.
Championship clubs again accounted for the majority of the money that was paid out to agents, having amassed 82 percent (£6.31 million) of last season's total in 1,212 player transactions.
All 24 clubs that played in The Championship last term committed some amount of money to agents.
Those numbers differ greatly from the money spent by clubs in Leagues One and Two last term, with League One sides shelling out £955,000 to agents, while League Two clubs paid out £184,000.
16 clubs in Leagues One and Two did not pay a penny to agents during the past campaign, with half of those clubs doing so for a second straight season.
Leeds United were the highest spenders in The Championship at over £600,000, while Norwich City, Preston North End and Southampton spent over £500,000.
Nottingham Forest spent more than £230,000 on agents' fees in League One last term, while Bristol City, Doncaster Rovers and Swansea City each spent six figures.
Bristol Rovers paid the most to agents in League Two (£35,500), while Leyton Orient and Oxford United committed over £20,000.
