Our approach

As a professional representative body, EFAA operates on express mandates from its members. This ensures a democratic governance structure that accounts directly to EFAA’s constituents, who are ultimately the agents themselves. For the first time in the EU, EFAA has emerged as a guardian of the agents’ profession and gives agents a voice in the regulation, development and image of their own profession. Our primary mandates are to:

• coordinate the registration and accreditation of players’ agents across jurisdictions in the EU, and facilitate compliance with regulations;
• provide expert legal and practical assistance to national agents’ associations on EU and national legislation, especially in contract and employment law;
• facilitate amicable dispute resolution between agents and football stakeholders;
• improve the commercial image of agents and football as a whole;
• grow important professional links between the agents’ profession and football stakeholders, EU institutions and regulatory bodies;
• exchange good practices between national agents’ associations; and
• endorse common positions of member associations on policy issues.