How Portsmouth’s £831k agent fee spend ranks against Championship rivals Sheffield United, Birmingham City & Co

Pompey recruited 18 new players between February 2025 and February 2026.

The Football Association have this week published the figures of each English club's total spent on agent fees between February 2025 to February 2026.

During that 12-month period, Pompey recruited 18 new players across two transfer windows both on permanent and temporary deals.

The transaction document also includes new player contracts, with the likes of Regan Poole, Colby Bishop, Terry Devlin, Toby Steward, Ben Killip, Josh Murphy and Nicolas Schmid all earning fresh terms since the beginning of February 2025.

Meanwhile, a first professional contract for Tayo Singerr and 17-year-old Brandon Downey’s scholarship application is also highlighted.

In total, the Blues paid out £831,818 in agent fees during that 12-month period, which represented an increase of £135,629 from the previous transaction interval between 2023 and 2024.

However, Pompey still remain one of the Championship’s lowest spenders, having only paid more than financially stricken Sheffield Wednesday (£534,559) and Blackburn Rovers (£676,980).

Clubs throughout the division totalled a combined figure £69,665,489 in agent fees between February 2025 and 2026, with Ipswich Town (£11.7m), Southampton (£8.3m), Leicester City (£5.8m) and Norwich City (£4m) the leading spenders.

During the relevant period, Pompey recruited Adrian Segecic, Mark Kosznovszky, John Swift, Luke Le Roux, Josh Knight, Ebou Adams, Makenzie Kirk, Josef Bursik, Keshi Anderson, Franco Umeh and Madiodio Dia on a permanent basis.

Minhyeok Yang, Conor Chaplin, Millenic Alli, Gustavo Caballero, Aji Alese and Jacob Brown all arrived on loan, although Florian Bianchini was not included on the transaction list.

Below is the complete tally of agent fee spending from across the Championship, including Pompey’s figures.

2025-26 Championship agent fee spending

Adrian Segecic was the first of 18 signings made by Pompey between February 2025 and February 2026.placeholder image
Adrian Segecic was the first of 18 signings made by Pompey between February 2025 and February 2026. | Portsmouth FC

Birmingham City - £1.9m

Blackburn Rovers - £676k

Bristol City - £2.7m

Charlton Athletic - £904k

Coventry City - £1.4m

Derby County - £1.4m

Hull City - £2.4m

Ipswich Town - £11.7m

Leicester City - £5.8m

Middlesbrough - £2.9m

Millwall - £1.9m

Norwich City - £4.0m

Oxford United - £1.2m

Pompey - £831k

Preston North End - £1.8m

QPR - £1.8m

Sheffield United - £5.0m

Sheffield Wednesday - £534k

Southampton - £8.3m

Stoke City - £2.0m

Swansea City - £3.0m

Watford - £1.6m

West Brom - £1.3m

Wrexham - £3.6m

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