Championship clubs spent a total of £69 million on agent costs across all clubs from February 2025 to February 2026, a £6 million increase on the previous 12 months.
Ipswich Town top the table after spending the first three months of the accounted year in the Premier League, dropping a whopping £11.7m.
Fellow relegated sides Southampton and Leicester City are unsurprisingly in second and third place, paying £8.3m and £5.8m respectively.
Jamie Donley signs for Oxford United on loan (Image: Oxford United)
At the bottom sit the financially troubled Sheffield Wednesday with just over £534,000 spent, Blackburn Rovers (£676,000) and Portsmouth (£831,000) in 23rd and 22nd.
Oxford are not far above, sitting fifth from bottom with £1.2m spent on agent fees, Charlton Athletic (£904,000) separating the U’s from Pompey.
Championship clubs spent £69m on agent fees over the last 12 months.
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In the two transfers included within the time period, the Yellows have brought in 15 total players, including loan transfers.
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Ipswich Town’s Sindre Walle Egeli celebrates scoring their side’s first goal of the g (Image: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
Seven names arrived in OX4 last summer, whilst the remaining eight joined this January in what was a busy winter window.
High-spending Ipswich broke record for transfer fee spent by a Championship club when they signed forward Sindre Walle Egeli for a reported £17.5m from Norwegian club Nordsjælland.
The Tractor Boys spent an estimated total of £54.3m over the two transfer windows, according to Transfermarkt.