Bristol Rovers paid almost £150,000 to agents in a 12-month period, almost £50,000 more than the previous year, according to Football Association figures.
The FA has published its annual report on intermediary fees, with the Gas paying player agents £141,006 from February 2019 to January 2020.
That sum ranks Rovers ninth in League One for spending on intermediaries, who are paid when their clients move clubs or agree a new contract.
Sunderland, unsurprisingly, top the league table by a huge margin. Their bill of £1.3million was almost a £1million greater than any other club in the division.
Coventry City and Ipswich Town's agent spending exceeded £300,00, with the league forking out close to £4million as a whole in payments to player representatives.
Rovers signed 15 players over the period, including Anssi Jaakkola, Tom Davies, Josh Barrett, Mark Little and James Daly.
The Pirates spent £96,852 over the same period from 2018-19, but on the whole League One's agent costs are down by more than £1.5million.
| Club | Net total paid to agents/intermediaries (2019/20) |
| Sunderland | £1,346,373 |
| Coventry City | £353,632 |
| Ipswich Town | £325,262 |
| Portsmouth | £220,367 |
| Peterborough United | £186,744 |
| Fleetwood Town | £178,535 |
| MK Dons | £142,200 |
| Bristol Rovers | £141,006 |
| Oxford United | £135,075 |
| Rotherham United | £128,501 |
| Southend United | £126,273 |
| Shrewsbury Town | £99,463 |
| Blackpool | £98,848 |
| Burton Albion | £87,251 |
| Lincoln City | £67,357 |
| Tranmere Rovers | £65,709 |
| Doncaster Rovers | £62,072 |
| AFC Wimbledon | £57,755 |
| Accrington Stanley | £30,035 |
| Gillingham | £28,089 |
| Wycombe Wanderers | £25,868 |
| Rochdale | £15,390 |
| Bolton Wanderers | £0 |
| Total | £3,921,805 |
Over the same period, League Two clubs paid £1,170,220 to agents, while the total for the Championship was just shy of £50milllion.
Premier League clubs' costs totalled more than a quarter of a billion pounds, with Liverpool spending £30.3million alone.
