Player agents have been dealt a major blow after the South African Football Association constitutional congress settled on 3% as a commission for representatives as from April 1.

Fifa have introduced new regulations that will see agents being referred to as intermediaries.

The matter was debated by the Safa national executive committee and endorsed at the constitutional congress in Nelspruit at the weekend..

"One of the issues was, should it be three or five percent? It was said that we will agree on the recommendation made by Fifa which says the percentage must be limited to three percent," Safa president Danny Jordaan said yesterday.

Safa vice president and Premier Soccer League chairman Irvin Khoza has welcomed the strict rules set out for agents, who have charged fees as high as 10%.

"It's significant in making sure we stabilise the industry. The agreements will be circulated soon by the administration. Players, clubs and the intermediaries have to be educated to understand this three percent," Khoza said.

The congress also resolved to reduce the size of the national executive committee from 36 members to 20. The structure will be as follows: a president, four vice presidents, four members on the national list, two from the National Soccer League and nine from the provincial list.

"One vice president will be a woman, one vice president will be the chairman of the league and the other two vice presidents will be contested," Jordaan explained.

The congress also confirmed that the elections of 2017 will be postponed and should be held by September 2018, after the World Cup in Russia.

"The problem has always been that we have elections the year before the World Cup. [But] Fifa elections are always the year after the World Cup. We wanted to come in line with that term of office," Jordaan said. It was resolved that school sports be directly controlled by Safa and not the South African Schools Football Association.