Premier League set for two summer transfer windows for first time in history

The second window will close on September 1.

Following the club voting, the Premier League’s summer transfer window will be divided in two.

According to Prem regulations, the winter session can continue no more than one month, and the summer window can last no more than twelve weeks.

However, a one-time rule modification has been compelled by new temporary transfer regulations that FIFA introduced to enable clubs to register new acquisitions prior to this summer’s expanded FIFA Club World Cup.

The “end” of the season, June 30, has historically marked the expiration of contracts, with players formally joining new clubs on July 1.

However, FIFA declared that teams participating in the 32-team competition would have the opportunity to sign new players from June 1 to June 10.

At their shareholder session in central London, club executives decided to align their own rules with those of the world, even though Chelsea and Manchester City are the only Premier League teams competing in the £770 million competition in the USA this summer.

In a statement, the Premier League said: “Premier League clubs have today agreed the dates for the Summer 2025 Transfer Window.

“The window will open early, between Sunday 1 June and Tuesday 10 June, due to an exceptional registration period relating to the FIFA Club World Cup.

According to the current season’s rulebook, the summer window should begin. “It will then reopen on Monday 16 June and close on Monday 1 September.”

Although players switching clubs would not have been able to play for their new team until the beginning of July, that would have meant the window opening on June 9.

The decision to have two distinct times when trades can be made was taken after club executives decided that the 12-week maximum term should be maintained.

Although most club sports directors indicated they wanted the window to close before the start of the Premier League season on the weekend of August 16, the September 1 closure date has been confirmed.

🚨 The Premier League transfer window will open between Sunday 1 June-10 June as clubs decide to take the FIFA’s exceptional window ahead of the Club World Cup. It will then shut briefly for six days before reopening on Monday 16 June. The summer window will then close on Monday… pic.twitter.com/DZBQL0chRj

— Ben Jacobs (@JacobsBen) March 27, 2025

Club executives, however, were concerned about a recurrence of the situation in 2018, when the Premier League’s isolation from the rest of Europe resulted in clubs being unable to replace players who were lost to clubs outside of England during the last two weeks of the worldwide window.

In the past few weeks, the Big Five leagues have been debating window alignment. But, as of right now, no agreement has been reached, despite support from Germany’s Bundesliga.

The Prem can’t go and do it alone again. A premature end must be approved by all five major leagues before it can be implemented, according to the agreement reached at today’s meeting.

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