Premier League announce split transfer window for summer 2025
03/28/2025 01:08 PM
Open early, close, open again
The extraordinary new format and timing of the FIFA Club World Cup (CWC) has created a bit of a conundrum for the summer transfer window, with the competition, in effect, conflicting with the usual mid-June start of the window and leading to a few new headaches when it comes to registering players for the competition and conducting business between teams (especially when both teams are in the Cup, such as Chelsea and Palmeiras).
In any case, the upshot of all that is that earlier this season, FIFA announced a provision that would allow the individual associations to open up two separate summer transfer windows, in order to allow teams in the CWC (and others, to maintain competitive balance) to conduct business prior to the start of the competition but still allow the window to run to the end of August as is tradition.
FIFA rules state that transfer windows are open for no more than 16 weeks, combined. This usually breaks down as four weeks in the winter and twelve in the summer. However, if the window started on June 1, twelve weeks would not be enough to get us to the end of August.
So, instead of closing the window early, the Premier League have decided to align with most of the rest of Europe, who have already announced that the summer window will be split in two, as per the new allowance from FIFA.
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.
It will then reopen on Monday 16 June and close on Monday 1 September.
Presumably, this will allow us to register Dário Essugo, for example, for the CWC, which begins June 14. FIFA will allow clubs to register additional players for the knockout stages for the competition as well, later in the month. (FIFA rules in theory will also allow clubs to, in effect, play with players signed solely for the duration of the tournament, which could lead to a few interesting scenarios.)
