Summer Transfer Window 2024 Opening and Closing Dates

The transfer window increasingly attracts more interest than matches in the landscape of modern-day football. While only a handful of clubs regularly challenge for the biggest prizes on offer, fans of every team can fantasise about signing a player who can have a transformative effect.

From the earliest days of the sport, player trading has captured the imagination of supporters. As Billy Mosforth lined up for Hallam against Sheffield Wednesday in the 1880s, a cry from the crowd promised a week of free drinks if he swapped sides. Mosforth disappeared before returning draped in Wednesday’s colours.

FIFA’s introduction of a uniform transfer window in 2002 prohibits any of Mosforth’s swift outfit changes, but the appetite for personnel alterations continues to grow. As clubs from the Premier League and across the world prepare for the 2024/25 campaign, here’s everything you need to know about when the summer transfer window opens and the closing times on deadline day.

Always keen to sell itself as the top league in world football, the Premier League is also one of the most eager divisions to crack open the seal of another transfer window. Unlike most divisions across the continent, England’s top-flight clubs can begin trading between themselves from Friday, 14th June. Aside from standing out among the crowd, this early start date could be a direct response to the competition’s increasingly strict financial fair play regulations (FFP).

Football clubs have to file their accounts for the 2023/24 campaign by 30th June 2024. For those in danger of breaching FFP rules, which limit the amount of money clubs can lose over three years, this early summer trading period could be a perfect opportunity to make sales which improve the overall picture of their 2023/24 books. Everton and Nottingham Forest were both charged with exceeding the limit and suffered points deductions during the 2023/24 campaign, proving how seriously these regulations should be taken.

The summer transfer window doesn’t close until 30th August 2024 at 11pm BST. The 2024/25 Premier League season will already be 13 days old by the time the trading period ends. In 2018 and 2019, the summer window closed for English clubs the day before the new top-flight campaign began. The rest of Europe didn’t follow the Premier League’s lead and promptly poached players from clubs who were barred from signing replacements. England’s top flight swiftly fell back into line with the continent from 2020 onwards.