In The summer transfer window for the Premier League is upon us. The EFL has confirmed the summer transfer window will run from the start of June to September
Dates for trading were issued by the top flight in March with the window containing a short break between 10-16 June to accommodate FIFA’s Club World Cup registration period.
The summer transfer window will open from Sunday 1 June to Tuesday 10 June (19:00 BST) and from Monday 16 June to 1 September (19:00).
The 2025 summer transfer window will then open again on Monday June 16 until Deadline Day on Monday, September 1.
This summer’s transfer windows will close four hours earlier at 7pm, rather than the usual 11pm deadline.
Players can be signed outside of the transfer window if they are free agents, but there must be room for them to be registered in the 25-man squad for each Premier League side. They also have to be registered by a certain date in order to play in the Premier League, and if that doesn’t happen the club will have to wait until the next registration period begins.
Top players available this summer
Here’s a list of some of the top players who will definitely be available this summer on free transfers (from July 1), and a few others who are expected to be on the move to and within the Premier League:
Top players out of contract this summer
- Kevin de Bruyne
- Dominic Calvert-Lewin
- Vladimir Coufal
- Aaron Cresswell
- Abdoulaye Doucoure
- Jonathan David
- Christian Eriksen
- Lukasz Fabianski
- Danny Ings
- Michael Keane
- Jamie Vardy
- Kyle Walker-Peters
Players expected to be on the move this summer
- Martin Zubimendi (Real Sociedad)
- Bryan Mbeumo (Brentford)
- Liam Delap (Ipswich Town)
- Tyler Dibling (Southampton)
- Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace)
- Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace)
- Viktor Gyokeres (Sporting Lisbon)
- Dean Huijsen (Bournemouth)
- Omari Hutchinson (Ipswich Town)
- Alexander Isak (Newcastle United)
- Milos Kerkez (Bournemouth)
- Darwin Nunez (Liverpool)
- Victor Osimhen (Napoli)
- Aaron Ramsdale (Southampton)
- Jadon Sancho (Manchester United)
- Antoine Semenyo (Bournemouth)
- Benjamin Sesko (RB Leipzig)
- Nico Williams (Athletic Bilbao)
- Florian Wirtz (Bayer Leverkusen)
- Yoane Wissa (Brentford)
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Premier League squad rules
Each Premier League club can have 25 men in their squad, with players who are under the age of 21 not counting towards that limit. There must also be at least eight ‘homegrown’ players in the squad of 25.
The Premier League defines a Homegrown player as: “a player who, irrespective of nationality or age, has been registered with any club affiliated to The Football Association or the Football Association of Wales for a period, continuous or not, of three entire seasons, or 36 months, before his 21st birthday (or the end of the season during which he turns 21). A club’s Under-21 players are not included on the 25-man squad lists and are eligible to play in the Premier League.”
