The Premier League have confirmed that a major change is being made to the upcoming summer transfer window.
A statement has revealed that the window will open earlier than usual with it then being split into two separate periods.
The summer market will now officially open on June 1, which is two weeks earlier than in 2024, when it began on June 14.
However, the window will then close again nine days later on June 10, for a period of six days when clubs cannot sign players.
This change has been introduced due to the newly expanded FIFA Club World Cup‘s exceptional registration period.
Released on Thursday afternoon, the Premier League‘s statement explained: “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.”
The Club World Cup begins on June 14 and FIFA has allowed windows to be moved earlier so teams involved can sign or register players beforehand.
Manchester City and Chelsea are the English representatives and the Premier League have now moved the start date to accommodate this.
This will also allow the rest of the top flight to sign players along with Man City and Chelsea, avoiding any advantage given to the two English teams in the FIFA competition.
But after nine days, it will then close again, meaning this year’s Premier League summer window has two periods.
One is between June 1 to 10, and the other June 16 to September 1.
It reopens once the Club World Cup is officially underway.
talkSPORT’s Alex Crook explained the changes on Thursday, saying: “The window now opens on June 1 and it will run until June 10 before being closed for a few days.
“The reason they’re doing that is because we’ve got the inaugural Club World Cup taking place in the summer and there’s a special period where clubs competing there can register their out-of-contract players.
“The reason they have to open it and close it again, is because under FIFA rules, the maximum you can open a window for in any one summer is 89 days.
“So this enables them to open again on June 16 and it will then run against until September 1.
“It effectively means there is not two but three transfer windows because you’ve got the one for the Club World Cup, the one for the PSR deadline at the end of June and then once that’s over, you’ve got the actual window.”
If the Premier League window began on June 1 and went all the way through until September 1, that would be 92 days and breach rules.
So, having a nine-day window followed by a separate 77-day window means a total of 86 days, which will work within the requirements.
The change comes after all 20 top-flight clubs discussed the window in a meeting on Thursday, with another potential date change being an early closure on August 14.
That would have come two days before the start of the 2025/26 season but there was likely push-back from Premier League clubs due to other European leagues sticking with September 1.
So instead, to work around the Club World Cup, the window will not close early, but it will be split into two parts.
Around £2billion was spent on new signings by top-flight clubs last summer, a decrease from the near-£2.4billion in 2023.
Chelsea were the biggest spenders with circa £220million ahead of Manchester United‘s approximate £206million and Brighton, who hit £192million.
Amid the gradual rise in transfer fees, Premier League sides look set to collectively spend close to £2billion once again this summer.
