The summer transfer window in the Premier League will be significantly changed this post-season.
In this piece, we will examine these changes, what they mean for the Premier League teams, and why they have been implemented.
We'll then look at one of the most popular forms of bets you can use in conjunction with the summer (or winter) transfer windows available at bet365 Sport – The Transfer Specials bet.
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So, let's begin with a quick look at the confirmed changes to the summer transfer window.
There are two transfer windows in a usual Premier League season. The first is the summer transfer window, which takes place between one season ending and the other one starting (usually mid-June to the end of August).
Then there is also the winter transfer window, which occurs in January each year and which is usually a markedly less busy period for transfers than the summer window.
However, in 2025, the summer transfer window for the Premier League will change.
Instead of opening in June and progressing through to September, the window will be split into two periods.
Those periods will be:
In effect, teams will now start the transfer window approximately two weeks earlier than usual for a ten-day period and there is an important reason why this decision has been made for 2025.
The reason for these changes is because the new FIFA Club World Cup tournament will get underway on June 14th 2025 (running until July 13th 2025).
As such, the 32 competing teams, which includes many of the top teams across the world (including Manchester City and Chelsea from the Premier League), will be busy preparing for this lavish new tournament in early June.
This will involve teams flying into the United States to participate in the event and as such, negotiating transfers at this point would be impractical for many of the top teams in world football.
And given that this tournament will feature many players whose futures are not certain, due to their contract expiring, or they may be on the verge of being sold by their club, or perhaps be a target of another club who wants to make a transfer offer for them, teams having the inability to focus on this for a significant proportion of the summer transfer window was viewed to be unfair.
As such, the Premier League have made these changes and a number of other leagues around the world have also followed suit.
No. The FIFA Club World Cup is scheduled to be contested once every four years.
The next one would not take place, therefore, until 2029.
The break may be implemented again if the tournament is contested once again in 2029, but from 2026 to 2028, the Summer Transfer Window should revert back to its usual uninterrupted time from mid-June to the end of August.
You may wonder why the Premier League has added another 10-day period before the start of the standard summer transfer window opening. After all, the second window in 2025 is the same length as most summer transfer windows in other seasons.
The reason is that a lot of transfer deals require plenty of work before it is announced to the public and with so many top teams focusing on the tournament, they would be less inclined to arrange these transfers in the build up to the new FIFA Club World Cup.
By opening the window for these ten days, it allows the Premier League club to open negotiations with teams and players about possible transfers, which can then be completed either early in the window, or following the conclusion of the tournament.
In terms of clubs, Manchester City and Chelsea will both be affected by this as they are competing in the FIFA Club World Cup this summer. However, all other Premier League teams will also be affected by the changes.
That's not all though. Other teams competing in the tournament will be affected. This includes a number of top teams from around Europe and the world including:
Given that a number of major players are expected to be on the move this summer, many coming to the end of their current contract. This means that the following players could all find themselves affected by the changes to the summer transfer window due to their contracts expiring.
While this time of the year may be a quieter one for standard football bets, it is an intense time for transfer speculation and moves to be completed.
Unsurprisingly, you can now enjoy a wealth of bets on potential transfer destinations for some top players in the world in the Specials section of the Soccer section at bet365.
Within this section is the Transfer Specials option which allows customers to bet on which club will sign a specific player named.
For example, there are 10 players listed at the time of writing who you can bet on which club they will be at on the 3rd September 2025. This includes the likes of Alexander Isak (Newcastle), Liam Delap (Ipswich Town), Jack Grealish and Kevin De Bruyne (Both Manchester City), Matheus Cunha (Wolves) and foreign-based stars Nico Williams (Athletic Bilbao), Victor Osimhen (Galatasaray) and Viktor Gyokeres (Sporting Lisbon).
As the transfer window progresses, you may find that some of these markets for players become unavailable, usually when a transfer for a player is almost certain to be completed. But additional markets for other top players subject to transfer speculation may well be opened alongside pre-existing ones.
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