How the Club World Cup will shake up the summer transfer window

Criticized by some football players for adding to an already overloaded calendar, the Club World Cup, which takes place from June 14 to July 13 in the United States, now has another side effect: it disrupts the summer transfer window. The International Federation (FIFA) has proposed to the 20 national associations, which control the 32 teams qualified for this event, to open an "exceptional transfer period" from June ¹ to 10.

The aim is for "their affiliated clubs to have the opportunity to register their new players and field them in the competition," the body stated in a press release published on Wednesday, May 21. In Europe, this particularly concerns Germany, England, Spain, Italy and France.

Each league will then have its own schedule, with one constraint: they must comply with FIFA regulations, which set the summer transfer window at a maximum of twelve weeks. After the first ten days of June, the Bundesliga and La Liga, for example, will reopen from July ¹ to September ^1. Ligue 1 and the Premier League will take a break between June 11 and 15, before re-authorizing transfers from June 16 to September ¹ .

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