Football Transfer Window

Explaining the Football Transfer Window


Welcome to the Chris Farnell IPS Law blog. Farnell is a noted sports lawyer, who represents a range of celebrity and high profile clients in a range of sports. He owns IPS Law, a sports law firm based in Tring. Sports, Media & Entertainment. He specialises in image rights, third party ownership issues, player transfers, intellectual property contracts, contract re-negotiations, sponsorship and endorsement contracts, defamation, sports dispute resolution, footballer and agent disputes, doping hearings, regulatory issues, and both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property law. In this article we will cover the football transfer window and what it is. 



Football transfers are when a player moves from one club to another. During a European football season (running from the end of August until May the following year) there are two windows in which a team can buy and sell players. The first of these windows runs throughout the ‘off’ season, ending at the end of August. The second of these windows is the whole of January. The aim of transfer windows is to prevent certain teams having an unfair advantage as they have more money than other teams to buy a player at any stage of the football season. This stops smaller clubs from having a disadvantage against bigger richer ones.

One of the fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the EU is the right to free movement of workers. The rule regarding the transfer window does, on the face of it, appear to contravene this rule. Football transfer outlaw international transfers for players under 18, and the payment of training compensation to teams losing players under the age of 24.

In the landmark Bosman case, the key issue was that a player no longer under contract with his club could not move without a transfer fee – this was seen to be in contravention of the EC Treaty as it restricted the free movement of workers. By the same token, preventing players from being sold during the periods when the transfer window is closed clearly prevents them from moving freely. 

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