The 2026 summer transfer window closed with a rush of confirmed business across the Premier League, English Football League, Scottish Premiership and Women’s Super League. The largest single deal of deadline day took Enzo Fernández from Chelsea to Manchester City for £125m, with City also signing Iliman Ndiaye from Everton for £65m.
Chelsea’s outgoing business was heavy. Mykhailo Mudryk joined Tottenham on loan and Tosin Adarabioyo also moved to Tottenham in an undisclosed deal, while Robert Sanchez went to Como on loan, Dario Essugo joined Strasbourg on loan, Deivid Washington moved to Strasbourg for an undisclosed fee and Marc Guiu signed for RB Leipzig for £14.6m. Dujuan Richards left Chelsea for AFC Wimbledon on loan.
Tottenham balanced their incoming business with a string of departures: Kevin Danso joined Sunderland on loan, Pape Matar Sarr moved to Juventus on loan with an obligation to buy for £23.6m, and Dane Scarlett, Kota Takai, Damola Ajayi and George Abbott left for Leyton Orient, Sint-Truidense, Barnet and Mansfield respectively, all on loan.
Hull City were among the most active clubs of the day. Christos Mouzakitis arrived from Olympiakos, Sorba Thomas from Stoke, Tim Iroegbunam from Everton for £22m, Brooke Norton-Cuffey from Genoa for £12m and Ilyas Ansah from Union Berlin, while Robinio Vaz joined on loan from Roma. Cody Drameh moved the other way to Roma for £3.4m, and Liam Millar went to Birmingham on loan.
Elsewhere in the Premier League, Aston Villa signed Taylor Harwood-Bellis from Southampton for £29m and Ibrahim Mbaye from Paris Saint-Germain for £47m. Newcastle bought Matias Fernandez-Pardo from Lille for £51.4m. Leeds took Jean-Matteo Bahoya from Eintracht Frankfurt and Melvin Bard from Nice on loan, and sent Largie Ramazani to Burnley and Wilfried Gnonto to Fiorentina, also on loan. Arsenal sold Gabriel Jesus to Barcelona and Fabio Vieira to Hamburg, each for £8.6m.
Crystal Palace were busy too, bringing in Quinten Timber from Marseille, Ben Chilwell from RC Strasbourg, Dario Osario on loan from FC Midtjylland and Honest Ahanor on loan from Atalanta. Everton signed Ainsley Maitland-Niles from Lyon and took Jack Grealish on loan from Manchester City, while Fulham signed David Affengruber from Elche, Manuel Angel from Real Madrid for £3m and Hugo Larsson on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt. Brighton added Femi Azeez from Millwall for £15m and Chema Andres from Stuttgart for £15.5m.
Further down the pyramid, Wrexham signed Joe Worrall from Burnley and Callum O’Hare from Sheffield United, while Stephy Mavididi joined Watford on loan from Leicester and Myron Boadu signed for Watford as a free agent. John Lundstram joined Leicester as a free agent from Trabzonspor, Reo Hatate left Celtic for Burnley and Davis Keillor-Dunn moved from Wrexham to Sheffield Wednesday on loan.
In Scotland, Rangers signed Kevin Kelsy from Portland Timbers and took Badredine Bouanani on loan from Stuttgart, while Lyall Cameron left Rangers for Dundee United on loan. Celtic brought in Oliver Sorensen on loan from Parma, and Motherwell signed Dylan Levitt from Leyton Orient. St Johnstone added Joel Cotterill from Swansea and Josh Campbell from Hibernian, both on loan.
In the Women’s Super League, Elisa de Almeida joined Arsenal from Paris Saint-Germain for an undisclosed fee, Anna Moorhouse moved to Manchester City on loan from Orlando Pride, Rebeca Bernal signed for Manchester United from Washington Spirit for an undisclosed fee, and Shanade Hopcroft moved from Birmingham City to Crystal Palace.
Business continued after the deadline. Yves Bissouma joined Ajax as a free agent, and a series of unattached players found clubs: Michail Antonio signed for Watford, Jordan Ayew for Sheffield United, Bertrand Traore for Wolves, Scott Hogan for Wigan, Aden Flint for Rochdale, Aaron Lewis for Newport, Joe Wildsmith for Wycombe, Dai Cornell for Leicester, Dominic Iorfa for Rotherham, Wanya Marcal for Stevenage, Jubril Okedina for Barnsley and Ryan Watson for Tranmere.
Overseas moves confirmed on deadline day included Wolves sending Santiago Bueno to Club America on loan and Hee Chan Hwang to Schalke on loan, Middlesbrough sending Morgan Whittaker to Colorado Rapids and Burnley sending Lyle Foster to Houston. Liverpool loaned Harvey Elliott to Valencia, Newcastle loaned Nick Woltemade to Juventus, West Ham loaned Jean-Clair Todibo to RC Lens, Southampton loaned Cameron Archer to Auxerre and Arsenal loaned Ethan Nwaneri to Borussia Dortmund.