January Transfer Window 2027: Closes Feb. 1 at 11 p.m. GMT (6 p.m. ET)

The Premier League’s January 2027 transfer window opens on Friday, Jan. 1, and closes on Monday, Feb. 1, at 23:00 GMT, which is 6 p.m. ET and 3 p.m. PT, according to the Premier League. Its May 22, 2026, notice says “The window will open on Friday 1 January and close on 1 February, again at 23:00 GMT.” Ligue 1 and LaLiga have confirmed their own dates, and the table below sets all of them side by side.

The Premier League did not give an opening time. As of Nov. 9, 2026, the English Football League (EFL), the Bundesliga, the Scottish Premiership and Major League Soccer (MLS) had not posted 2027 windows on an official page.

January 2027 transfer window dates by league

Clubs in the Premier League, Ligue 1, LaLiga and Serie A each follow their own league’s dates. The closing time is shown as each league prints it.

League	Opens	Closes	Closing time as printed	In ET
Premier League	Fri., Jan. 1	Mon., Feb. 1	23:00 GMT	6 p.m.
Ligue 1	Fri., Jan. 1	Mon., Feb. 1	19:59, no time zone given	Not converted
LaLiga	Sat., Jan. 2	Tue., Feb. 2 (inclusive)	Not given	Not given
Serie A	Sat., Jan. 2	Not given in the notice excerpt we read	Not given	Not given
EFL	Not announced by the EFL	Not announced by the EFL	Not announced	Not announced
Bundesliga	Not announced	Not announced	Not announced	Not announced
Scottish Premiership	Not announced	Not announced	Not announced	Not announced
MLS	Not announced	Not announced	Not announced	Not announced

Ligue 1’s page, from the Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), says the winter window is “set to begin on Friday, 1 January 2027” with “the market closing on Monday, 1 February 2027 at 19:59.” It gives no time zone, so the time is not converted here. LaLiga’s page says the winter window “empieza el 2 de enero y termina el 2 de Febrero de 2027, ambos inclusive”, which means Jan. 2 to Feb. 2, both days included. The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) notice of May 27, 2026, defines Serie A’s winter session as starting on Jan. 2, 2027; the excerpt we read does not give a single closing date or time for it.

Sky Sports reported on June 15, 2026, that the window “will re-open for winter in England on January 1, 2027 and close on February 1.” The EFL has not posted these dates on its own site, so they stay out of the table as official.

What time is the Premier League deadline in U.S. time zones?

The deadline is 23:00 on Monday, Feb. 1, 2027, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The U.S. and the UK are both on standard time then, so the gaps are fixed. The U.S. rows are our conversions of the Premier League’s 23:00 GMT; the last three rows are computed the same way.

Place	Time on the clock	Date
UK (GMT)	11 p.m.	Mon., Feb. 1
Eastern Time (ET)	6 p.m.	Mon., Feb. 1
Central Time (CT)	5 p.m.	Mon., Feb. 1
Mountain Time (MT)	4 p.m.	Mon., Feb. 1
Pacific Time (PT)	3 p.m.	Mon., Feb. 1
Central European Time (CET)	midnight	Tue., Feb. 2
India Standard Time (IST)	4:30 a.m.	Tue., Feb. 2
Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)	10 a.m.	Tue., Feb. 2

For a reader in the U.S., the Premier League deadline falls at the end of the working day in the East and in the middle of the afternoon on the West Coast. It sits on Monday, Feb. 1, so the February 2027 printable calendar shows it on the first square of the month.

How does the 2027 deadline compare with last year’s?

In 2026 the Premier League said the window “will close at 19:00 GMT on Monday 2 February”, because the customary closing date of Jan. 31 fell on a weekend. For 2027 the date is Monday, Feb. 1, and the time is 23:00, four hours later in the day than in 2026.

Window	Closes	Time (GMT)	Time (ET)
January 2026 (last year)	Mon., Feb. 2, 2026	19:00	2 p.m.
January 2027	Mon., Feb. 1, 2027	23:00	6 p.m.

From Nov. 9, 2026, the window opens in 53 days and closes in 84 days. The opening day, Jan. 1, falls on the January 2027 printable calendar’s first square.

Football dates to watch before the window opens

Before Jan. 1, the Champions League matchday 6 kickoff times cover Dec. 8-9, and the FA Cup second round draw story has that round’s details.

Is there a printable transfer window countdown?

Yes. The one-page January Transfer Window 2027 Dates sheet lists the Premier League and Ligue 1 openings and the Premier League deadline in ET, CT, MT and PT, with a Done column to tick each date off. LaLiga and Serie A dates, the Ligue 1 closing time zone and the leagues with no announced window are listed in words at the foot.