Deadline day: What is a transfer deal sheet?

Premier League clubs need to complete a ‘deal sheet’ in order to complete a transfer in the last two hours of a transfer window.

Clubs often leave their transfer dealings to the very last minute, and therefore have to submit a form to the Premier League to make sure that a transfer can go ahead.

The deal sheet allows a club to confirm that an agreement has been reached and also give themselves more time to submit the remaining documentation.

The Premier League and the English Football League have both set a transfer deadline for Monday, 2 February at 19:00 GMT.

The deal sheet cannot be used before 17:00 GMT and needs to be filled in before the transfer window closes.

Once the deal sheet arrives with the Premier League, the clubs have an additional two hours, or until 21:00 GMT to submit all the required paperwork.

If all the necessary paperwork has still not been submitted after the deadline has passed, the transfer will not be able to proceed.

The Premier League said a record number of nine deal sheets were handed in on deadline day in 2024.

Enzo Fernandez completed his move to Chelsea from Benfica in January 2023 after the Blues submitted a last-minute deal sheet to get the transfer over the line.

However, Blackburn Rovers failed to sign Orlando City’s Duncan McGuire in 2024 after the club failed to submit the deal sheet into the EFL’s system on time.