**_LONDON_**: The Premier League will have two transfer windows this summer to allow Manchester City and Chelsea to sign players before the Club World Cup.
The window will open between Sunday, June 1 and Tuesday, June 10, then close for five days before running again from Monday, June 16 until Monday, September 1.
This summer features the first expanded Fifa Club World Cup, which involves 32 teams and adopts the format of the regular World Cup of the past few years.
Chelsea and Manchester City are the Premier League teams in the tournament which kicks off in the United States on Sunday, June 15. But the Premier League can only have 12 weeks of a summer window – hence the five-day break in order to run it until September 1.
FIFA is allowing new players to be registered for the Club World Cup from June 1-10 and again from June 27 to July 3 for the knockout stage.
As well as Manchester City and Chelsea, European giants such as Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid, Inter Milan, Juventus, Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Saudi Arabia’s Al-Hilal are among others playing in the tournament.
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