When Sheffield Wednesday’s final 2024/25 squad list will be confirmed.
Sheffield Wednesday’s final squad list for the remainder of the 2024/25 season will be confirmed in the coming days.
The Owls, like all of the other clubs in the Championship, are able to register a maximum of 25 players with the English Football League that will be eligible to play for them for the rest of the season, with that list having to be submitted by the club within 24 hours of a transfer window closing.
Players under the age of 21, such as Djeidi Gassama, Pierce Charles and Gabriel Otegbayo, don’t form part of the 25 unless they’re brought in on a temporary loan basis, meaning that both James Beadle and Shea Charles – though under U21 at the start of the season – do count towards the 25-man limit.
Prior to the January transfer window the Owls had 22 players registered with the league, and with the addition of Stuart Armstrong and Ibrahim Cissoko have now taken that tally to 24 – leaving just one left to fill, one that can now only be taken up by a player who was a free agent before the window closed. It’s thought that if all goes well that spot will be filled by Japanese defender, Ryo Hatsuse, who is believed to have agreed terms ahead of a proposed move this week.
The EFL’s regulations say that each club ‘shall submit its squad list to the League within 24 hours of a transfer window or such other date and time as may be notified by the League’.
They also go on to add that changes to a squad list may only be made during the period of a transfer window and at other times only with the permission of the League – such as when ‘the club’s current squad list contains less than the maximum number of players permitted to be included on the squad list and the club wishes to add an out of registration player or another player registered with the club but not currently included on the squad list’.
Will it be published?
As per the EFL’s regulations, ‘the League will publish each club’s squad list and a list of all other contract players eligible to participate in league matches but are not included on the squad list, on the League’s official website within 7 days of the closing of a transfer window’. That means it should be up before Monday night.
