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Summer 2024 released players

  • Published
    2 May 2024
Updated 17 May 2024

The 2023-24 season is coming to an end, with many players set to be available on free transfers at the end of their contracts.

Find out who has been let go with our collation of club released/retained lists.

Confirmed signings can be found on our transfers page.

You can also catch up with what the papers are saying in today's gossip column.

Championship

Birmingham

Blackburn

Bristol City

Cardiff

Coventry

Huddersfield

Hull

Ipswich

Leeds

Leicester

Middlesbrough

Millwall

Norwich

Plymouth

Preston

QPR

Rotherham

Sheffield Wednesday

Southampton

Stoke

Sunderland

Swansea

Watford

West Brom

League One

Barnsley

Blackpool

Bolton

Bristol Rovers

Burton

Cambridge

Carlisle

Charlton

Cheltenham

Derby

Exeter

Fleetwood, external

Leyton Orient

Lincoln

Northampton

Oxford United

Peterborough

Portsmouth

Port Vale

Reading

Shrewsbury

Stevenage

Wigan

Wycombe

League Two

Accrington

AFC Wimbledon, external

Barrow

Bradford

Colchester

Crawley

Crewe

Doncaster

Forest Green

Gillingham

Grimsby

Harrogate

Mansfield

MK Dons

Morecambe

Newport

Notts County

Salford

Stockport

Sutton, external

Swindon

Tranmere, external

Walsall

Wrexham

National League

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