Rangers complete double swoop as Wrexham sign O'Hare on busy EFL and Scottish deadline day
While the Premier League's big-money moves grabbed the headlines, clubs across the English Football League, Scotland and the Women's Super League were equally busy on deadline day and in the days that followed.
Rangers and Celtic active north of the border
Rangers completed a double swoop on 3 September, signing Kevin Kelsy from Portland Timbers and taking Badredine Bouanani on loan from Stuttgart. Lyall Cameron, meanwhile, left Ibrox to join Dundee United on loan on deadline day itself.
Celtic signed Oliver Sorensen on loan from Parma but also sanctioned two late departures, with Reo Hatate joining Burnley and Johnny Kenny moving to Preston North End, both confirmed at 23:30. Hibernian brought in Alex Williams on loan from West Bromwich Albion and sent Josh Campbell to St Johnstone on the same terms, while Dundee United also added Zidane Iqbal from Utrecht and Motherwell signed Dylan Levitt from Leyton Orient.
Elsewhere in Scotland, St Johnstone signed Joel Cotterill from Swansea City, Kilmarnock took MJ Kamson-Kamara on loan from Heart of Midlothian, and Falkirk brought in Owen Eames on loan from Derby County.
Wrexham land O'Hare as Sheffield United respond
Wrexham signed Callum O'Hare from Sheffield United at 18:00 on deadline day, with the Blades responding ten minutes later by taking Liam Kitching on loan from Coventry City. Sheffield Wednesday then borrowed Davis Keillor-Dunn from Wrexham on 3 September, when Colchester United's Samson Tovide joined Huddersfield Town on a free transfer and Burnley sent Lyle Foster on loan to Houston.
Deadline day deals across the EFL
Watford were among the busiest sides, signing Myron Boadu as a free agent, Stephy Mavididi on loan from Leicester City and Soumaila Coulibaly on loan from Strasbourg.
Among the other moves confirmed on 1 September:
- Leyton Orient signed Dane Scarlett from Tottenham and Oliver Dovin on loan from Coventry
- Charlton Athletic took Oliver Skipp on loan from Leicester
- Derby County signed David Ozoh from Crystal Palace, Eiran Cashin on loan from Brighton and Mohammed Fuseini on loan from Union Saint-Gilloise
- Bristol City brought in Brian De Keersmaecker on loan from Oxford United
- Portsmouth added Tyrese Shade from Burton and Jayden Meghoma on loan from Brentford
- Middlesbrough signed Connor Barron on loan from Rangers and Amario Cozier-Duberry on loan from Brighton
- Preston North End signed Liam Gibbs on loan from Norwich and Johnny Kenny from Celtic
- Leicester signed John Lundstram on a free from Trabzonspor and Kamari Doyle on loan from Brighton
- Stoke City added Jack McGlynn from Houston Dynamo and, on 2 September, Justin Devenny from Crystal Palace
- West Ham United signed Morato on loan from Nottingham Forest and Adama Boiro on loan from Athletic Club
- West Bromwich Albion brought in Brayann Pereira from NEC Nijmegen and Southampton signed Zach Abbott on loan from Nottingham Forest
- Burnley signed Igor Julio from Brighton, while Birmingham City took Liam Millar on loan from Hull
- Millwall signed Filip Marschall from Stevenage and Romain Esse on loan from Crystal Palace
- Bolton Wanderers took Theo Bair on loan from Auxerre, while Wigan Athletic signed Brad Burrowes on loan from Aston Villa
- Lincoln City signed Chieo Ogbene from Ipswich and Dan Oyegoke from Hellas Verona, with James Collins heading to Doncaster Rovers on loan
- Notts County brought in Rosaire Longelo from Salford and sent Jodi Jones to Bromley on loan
- Exeter City signed Danny Rose and Ajay Matthews on loan from Millwall, while Colchester United added Jay Williams from Crawley
- Gillingham signed Zech Obiero on loan from Leyton Orient and Eli King from Cardiff, with Swindon Town taking Dan Butler from Stevenage
- Rotherham United signed George Sebine on loan from Huddersfield and Klaidi Lolos on loan from Peterborough, while Grimsby Town took Fin Cartwright on loan from Middlesbrough
- Accrington Stanley signed Aidan Borland on loan from Aston Villa, Barnet took Damola Ajayi on loan from Tottenham and Mansfield Town signed George Abbott on loan from Spurs
- Burton Albion added Raphael Borges Rodrigues on loan from Coventry and Mark O'Mahony on loan from Brighton, while Bradford City signed Corey O'Keeffe from Barnsley
- Rochdale signed Charlie Tasker on loan from Brighton and AFC Wimbledon took Dujuan Richards on loan from Chelsea
- Peterborough United signed Harry Ashfield from Wrexham, while Tommy Setford joined Stevenage on loan from Arsenal
- Elijah Campbell joined MK Dons on loan from Everton
Deals announced on 2 September
A further batch of moves was announced the following day, including Michael Adu-Poku joining Newport on loan from Watford, Gady Beyuku signing for Blackburn from Modena, Kiano Dyer joining Chesterfield on loan from Chelsea, Kion Etete and Matty Jacob both moving to Newport on loan from Cardiff and Hull respectively, Ghislain Konan signing for Wolves from Gil Vicente, Luka Lynch joining Oxford on loan from Aston Villa, Jeremy Monga joining Swansea on loan from Manchester City, Sean Neave joining Wolves on loan from Newcastle, Joel Randall joining Chesterfield on loan from Bolton, Josh Robertson joining Fleetwood on loan from Brighton and Dan Watts joining Exeter on loan from Swansea.
Women's Super League business
There was deadline-day activity in the WSL too: Arsenal signed Elisa de Almeida from Paris St-Germain, Manchester City brought in Anna Moorhouse on loan from Orlando Pride, Manchester United signed Rebeca Bernal from Washington Spirit, and Crystal Palace added Shanade Hopcroft from Birmingham City.