List of over 200 Championship free agents released by clubs after 2023/24 season

In this article, we take a look at a list of over 200 Championship free agents released by clubs following the 2023/24 season.

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Birmingham City Blackburn Rovers Bristol City Cardiff City Coventry City Huddersfield Town Hull City Ipswich Town Leeds United Leicester City Middlesbrough

Teams will be looking to strengthen and replace those injured or in need of a boost with some names looking to secure themselves a new club to call home for the foreseeable future.

Retained lists are being released across the second tier, which will see a flood of free agents into the summer transfer market.

Check out the list, compiled with the help of each club and The Deck…

Birmingham City

Under Contract: Lee Buchanan, Alfie Chang, Romelle Donovan, George Hall, Jordan James, Brandon Khela, Ethan Laird, Emmanuel Longelo, Josh Williams, Juninho Bacuna, Krystian Bielik, Siriki Dembele, Kiji Myoshi, Paik Seung-Ho, Alex Pritchard, Tyler Roberts, Dion Sanderson

Offered New Deal: Lukas Jutkiewicz, John Ruddy

Option Triggered: Keshi Anderson

Released: Marcel Oakley, Neil Etheridge, Gary Gardner, Scott Hogan, Marc Roberts, Ivan Sunjic

Returning To Parent Club: Cody Drameh, Emanuel Aiwu, Andre Dozzell, Jay Stansfield, Oliver Burke

Blackburn Rovers

Contract Option Triggered: Sam Gallagher, Tyrhys Dolan, Dominik Biniek, Adam Caddick, Charlie Olson, George Pratt and Harrison Wood

In Talks: Kyle McFadzean, John Fleck

Released: Sam Barnes, Lenni Cirino, Ben Fyles, Jay Haddow, Jared Harlock, Ethan Walker, Charlie Weston, Ben Thirkill

Offered New Deal: Isaac Whitehall, Jalil Saadi and Alex Baker

Offered Professional Deal: Lewis Bell, Rhys Doherty, Solomon Honor, Adam Khan, Matty Litherland, Paul Murphy-Worrell, Junior Nsangou, Brandon Powell and Zack Stritch

Returning To Parent Club: Andy Moran, Yasin Ayari, Ben Chrisene and Billy Koumetio

Bristol City

Released: Matty James, Andy King, Andreas Weimann, Ben Acey, Zac Bell, McIntosh Boyd, Marlee Francois, Callum Hutton, Duncan Idehen, Dylan Kadji, Harry Leeson, Harvey Wiles-Richards

In Talks: Joe Williams, Romani Rowe

Under Contract (Over 24): Rob Atkinson, Harry Cornick, Rob Dickie, Ross McCrorie, Cameron Moir-Pring, Kal Naismith, Max O’Leary, Mark Sykes, George Tanner, Lewis Thomas, Zachary Vyner, Nahki Wells

Under Contract (24 or Under): Zack Ali, Tim Ap Sion, Taine Anderson, Raphael Araoye, Tommy Backwell, Stefan Bajic, Brandon Bak, Sam Bell, Ayman Benarous, Max Bird, Joshua Campbell-Slowey, Josey Casa-Grande, Kai Churchley, Tommy Conway, Joe Duncan, Taylor Gardner-Hickman, Calum Hewlett, Joseph James, Jason Knight, Jamie Knight-Lebel, Jed Meerholz, Anis Mehmeti, Elijah Morrison, Adam Murphy, Raekwon Nelson, Ephraim Yeboah, Sebastian Palmer-Houlden, Billy Phillips, Haydon Roberts, Marley Rose, Josh Stokes, Omar Taylor-Clarke, Archie Taylor, Oliver Thomas, Callum Wood

Cardiff City

Romaine Sawyers, Sheyi Ojo, Rohan Luthra and Oliver Denham will leave the Club at the conclusion of their agreements on June 30th.

Nathaniel Phillips, Josh Wilson-Esbrand, Josh Bowler, Karlan Grant and Famara Diédhiou have all returned to their parent Clubs.

Options to extend the contracts of Jamilu Collins, Malachi Fagan-Walcott and Isaac Jefferies have been activated.

Contract offers have been made to Cameron Antwi, Tom Davies, Raheem Conte, Kieron Evans and Matthew Turner.

At U21 level, Xavier Benjamin, James Crole, Ryan Kavanagh, Kyle Kenniford, Caleb Hughes, Finlay Johnson, Jai Semenyo and Chanka Zimba will depart at the end of the month.

The full retained list of professionals can be found below:

Ebou Adams, Cian Ashford, Jak Alnwick, Joel Bagan, Jamilu Collins, Joel Colwill, Rubin Colwill, Freddie Cook, Isaak Davies, Jake Dennis, Kion Etete, Malachi Fagan-Walcott, Dimitros Goutas, Ethan Horvath, Isaac Jefferies, Eli King, Dylan Lawlor, Mark McGuinness, Yakou Meite, Perry Ng, Callum O’Dowda, Joe Ralls, Aaron Ramsey, Andy Rinomhota, Callum Robinson, Mahlon Romeo, Manolis Siopis, Ollie Tanner, Ryotaro Tsunoda, David Turnbull, Morgan Wigley, Ryan Wintle.

Coventry City

Released: Liam Kelly, Simon Moore, Dermi Lusala, Bradley Stretton

Offered New Deal: Callum O’Hare, Luke Bell

Returning To Parent Club: Luis Binks (Bologna)

Huddersfield Town

Under Contract: Michal Helik, Sorba Thomas, Lee Nicholls, Matty Pearson, Jack Rudoni, Tom Lees, Josh Koroma, David Kasumu, Ben Wiles, Brodie Spencer, Jaheim Headley, Ben Jackson, Danny Ward, Chris Maxwell, Josh Ruffles, Kian Harratt, Rhys Healey, Radinio Balker, Bojan Radulovic, Kyle Hudlin, Patrick Jones, Ollie Turton, Loick Ayina, Josh Austerfield, Jacob Chapman, Tom Iorpenda, Scott High, Tyreece Simpson

In Talks: Jonathan Hogg, Michael Stone, Donnell Garrick

Contract Option Triggered: Neo Eccleston, Fope Deru

Released: Jordan Rhodes, Brahima Diarra, Connor Mahoney, Yuta Nakayama, Aaron Rowe, Charles Ondo, Giosue Bellagambi, Mustapha Olagunju, Dylan Helliwell, Archie Sheppard, David Adewoju, Shane Maroodza, Michael Acquah, Myles Bright, Ben Midgley, Hazeem Barke, Freddie Fletcher, Aaron Ojungu

Returning To Parent Club: Delano Burgzorg, Tom Edwards, Alex Matos

Hull City

Released: Greg Docherty, Adama Traore, David Robson, Cyrus Christie, Aaron Connolly, Billy Sharp, Vaughn Covil

Returning To Parent Club: Ryan Giles, Tyler Morton, Fabio Carvalho, Noah Ohio, Liam Delap, Anass Zaroury

Ipswich Town

Released: Dominic Ball, Panutche Camara, Nick Hayes, Kayden Jackson.

Retired: Sone Aluko.

Returning To Parent Club: Omari Hutchinson, Kieffer Moore, Jeremy Sarmiento, Lewis Travis, Brandon Williams.

Contract Option Triggered: Cameron Burgess, Idris El Mizouni, Axel Tuanzebe, Christian Walton.

Returning For Pre-Season: Janoi Donacien.

In Talks: Vaclav Hladky

Leeds United

TO BE CONFIRMED

Robin Koch and Luke Ayling have already secured their futures, with deals being signed at Eintracht Frankfurt and Middlesbrough.

Liam Cooper, Sam Byram, Jamie Shackleton, Cody Drameh, Lewis Bate and Ian Poveda are in the final few weeks of their current deals and unless they are offered new terms, they will be allowed to leave this summer, as per Yorkshire Evening Post.

Leeds have also seen three loan players return to their parent clubs, with Joe Rodon, Jaidon Anthony and Connor Roberts bringing their time with the club to an end.