FM23 Player Lists: Best Players, Wonderkids, Bargains and Free Transfers

The FM23 BETA was released last week, if you're not already playing, what are you waiting for? In the meantime we've produced a huge list of hundreds of wonderkids for Football Manager 2023 as well as doing a deep dive into which countries have the most wonderkids this year. Alongside that we've produced a whole bunch of different shortlists featuring cheap players in FM23, bargain players in FM23, free transfers in FM23.

5 of the best wonderkids in Football Manager 2023

If you just want to dive straight into finding the best Wonderkids in FM23 then I can tell you that Endrick from Palmerias, Warren Zaïre-Emery from PSG, Arda Güler from Fenerbahce, Noni Madueke from PSV and Yaser Asprilla from Watford are 5 of the best. Want more than that? You'll have to click through to our complete FM23 Wonderkids List

FM23 Wonderkids List

Downloadable Shortlist

If you're looking for a shortlist that you can easily download and import straight into Football Manager 2023 itself, then look no further. Our pre-made shortlist contains 472 of the best wonderkids and young players in the game and you can import it easily into your own shortlist within FM.

Download Importable FM23 Wonderkids Shortlist

Which countries have the best young players in FM23?

Ever wondered which countries produce the most wonderkids? We've done the research for you to let you know that in FM23 Spain have 120 wonderkids, England have 112 wonderkids, Brazil have 85 wonderkids, France have 84 wonderkids, Portugal have 59 wonderkids while Holland and Italy both have 59 wonderkids. You can click any of those nation names to go directly to a list of wonderkids from those nations or click the link for our complete list of FM23 wonderkids by nation.

Cheap Young Players in FM23

What if you're on a budget in FM23? (maybe you should have checked out our guide to the clubs with the biggest transfer budgets in FM23) but if you didn't do that and you are on a budget then what you're going to want is cheap wonderkids! Well you're in luck, we've got lists of the cheapest wonderkids in FM23 or bargain young players aged 21-25 if you think a late bloomer might be a bargain and to top it off free transfers with high potential.

FM23 Bargain Players

Now I know what you're saying, "Susie surely you can't have even more player lists???". Well you're wrong. We do have more lists and it's not just wonderkid lists, we've got lists optimised for your budget. Best free players or bargain players under £100k, players priced £100k to £1m and players priced between £1m and £10m.

Who are the best players in FM23?

You probably can't afford them, but if you are wondering who the very best players in FM23 are, then I can tell you it's Kevin De Bruyne, Kylian Mbappé, Robert Lewandowski, Erling Haaland, Mohamed Salah, Karim Benzema, Thibaut Courtois, Virgil van Dijk, Harry Kane and Lionel Messi. Why did we put Messi last in this list of 10 best players in FM23? Because he's only the 10th best player. That list is in order and Cristiano Ronaldo is now ranked as the 100th. Isn't it nice it's such a round number? Let us know if you can guess the 4 Man Utd players that are ranked better.