Have you taken on a difficult save in Football Manager 2016 at a club with no money to spend? If so, you're going to need to find some cheap free players to buy. We have lists of both the best free agents in FM2016 as well as the free players with the highest potential in FM16. Every player on this page is uncontracted and not at a club in FM 16, so you can buy them for completely free.

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These are the best free players in Football Manager 2016 as rated by their current ability. If you're looking for young players with potential that you can still buy on a free, you'll want our list of Best Young Players on a free transfer below.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Ronaldinho Gaúcho 34 AM RLC £0 £0
Cléo 29 ST £0 £0
Anthony Réveillère 35 D/WB RL £0 £0
Víctor Montaño 30 ST £0 £0
Cristian Ledesma 32 DM £0 £0
Júlio Baptista 33 AM/F C £0 £0
Vladimir Disljenkovic 33 GK £0 £0
Andrey Arshavin 33 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Aranha 34 GK £0 £0
Ilsinho 29 D/WB R, M RC £0 £0
Jermaine Jones 33 DM £0 £0
Nikolce Noveski 35 D C £0 £0
Chinedu Obasi 28 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Patrick Ochs 30 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Henok Goitom 30 ST £0 £0
Josué 35 DM £0 £0
Léo Lima 32 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
Dagoberto 31 AM L, ST £0 £0
Marat Izmailov 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Antônio Carlos 31 SW, D C £0 £0
Leonardo 32 ST £0 £0
Fininho 31 D/WB L, DM, AM LC £0 £0
João Paulo 28 D/WB L £0 £0
Carlos Valdés 29 D C £0 £0
René Rosero 30 M RC £0 £0
Fabián Vargas 34 DM £0 £0
Edu 33 AM L, ST £0 £0
Juan Valera 29 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Flávio Ferreira 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Heinz Müller 36 GK £0 £0
Keirrison 26 ST £0 £0
John Mensah 32 D C £0 £0
Borges 34 ST £0 £0
Rosinei 31 M RC £0 £0
Mark Bresciano 34 AM RLC £0 £0
Timo Hildebrand 35 GK £0 £0
Mané 32 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Giuseppe Biava 38 SW, D C £0 £0
David Quiroz 32 AM C £0 £0
Lucas Fonseca 29 D C £0 £0
Iván Bolado 25 ST £0 £0
Eric Bicfalvi 26 AM/F C £0 £0
Tommy Oar 23 AM RL £0 £0
David Manga 25 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Richard Dunne 35 D C £0 £0
Fabrício 32 DM £0 £0
Ciel 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Óscar Razo 30 D/WB L £0 £0
Andriy Berezovchuk 33 D C £0 £0
Kwame Quansah 32 DM £0 £0
Daniele Conti 35 DM £0 £0
Milivoje Novakovic 35 ST £0 £0
José Valencia 23 AM R, ST £0 £0
Dinei 31 ST £0 £0
Felipe Seymour 27 DM, M RC £0 £0
Christian Pander 31 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Demy de Zeeuw 31 DM £0 £0
Giorgos Samaras 29 AM L, ST £0 £0
Amauri 34 ST £0 £0
Alejandro Capurro 34 DM £0 £0
Fernando 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Lincoln 35 AM C £0 £0
Manu Lanzarote 30 AM RL £0 £0
Martinez 34 DM £0 £0
Nikola Drincic 30 DM £0 £0
Nemanja Tomic 26 AM RLC £0 £0
Edison Méndez 35 AM C £0 £0
Alejandro Martinuccio 27 AM/F C £0 £0
Emmanuel Eboué 31 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Tiberio Guarente 29 DM £0 £0
Jóbson 26 ST £0 £0
Jerónimo Barrales 27 ST £0 £0
Mohamed Farouk 25 AM RC £0 £0
Vicente 31 D/WB L £0 £0
Hans Martínez 27 SW, D C, DM £0 £0
Cédric Mongongu 25 D C £0 £0
Marcelinho 27 AM RL £0 £0
Wellington 27 ST £0 £0
Perry Kitchen 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Ronaldo 23 ST £0 £0
Ronny 23 AM RC £0 £0
Diogo Mateus 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Vladimir Gadzhev 27 DM £0 £0
Stefan Babovic 27 DM, AM RC £0 £0
Mike Temwanjera 32 ST £0 £0
Khalid Boulahrouz 32 D RC £0 £0
Joris Mathijsen 34 D C £0 £0
George McCartney 34 D LC £0 £0
Sergio Escudero 31 D LC, M L £0 £0
Roland Linz 33 ST £0 £0
Timothée Atouba 33 D/WB L £0 £0
Duwayne Kerr 27 GK £0 £0
Álvaro Arroyo 26 D/WB R, DM, M RC £0 £0
Ahmed Hegazi 23 D C £0 £0
Nicolás Bruna 24 DM £0 £0
Melvin Valladares 30 AM/F C £0 £0
Ferreira 30 D C £0 £0
Javi Matilla 26 M C £0 £0
Guilherme 24 D/WB L £0 £0
Carlão 28 ST £0 £0
Carlos Lizarazo 23 AM LC £0 £0
Galatto 31 GK £0 £0
Sidi Keita 30 DM £0 £0
Luís Carlos 27 GK £0 £0
Kalilou Traoré 27 AM RC £0 £0
Cristian Gaitán 24 D/WB R, M RLC £0 £0
Eduardo Ledesma 29 DM, M RC £0 £0
Hichani Himoonde 28 D C £0 £0
Idrissa Coulibaly 27 D RC, DM £0 £0
Jerome Thomas 31 AM RL £0 £0
Renán Calle 38 D C £0 £0
Robi Merino 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Juan Eluchans 34 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Antonio Longás 30 DM £0 £0
Siaka Tiéné 32 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Júnior César 32 D/WB L £0 £0
Marcinho 30 AM/F C £0 £0
Claudio Maldonado 34 D C, DM £0 £0
Andranik Teymourian 31 DM £0 £0
Alberto Zapater 29 DM £0 £0
Ismail Abdul-Lateef 28 ST £0 £0
Rafa Jordà 30 ST £0 £0
Martin Lanig 30 DM, AM C £0 £0
Manuel Friedrich 35 D C £0 £0
Jeffrey Sarpong 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Dwight Tiendalli 29 D/WB RL £0 £0
René Lima 29 DM £0 £0
Xavier Intriago 33 AM L £0 £0
Leonel Olímpio 32 DM £0 £0
Carlos Preciado 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Leandro Bonfim 30 AM C £0 £0
Javier Arizmendi 30 AM R, ST £0 £0
Júlio César 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Fousseni Diawara 34 D RC £0 £0
Benoît Angbwa 32 D R £0 £0
Jhon Pérez 26 AM RLC £0 £0
Bani Lozano 32 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Pablo Pintos 27 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Ricardo Jesus 29 ST £0 £0
Jáider Romero 33 D/WB R £0 £0
André Luís 28 ST £0 £0
Steven Mouyokolo 28 D C £0 £0
Ayrton 29 D/WB R £0 £0
Bronzatti 28 D C £0 £0
Diego Oliveira 24 AM/F C £0 £0
Jossimar Mosquera 32 SW, D C £0 £0
Nelson Ibargüen 30 ST £0 £0
Nery Bareiro 26 D C £0 £0
Ricardo Jiménez 30 D C £0 £0
Carlos Ochoa 36 ST £0 £0
John Utaka 32 AM L, ST £0 £0
Guillermo Marino 33 AM RLC £0 £0
Juan Pablo Avendaño 32 SW, D C £0 £0
Leandro Benítez 33 M LC £0 £0
Eduardo Casais 29 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Ivan Ivanov 26 D C £0 £0
Saša Stamenković 29 GK £0 £0
Souleymane Diawara 35 D C £0 £0
Marcos Aurélio 30 AM R, ST £0 £0
Rômulo 27 DM £0 £0
Nigel Reo-Coker 30 D R, DM £0 £0
Bruno Mineiro 31 ST £0 £0
Gerardo Bedoya 39 WB L, DM, M LC £0 £0
Pablo Melo 32 D C £0 £0
Joe Bizera 34 D C £0 £0
Branko Boskovic 35 AM LC £0 £0
Elkin Calle 34 D/WB R £0 £0
Carlos Álvarez 33 AM R, ST £0 £0
Ivan 33 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Olberdam 29 DM £0 £0
Deola 31 GK £0 £0
Benoît Lesoimier 32 AM RL £0 £0
Søren Christensen 28 AM C £0 £0
Sebastián Peratta 38 GK £0 £0
Éder Bonfim 34 D R £0 £0
Nicolás Cabrera 30 WB/AM R £0 £0
Maarten Martens 30 AM LC £0 £0
Mate Ghvinianidze 28 D RC £0 £0
Oumar Kalabané 33 D RC £0 £0
Fabián Estoyanoff 32 AM R, ST £0 £0
Andrés Scotti 39 D C £0 £0
Michal Hubnik 31 ST £0 £0
Dmytro Trukhin 32 AM LC £0 £0
Marco Antonio Palacios 33 D C £0 £0
Achraf Khalfaoui 34 DM £0 £0
Júlio César 31 WB L, AM LC £0 £0
John Galliquio 35 D RC £0 £0
Ariel Ibagaza 38 AM C £0 £0
Ramón 31 DM, AM/F C £0 £0
Michael 32 AM/F C £0 £0
Xabi Castillo 28 D/WB L £0 £0
Cristian Dănălache 32 ST £0 £0
Tomislav Pajovic 28 D C £0 £0
Ivan Petrovic 34 M C £0 £0
Antonio Tomás 29 DM £0 £0
Nacho 34 D/WB L £0 £0
Ricardo Fernandes 36 AM C £0 £0
Mota 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Arzu 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Adama Coulibaly 34 D C £0 £0

These are the best free players aged under 23 in Football Manager 2016 as rated by their potential ability. Some of these players may not be very good at the start but have the potential to grow still due to their age.

Name Age Position Wage Value Cost Expires Rating Potential
Natsuki Itô 17 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Flávio Ferreira 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Roger Gomis 20 AM C £0 £0
Mour Samb 20 ST £0 £0
Wilson Gómez 19 AM/F C £0 £0
Valeriane Gvilia 20 DM £0 £0
Jérémi Kimmakon 20 DM £0 £0
Christophe Hernandez 20 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Emmanuel Debordeaux 21 DM, AM C £0 £0
Olivier Moussima 21 AM R £0 £0
Karim Wagdy 23 ST £0 £0
Samuel Kyere 22 D/WB R £0 £0
Karim Siby 20 DM £0 £0
Khalil Bani Attiah 23 AM RL £0 £0
Vítor Hugo 17 D C £0 £0
Enzo González 18 M C £0 £0
Aldry Torres 18 M R £0 £0
Mamadou Diallo 20 AM RL £0 £0
Romain Gall 19 AM RL £0 £0
Álister De Jesús 19 AM R, ST £0 £0
Ghislain N'Guessan 22 ST £0 £0
Duylio 23 DM £0 £0
Felipe Napolitano 19 ST £0 £0
Nathan 19 ST £0 £0
Adel Habib Beldi 20 ST £0 £0
Lucas Madera 20 D RC £0 £0
Saifoudine Sanali 19 D/WB L £0 £0
Rodamel Gutiérrez 21 AM C £0 £0
Jefferson Cuéllar 20 M C £0 £0
Souleymane Sangaré 20 D C £0 £0
Omar Diop 22 D R, DM £0 £0
Diogo 21 AM C £0 £0
Victor Brasil 21 GK £0 £0
Breno 19 D/WB L £0 £0
Ronaldo 23 ST £0 £0
Hyago 19 DM £0 £0
Ângelo 20 AM RLC £0 £0
Ibrahima Kamagaté 18 GK £0 £0
Bruce Musakanya 20 AM C £0 £0
Alhassane Traoré 21 AM R £0 £0
Daniel Camelo 20 M C £0 £0
Karlo Tezak 21 AM LC £0 £0
Faiz Shamsin 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Yarouba Cissako 19 D/WB R £0 £0
Julien Remiti 20 DM £0 £0
Marco Da Silva 22 DM £0 £0
Batuhan Karadeniz 23 ST £0 £0
Yuriy Yakovenko 21 ST £0 £0
David Villarroel 22 D L £0 £0
Perry Kitchen 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Igor Kharatin 19 D C, DM £0 £0
Papa Kone 22 WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Adrián Trigo 23 DM £0 £0
Cyril Kurnik 20 ST £0 £0
Rubén Vaca 19 AM C £0 £0
Dany Rosero 21 D RC £0 £0
Ladji Niané 20 D/WB L £0 £0
Diogo Mateus 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Matheus 19 AM C £0 £0
Francis Obidikwa 19 D C £0 £0
Danilo 23 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Henrique Ávila 22 D/WB L £0 £0
Renan 21 GK £0 £0
Marcone 21 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Everton 22 DM £0 £0
Michel Thuique 21 ST £0 £0
Zé Alberto 19 AM/F C £0 £0
Tommy Oar 23 AM RL £0 £0
Mostafa Abdel Sattar 22 GK £0 £0
Ahmed Adams 21 D C £0 £0
Brian Canales 18 AM L £0 £0
Steven Dal Molin 21 D C £0 £0
Diego Gutiérrez 20 GK £0 £0
Frédéric Injaï 19 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Carlos Lizarazo 23 AM LC £0 £0
Nicolás Ríos 18 ST £0 £0
Karim Mosaad 21 D/WB L £0 £0
Mário Lucas 22 ST £0 £0
Joao Felipe 22 D/WB R £0 £0
Douglas 22 GK £0 £0
Diego Testa 21 ST £0 £0
Jéferson 19 DM £0 £0
Lucas 17 D RC £0 £0
Yannick Mouen 21 AM R £0 £0
Flavio Luna 18 ST £0 £0
Diego Cisternas 23 AM C £0 £0
Arthur Dallois 19 ST £0 £0
Loïc Gravina 19 D C £0 £0
Moussa M'Bow 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Lionel M'pasi 20 GK £0 £0
Alan Sánchez 21 ST £0 £0
Alejandro Barrera 22 DM £0 £0
Gerardo Sena 23 AM C £0 £0
Carlos Cedeño 23 M C £0 £0
Qian Jiegei 22 AM LC £0 £0
Wilson Morales 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Ayoub Lotfi 21 M C £0 £0
Maxime Lofanga 20 D/WB L, DM £0 £0
Jason Wright 20 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Svyatoslav Dyakiv 22 ST £0 £0
Ruslan Mamutov 21 AM C £0 £0
Maxym Tsvyk 20 ST £0 £0
Olexiy Chereda 20 D C £0 £0
Javier Que 19 ST £0 £0
Maxym Degtyaryov 21 AM L, ST £0 £0
Ruslan Stepanyuk 22 AM R, ST £0 £0
Davit Iashvili 22 D C £0 £0
Craig Reid 20 GK £0 £0
Mamadou Doucouré 22 ST £0 £0
Ikechukwu Okorie 21 D C £0 £0
Ahmed Hegazi 23 D C £0 £0
Hakim Jebali 23 ST £0 £0
Venacious Mapande 23 ST £0 £0
Rasmane Kabré 20 D C £0 £0
Jacques Haman 20 AM L, ST £0 £0
Santiago Arrachea 21 D C £0 £0
Wilson Júnior 23 ST £0 £0
Cidinho 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Gil 23 ST £0 £0
Élvis Gabriell 22 GK £0 £0
Cristhian 22 DM £0 £0
Reinaldo 20 GK £0 £0
Mailton 22 D/WB L £0 £0
Yago 22 D/WB R £0 £0
Gullithi 21 DM £0 £0
Dill 20 D C, DM £0 £0
Batista 21 DM £0 £0
Kaiky 20 GK £0 £0
Frances 20 D/WB L £0 £0
Carlos Vitor 21 AM RL £0 £0
Abdul Razak 22 M C £0 £0
Dale Jennings 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Gabriel Fernando 19 D C £0 £0
Ayrton 20 DM £0 £0
Martín Soto 20 D RC £0 £0
Lesedi Manyathela 18 ST £0 £0
Artur Miranyan 18 ST £0 £0
Mustapha Azrag 23 D RC £0 £0
Jorge Orgaz 18 AM R £0 £0
Momar Bangoura 20 DM £0 £0
Ryô Hasebe 16 D C £0 £0
Stjepan Vuleta 21 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Jerson Benavides 21 D RC £0 £0
Diego Calderón 22 AM L £0 £0
David Aquino 20 D RC £0 £0
Elías Vásquez 22 SW, D RLC £0 £0
Aurélien Chuchla 21 ST £0 £0
Mauricio Chajtur 18 AM C £0 £0
Quentin Leroux 18 ST £0 £0
Alex Nimely 23 ST £0 £0
Stanley Okoro 22 AM RL £0 £0
Kouandé Diarra 21 AM C £0 £0
Sidi Bagayogo 21 D C £0 £0
Roger 22 D/M L £0 £0
Édson Magal 21 DM £0 £0
Eudair 19 AM RC £0 £0
Gustavo 20 GK £0 £0
Jefferson Renan 21 AM C £0 £0
Capinha 19 AM C £0 £0
Rafael Guedes 19 ST £0 £0
Igor 22 D C £0 £0
Darlan 23 ST £0 £0
Luizinho 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Alemão 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Joshua Gatt 23 AM R £0 £0
Andrei Ionescu 18 D C £0 £0
Will Packwood 21 D RC, DM £0 £0
Yûichi Kawashima 17 DM £0 £0
Alessio Provenzano 17 AM R £0 £0
Pablo Espinoza 23 D C £0 £0
Bakary Badji 20 ST £0 £0
Jhegson Méndez 17 AM C £0 £0
Mykhaylo Ryashko 18 D C £0 £0
Denys Tokar 20 D C £0 £0
Sean Kinsella 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Bruno Vázquez 21 GK £0 £0
Justin Mengolo 21 ST £0 £0
Sami Ben Aoun 21 ST £0 £0
Pierre Saintot 21 ST £0 £0
Bernard Arthur 20 ST £0 £0
Vítor Salmaso 22 D C £0 £0
Émerson Bahia 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Marcos Paulo 22 DM £0 £0
Hugo Sanches 20 AM R, ST £0 £0
Léo Prado 18 AM C £0 £0
Kaoê 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Ronny 23 AM RC £0 £0
Roni 22 D C £0 £0
Fabiano 22 DM £0 £0
Raphael Fontes 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Jean Patrick 22 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Feliphe 22 ST £0 £0
Fransuar 21 D C £0 £0
Dasaev 21 GK £0 £0
Negritinho 21 DM £0 £0
Alan Fabrício 20 AM C £0 £0
Vico 18 AM RLC £0 £0
Ramon 19 DM £0 £0
Gabriel Alleoni 22 ST £0 £0
Juan Ignacio Castro 21 ST £0 £0

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