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
Víctor Montaño 30 ST £0 £0
Anthony Réveillère 35 D/WB RL £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
Henok Goitom 30 ST £0 £0
Patrick Ochs 30 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Josué 35 DM £0 £0
Léo Lima 32 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
Dagoberto 31 AM L, ST £0 £0
Leonardo 32 ST £0 £0
Marat Izmailov 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Antônio Carlos 31 SW, D C £0 £0
Fininho 31 D/WB L, DM, AM LC £0 £0
João Paulo 28 D/WB L £0 £0
René Rosero 30 M RC £0 £0
Carlos Valdés 29 D C £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
David Manga 25 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Richard Dunne 35 D C £0 £0
Óscar Razo 30 D/WB L £0 £0
Ciel 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Fabrício 32 DM £0 £0
Andriy Berezovchuk 33 D C £0 £0
Kwame Quansah 32 DM £0 £0
Daniele Conti 35 DM £0 £0
Tommy Oar 23 AM RL £0 £0
Milivoje Novakovic 35 ST £0 £0
José Valencia 23 AM R, ST £0 £0
Dinei 31 ST £0 £0
Alejandro Capurro 34 DM £0 £0
Giorgos Samaras 29 AM L, ST £0 £0
Amauri 34 ST £0 £0
Demy de Zeeuw 31 DM £0 £0
Christian Pander 31 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Fernando 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Lincoln 35 AM C £0 £0
Edison Méndez 35 AM C £0 £0
Martinez 34 DM £0 £0
Nemanja Tomic 26 AM RLC £0 £0
Manu Lanzarote 30 AM RL £0 £0
Nikola Drincic 30 DM £0 £0
Alejandro Martinuccio 27 AM/F C £0 £0
Felipe Seymour 27 DM, M RC £0 £0
Jóbson 26 ST £0 £0
Mohamed Farouk 25 AM RC £0 £0
Jerónimo Barrales 27 ST £0 £0
Vicente 31 D/WB L £0 £0
Tiberio Guarente 29 DM £0 £0
Emmanuel Eboué 31 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Cédric Mongongu 25 D C £0 £0
Hans Martínez 27 SW, D C, DM £0 £0
Marcelinho 27 AM RL £0 £0
Wellington 27 ST £0 £0
Sergio Escudero 31 D LC, M L £0 £0
Timothée Atouba 33 D/WB L £0 £0
Joris Mathijsen 34 D C £0 £0
Khalid Boulahrouz 32 D RC £0 £0
George McCartney 34 D LC £0 £0
Stefan Babovic 27 DM, AM RC £0 £0
Mike Temwanjera 32 ST £0 £0
Roland Linz 33 ST £0 £0
Vladimir Gadzhev 27 DM £0 £0
Perry Kitchen 22 D C, DM £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
Ronaldo 23 ST £0 £0
Ronny 23 AM RC £0 £0
Diogo Mateus 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Nicolás Bruna 24 DM £0 £0
Robi Merino 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Juan Eluchans 34 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Andranik Teymourian 31 DM £0 £0
Jerome Thomas 31 AM RL £0 £0
Renán Calle 38 D C £0 £0
Alberto Zapater 29 DM £0 £0
Siaka Tiéné 32 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Marcinho 30 AM/F C £0 £0
Júnior César 32 D/WB L £0 £0
Claudio Maldonado 34 D C, DM £0 £0
Antonio Longás 30 DM £0 £0
Idrissa Coulibaly 27 D RC, DM £0 £0
Kalilou Traoré 27 AM RC £0 £0
Hichani Himoonde 28 D C £0 £0
Galatto 31 GK £0 £0
Cristian Gaitán 24 D/WB R, M RLC £0 £0
Eduardo Ledesma 29 DM, M RC £0 £0
Luís Carlos 27 GK £0 £0
Sidi Keita 30 DM £0 £0
Javi Matilla 26 M C £0 £0
Melvin Valladares 30 AM/F C £0 £0
Guilherme 24 D/WB L £0 £0
Ferreira 30 D C £0 £0
Carlão 28 ST £0 £0
Carlos Lizarazo 23 AM LC £0 £0
Fousseni Diawara 34 D RC £0 £0
Javier Arizmendi 30 AM R, ST £0 £0
Júlio César 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Ismail Abdul-Lateef 28 ST £0 £0
René Lima 29 DM £0 £0
Jeffrey Sarpong 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Dwight Tiendalli 29 D/WB RL £0 £0
Martin Lanig 30 DM, AM C £0 £0
Manuel Friedrich 35 D C £0 £0
Leandro Bonfim 30 AM C £0 £0
Xavier Intriago 33 AM L £0 £0
Leonel Olímpio 32 DM £0 £0
Carlos Preciado 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Rafa Jordà 30 ST £0 £0
Benoît Angbwa 32 D R £0 £0
Bani Lozano 32 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Pablo Pintos 27 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Jhon Pérez 26 AM RLC £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
Jossimar Mosquera 32 SW, D C £0 £0
Nelson Ibargüen 30 ST £0 £0
Bronzatti 28 D C £0 £0
Diego Oliveira 24 AM/F C £0 £0
Ayrton 29 D/WB R £0 £0
Nery Bareiro 26 D C £0 £0
Eduardo Casais 29 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Ivan Ivanov 26 D C £0 £0
Souleymane Diawara 35 D C £0 £0
Saša Stamenković 29 GK £0 £0
Ricardo Jiménez 30 D C £0 £0
Carlos Ochoa 36 ST £0 £0
Rômulo 27 DM £0 £0
Nigel Reo-Coker 30 D R, DM £0 £0
Marcos Aurélio 30 AM R, ST £0 £0
Guillermo Marino 33 AM RLC £0 £0
Leandro Benítez 33 M LC £0 £0
John Utaka 32 AM L, ST £0 £0
Juan Pablo Avendaño 32 SW, D C £0 £0
Bruno Mineiro 31 ST £0 £0
Pablo Melo 32 D C £0 £0
Gerardo Bedoya 39 WB L, DM, M LC £0 £0
Joe Bizera 34 D C £0 £0
Branko Boskovic 35 AM LC £0 £0
Olberdam 29 DM £0 £0
Ivan 33 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Elkin Calle 34 D/WB R £0 £0
Deola 31 GK £0 £0
Carlos Álvarez 33 AM R, ST £0 £0
Oumar Kalabané 33 D RC £0 £0
Cristian Dănălache 32 ST £0 £0
John Galliquio 35 D RC £0 £0
Andrés Scotti 39 D C £0 £0
Dmytro Trukhin 32 AM LC £0 £0
Fabián Estoyanoff 32 AM R, ST £0 £0
Achraf Khalfaoui 34 DM £0 £0
Sebastián Peratta 38 GK £0 £0
Nicolás Cabrera 30 WB/AM R £0 £0
Éder Bonfim 34 D R £0 £0
Søren Christensen 28 AM C £0 £0
Maarten Martens 30 AM LC £0 £0
Benoît Lesoimier 32 AM RL £0 £0
Antonio Tomás 29 DM £0 £0
Adama Coulibaly 34 D C £0 £0
Tomislav Pajovic 28 D C £0 £0
Ricardo Fernandes 36 AM C £0 £0
Ivan Petrovic 34 M C £0 £0
Marco Antonio Palacios 33 D C £0 £0
Michal Hubnik 31 ST £0 £0
Arzu 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Nacho 34 D/WB L £0 £0
Mota 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Ariel Ibagaza 38 AM C £0 £0
Ramón 31 DM, AM/F C £0 £0
Michael 32 AM/F C £0 £0
Júlio César 31 WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Xabi Castillo 28 D/WB L £0 £0
Anderson Plata 24 AM/F 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
Roger Gomis 20 AM C £0 £0
Flávio Ferreira 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Valeriane Gvilia 20 DM £0 £0
Mour Samb 20 ST £0 £0
Wilson Gómez 19 AM/F C £0 £0
Karim Wagdy 23 ST £0 £0
Olivier Moussima 21 AM R £0 £0
Jérémi Kimmakon 20 DM £0 £0
Emmanuel Debordeaux 21 DM, AM C £0 £0
Christophe Hernandez 20 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Romain Gall 19 AM RL £0 £0
Mamadou Diallo 20 AM RL £0 £0
Vítor Hugo 17 D C £0 £0
Aldry Torres 18 M R £0 £0
Enzo González 18 M C £0 £0
Karim Siby 20 DM £0 £0
Samuel Kyere 22 D/WB R £0 £0
Khalil Bani Attiah 23 AM RL £0 £0
Duylio 23 DM £0 £0
Felipe Napolitano 19 ST £0 £0
Álister De Jesús 19 AM R, ST £0 £0
Ghislain N'Guessan 22 ST £0 £0
Saifoudine Sanali 19 D/WB L £0 £0
Jefferson Cuéllar 20 M C £0 £0
Rodamel Gutiérrez 21 AM C £0 £0
Nathan 19 ST £0 £0
Lucas Madera 20 D RC £0 £0
Adel Habib Beldi 20 ST £0 £0
Breno 19 D/WB L £0 £0
Diogo 21 AM C £0 £0
Victor Brasil 21 GK £0 £0
Omar Diop 22 D R, DM £0 £0
Souleymane Sangaré 20 D C £0 £0
Marco Da Silva 22 DM £0 £0
Yarouba Cissako 19 D/WB R £0 £0
Julien Remiti 20 DM £0 £0
Igor Kharatin 19 D C, DM £0 £0
Perry Kitchen 22 D C, DM £0 £0
David Villarroel 22 D L £0 £0
Yuriy Yakovenko 21 ST £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
Ronaldo 23 ST £0 £0
Ângelo 20 AM RLC £0 £0
Hyago 19 DM £0 £0
Faiz Shamsin 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Batuhan Karadeniz 23 ST £0 £0
Papa Kone 22 WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Rubén Vaca 19 AM C £0 £0
Cyril Kurnik 20 ST £0 £0
Adrián Trigo 23 DM £0 £0
Ladji Niané 20 D/WB L £0 £0
Dany Rosero 21 D RC £0 £0
Diogo Mateus 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Francis Obidikwa 19 D C £0 £0
Matheus 19 AM C £0 £0
Danilo 23 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Tommy Oar 23 AM RL £0 £0
Zé Alberto 19 AM/F C £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
Mostafa Abdel Sattar 22 GK £0 £0
Ahmed Adams 21 D C £0 £0
Brian Canales 18 AM L £0 £0
Diego Gutiérrez 20 GK £0 £0
Frédéric Injaï 19 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Steven Dal Molin 21 D C £0 £0
Carlos Lizarazo 23 AM LC £0 £0
Karim Mosaad 21 D/WB L £0 £0
Nicolás Ríos 18 ST £0 £0
Mário Lucas 22 ST £0 £0
Douglas 22 GK £0 £0
Joao Felipe 22 D/WB R £0 £0
Lucas 17 D RC £0 £0
Jéferson 19 DM £0 £0
Diego Testa 21 ST £0 £0
Yannick Mouen 21 AM R £0 £0
Flavio Luna 18 ST £0 £0
Diego Cisternas 23 AM C £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
Arthur Dallois 19 ST £0 £0
Alan Sánchez 21 ST £0 £0
Gerardo Sena 23 AM C £0 £0
Alejandro Barrera 22 DM £0 £0
Javier Que 19 ST £0 £0
Craig Reid 20 GK £0 £0
Ahmed Hegazi 23 D C £0 £0
Hakim Jebali 23 ST £0 £0
Venacious Mapande 23 ST £0 £0
Jacques Haman 20 AM L, ST £0 £0
Rasmane Kabré 20 D C £0 £0
Mamadou Doucouré 22 ST £0 £0
Ikechukwu Okorie 21 D C £0 £0
Santiago Arrachea 21 D C £0 £0
Batista 21 DM £0 £0
Gil 23 ST £0 £0
Carlos Vitor 21 AM RL £0 £0
Wilson Júnior 23 ST £0 £0
Cidinho 21 AM RLC £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
Frances 20 D/WB L £0 £0
Kaiky 20 GK £0 £0
Dill 20 D C, DM £0 £0
Dale Jennings 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Abdul Razak 22 M C £0 £0
Maxime Lofanga 20 D/WB L, DM £0 £0
Ayoub Lotfi 21 M C £0 £0
Qian Jiegei 22 AM LC £0 £0
Carlos Cedeño 23 M C £0 £0
Jason Wright 20 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Wilson Morales 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Svyatoslav Dyakiv 22 ST £0 £0
Ruslan Mamutov 21 AM C £0 £0
Maxym Tsvyk 20 ST £0 £0
Maxym Degtyaryov 21 AM L, ST £0 £0
Olexiy Chereda 20 D C £0 £0
Davit Iashvili 22 D C £0 £0
Ruslan Stepanyuk 22 AM R, ST £0 £0
Artur Miranyan 18 ST £0 £0
Momar Bangoura 20 DM £0 £0
Mustapha Azrag 23 D RC £0 £0
Jorge Orgaz 18 AM R £0 £0
Ryô Hasebe 16 D C £0 £0
Lesedi Manyathela 18 ST £0 £0
Martín Soto 20 D RC £0 £0
Ayrton 20 DM £0 £0
Gabriel Fernando 19 D C £0 £0
Rafael Guedes 19 ST £0 £0
Capinha 19 AM C £0 £0
Roger 22 D/M L £0 £0
Édson Magal 21 DM £0 £0
Jefferson Renan 21 AM C £0 £0
Gustavo 20 GK £0 £0
Eudair 19 AM RC £0 £0
Sidi Bagayogo 21 D C £0 £0
Stanley Okoro 22 AM RL £0 £0
Alex Nimely 23 ST £0 £0
Kouandé Diarra 21 AM C £0 £0
Mauricio Chajtur 18 AM C £0 £0
Elías Vásquez 22 SW, D RLC £0 £0
Stjepan Vuleta 21 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Aurélien Chuchla 21 ST £0 £0
Jerson Benavides 21 D RC £0 £0
Quentin Leroux 18 ST £0 £0
Diego Calderón 22 AM L £0 £0
David Aquino 20 D RC £0 £0
Alessio Provenzano 17 AM R £0 £0
Will Packwood 21 D RC, DM £0 £0
Andrei Ionescu 18 D C £0 £0
Darlan 23 ST £0 £0
Igor 22 D C £0 £0
Luizinho 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Joshua Gatt 23 AM R £0 £0
Alemão 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Yûichi Kawashima 17 DM £0 £0
Jhegson Méndez 17 AM C £0 £0
Bakary Badji 20 ST £0 £0
Pablo Espinoza 23 D C £0 £0
Mykhaylo Ryashko 18 D C £0 £0
Denys Tokar 20 D C £0 £0
Émerson Bahia 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Vítor Salmaso 22 D C £0 £0
Marcos Paulo 22 DM £0 £0
Léo Prado 18 AM C £0 £0
Hugo Sanches 20 AM R, ST £0 £0
Sean Kinsella 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Justin Mengolo 21 ST £0 £0
Bruno Vázquez 21 GK £0 £0
Sami Ben Aoun 21 ST £0 £0
Pierre Saintot 21 ST £0 £0
Bernard Arthur 20 ST £0 £0
Ibrahim Guindo 20 AM R £0 £0
Kontiwa Togaba 23 ST £0 £0
Juan Ignacio Castro 21 ST £0 £0
Chiaka Diakité 23 ST £0 £0
Eduardo Leguiza 20 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Cheick Touré 22 D C £0 £0
Nile Ranger 23 ST £0 £0
Ronny 23 AM RC £0 £0
Kaoê 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Roni 22 D C £0 £0
Ramon 19 DM £0 £0
Fabiano 22 DM £0 £0
Raphael Fontes 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Jean Patrick 22 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Alan Fabrício 20 AM C £0 £0

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