Have you taken on a difficult save in Football Manager 2017 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 FM2017 as well as the free players with the highest potential in FM17. Every player on this page is uncontracted and not at a club in FM 17, so you can buy them for completely free.

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These are the best free players in Football Manager 2017 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
Mirko Vucinic 32 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Lima 32 ST £0 £0
Dimitar Berbatov 35 AM/F C £0 £0
Alex 34 D C £0 £0
Helton 38 GK £0 £0
Lassana Diarra 31 DM £0 £0
Maicon 34 D/WB R £0 £0
Philippe Mexès 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Ángel Lafita 31 AM RLC £0 £0
Emir Spahic 35 SW, D C £0 £0
Armend Dallku 33 D RC £0 £0
Nilmar 31 ST £0 £0
Simão 27 DM £0 £0
Carlos Martins 34 AM C £0 £0
Romaric 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Leon Osman 35 AM C £0 £0
Vegard Forren 28 D LC £0 £0
Saber Khalifa 29 AM L, ST £0 £0
Juan 34 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Bruno Rodrigo 31 D C £0 £0
Andoni Iraola 34 D/WB R, DM, M R £0 £0
Nílton 29 DM £0 £0
Óscar 33 AM C £0 £0
Papa Guèye 32 D C £0 £0
Robbie Keane 35 ST £0 £0
Pablo Fontanello 31 D C £0 £0
Henok Goitom 31 ST £0 £0
Antonio Di Natale 38 ST £0 £0
Fernando Tissone 29 DM £0 £0
Rafael Robayo 32 DM £0 £0
Ronald Raldes 35 D C £0 £0
Renan 30 DM £0 £0
Javi Márquez 30 DM, M LC £0 £0
Didier Drogba 38 ST £0 £0
Émerson Sheik 37 AM L, ST £0 £0
Edmar 36 DM, AM C £0 £0
Lukman Haruna 25 DM, AM C £0 £0
Alex Colón 29 AM C £0 £0
Alex 34 AM LC £0 £0
Marcinho 31 AM/F C £0 £0
Cédric Makiadi 32 DM, AM C £0 £0
Raúl Meireles 33 DM £0 £0
Joey O'Brien 30 D RL £0 £0
Olexandr Shovkovskyi 41 GK £0 £0
Didier Zokora 35 DM £0 £0
José Angulo 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Flávio Ferreira 24 D C, DM £0 £0
Lorik Cana 32 D C, DM £0 £0
Ronaldinho Gaúcho 36 AM RLC £0 £0
René Rosero 31 M RC £0 £0
Luis Murillo 25 D/WB L, DM £0 £0
Florent Malouda 36 AM LC £0 £0
Francesco Lodi 32 DM £0 £0
Ryan McGowan 26 D RC £0 £0
Javier Muñoz Mustafá 36 SW, D C £0 £0
Patricio Pérez 31 AM RC £0 £0
Oliver Kirch 33 DM £0 £0
Wilson Matias 32 DM £0 £0
David Quiroz 33 AM C £0 £0
Dagoberto 33 AM L, ST £0 £0
Diego Forlán 37 AM/F C £0 £0
José Luis Garcés 35 ST £0 £0
Felipe Baloy 35 SW, D C £0 £0
Mark Bresciano 36 AM C £0 £0
Nauzet Alemán 31 AM RC £0 £0
Antonio Cassano 33 ST £0 £0
Fernando Cavenaghi 32 ST £0 £0
Pau Cendrós 29 D RC £0 £0
Carlos Carbonero 25 AM RC £0 £0
Sylvain Distin 38 D C £0 £0
Victor Simões 35 ST £0 £0
Bobby Zamora 35 ST £0 £0
Lucas Mugni 24 AM LC £0 £0
Mário Rondón 30 AM R, ST £0 £0
Victor Obinna 29 AM L, ST £0 £0
Ricardo Osorio 36 D RC £0 £0
Platini 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Rodrigo Mancha 30 D C, DM £0 £0
Eugene Makarenko 25 D L, DM £0 £0
Edison Méndez 37 AM C £0 £0
Piotr Trochowski 32 AM C £0 £0
Davit Targamadze 26 AM RL £0 £0
Javad Nekounam 35 DM £0 £0
Christopher Samba 32 D C £0 £0
Álex Menéndez 24 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Gianluca Curci 30 GK £0 £0
Emmanuel Eboué 33 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Davi 32 DM, AM C £0 £0
Landon Donovan 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Franco Cángele 31 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Juan José Govea 25 AM/F C £0 £0
Gerardo Flores 30 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Leon Andreasen 33 D C, DM £0 £0
José Bosingwa 33 D RC £0 £0
Júlio Baptista 34 AM/F C £0 £0
George Forsyth 34 GK £0 £0
Gilsinho 32 AM/F C £0 £0
György Garics 32 D/WB R £0 £0
Brad Davis 34 AM RLC £0 £0
Cléo 30 ST £0 £0
Cadú 29 AM RLC £0 £0
DaMarcus Beasley 34 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Alison 32 D C £0 £0
Isaac Arias 25 ST £0 £0
José Amaya 35 DM £0 £0
Oleg Gusev 33 D/WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Charles N'Zogbia 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Carlos Peralta 26 ST £0 £0
Wilson Palacios 31 M C £0 £0
Juan Suescún 25 ST £0 £0
Mike Temwanjera 34 ST £0 £0
Kalilou Traoré 28 AM RC £0 £0
Siaka Tiéné 34 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Tommy Tobar 29 ST £0 £0
Claudio Maldonado 36 D C, DM £0 £0
Hélder Postiga 33 ST £0 £0
Yhonny Ramírez 33 DM £0 £0
Nikolce Noveski 37 D C £0 £0
Giovanni Pasquale 34 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Andy Pando 32 ST £0 £0
Mauricio Mina 33 AM/F C £0 £0
Daniel Carvalho 33 AM C £0 £0
Damià 34 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Felipe Baixola 26 AM LC £0 £0
Cristian Álvarez 30 GK £0 £0
Paulo Arango 31 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Aleksandrs Cauna 28 DM, M L £0 £0
Idrissa Coulibaly 28 D RC, DM £0 £0
Anatoliy Tymoschuk 37 D C, DM £0 £0
Javier Calle 25 D/M L £0 £0
Danny Cano 30 D C £0 £0
Kamel Chafni 34 AM RC £0 £0
Carlos Chávez 31 GK £0 £0
Emerson Conceição 30 D/WB L £0 £0
Dudu 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Yamith Cuesta 27 D C £0 £0
Jeferson 31 AM C £0 £0
Sérgio Herrera 35 ST £0 £0
Amaral 28 DM £0 £0
Diego Amaya 30 D RC £0 £0
Benoît Angbwa 34 D R £0 £0
Michael Essien 33 DM £0 £0
Víctor Montaño 32 ST £0 £0
Luis Narváez 31 DM, M R £0 £0
Daley Mena 31 AM L, ST £0 £0
Leandro Bonfim 32 AM C £0 £0
Leandro Guerreiro 37 D C, DM £0 £0
Leonardo 33 ST £0 £0
Dramane Traoré 34 ST £0 £0
Nelino Tapia 25 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Carlos Rentería 30 ST £0 £0
Boubacar Sanogo 33 ST £0 £0
Ronny 30 AM C £0 £0
Álvaro Rubio 37 DM £0 £0
Diego Seoane 28 D/WB RL £0 £0
Jaime Sierra 30 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Marcin Komorowski 32 D LC £0 £0
Lucas Landa 30 D C £0 £0
Sammy N'Djock 26 GK £0 £0
José Nájera 27 AM RC £0 £0
Guillermo Marino 35 AM RLC £0 £0
Herman Pulgarín 27 D/WB RL £0 £0
Nigel Reo-Coker 32 D R, DM £0 £0
Yasin Pehlivan 27 DM £0 £0
Luciano Palos 37 GK £0 £0
Papa Waigo 32 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Santiago Tréllez 26 AM R, ST £0 £0
Felipe Garcia 25 AM/F C £0 £0
Felipe Mattioni 27 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Cole Grossman 27 DM, AM C £0 £0
Filip Jazvic 25 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Kim Jung-Woo 34 DM, AM C £0 £0
Jaime Jiménez 35 GK £0 £0
Christian Cellay 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Charles 28 D C £0 £0
Rogelio Chávez 31 D/WB R £0 £0
Mauricio Arias 31 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Anderson Santana 30 D/WB L £0 £0
Ángel 35 D/WB RL £0 £0
Yilmar Angulo 29 AM RC £0 £0
Nelson Ibargüen 31 ST £0 £0
Juan Pablo Avendaño 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Maxime Baca 33 D/WB R £0 £0
Elis Bakaj 29 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Valeri Bozhinov 30 ST £0 £0
Hember Valencia 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Estiven Velez 34 DM £0 £0
Ygor 32 DM £0 £0
Jhon Zea 32 D/WB R £0 £0
Juan Valera 31 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Valmir Lucas 27 D C, DM £0 £0
Markos Vellidis 29 GK £0 £0
Kalu Uche 33 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Dario Vidosic 29 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Joshua Gatt 24 AM R £0 £0
Mohammad Awal 28 D C £0 £0
Bedi Mbenza 31 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
João Paulo 35 D C £0 £0
Kevin 26 D/WB L £0 £0
Mac Kandji 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0

These are the best free players aged under 23 in Football Manager 2017 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
José Angulo 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Diego 18 AM/F C £0 £0
Saif Salman 23 M C £0 £0
Israel Puerto 23 D C £0 £0
Valeriy Boldenkov 21 D C £0 £0
Victor Brasil 23 GK £0 £0
Ibrahima Sy 20 GK £0 £0
Faiz Shamsin 23 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Yuriy Yakovenko 22 ST £0 £0
Matheus Batista 21 DM £0 £0
Zakaria Fdaouch 19 AM C £0 £0
Emerson Carioca 20 ST £0 £0
Willian Popp 22 ST £0 £0
Zé Alberto 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Zach Pfeffer 21 AM C £0 £0
Mateus Caitano 23 DM £0 £0
Mário Lucas 23 ST £0 £0
Alan Sánchez 23 ST £0 £0
Diego Testa 23 ST £0 £0
Lucas 19 D RC £0 £0
Kyle Callan-McFadden 21 D C £0 £0
Ervin Jusufovic 21 D C, DM £0 £0
Dale Jennings 23 AM RLC £0 £0
Davit Iashvili 23 D C £0 £0
Batista 22 DM £0 £0
Sergiy Gorbunov 22 M C £0 £0
Maxym Degtyaryov 23 AM L, ST £0 £0
Vitaliy Doroshenko 21 AM RL £0 £0
Orest Kuzyk 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Cemâl Ali Kizilateş 21 M C £0 £0
Luís Henrique 18 ST £0 £0
Gullithi 22 DM £0 £0
Eugene Troyanovskyi 23 AM RL £0 £0
Ruslan Mamutov 22 AM C £0 £0
Reinaldo 21 GK £0 £0
Samuel Owusu 20 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Matheus Pranke 21 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Etzaz Hussain 23 AM C £0 £0
Jonatas Paulista 22 DM £0 £0
Igor 23 AM C £0 £0
Bouba 23 GK £0 £0
Diego Calderón 23 AM L £0 £0
Rodrigo 22 ST £0 £0
Stanley Okoro 23 AM RL £0 £0
Omar Mancilla 21 D C £0 £0
Qudus Lawal 20 ST £0 £0
Dejair 21 DM £0 £0
Everton 22 ST £0 £0
Danilo Romão 19 AM/F C £0 £0
Gabriel Almeida 19 AM RLC £0 £0
Lorenzo Ferrari 20 GK £0 £0
Igor Leandro 23 D C £0 £0
Leonel Bontempo 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Emanuel Lucero 21 DM £0 £0
Junior Kemajou Dimabi 20 ST £0 £0
Javier Noblejas 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Vítor Salmaso 23 D C £0 £0
Nassim Zitouni 22 AM C £0 £0
Robert 18 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Michel Ramírez 22 AM L, ST £0 £0
Nicolás Paterno 21 DM, AM C £0 £0
Saliu Popoola 21 DM £0 £0
Aldair Quintana 21 GK £0 £0
Jordi Quintillà 22 AM C £0 £0
Neto 22 DM £0 £0
Iván Mondragón 23 D RL £0 £0
Jorge Orgaz 20 AM R £0 £0
Francisco Nazareno 22 AM C £0 £0
Bruce Musakanya 22 AM C £0 £0
Camilo Montecinos 20 M C £0 £0
Ibrahima N'Diaye 18 ST £0 £0
Yannick Mouen 23 AM R £0 £0
Omoh Ojabu 23 AM L, ST £0 £0
Ikechukwu Okorie 22 D C £0 £0
Eugene Nemtinov 20 AM RL £0 £0
Aigbe Oliha 23 D/WB R £0 £0
Marco Morabito 18 M C £0 £0
Carlos Naranjos 20 ST £0 £0
Ahmed Soulama 22 M C £0 £0
Martín Soto 22 D RC £0 £0
Happy Simelela 21 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
Abdulganiyu Saheed 20 D C £0 £0
Song Ju-Han 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Romário 21 AM R, ST £0 £0
Alberto Rubio 19 AM C £0 £0
Pedro Salgado 23 D C £0 £0
Souleymane Sangaré 22 D C £0 £0
Romildinho 18 AM C £0 £0
Santiago 19 ST £0 £0
Milan Savic 22 D RC £0 £0
Sergio 23 AM RLC £0 £0
Marcelinho 22 ST £0 £0
Doctor Mampuru 23 D RL £0 £0
Mauri 23 AM LC £0 £0
Artur Miranyan 20 ST £0 £0
Matheus 21 AM C £0 £0
Juanjo Meseguer 20 AM RC £0 £0
David Mills 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Luis Madrigal 23 D/WB L, AM RL £0 £0
Emanuel Zagert 20 ST £0 £0
Roberto López 18 M RC £0 £0
Jonathan Zambrano 20 ST £0 £0
Aleksejs Tarasovs 23 AM R £0 £0
Vico 19 AM RLC £0 £0
Bruno Vázquez 22 GK £0 £0
Emiliano Trovento 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Jonathan Triviño 20 D/WB L £0 £0
Carlos Alberto Treviño 23 DM £0 £0
Aldry Torres 20 M R £0 £0
Mamadou Sylla 21 GK £0 £0
Gerardo Victoria 23 ST £0 £0
Mykyta Vetrov 21 ST £0 £0
Abdou Aziz Thiam 19 DM £0 £0
Dmytro Steflyuk 20 ST £0 £0
Eduardo Leguiza 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Lucas Lucena 19 D C, DM £0 £0
Artur Kuznetsov 21 D C £0 £0
Ismaël Lingani 17 D RC £0 £0
Flavio Luna 20 ST £0 £0
Olexiy Kovtun 21 D C £0 £0
Dieudonné Gbaklé 20 AM L £0 £0
Fransuar 23 D C £0 £0
Alvaro Fernández 19 D R £0 £0
Francis Obidikwa 21 D C £0 £0
Gabriel Fernando 21 D C £0 £0
Gabriel Oliveira 18 GK £0 £0
Guilherme Dresch 18 AM LC £0 £0
Bimal Gharti Magar 18 ST £0 £0
Enzo González 20 M C £0 £0
Diego Gutiérrez 22 GK £0 £0
Luciano Gutiérrez 21 ST £0 £0
Morgan Geretto 22 DM £0 £0
Mohammed Aliyu 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Alisson Brand 22 D C £0 £0
Eugene Ansah 21 ST £0 £0
Olexandr Aksyonov 22 D C £0 £0
Guille Andrés 23 ST £0 £0
Jesús Cabezas 21 D/M L £0 £0
Juan Cruz Careaga 23 AM RC £0 £0
Carlos Mateus 18 D/WB R £0 £0
Georgiy Buschan 22 GK £0 £0
Amar Burovic 20 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Shadreck Chimany 19 AM L £0 £0
Adrián Cerda 18 ST £0 £0
Ameen Bokhari 19 GK £0 £0
Patrick Asmah 20 D/WB L, DM, M L £0 £0
David Aquino 22 D RC £0 £0
Arouna Bolagbenti 23 ST £0 £0
Sacha Bastien 22 GK £0 £0
Luis Batioja 22 ST £0 £0
Michael Arboleda 22 DM £0 £0
Sidi Bagayogo 22 D C £0 £0
Felype Hebert 19 ST £0 £0
Álister De Jesús 21 AM R, ST £0 £0
Javier Faúndez 20 ST £0 £0
Agustín D'Arcangelo 22 AM RL £0 £0
Alassane Diaby 21 D C, DM £0 £0
Samba Diallo 21 M R £0 £0
Dioguinho 18 AM C £0 £0
Cédric Djeugoué 23 D RC £0 £0
Anouar El Ghaouta 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Lauren Egea 20 AM/F C £0 £0
Ibrahim Ili 21 DM £0 £0
Ibrahima Kamagaté 20 GK £0 £0
Juliano 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Denys Katryuk 22 AM L £0 £0
Herculano 18 ST £0 £0
Óliver Jiménez 21 D C £0 £0
Tobechukwu Ibe 18 D C £0 £0
Luis Iberico 18 ST £0 £0
Oleg Karnaukh 18 GK £0 £0
Jackson 21 DM £0 £0
Kaique 22 D/WB L, AM LC, F C £0 £0
Franco Amoroso 22 AM RC £0 £0
Lucas Dias 20 D C £0 £0
Lucão 21 GK £0 £0
Daniel Londoño 21 D/WB L £0 £0
Fernando Gomes 22 DM £0 £0
Chico 22 D/WB R £0 £0
César Arturo Vázquez 23 D C £0 £0
Iván Varga 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Felipe Santa 21 AM C £0 £0
Aldair Santana 23 M L £0 £0
Rafael Zuchi 22 D C £0 £0
William Parra 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Misael 21 DM £0 £0
Andy Reátegui 21 D C £0 £0
Renan 23 GK £0 £0
Paulinho 23 DM, M RC £0 £0
Nicolás Servetto 19 ST £0 £0
Vitinho 20 M C £0 £0
Anderson Caicedo 23 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Bruno Silva 23 D L, M C £0 £0
Haris Kolicic 21 ST £0 £0
Jéferson Silva 22 DM £0 £0
Ricardo Hernández 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Aguilar 21 ST £0 £0
Assuério 23 ST £0 £0
Tomás Barbeito 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Luca Crudo 19 AM R, ST £0 £0

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