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
Philippe Mexès 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Maicon 34 D/WB R £0 £0
Ángel Lafita 31 AM RLC £0 £0
Emir Spahic 35 SW, D C £0 £0
Armend Dallku 33 D RC £0 £0
Simão 27 DM £0 £0
Nilmar 31 ST £0 £0
Carlos Martins 34 AM C £0 £0
Leon Osman 35 AM C £0 £0
Romaric 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Vegard Forren 28 D LC £0 £0
Juan 34 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Saber Khalifa 29 AM L, ST £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
Robbie Keane 35 ST £0 £0
Pablo Fontanello 31 D C £0 £0
Papa Guèye 32 D C £0 £0
Henok Goitom 31 ST £0 £0
Antonio Di Natale 38 ST £0 £0
Rafael Robayo 32 DM £0 £0
Ronald Raldes 35 D C £0 £0
Fernando Tissone 29 DM £0 £0
Javi Márquez 30 DM, M LC £0 £0
Renan 30 DM £0 £0
Émerson Sheik 37 AM L, ST £0 £0
Didier Drogba 38 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
Joey O'Brien 30 D RL £0 £0
Cédric Makiadi 32 DM, AM C £0 £0
Raúl Meireles 33 DM £0 £0
Marcinho 31 AM/F C £0 £0
Olexandr Shovkovskyi 41 GK £0 £0
José Angulo 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Didier Zokora 35 DM £0 £0
Flávio Ferreira 24 D C, DM £0 £0
Lorik Cana 32 D C, DM £0 £0
René Rosero 31 M RC £0 £0
Ronaldinho Gaúcho 36 AM RLC £0 £0
Luis Murillo 25 D/WB L, DM £0 £0
Florent Malouda 36 AM LC £0 £0
Ryan McGowan 26 D RC £0 £0
Patricio Pérez 31 AM RC £0 £0
Javier Muñoz Mustafá 36 SW, D C £0 £0
Francesco Lodi 32 DM £0 £0
Wilson Matias 32 DM £0 £0
David Quiroz 33 AM C £0 £0
Dagoberto 33 AM L, ST £0 £0
José Luis Garcés 35 ST £0 £0
Diego Forlán 37 AM/F C £0 £0
Felipe Baloy 35 SW, D C £0 £0
Mark Bresciano 36 AM C £0 £0
Nauzet Alemán 31 AM RC £0 £0
Oliver Kirch 33 DM £0 £0
Pau Cendrós 29 D RC £0 £0
Antonio Cassano 33 ST £0 £0
Carlos Carbonero 25 AM RC £0 £0
Fernando Cavenaghi 32 ST £0 £0
Sylvain Distin 38 D C £0 £0
Bobby Zamora 35 ST £0 £0
Lucas Mugni 24 AM LC £0 £0
Victor Simões 35 ST £0 £0
Victor Obinna 29 AM L, ST £0 £0
Platini 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Ricardo Osorio 36 D RC £0 £0
Mário Rondón 30 AM R, ST £0 £0
Rodrigo Mancha 30 D C, DM £0 £0
Christopher Samba 32 D C £0 £0
Edison Méndez 37 AM C £0 £0
Eugene Makarenko 25 D L, DM £0 £0
Davit Targamadze 26 AM RL £0 £0
Piotr Trochowski 32 AM C £0 £0
Javad Nekounam 35 DM £0 £0
Álex Menéndez 24 D/WB/AM L £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
Gianluca Curci 30 GK £0 £0
Franco Cángele 31 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Gerardo Flores 30 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Juan José Govea 25 AM/F C £0 £0
Júlio Baptista 34 AM/F C £0 £0
Leon Andreasen 33 D C, DM £0 £0
José Bosingwa 33 D RC £0 £0
DaMarcus Beasley 34 D/WB/M L £0 £0
George Forsyth 34 GK £0 £0
György Garics 32 D/WB R £0 £0
Oleg Gusev 33 D/WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Gilsinho 32 AM/F C £0 £0
Brad Davis 34 AM RLC £0 £0
Cadú 29 AM RLC £0 £0
Cléo 30 ST £0 £0
José Amaya 35 DM £0 £0
Isaac Arias 25 ST £0 £0
Alison 32 D C £0 £0
Charles N'Zogbia 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Juan Suescún 25 ST £0 £0
Mike Temwanjera 34 ST £0 £0
Wilson Palacios 31 M C £0 £0
Carlos Peralta 26 ST £0 £0
Hélder Postiga 33 ST £0 £0
Andy Pando 32 ST £0 £0
Giovanni Pasquale 34 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Nikolce Noveski 37 D C £0 £0
Yhonny Ramírez 33 DM £0 £0
Anatoliy Tymoschuk 37 D C, DM £0 £0
Tommy Tobar 29 ST £0 £0
Siaka Tiéné 34 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Kalilou Traoré 28 AM RC £0 £0
Claudio Maldonado 36 D C, DM £0 £0
Mauricio Mina 33 AM/F C £0 £0
Paulo Arango 31 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Cristian Álvarez 30 GK £0 £0
Damià 34 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Daniel Carvalho 33 AM C £0 £0
Felipe Baixola 26 AM LC £0 £0
Idrissa Coulibaly 28 D RC, DM £0 £0
Aleksandrs Cauna 28 DM, M L £0 £0
Kamel Chafni 34 AM RC £0 £0
Yamith Cuesta 27 D C £0 £0
Carlos Chávez 31 GK £0 £0
Danny Cano 30 D C £0 £0
Javier Calle 25 D/M L £0 £0
Emerson Conceição 30 D/WB L £0 £0
Dudu 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Michael Essien 33 DM £0 £0
Amaral 28 DM £0 £0
Benoît Angbwa 34 D R £0 £0
Diego Amaya 30 D RC £0 £0
Sérgio Herrera 35 ST £0 £0
Jeferson 31 AM C £0 £0
Víctor Montaño 32 ST £0 £0
Daley Mena 31 AM L, ST £0 £0
Luis Narváez 31 DM, M R £0 £0
Leonardo 33 ST £0 £0
Leandro Guerreiro 37 D C, DM £0 £0
Leandro Bonfim 32 AM C £0 £0
Dramane Traoré 34 ST £0 £0
Nelino Tapia 25 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Boubacar Sanogo 33 ST £0 £0
Ronny 30 AM C £0 £0
Álvaro Rubio 37 DM £0 £0
Carlos Rentería 30 ST £0 £0
Nigel Reo-Coker 32 D R, DM £0 £0
Sammy N'Djock 26 GK £0 £0
José Nájera 27 AM RC £0 £0
Guillermo Marino 35 AM RLC £0 £0
Papa Waigo 32 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Luciano Palos 37 GK £0 £0
Herman Pulgarín 27 D/WB RL £0 £0
Yasin Pehlivan 27 DM £0 £0
Diego Seoane 28 D/WB RL £0 £0
Jaime Sierra 30 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Lucas Landa 30 D C £0 £0
Estiven Velez 34 DM £0 £0
Santiago Tréllez 26 AM R, ST £0 £0
Hember Valencia 26 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Jaime Jiménez 35 GK £0 £0
Filip Jazvic 25 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Nelson Ibargüen 31 ST £0 £0
Elis Bakaj 29 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Maxime Baca 33 D/WB R £0 £0
Valeri Bozhinov 30 ST £0 £0
Juan Pablo Avendaño 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Christian Cellay 34 SW, D C £0 £0
Charles 28 D C £0 £0
Rogelio Chávez 31 D/WB R £0 £0
Ángel 35 D/WB RL £0 £0
Anderson Santana 30 D/WB L £0 £0
Yilmar Angulo 29 AM RC £0 £0
Mauricio Arias 31 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Marcin Komorowski 32 D LC £0 £0
Kim Jung-Woo 34 DM, AM C £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
Ygor 32 DM £0 £0
Jhon Zea 32 D/WB R £0 £0
Etzaz Hussain 23 AM C £0 £0
Joshua Gatt 24 AM R £0 £0
Alfredo Frausto 33 GK £0 £0
Héctor Font 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Omar Guerra 35 AM/F C £0 £0
Bedi Mbenza 31 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
Mohammad Awal 28 D C £0 £0
Moumouni Dagano 35 ST £0 £0
Leandro Delgado 33 SW, D RC, DM £0 £0
William España 29 D/WB R £0 £0
Luis Estacio 36 GK £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
Yuriy Yakovenko 22 ST £0 £0
Faiz Shamsin 23 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Ibrahima Sy 20 GK £0 £0
Matheus Batista 21 DM £0 £0
Emerson Carioca 20 ST £0 £0
Zakaria Fdaouch 19 AM C £0 £0
Willian Popp 22 ST £0 £0
Zé Alberto 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Mateus Caitano 23 DM £0 £0
Mário Lucas 23 ST £0 £0
Zach Pfeffer 21 AM C £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
Cemâl Ali Kizilateş 21 M 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
Ruslan Mamutov 22 AM C £0 £0
Luís Henrique 18 ST £0 £0
Orest Kuzyk 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Gullithi 22 DM £0 £0
Reinaldo 21 GK £0 £0
Eugene Troyanovskyi 23 AM RL £0 £0
Samuel Owusu 20 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Matheus Pranke 21 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Jonatas Paulista 22 DM £0 £0
Etzaz Hussain 23 AM C £0 £0
Igor 23 AM C £0 £0
Bouba 23 GK £0 £0
Diego Calderón 23 AM L £0 £0
Stanley Okoro 23 AM RL £0 £0
Rodrigo 22 ST £0 £0
Danilo Romão 19 AM/F C £0 £0
Qudus Lawal 20 ST £0 £0
Omar Mancilla 21 D C £0 £0
Everton 22 ST £0 £0
Dejair 21 DM £0 £0
Lorenzo Ferrari 20 GK £0 £0
Gabriel Almeida 19 AM RLC £0 £0
Igor Leandro 23 D C £0 £0
Junior Kemajou Dimabi 20 ST £0 £0
Leonel Bontempo 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Emanuel Lucero 21 DM £0 £0
Robert 18 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Nassim Zitouni 22 AM C £0 £0
Vítor Salmaso 23 D C £0 £0
Javier Noblejas 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Francisco Nazareno 22 AM C £0 £0
Jorge Orgaz 20 AM R £0 £0
Ibrahima N'Diaye 18 ST £0 £0
Nicolás Paterno 21 DM, AM C £0 £0
Omoh Ojabu 23 AM L, ST £0 £0
Aigbe Oliha 23 D/WB R £0 £0
Eugene Nemtinov 20 AM RL £0 £0
Ikechukwu Okorie 22 D C £0 £0
Neto 22 DM £0 £0
Roberto López 18 M RC £0 £0
Jonathan Zambrano 20 ST £0 £0
Emanuel Zagert 20 ST £0 £0
Matheus 21 AM C £0 £0
Carlos Naranjos 20 ST £0 £0
Artur Miranyan 20 ST £0 £0
Iván Mondragón 23 D RL £0 £0
David Mills 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Camilo Montecinos 20 M C £0 £0
Marco Morabito 18 M C £0 £0
Bruce Musakanya 22 AM C £0 £0
Mauri 23 AM LC £0 £0
Yannick Mouen 23 AM R £0 £0
Juanjo Meseguer 20 AM RC £0 £0
Alberto Rubio 19 AM C £0 £0
Romildinho 18 AM C £0 £0
Souleymane Sangaré 22 D C £0 £0
Pedro Salgado 23 D C £0 £0
Michel Ramírez 22 AM L, ST £0 £0
Romário 21 AM R, ST £0 £0
Santiago 19 ST £0 £0
Aldair Quintana 21 GK £0 £0
Abdulganiyu Saheed 20 D C £0 £0
Jordi Quintillà 22 AM C £0 £0
Saliu Popoola 21 DM £0 £0
Carlos Alberto Treviño 23 DM £0 £0
Jonathan Triviño 20 D/WB L £0 £0
Aldry Torres 20 M R £0 £0
Emiliano Trovento 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Bruno Vázquez 22 GK £0 £0
Gerardo Victoria 23 ST £0 £0
Vico 19 AM RLC £0 £0
Mykyta Vetrov 21 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
Aleksejs Tarasovs 23 AM R £0 £0
Milan Savic 22 D RC £0 £0
Abdou Aziz Thiam 19 DM £0 £0
Sergio 23 AM RLC £0 £0
Song Ju-Han 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Dmytro Steflyuk 20 ST £0 £0
Mamadou Sylla 21 GK £0 £0
Eduardo Leguiza 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Marcelinho 22 ST £0 £0
Flavio Luna 20 ST £0 £0
Luis Madrigal 23 D/WB L, AM RL £0 £0
Ismaël Lingani 17 D RC £0 £0
Doctor Mampuru 23 D RL £0 £0
Artur Kuznetsov 21 D C £0 £0
Lucas Lucena 19 D C, DM £0 £0
Olexiy Kovtun 21 D C £0 £0
Gabriel Fernando 21 D C £0 £0
Gabriel Oliveira 18 GK £0 £0
Enzo González 20 M C £0 £0
Herculano 18 ST £0 £0
Dieudonné Gbaklé 20 AM L £0 £0
Morgan Geretto 22 DM £0 £0
Luciano Gutiérrez 21 ST £0 £0
Diego Gutiérrez 22 GK £0 £0
Bimal Gharti Magar 18 ST £0 £0
Fransuar 23 D C £0 £0
Guilherme Dresch 18 AM LC £0 £0
Francis Obidikwa 21 D C £0 £0
Olexandr Aksyonov 22 D C £0 £0
Guille Andrés 23 ST £0 £0
Michael Arboleda 22 DM £0 £0
Eugene Ansah 21 ST £0 £0
Mohammed Aliyu 23 D/WB L £0 £0
David Aquino 22 D RC £0 £0
Alisson Brand 22 D C £0 £0
Carlos Mateus 18 D/WB R £0 £0
Juan Cruz Careaga 23 AM RC £0 £0
Adrián Cerda 18 ST £0 £0
Amar Burovic 20 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Agustín D'Arcangelo 22 AM RL £0 £0
Georgiy Buschan 22 GK £0 £0
Shadreck Chimany 19 AM L £0 £0
Jesús Cabezas 21 D/M L £0 £0
Arouna Bolagbenti 23 ST £0 £0
Sacha Bastien 22 GK £0 £0
Luis Batioja 22 ST £0 £0
Patrick Asmah 20 D/WB L, DM, M L £0 £0
Sidi Bagayogo 22 D C £0 £0
Ameen Bokhari 19 GK £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
Dioguinho 18 AM C £0 £0
Álister De Jesús 21 AM R, ST £0 £0
Alassane Diaby 21 D C, DM £0 £0
Javier Faúndez 20 ST £0 £0
Samba Diallo 21 M R £0 £0
Felype Hebert 19 ST £0 £0
Alvaro Fernández 19 D R £0 £0
Ibrahim Ili 21 DM £0 £0
Juliano 21 D/WB R £0 £0
Denys Katryuk 22 AM L £0 £0
Oleg Karnaukh 18 GK £0 £0
Luis Iberico 18 ST £0 £0
Tobechukwu Ibe 18 D C £0 £0
Óliver Jiménez 21 D C £0 £0
Ibrahima Kamagaté 20 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
Daniel Londoño 21 D/WB L £0 £0
Lucão 21 GK £0 £0
Lucas Dias 20 D C £0 £0
Fernando Gomes 22 DM £0 £0
Chico 22 D/WB R £0 £0
Misael 21 DM £0 £0
William Parra 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Iván Varga 21 D/WB R £0 £0
César Arturo Vázquez 23 D C £0 £0
Rafael Zuchi 22 D C £0 £0
Felipe Santa 21 AM C £0 £0
Aldair Santana 23 M L £0 £0
Andy Reátegui 21 D C £0 £0
Renan 23 GK £0 £0
Nicolás Servetto 19 ST £0 £0
Vitinho 20 M C £0 £0
Paulinho 23 DM, M RC £0 £0
Anderson Caicedo 23 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Aguilar 21 ST £0 £0
Haris Kolicic 21 ST £0 £0
Jéferson Silva 22 DM £0 £0
Ricardo Hernández 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Assuério 23 ST £0 £0
Bruno Silva 23 D L, M C £0 £0
Tomás Barbeito 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Sinan Keskin 21 AM C £0 £0

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