Have you taken on a difficult save in Football Manager 2018 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 FM2018 as well as the free players with the highest potential in FM18. Every player on this page is uncontracted and not at a club in FM 18, so you can buy them for completely free.

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These are the best free players in Football Manager 2018 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
Samir Nasri 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Roman Eremenko 30 AM C £0 £0
Jérémy Toulalan 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Benoît Trémoulinas 31 D/WB L £0 £0
Kaká 35 AM LC £0 £0
Philipp Wollscheid 28 D C £0 £0
Mirko Vucinic 33 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Emir Spahic 36 SW, D C £0 £0
Diego Cavalieri 34 GK £0 £0
Nilmar 32 ST £0 £0
Yohan Mollo 27 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Zeca 23 D RL £0 £0
Luís Fabiano 36 ST £0 £0
Marat Izmailov 34 AM RC £0 £0
Andrea Pirlo 38 DM £0 £0
Ricardo Carvalho 39 D C £0 £0
Alex Song 29 DM £0 £0
Guilherme Siqueira 31 D/WB L £0 £0
Egídio Arévalo Ríos 35 DM £0 £0
Osvaldo 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Josué 26 AM C £0 £0
Jan Kirchhoff 26 D C, DM £0 £0
Roberto Trashorras 36 M C £0 £0
Mohamed Sissoko 32 DM £0 £0
Joey Barton 34 DM £0 £0
Didier Zokora 36 DM £0 £0
Denílson 29 DM £0 £0
Luis Saritama 33 AM RC £0 £0
Dusan Svento 31 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Aranha 36 GK £0 £0
Rodrigo 36 D C £0 £0
Damián Escudero 30 AM LC £0 £0
Cristian Erbes 27 DM, M RC £0 £0 £0
Jonathan Cristaldo 28 ST £0 £0 £0
Fawaz Al-Tomaihi 24 D C £0 £0
Yulián Anchico 33 WB R, AM RC £0 £0
Wesley 30 DM, AM RC £0 £0
Álvaro Navarro 32 ST £0 £0
Seydou Keita 37 DM £0 £0
Hamit Altintop 34 DM £0 £0
Bruno Gama 29 AM RL £0 £0
Chinedu Obasi 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Rafael Marques 33 D C £0 £0
Dario Kresic 33 GK £0 £0
Juan 35 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Welliton 30 ST £0 £0
Carlinhos 30 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Alex Colón 30 AM C £0 £0
Anderson 29 AM C £0 £0 £0
Wendel 35 D L, AM LC £0 £0
Abou Diaby 31 AM C £0 £0
Javi Garrido 32 D/WB L £0 £0
José Angulo 22 AM/F C £0 £0
Carlos Valencia 28 D/WB R £0 £0
Lukman Haruna 26 DM, AM C £0 £0
Luiz Antônio 26 DM, M RC £0 £0 £0
Wilder Guisao 25 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Yessy Mena 27 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Dennis Oliech 32 AM R, ST £0 £0
Rod Fanni 35 D RC £0 £0
Aquivaldo Mosquera 36 D C £0 £0
Renato Cajá 32 AM LC £0 £0
Eduardo Henrique 22 DM £0 £0 £0
Anderson Lopes 23 ST £6k £688k £353k 01-01-2018
Victor Ramos 28 D C £0 £0
Florian Marange 31 D LC £0 £0
Armando Wila 32 ST £0 £0
Túlio de Melo 32 ST £0 £0
Maicon 35 D/WB R £0 £0
Diego Capel 29 AM L £0 £0
Saïd Boutahar 34 AM LC £0 £0
Marquinho 30 WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Edinho 34 SW, D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Luis Martínez 34 GK £0 £0
Cirilo Saucedo 35 GK £0 £0
David Quiroz 34 AM C £0 £0
Federico Nieto 33 ST £0 £0
Sebastián Domínguez 36 D C £0 £0
Shay Given 41 GK £0 £0
Iván Alonso 38 ST £0 £0
Thiago Ribeiro 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Marko Basa 34 D C £0 £0
Victor Anichebe 29 AM L, ST £0 £0
Lucas Silva 32 AM RC £0 £0
Elkin Soto 36 DM £0 £0
Ceará 37 D/WB R £0 £0
Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro 24 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Danovis Banguero 27 DM, M LC £0 £0
Mehrdad Pouladi 30 D L, DM, AM L £0 £0
Luis Páez 30 ST £0 £0
Edwin Valencia 32 DM £0 £0
Jamel Saihi 30 DM £0 £0
Gottardi 31 GK £0 £0
Gustavo Colman 32 M C £0 £0
Franck Signorino 35 D/WB L £0 £0
Victor Obinna 30 AM L, ST £0 £0
Danny Morais 31 D C £0 £0
Miguel Morales 32 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Christos Aravidis 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Flavio Santos 30 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Jonathan Fabbro 35 AM LC £0 £0
Norberto Araujo 38 D C £0 £0
Razvan Rat 36 D/WB L £0 £0
Luis Checa 33 D RLC £0 £0
Franco Cángele 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Edu 35 AM L, ST £0 £0
Marcos González 37 SW, D C £0 £0
Mariano Echeverría 36 D C £0 £0
Javad Nekounam 36 DM £0 £0
Alou Diarra 35 D C, DM £0 £0
Sebastián Leto 30 ST £0 £0
Emmanuel Eboué 34 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Imoh Ezekiel 23 ST £0 £0
Davit Targamadze 27 AM RL £0 £0
Jairo Palomino 28 WB R, DM £0 £0
Per-Egil Flo 28 D L £0 £0
Juan Suescún 26 ST £0 £0
Isaac Arias 26 ST £0 £0
Jacobo 33 AM LC £0 £0
Ventura 29 GK £0 £0
José Luis Chávez 33 DM, M RC £0 £0
Jonas 30 D/WB R £0 £0
Constant Djakpa 30 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Luis Delgado 36 GK £0 £0
Wilberto Cosme 32 ST £0 £0
Danilinho 30 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Wellington Silva 29 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Sebastian Boenisch 30 D RLC £0 £0
Harrison Otálvaro 31 AM RC £0 £0
Rubin Okotie 30 ST £0 £0
Grafite 38 ST £0 £0
Benoît Cheyrou 36 DM £0 £0
Marc Crosas 29 DM £0 £0
Severo Meza 30 D RC, DM £0 £0
Joleon Lescott 34 D C £0 £0
Leandro Gracián 34 AM C £0 £0
Javier Patiño 29 ST £0 £0
Mike Temwanjera 35 ST £0 £0
Papa Guèye 33 D C £0 £0
Kalilou Traoré 29 AM RC £0 £0
Carlos Eduardo 29 AM RLC £0 £0
Sebastián Rusculleda 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Azizbek Xaydarov 31 AM RC £0 £0
Guillermo Rodríguez 33 D C £0 £0
Martín Arzuaga 35 ST £0 £0
José María Cárdenas 32 WB/AM L £0 £0
Antonio Nocerino 32 DM £0 £0
Obina 34 ST £0 £0
Jermaine Jones 35 DM £0 £0
Erick Delgado 34 GK £0 £0
Idrissa Coulibaly 29 D RC, DM £0 £0
Ernesto Farías 37 ST £0 £0
Paulinho 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Daniel Ludueña 34 AM LC £0 £0
Jérémie Aliadière 34 ST £0 £0
Mohammed Rabiu 27 DM £0 £0
Daniel Lloreda 26 AM L, ST £0 £0
Lukas Rotpuller 26 D C £0 £0
Aleksandar Tonev 27 AM RL £0 £0
Jonathan Zongo 28 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Gegê 23 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Daniel Ndi 21 AM C £0 £0
Robert 20 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Efraín Viáfara 36 ST £0 £0
John Valencia 35 DM £0 £0
Mensur Mujdza 32 D/WB RL £0 £0
Felipe Núñez 38 GK £0 £0
John Jairo Montaño 33 D/WB L, DM £0 £0
Carlos Chávez 32 GK £0 £0
Wajdi Bouazzi 31 WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Sébastien Bassong 30 D C £0 £0
Luis Marín 34 GK £0 £0
César Valoyes 33 AM/F C £0 £0
Marcelo Alatorre 32 D RL £0 £0 £0
Luis Sierra 28 DM £0 £0
Diego Amaya 31 D RC £0 £0
Charles Itandje 34 GK £0 £0
Damián Álvarez 38 AM L £0 £0
Víctor Montaño 33 ST £0 £0
Jonathan Ferrari 30 D C £0 £0
Juan Carlos Núñez 34 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Dramane Traoré 35 ST £0 £0
Kenwyne Jones 32 ST £0 £0
Luis Calderón 27 D C £0 £0
Faber Cañaveral 28 DM, M RC £0 £0
Nelino Tapia 26 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Mame Thiam 24 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Yamith Cuesta 28 D C £0 £0
Juan Leyton 26 GK £0 £0
Sammy N'Djock 27 GK £0 £0
Ruud Boymans 28 ST £0 £0
Marco Tagbajumi 28 AM L, ST £0 £0 £0
José Nájera 28 AM RC £0 £0
Fáider Burbano 25 AM C £0 £0
Cole Grossman 28 DM, AM C £0 £0
Miguel Pérez 24 ST £0 £0 £0
Jefferson Mena 28 D C £0 £0 £0
Alonso Acosta 28 D RC £0 £0
Yorleys Mena 25 ST £0 £0
Gideon Baah 25 D LC £0 £0

These are the best free players aged under 23 in Football Manager 2018 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
Rodrigo Valenzuela 16 AM R £0 £0
Nikola Krstic 15 AM R £0 £0
Thabo Gumede 16 M R £0 £0
Sergio Cantú 16 M RL £0 £0
Zeca 23 D RL £0 £0
José Angulo 22 AM/F C £0 £0
Eduardo Henrique 22 DM £0 £0 £0
Chuma 20 AM/F C £0 £0
Diego 19 AM/F C £0 £0
Jan Attling 16 D/WB L £0 £0
Fernando Dinis 20 D C £0 £0
Demba N'Diaye 15 D LC £0 £0
Themba Gumede 16 D LC £0 £0
Hyun-Tae Cho 17 AM C £0 £0
Attila Molnár 16 ST £0 £0
Novica Gorcic 15 GK £0 £0
Kevin Hödl 16 GK £0 £0
Daniel Vannaz 16 AM C £0 £0
Haryanto Priyanto 16 ST £0 £0
Nkosingiphile Ngobese 16 AM RLC £0 £0
Gwendal Guilloux 14 D RC £0 £0
Dejan Ramadani 16 D L £0 £0
Julian Thuller 16 AM R £0 £0
Jesús Rangel 16 D C £0 £0
Georgi Ivanov 16 ST £0 £0
Strahinja Zuvic 16 D RC £0 £0
Ilija Zerjal 15 AM C £0 £0
Hampus Rosén 16 GK £0 £0
Jens Isaksen 15 D L £0 £0
Dusan Zivkovic 20 AM RL £0 £0
Robert 20 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Rodrigo Torres 16 AM L £0 £0
Keagan Qalinge 16 AM R £0 £0
Steve Bukuru 15 D C £0 £0
Jiri Novotny 14 ST £0 £0
Marjan Sljivic 16 ST £0 £0
Iman Nikbakht 16 GK £0 £0
Fabian Büchel 16 AM R £0 £0
Vladimir Yordanov 16 GK £0 £0
Yassine Sabir 16 D C £0 £0
Petar Dimitrov 16 GK £0 £0
Jan Vodrazka 15 D RLC £0 £0
Jordan Souza 19 D/WB L £0 £0
Wai Kin Fan 15 AM L £0 £0
Kévin Diallo 15 ST £0 £0
Joakim Svensson 16 AM R £0 £0
Dong-Won Oh 17 GK £0 £0
Matheus Farinha 18 DM £0 £0
Juan Ignacio Brunet 19 AM C £0 £0
Peter Weber 15 D C £0 £0
Dong-Gun Song 16 AM L £0 £0
Dmitriy Sidorenko 16 AM RC £0 £0
Imoh Ezekiel 23 ST £0 £0
Eugene Chumak 21 D C, DM £0 £0
Gabriel Ramos 21 AM C £0 £0 £0
Matheus Batista 22 DM £0 £0
Ruan Café 20 AM L, ST £0 £0
Vyacheslav Lukhtanov 22 D RC £0 £0
Robin de Groot 16 D L £0 £0
Ousseynou Fall 15 D C £0 £0
Zac Sfiligoi 20 D C £0 £0
Roelof de Jong 16 AM C £0 £0
Martin Vidovic 16 M R £0 £0
Georgi Ivanov 16 D R £0 £0
Boris Slongo 16 D C £0 £0
Alexandr Zolotov 16 AM R £0 £0
Uros Milojevic 16 D C £0 £0
Per Martinsson 16 M L £0 £0
Ronnie Minet 16 ST £0 £0
Vasil Velichkov 16 AM RLC £0 £0
György Pintér 16 D C £0 £0
Orlando Garza 16 D RC £0 £0
Tomas Hanus 15 AM R £0 £0
Nebojsa Smiljanic 16 AM R £0 £0
Branko Ristanovic 16 AM R £0 £0
Gegê 23 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Eurico 23 DM £0 £0
Ivan Lucic 22 GK £0 £0
Jéferson 22 DM £0 £0
Ervin Jusufovic 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Samet Ergün 15 D L £0 £0
Kévin Leray 15 ST £0 £0
Martín Delgado 16 AM L £0 £0
Alexandr Pisarik 16 GK £0 £0
Fernando López 16 AM L £0 £0
Ryan Poirier 15 GK £0 £0
David Ramoabi 16 D C £0 £0
Roman Balanovich 17 D R £0 £0
Aleksandar Nikolov 16 M R £0 £0
José Alejandro Sosa 16 D R £0 £0
Jong-Hyuk Hwang 17 D L £0 £0
Gabriel Morbeck 19 AM L, ST £0 £0
Marcos Rivera 16 D RL £0 £0
Scott McLean 19 AM L £0 £0
Goran Jovanovic 16 D LC £0 £0
Bernard Thibault 15 GK £0 £0
Vitaliy Lisakovich 19 AM LC, F C £760 £37k £67k 31-05-2018
Juan Carlos Lillingston 16 D LC £0 £0
Rostislav Hlavac 15 DM £0 £0
Jaroslav Matejka 15 D RL £0 £0
Min-Young Kim 17 AM C £0 £0
Milutin Dimitrijevic 16 D LC £0 £0
Jakub Prokopec 15 ST £0 £0
Rene Hruby 15 D LC £0 £0
Anderson Lopes 23 ST £6k £688k £353k 01-01-2018
Bruno Mota 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
Maselaelo Seanego 23 AM R £0 £0
Dusan Kohout 15 AM R, ST £0 £0
Tony Watt 23 ST £0 £0
Ruslan Mamutov 23 AM C £0 £0
Jonathan González 21 AM R £0 £0
Bogdan Sarnavskyi 22 GK £0 £0
Daniel Ndi 21 AM C £0 £0
Anssi Leppänen 17 AM R £0 £0
Leonardo López 16 DM £0 £0
Matheus Pranke 22 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Geraldo 23 AM C £0 £0
Sibongiseni Thidiela 16 AM RL £0 £0
Raúl Ojeda 16 GK £0 £0
Milos Kristof 15 GK £0 £0
Javier Valdés 16 AM R £0 £0
David Nemec 15 ST £0 £0
Gustavo Silva 16 GK £0 £0
Srdjan Djordjevic 15 AM R £0 £0
Alex Mkhabela 16 AM C £0 £0
Djordje Milosevic 16 D R £0 £0
Zoran Pavlovic 16 AM RLC £0 £0
Víctor Valenzuela 16 AM R £0 £0
Dragan Dzugurdic 16 M LC £0 £0
Vanja Kitic 16 M L £0 £0
Ivan Ignatov 16 D LC £0 £0
Marjan Lazic 16 D R £0 £0
Josef Smejkal 15 D LC £0 £0
Sasa Lacarak 16 AM C £0 £0
Papi Shaku 16 D C £0 £0
Jan Dolezal 15 AM R £0 £0
Birger Callewaert 15 GK £0 £0
Leonid Sokolov 17 D C £0 £0
Sava Gajic 15 M L £0 £0
Sasa Maksimovic 16 D LC £0 £0
Patryk Ulatowski 15 D/WB RL £0 £0
Péter Vajda 16 GK £0 £0
Abdul Irawan 16 AM R, ST £0 £0
Frantisek Buchta 15 D RC £0 £0
Lukas Vencl 15 AM L £0 £0
Jindrich Borovicka 15 D RL £0 £0
André Luis 20 ST £0 £0
Andrés Mehring 23 GK £0 £0
Renato 23 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Giorgi Gadrani 22 D RC £0 £0
Diego Almeida 21 GK £0 £0
Matheus Cassini 21 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Martín Ortega 16 D L £0 £0
Sergio Galeano 20 AM R, ST £0 £0
Athenkosi Bell 15 D L £0 £0
Dejair 22 DM £0 £0
João Lima 21 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Gabriel Almeida 20 AM RLC £0 £0
Radim Mares 15 AM R £0 £0
Omar Mancilla 22 D C £0 £0
Qudus Lawal 21 ST £0 £0
Diego Garza 16 D RC £0 £0
Amine Bhar 15 D L £0 £0
Juan Pablo León 16 GK £0 £0
Djordje Popin 16 D RLC £0 £0
Ivan Janda 15 ST £0 £0
Johan Ahl 16 AM R £0 £0
Andreas Blomme 16 AM C £0 £0
Miodrag Ristic 16 D C £0 £0
Cyril Tom 16 AM RC £0 £0
Jae-Wan Kim 17 M L £0 £0
Damir Josic 15 M RL £0 £0
Joshua Nkoana 16 GK £0 £0
Mario Valdez 16 AM L £0 £0
Saleh Al-Muhaimeed 23 AM R £0 £0
Georges Louis 15 ST £0 £0
Branko Nikolic 16 D C £0 £0
Oskari Ryynänen 16 GK £0 £0
Daniel Sánchez 16 D RL £0 £0
Ljubomir Maksimovic 16 M RC £0 £0
Bongani Mlaba 16 M RL £0 £0
Johnny Khumalo 15 ST £0 £0
Alain Robin 14 ST £0 £0
Peter Caton 16 ST £0 £0
Lamine Guèye 14 AM RC £0 £0
Karlo Sánchez 22 GK £0 £0
Laurens Janzen 16 ST £0 £0
Lukas Trojan 15 M L £0 £0
Souleymane Coulibaly 22 ST £0 £0
Milan Reznicek 15 D LC £0 £0
Gabriel Manes 22 D C £0 £0
Alec Ferrell 23 GK £0 £0
Boban Nikolov 22 D/WB R, AM C £0 £0
Junior Kemajou Dimabi 21 ST £0 £0
Nicolás Paterno 22 DM, AM C £0 £0
Hervin Ongenda 22 AM/F C £0 £0
Valeriy Gryshyn 23 ST £0 £0
Zlatin Angelov 16 D/WB L £0 £0
Ylli Sallahi 23 D/WB L £0 £0
Cassiano 20 ST £0 £0

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