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
Diego Cavalieri 34 GK £0 £0
Mirko Vucinic 33 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Emir Spahic 36 SW, D C £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
Osvaldo 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Alex Song 29 DM £0 £0
Andrea Pirlo 38 DM £0 £0
Ricardo Carvalho 39 D C £0 £0
Egídio Arévalo Ríos 35 DM £0 £0
Guilherme Siqueira 31 D/WB L £0 £0
Josué 26 AM C £0 £0
Jan Kirchhoff 26 D C, DM £0 £0
Mohamed Sissoko 32 DM £0 £0
Roberto Trashorras 36 M C £0 £0
Denílson 29 DM £0 £0
Luis Saritama 33 AM RC £0 £0
Didier Zokora 36 DM £0 £0
Joey Barton 34 DM £0 £0
Rodrigo 36 D C £0 £0
Aranha 36 GK £0 £0
Dusan Svento 31 D/WB/AM L £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
Wesley 30 DM, AM RC £0 £0
Yulián Anchico 33 WB R, AM RC £0 £0
Rafael Marques 33 D C £0 £0
Chinedu Obasi 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Bruno Gama 29 AM RL £0 £0
Hamit Altintop 34 DM £0 £0
Seydou Keita 37 DM £0 £0
Álvaro Navarro 32 ST £0 £0
Carlinhos 30 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Wendel 35 D L, AM LC £0 £0
Javi Garrido 32 D/WB L £0 £0
Abou Diaby 31 AM C £0 £0
Anderson 29 AM C £0 £0 £0
Alex Colón 30 AM C £0 £0
Juan 35 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Dario Kresic 33 GK £0 £0
Welliton 30 ST £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
Rod Fanni 35 D RC £0 £0
Renato Cajá 32 AM LC £0 £0
Aquivaldo Mosquera 36 D C £0 £0
Dennis Oliech 32 AM R, ST £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
Diego Capel 29 AM L £0 £0
Marquinho 30 WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Armando Wila 32 ST £0 £0
Saïd Boutahar 34 AM LC £0 £0
Florian Marange 31 D LC £0 £0
Maicon 35 D/WB R £0 £0
Túlio de Melo 32 ST £0 £0
Thiago Ribeiro 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Shay Given 41 GK £0 £0
Cirilo Saucedo 35 GK £0 £0
Luis Martínez 34 GK £0 £0
Ceará 37 D/WB R £0 £0
Edinho 34 SW, D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Elkin Soto 36 DM £0 £0
Lucas Silva 32 AM RC £0 £0
Victor Anichebe 29 AM L, ST £0 £0
Marko Basa 34 D C £0 £0
Iván Alonso 38 ST £0 £0
Federico Nieto 33 ST £0 £0
Sebastián Domínguez 36 D C £0 £0
David Quiroz 34 AM C £0 £0
Jean-Daniel Akpa Akpro 24 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Danovis Banguero 27 DM, M LC £0 £0
Edwin Valencia 32 DM £0 £0
Victor Obinna 30 AM L, ST £0 £0
Gustavo Colman 32 M C £0 £0
Franck Signorino 35 D/WB L £0 £0
Jamel Saihi 30 DM £0 £0
Danny Morais 31 D C £0 £0
Luis Páez 30 ST £0 £0
Mehrdad Pouladi 30 D L, DM, AM L £0 £0
Gottardi 31 GK £0 £0
Emmanuel Eboué 34 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Franco Cángele 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Razvan Rat 36 D/WB L £0 £0
Sebastián Leto 30 ST £0 £0
Alou Diarra 35 D C, DM £0 £0
Norberto Araujo 38 D C £0 £0
Jonathan Fabbro 35 AM LC £0 £0
Flavio Santos 30 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Christos Aravidis 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Javad Nekounam 36 DM £0 £0
Edu 35 AM L, ST £0 £0
Mariano Echeverría 36 D C £0 £0
Marcos González 37 SW, D C £0 £0
Miguel Morales 32 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Luis Checa 33 D RLC £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
Constant Djakpa 30 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Severo Meza 30 D RC, DM £0 £0
Marc Crosas 29 DM £0 £0
Leandro Gracián 34 AM C £0 £0
Mike Temwanjera 35 ST £0 £0
Harrison Otálvaro 31 AM RC £0 £0
Sebastian Boenisch 30 D RLC £0 £0
Javier Patiño 29 ST £0 £0
Danilinho 30 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Wilberto Cosme 32 ST £0 £0
Luis Delgado 36 GK £0 £0
Joleon Lescott 34 D C £0 £0
José Luis Chávez 33 DM, M RC £0 £0
Ventura 29 GK £0 £0
Wellington Silva 29 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Jacobo 33 AM LC £0 £0
Benoît Cheyrou 36 DM £0 £0
Grafite 38 ST £0 £0
Rubin Okotie 30 ST £0 £0
Jonas 30 D/WB R £0 £0
Carlos Eduardo 29 AM RLC £0 £0
Jermaine Jones 35 DM £0 £0
Jérémie Aliadière 34 ST £0 £0
Daniel Ludueña 34 AM LC £0 £0
Ernesto Farías 37 ST £0 £0
Martín Arzuaga 35 ST £0 £0
Guillermo Rodríguez 33 D C £0 £0
Obina 34 ST £0 £0
Papa Guèye 33 D C £0 £0
Antonio Nocerino 32 DM £0 £0
Kalilou Traoré 29 AM RC £0 £0
Sebastián Rusculleda 32 AM RLC £0 £0
José María Cárdenas 32 WB/AM L £0 £0
Paulinho 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Erick Delgado 34 GK £0 £0
Idrissa Coulibaly 29 D RC, DM £0 £0
Azizbek Xaydarov 31 AM RC £0 £0
Mohammed Rabiu 27 DM £0 £0
Daniel Lloreda 26 AM L, ST £0 £0
Jonathan Zongo 28 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Lukas Rotpuller 26 D C £0 £0
Aleksandar Tonev 27 AM RL £0 £0
Gegê 23 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Daniel Ndi 21 AM C £0 £0
Robert 20 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Diego Amaya 31 D RC £0 £0
Felipe Núñez 38 GK £0 £0
John Jairo Montaño 33 D/WB L, DM £0 £0
John Valencia 35 DM £0 £0
Luis Sierra 28 DM £0 £0
Carlos Chávez 32 GK £0 £0
Mensur Mujdza 32 D/WB RL £0 £0
Juan Carlos Núñez 34 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Marcelo Alatorre 32 D RL £0 £0 £0
Charles Itandje 34 GK £0 £0
Sébastien Bassong 30 D C £0 £0
Dramane Traoré 35 ST £0 £0
Luis Marín 34 GK £0 £0
Víctor Montaño 33 ST £0 £0
Wajdi Bouazzi 31 WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Jonathan Ferrari 30 D C £0 £0
Damián Álvarez 38 AM L £0 £0
Kenwyne Jones 32 ST £0 £0
César Valoyes 33 AM/F C £0 £0
Efraín Viáfara 36 ST £0 £0
Faber Cañaveral 28 DM, M RC £0 £0
Luis Calderón 27 D C £0 £0
Juan Leyton 26 GK £0 £0
Yamith Cuesta 28 D C £0 £0
Nelino Tapia 26 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Mame Thiam 24 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Ruud Boymans 28 ST £0 £0
Marco Tagbajumi 28 AM L, ST £0 £0 £0
Sammy N'Djock 27 GK £0 £0
José Nájera 28 AM RC £0 £0
Gideon Baah 25 D LC £0 £0
Fáider Burbano 25 AM C £0 £0
Cole Grossman 28 DM, AM C £0 £0
Yorleys Mena 25 ST £0 £0
Alonso Acosta 28 D RC £0 £0
Miguel Pérez 24 ST £0 £0 £0
Jefferson Mena 28 D C £0 £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
Demba N'Diaye 15 D LC £0 £0
Fernando Dinis 20 D C £0 £0
Themba Gumede 16 D LC £0 £0
Hyun-Tae Cho 17 AM C £0 £0
Novica Gorcic 15 GK £0 £0
Attila Molnár 16 ST £0 £0
Daniel Vannaz 16 AM C £0 £0
Kevin Hödl 16 GK £0 £0
Haryanto Priyanto 16 ST £0 £0
Nkosingiphile Ngobese 16 AM RLC £0 £0
Gwendal Guilloux 14 D RC £0 £0
Julian Thuller 16 AM R £0 £0
Dejan Ramadani 16 D L £0 £0
Georgi Ivanov 16 ST £0 £0
Jesús Rangel 16 D C £0 £0
Ilija Zerjal 15 AM C £0 £0
Strahinja Zuvic 16 D RC £0 £0
Hampus Rosén 16 GK £0 £0
Jens Isaksen 15 D L £0 £0
Dusan Zivkovic 20 AM RL £0 £0
Rodrigo Torres 16 AM L £0 £0
Steve Bukuru 15 D C £0 £0
Keagan Qalinge 16 AM R £0 £0
Robert 20 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Jiri Novotny 14 ST £0 £0
Marjan Sljivic 16 ST £0 £0
Iman Nikbakht 16 GK £0 £0
Vladimir Yordanov 16 GK £0 £0
Wai Kin Fan 15 AM L £0 £0
Kévin Diallo 15 ST £0 £0
Matheus Farinha 18 DM £0 £0
Yassine Sabir 16 D C £0 £0
Dong-Gun Song 16 AM L £0 £0
Joakim Svensson 16 AM R £0 £0
Peter Weber 15 D C £0 £0
Dong-Won Oh 17 GK £0 £0
Jordan Souza 19 D/WB L £0 £0
Dmitriy Sidorenko 16 AM RC £0 £0
Juan Ignacio Brunet 19 AM C £0 £0
Fabian Büchel 16 AM R £0 £0
Petar Dimitrov 16 GK £0 £0
Jan Vodrazka 15 D RLC £0 £0
Matheus Batista 22 DM £0 £0
Gabriel Ramos 21 AM C £0 £0 £0
Ruan Café 20 AM L, ST £0 £0
Eugene Chumak 21 D C, DM £0 £0
Vyacheslav Lukhtanov 22 D RC £0 £0
Imoh Ezekiel 23 ST £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
Uros Milojevic 16 D C £0 £0
Vasil Velichkov 16 AM RLC £0 £0
Alexandr Zolotov 16 AM R £0 £0
Per Martinsson 16 M L £0 £0
Ronnie Minet 16 ST £0 £0
György Pintér 16 D C £0 £0
Tomas Hanus 15 AM R £0 £0
Nebojsa Smiljanic 16 AM R £0 £0
Branko Ristanovic 16 AM R £0 £0
Orlando Garza 16 D RC £0 £0
Ivan Lucic 22 GK £0 £0
Eurico 23 DM £0 £0
Gegê 23 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Ervin Jusufovic 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Kévin Leray 15 ST £0 £0
Jéferson 22 DM £0 £0
Samet Ergün 15 D L £0 £0
Martín Delgado 16 AM L £0 £0
José Alejandro Sosa 16 D R £0 £0
Alexandr Pisarik 16 GK £0 £0
Aleksandar Nikolov 16 M R £0 £0
Ryan Poirier 15 GK £0 £0
Roman Balanovich 17 D R £0 £0
David Ramoabi 16 D C £0 £0
Fernando López 16 AM L £0 £0
Gabriel Morbeck 19 AM L, ST £0 £0
Bernard Thibault 15 GK £0 £0
Vitaliy Lisakovich 19 AM LC, F C £760 £37k £67k 31-05-2018
Jaroslav Matejka 15 D RL £0 £0
Min-Young Kim 17 AM C £0 £0
Rostislav Hlavac 15 DM £0 £0
Marcos Rivera 16 D RL £0 £0
Milutin Dimitrijevic 16 D LC £0 £0
Goran Jovanovic 16 D LC £0 £0
Juan Carlos Lillingston 16 D LC £0 £0
Scott McLean 19 AM L £0 £0
Jong-Hyuk Hwang 17 D L £0 £0
Maselaelo Seanego 23 AM R £0 £0
Ruslan Mamutov 23 AM C £0 £0
Jonathan González 21 AM R £0 £0
Rene Hruby 15 D LC £0 £0
Tony Watt 23 ST £0 £0
Dusan Kohout 15 AM R, ST £0 £0
Bogdan Sarnavskyi 22 GK £0 £0
Jakub Prokopec 15 ST £0 £0
Bruno Mota 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
Anderson Lopes 23 ST £6k £688k £353k 01-01-2018
Leonardo López 16 DM £0 £0
Anssi Leppänen 17 AM R £0 £0
Matheus Pranke 22 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0
Milos Kristof 15 GK £0 £0
Daniel Ndi 21 AM C £0 £0
Geraldo 23 AM C £0 £0
Javier Valdés 16 AM R £0 £0
Sibongiseni Thidiela 16 AM RL £0 £0
David Nemec 15 ST £0 £0
Raúl Ojeda 16 GK £0 £0
Gustavo Silva 16 GK £0 £0
Srdjan Djordjevic 15 AM R £0 £0
Alex Mkhabela 16 AM C £0 £0
Dragan Dzugurdic 16 M LC £0 £0
Víctor Valenzuela 16 AM R £0 £0
Djordje Milosevic 16 D R £0 £0
Zoran Pavlovic 16 AM RLC £0 £0
Josef Smejkal 15 D LC £0 £0
Ivan Ignatov 16 D LC £0 £0
Vanja Kitic 16 M L £0 £0
Sava Gajic 15 M L £0 £0
Patryk Ulatowski 15 D/WB RL £0 £0
Marjan Lazic 16 D R £0 £0
Abdul Irawan 16 AM R, ST £0 £0
Birger Callewaert 15 GK £0 £0
Papi Shaku 16 D C £0 £0
Sasa Lacarak 16 AM C £0 £0
Sasa Maksimovic 16 D LC £0 £0
Leonid Sokolov 17 D C £0 £0
Jan Dolezal 15 AM R £0 £0
Péter Vajda 16 GK £0 £0
Lukas Vencl 15 AM L £0 £0
Jindrich Borovicka 15 D RL £0 £0
Matheus Cassini 21 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Renato 23 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Sergio Galeano 20 AM R, ST £0 £0
Giorgi Gadrani 22 D RC £0 £0
Diego Almeida 21 GK £0 £0
Martín Ortega 16 D L £0 £0
Andrés Mehring 23 GK £0 £0
Athenkosi Bell 15 D L £0 £0
Frantisek Buchta 15 D RC £0 £0
André Luis 20 ST £0 £0
Radim Mares 15 AM R £0 £0
Omar Mancilla 22 D C £0 £0
Dejair 22 DM £0 £0
João Lima 21 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Amine Bhar 15 D L £0 £0
Gabriel Almeida 20 AM RLC £0 £0
Qudus Lawal 21 ST £0 £0
Diego Garza 16 D RC £0 £0
Juan Pablo León 16 GK £0 £0
Jae-Wan Kim 17 M L £0 £0
Ivan Janda 15 ST £0 £0
Djordje Popin 16 D RLC £0 £0
Andreas Blomme 16 AM C £0 £0
Miodrag Ristic 16 D C £0 £0
Cyril Tom 16 AM RC £0 £0
Johan Ahl 16 AM R £0 £0
Saleh Al-Muhaimeed 23 AM R £0 £0
Oskari Ryynänen 16 GK £0 £0
Joshua Nkoana 16 GK £0 £0
Damir Josic 15 M RL £0 £0
Branko Nikolic 16 D C £0 £0
Ljubomir Maksimovic 16 M RC £0 £0
Mario Valdez 16 AM L £0 £0
Georges Louis 15 ST £0 £0
Bongani Mlaba 16 M RL £0 £0
Johnny Khumalo 15 ST £0 £0
Daniel Sánchez 16 D RL £0 £0
Alain Robin 14 ST £0 £0
Peter Caton 16 ST £0 £0
Laurens Janzen 16 ST £0 £0
Lukas Trojan 15 M L £0 £0
Karlo Sánchez 22 GK £0 £0
Lamine Guèye 14 AM RC £0 £0
Junior Kemajou Dimabi 21 ST £0 £0
Boban Nikolov 22 D/WB R, AM C £0 £0
Milan Reznicek 15 D LC £0 £0
Alec Ferrell 23 GK £0 £0
Gabriel Manes 22 D C £0 £0
Souleymane Coulibaly 22 ST £0 £0
Germán Cochis 21 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Matías Iglesias 20 DM £0 £0
Lucas Lucena 20 D C, DM £0 £0
Giovanni Smith 16 ST £0 £0
Emiliano Trovento 22 AM RLC £0 £0
Alassane Diaby 22 D C, DM £0 £0

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