Have you taken on a difficult save in Football Manager 2024 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 FM2024 as well as the free players with the highest potential in FM24. Every player on this page is uncontracted and not at a club in FM 24, so you can buy them for completely free.

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These are the best free players in Football Manager 2024 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
Sergio Agüero 35 AM C, ST £0
Lieven Maesschalck 53 £0
Thomas Vermaelen 37 D C £0
Sami Khedira 36 DM, M C
Giorgio Chiellini 39 D C £688k £820k
David De Gea 32 GK £0 £0 £0
David Zurutuza 36 M/AM C £0
Aritz Aduriz 42 ST £0
José Campaña 30 DM, AM C £0 £0 £0
Markel Susaeta 35 M/AM R £0
Bruno 39 DM, M C £0
Karim El Ahmadi 38 DM, M C £0
Javier Mascherano 39 D C, DM, M C £0
Víctor Valdés 41 £0
Andy Delort 31 ST £0 £0 £0
Sergio Asenjo 34 GK £0 £0 £0
Paulo Wanchope 46 £0
Wayne Rooney 37 DM, M/AM C, ST £0
Amaranto Perea 44 £0
Fabian Delph 33 D L, DM, M C £0
Alexis Henríquez 40 D C £0
Diego López 41 GK £0 £0 £0
Beñat 36 M/AM C £0
Marouane Fellaini 35 DM, AM/F C £0 £0 £0
Javier Pastore 34 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Rodrigo Caio 29 D C £0 £0 £0
Eduardo Bauermann 27 D C £0 £0 £0
Martin Skrtel 38 D C £0
Esteban Cambiasso 42 £0
Felipe Caicedo 34 ST £0 £0 £0
Víctor Sánchez 35 D RC, WB R, DM, M RC £0
Carlos Vela 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Gelson Fernandes 37 DM, M C
Iago Falqué 33 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Carlos Bossio 49 £0
Xeka 28 DM £0 £0 £0
Pablo Zabaleta 38 D/WB R £0
Wes Morgan 39 D C £0
Vedran Ćorluka 37 D C £0
Rodrigo Moledo 35 D C £0 £0 £0
Gustavo 29 ST £19k £7m £585k
Jonathan Orozco 37 GK £0 £0 £0
Ryan Bertrand 33 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Roberto Soriano 32 AM C £0 £0 £0
Anwar El Ghazi 28 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Luis Seijas 37 M/AM LC £0 £0 £0
Federico Navarro 23 DM £0 £0 £0 31-12-2027
Teo Gutiérrez 38 AM/F C £0 £0 £0
Mista 44 £0
Alex Comas 51 ST £0
Phil Jones 31 D C £0
Mousa Dembélé 35 DM, M C £0
Etzaz Hussain 30 DM £0 £0 £0
Aleix Vidal 33 D/WB R, AM RL £0 £0 £0
Dídac Vilà 34 D/WB L £0
Nolito 36 AM LC £0
Glenn Murray 39 ST £0
Mayer Candelo 46 £0
Javi Fuego 39 DM, M C £0
Sergio Álvarez 36 GK £0
Roberto 37 GK £0
Dragan Skočić 54 £0
Moïne Chaabani 42 D LC £0
Peter Etebo 27 DM £0 £0 £0
Adrian Mierzejewski 36 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Yann M'Vila 33 DM £0 £0 £0
Omar Abdulrahman 31 AM RC £0 £0 £0
Jean-Paul Boëtius 29 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Maxym Kalinichenko 44 £0
Oscar Romero 31 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Karim Bellarabi 33 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Arber Zeneli 28 AM RLC £0 £0 £0
Gilbert Roex 64 £0
Diego Godín 37 D C £0 £0 £0
Šime Vrsaljko 31 D/WB R £0
Kris Van Crombrugge 53 £0
Aquivaldo Mosquera 42 D C £0
Mauro Boselli 38 ST £137k £146k
Diego Perotti 34 AM RLC £0 £0 £0
Ramazan Özcan 39 GK £0
Petr Čech 41 GK £0
Matías Caruzzo 38 D C £0
Mbark Boussoufa 38 M C, AM RLC £0
Alberto Rivera 45 £0
Sergio Pelegrín 44 £0
Gylfi Sigurðsson 33 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Jack O'Connell 29 D C £0 £0 £0
Fáiner Torijano 34 D C £0 £0 £0
Son Jun-Ho 31 DM £0 £0 £0
André Almeida 32 D RL, DM £0 £0 £0
Dalbert 29 D/WB/M L £0 £0 £0
David Navarro 43 £0
Allan McGregor 41 GK £0
Gaizka Toquero 38 £0
Mario Suárez 36 D C, DM, M C £0
Juan Pablo Ramírez 44 GK £0
Fernando Forestieri 33 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Fabián Orellana 37 AM RLC £0 £0 £0
José Pedro Fuenzalida 38 D/WB R, AM RC £0 £0 £0
Marlos 35 AM RC £0 £0 £0
Mariano Andújar 39 GK £0 £0 £0
Camilo Sanvezzo 34 AM L, ST £0 £0 £0
Shkodran Mustafi 31 D C £0 £0 £0
Ismael 28 DM £0 £0 £0
Diego Rolan 30 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Joao Rojas 25 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Miler Bolaños 33 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Henrique 36 D C £0 £0 £0
Aloísio 35 ST £0 £0 £0
Gino Peruzzi 31 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Ramiro Enrique 22 ST £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Alan 34 AM RL, ST £6k £26m
Alex Teixeira 33 AM LC, F C £0 £0 £0
Theo Walcott 34 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Valeri Qazaishvili 30 AM RLC, F C £21k £3m £293k
José Luis Garcés 42 ST £0
David Quiroz 40 £0
Elias 38 M RC, AM C £0
Zoran Barišić 53 £0
Israel Damonte 41 £0
Sebastián Domínguez 42 £0
James McArthur 35 DM £0 £0 £0
Jefferson Farfán 38 M R, AM RC, ST £0
Gary Cahill 37 D C £0
Marvin Zeegelaar 32 D LC £0 £0 £0
Jesús Dueñas 34 D/WB RL, M C £0 £0 £0
Miguel Layún 35 D/WB RL, M R £0 £0 £0
Tobias Salquist 28 D C £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Jack Price 30 DM £0 £0 £0
Mile Škorić 32 D C, DM £8k £25m
Andrés Palop 49 £0
Luc Kassi 28 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Diego Lopes 29 AM RLC £11k £2m £167k
Guilherme Marques 32 AM RLC £14k £25m
Mauro Quiroga 33 ST £0 £0 £0
Kemar Lawrence 30 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Ángelo Rodríguez 34 ST £0 £0 £0
Nicolás Fernández 25 DM, AM RLC £0 £0 £0
Lucas Orbán 35 D LC £0 £0
Alexandre Pato 33 AM L, ST £0 £0 £0
Sídnei 33 D C £0 £0 £0
Oscar Murillo 35 D C £0 £0 £0
Matheus Rossetto 27 DM £0 £0 £0
Maidana 27 D C £16k £2m £179k
David Hovorka 29 D C £0
Junior Stanislas 33 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Leon Osman 42 £0
Vincent Le Goff 34 D/WB L £355k £319k
Jürgen Locadia 29 AM L, ST £0 £0 £0
Ariel Garcé 43 £0
Diego Benaglio 39 GK £0
Richard Dunne 43 £0
Bernardo Romeo 45 £0
Lucas Bernardi 45 £0
Fran Yeste 43 £0
Rodrigo Braña 44 £0
Dale Stephens 34 DM, M C £0
Marcelo Oliveira 36 D LC, WB L, DM £0
Miguel Ángel Martínez 39 D RC £0
Zouhair Feddal 33 D C £0 £0 £0
Íñigo Eguaras 31 DM £0 £0 £0
Hélder Costa 29 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Igor Cariús 30 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Vitor Mendes 24 D C £0 £0 £0
Aldo Duscher 44 £0
Danilo 39 D C £0
Danilo Avelar 34 D LC £0 £0 £0
Lucas Biglia 37 DM £0 £0 £0
Diego Alves 38 GK £0 £0 £0
Fabio Quagliarella 41 ST £0 £0
Manuel da Costa 37 D C £0 £0 £0
Steven Davis 38 M RC £0 £0 £0
Mariano Bittolo 33 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Santiago García 35 D LC £0 £0 £0
Opa Nguette 29 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Enock Kwateng 26 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Kévin Malcuit 31 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Nico Schulz 30 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Peniel Mlapa 32 AM RC, F C £0 £0 £0
Washington Camacho 37 WB/M/AM L £0
Fran Fernández 43 £0
Gonzalo Bau 37 £0
Nasser El Khayati 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Tristan Dingomé 32 AM RC £0 £0 £0
Rickie Lambert 41 £0
Juan Mata 35 AM C £8k £265m
Fran Pastor 29 AM RLC, ST £0
Ademilson 29 ST £9k £2m £151k
Jimmy Giraudon 31 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Sada Thioub 28 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Romain Amalfitano 33 M C £0 £0 £0
Alberto Espínola 32 D R £0 £0 £0
Mauricio Cuero 30 AM R £0 £0 £0
Harold Gómez 31 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Yuber Asprilla 30 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Elkin Mosquera 33 D C £0 £0 £0
Dúvier Riascos 37 ST £0 £0 £0
Khama Billiat 32 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Haris Vučkić 30 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Jose Kanté 32 AM RC, F C £6k £25m

These are the best free players aged under 23 in Football Manager 2024 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
Federico Navarro 23 DM £0 £0 £0 31-12-2027
Chris Brady 19 GK £0 £0 £0 31-12-2026
Dominik Yankov 22 AM RLC £0 £0 £0 31-12-2026
Matty Longstaff 23 DM, AM C £4k £1m £967k
Kwadwo Opoku 21 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0 31-12-2026
Ramiro Enrique 22 ST £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Marco Angulo 21 DM £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Erik López 21 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Axel Velásquez 23 AM L £0 £0 £0
Georgios Koutsias 19 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0 31-12-2026
Dylan Borrero 21 AM RLC £0 £0 £0 31-12-2024
Hernán Luna 23 AM C £0 £0 £0
Dantouma Touré 19 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Oleh Artemenko 19 D C £0 £0 £0
Oluwaseun Odunsi 18 D R, DM £0 £0 £0
Àlex Rico 21 DM £0 £0 £0
Novak Tepšić 21 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Juan Gabriel Marcelín 23 D/WB/AM L £0 £0 £0
Leon Flach 22 WB R, DM, M RLC £0 £0 £0 31-12-2024
Gonçalo Loureiro 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Antonio Marín 23 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Héctor Acosta 22 D C £0 £0 £0
Dru Yearwood 23 DM £0 £0 £0 31-12-2024
Erik Tobias Sandberg 23 D C £0 £0 £0
José Estupiñán 23 AM RC, F C £0 £0 £0
Kevin Cortés 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
Maxime Nagoli 22 GK £0 £0 £0
George Campbell 22 D C £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Olwethu Makhanya 19 D C £0 £0 £0 30-06-2025
Nathan Harriel 22 D R £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Emmanuel Attipoe 23 D/WB RL £0 £0 £0
Gui Azevedo 22 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Giovanni 21 AM RLC £0 £0 £0
Alessandro Lovisa 21 DM £0 £0 £0
Alimardon Shukurov 23 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Lucas De Vega 23 DM, AM C £0 £0 £0
Ezequiel Soriano 21 D/WB R, DM £0 £0 £0
Elvis Lindkvist 21 DM, AM C £0 £0 £0
Francisco Peralta 22 GK £0 £0 £0
Ignacio Perrotta 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Bruno Agüero 21 DM £0 £0 £0
Tiago Reis 23 ST £0 £0 £0
Tomas Totland 23 D/WB RL £0 £0 £0 31-12-2026
Neder Hernández 22 AM RL £0 £0 £0 30-06-2024
Juan Familia-Castillo 23 D/WB L, DM, AM L £0 £0 £0
Yeiner Torres 22 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Adamu Salisu 22 D C £0 £0 £0
Diego Guadalupe Medina 23 ST £0 £0 £0
Lautaro Amarilla 21 D C £0 £0 £0
Gabriele Corbo 23 D C £0 £0 £0 31-12-2024
Williams Guzmán 22 D RC £0 £0 £0
Jacobo Reyes 22 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Pietro Giordani 21 D C £0 £0 £0
Martin Petkov 20 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Abass Maïga 22 M C £0 £0 £0
Labinot Kabashi 23 AM RLC £0 £0 £0
Jospin Nshimirimana 21 DM £0 £0 £0
Dany Edjo'o 21 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Djibril Bastou 17 M C £0 £0 £0
Adam Saldana 21 DM £0 £0 £0
Edwin López 23 D/WB/M R £0 £0 £0
João Veras 22 ST £0 £0 £0
Raphael Lea'i 19 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Leandro Fernandes 23 DM £0 £0 £0
Emmanuel Matuta 21 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Basit Umar 23 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Sölvi Snær Guðbjargarson 21 AM RC £0 £0 £0
Edidiong Essien 23 AM C £0 £0 £0
Hassan Ayari 20 AM RLC £0 £0 £0
Jamie Bowden 22 DM £0 £0 £0
Adam Bruce 23 GK £0 £0 £0
Nnamdi Ofoborh 23 DM £0 £0 £0
Josh McPake 21 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Mayer Zambrano 23 M C £0 £0 £0
Siad Haji 23 AM RC £0 £0 £0
Jairo Fuentes 22 D/WB/AM L £0 £0 £0
Hugo Blondel 20 D RC £0 £0 £0
Junior Nare 21 ST £0 £0 £0
Darío Castro 23 AM R £0 £0 £0
Sanele Zwane 20 AM R £0 £0 £0
Jhan Cuero 23 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
José Luis Gamboa 23 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Amedeo Poletti 21 DM, M RC £96k £102k
Isak Bråholm 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
André Barbosa da Silva 22 D RC, M R £0 £0 £0
Rotceh Aguilar 22 D RC £0 £0 £0
Alam Garcete 21 ST £0 £0 £0
Christian Koffi 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
David Morar 18 ST £0 £0 £0
Filip Møller Delaveris 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Sean Rea 21 AM RLC £0 £0 £0
Carlos Gallego 20 D C £0 £0 £0
Tolga Topaloğlu 21 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Jacob Greene 20 D/WB RL £0 £0 £0
Carlos Alberto López 18 D C £0 £0 £0
Neymar Sánchez 19 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Rauf Salifu 21 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Miguel Zuluaga 19 AM C £0 £0 £0
Kayque 20 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Vinícius Cortês 18 AM C £0 £0 £0
Santiago Hoyos 21 ST £0 £0 £0
Ethan Dobbelaere 20 AM RC £0 £0 £0 31-12-2024
Teodor Stenshagen 22 D C £0 £0 £0
Albin Sporrong 23 DM, AM C £0 £0 £0
Cristian Solís 22 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Luiz Guilherme 20 ST £0 £0 £0
Sanders Ngabo 19 AM C £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Louis-Dylan Pama Djobo 18 ST £0 £0 £0
Kebir Ali Canpolat 16 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Martin Bachev 19 DM £0 £0 £0
Davi 16 AM C £0 £0 £0
Mason Cotcher 16 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Uroš Marković 20 GK £0 £0 £0
Venis Uka 17 DM £0 £0 £0
Goodnews Igbokwe 20 ST £0 £0 £0
Léo Loureiro 21 ST £0 £0 £0
Dujuan Richards 17 AM RL, ST £5k £263k £672k
Siyabonga Mndebele 18 D C £0 £0 £0
Adam Špangr 18 ST £0 £0 £0
Stephen Seun 23 D R £0 £0 £0
Naim Chadhuli 19 M C £0 £0 £0
Emin Djurovic 18 GK £0 £0 £0
Romain Colombier 18 AM L £0 £0 £0
Ibrahima Sarr 21 D C £0 £0 £0
Darnell Bile 17 AM L, ST £0 £0 £0
Bradley Roy 18 D C £0 £0 £0
Elasrar Mohamed 18 D C £0 £0 £0
Leonardo 19 ST £0 £0 £0
Youssef Abdelnaby Nasr 22 DM £0 £0 £0
Amadou N'Diaye 19 D L £0 £0 £0
Fernando Álvarez 19 D C £0 £0 £0 31-12-2025
Samuel Bello 18 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Christopher Pearson 20 AM C £0 £0 £0
Dylan Talero 19 ST £0 £0 £0
Marwan Salah 19 GK £0 £0 £0
Alisson Silva 16 GK £0 £0 £0
Enzo Gil 21 GK £0 £0 £0
Jules Goudiaby 22 D C £0 £0 £0
Ángel Alonzo 23 GK £0 £0 £0
Patricio Acevedo 21 D R £0 £0 £0
Csaba Bukta 21 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Luis Jakobi 21 DM £0 £0 £0
Delio Ramírez 22 AM R £0 £0 £0
Mayer Vidal 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Damiano Franco 21 D C £0 £0 £0
Lucas Larroza 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
Eduar Albornoz 21 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Juan Daniel Tegüe 22 AM LC £0 £0 £0
Félix Chaverra 23 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Foguinho 16 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Nathan Nkanji 21 D C £0 £0 £0
Jairo Torres 23 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Quentin Danloux 21 DM £0 £0 £0
Ander Lorente 22 D RC £0 £0 £0
Rodrigo Sar 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Franco Palomeque 22 D C £0 £0 £0
Marcos Camarda 22 ST £0 £0 £0
Lukas Fahrnberger 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
Kaká 21 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Nicolas Tié 22 GK £0 £0 £0
Alex Þór Hauksson 23 DM £0 £0 £0
Theodore Rask 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Cristian Gamboa 22 AM/F C £0 £0 £0
Dennis Dowouna 23 DM £0 £0 £0
Joaquín Leites 22 D C, DM £0 £0 £0
Moisés Altamiranda 22 AM RLC £0 £0 £0
Stefano Rubbi 20 GK £0 £0 £0
Román Lauría 23 D L £0 £0 £0
Vitor Hugo 21 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Juan José Forero 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Diego Rodríguez 22 AM C £0 £0 £0
Juan Pablo Tello 23 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Juan José Uribe 21 GK £0 £0 £0
Ricardo Bettocchi 21 GK £0 £0 £0
Jordan Rezabala 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0 £0
Jhonnier Estrada 21 D C £0 £0 £0
Admilson Jorge Soares 22 D C £0 £0 £0
Gonzalo Romero 22 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Kléber 21 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Rodrigo Del Río 21 ST £0 £0 £0
Omega Mdaka 19 D/WB L, AM LC £0 £0 £0
Keaviano Francis 21 AM R, ST £0 £0 £0
Veljko Petković 22 M C £0 £0 £0
Moussa Sarr 22 D C £0 £0 £0
Luciano Miño 21 AM C £0 £0 £0
Nattakit Butsing 20 AM RL, ST £0 £0 £0
Luis Pérez 22 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Victor Sam Abata 22 ST £0 £0 £0
Jonathan Ruque 23 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Julián Correa 23 D C £0 £0 £0
Lamin Sarr 22 GK £0 £0 £0
Fabian Falkstrand Ransjö 22 D C £0 £0 £0
Mariano Alviz 22 ST £0 £0 £0
Yeiner Beltrán 23 D/WB L £0 £0 £0
Tuisila Kisinda 23 AM RL £0 £0 £0
Jakub Brdak 19 AM L, ST £0 £0 £0
Cristian Rueda 23 M C £0 £0 £0
Illia Tsurkan 21 AM C £0 £0 £0
Elián Matamba 23 D/WB R £0 £0 £0
Woobens Pacius 22 ST £1k £977k £848k

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