Have you taken on a difficult save in Football Manager 2024/25 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 FM2024/25 as well as the free players with the highest potential in FM24/25 Update. Every player on this page is uncontracted and not at a club in FM 24/25 Update, so you can buy them for completely free.

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These are the best free players in Football Manager 2024/25 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
Keylor Navas 37 GK £0 £0
Sergio Ramos 38 D C £0 £0
Wissam Ben Yedder 33 ST £0 £0
Simon Kjær 35 D C £0 £0
Rafinha 31 AM RC £0 £0
Francis Coquelin 33 DM, M RC £0 £0
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting 35 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Étienne Capoue 36 DM £0 £0
Antonio Candreva 37 AM RLC £0 £0
Antonio Adán 37 GK £0 £0
Marouane Fellaini 36 DM, AM/F C £0 £0
Oumar Solet 24 D C, DM £0 £0
Martín Campaña 35 GK £0 £0
Koffi Djidji 31 D C £0 £0
Serge Aurier 31 D/WB R £0 £0
Christian Rivera 27 DM £0 £0
Patrick van Aanholt 33 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Felipe Caicedo 35 ST £0 £0
Jordi Masip 35 GK £0 £0
Edgar Badía 32 GK £0 £0
Majeed Waris 32 AM L, ST £0 £0
Mário Fernandes 33 D/WB R £0 £0
Alireza Jahanbakhsh 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Adam Ounas 27 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Cheikhou Kouyaté 34 D C, DM £0 £0
Jonathan Orozco 38 GK £0 £0
Darren Randolph 37 GK £0 £0
Emiliano Rigoni 31 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Ibrahim Drešević 27 D C £0 £0
Maximiliano Gómez 27 ST £0 £0
Jonathan Viera 34 AM LC £0 £0
Roque Mesa 35 DM, M RC £0 £0
Álvaro 34 D C £0 £0
Celso Ortiz 35 DM, M LC £0 £0
Ghislain Konan 28 D/WB L £0 £0
Brandon Williams 23 D/WB RL £0 £0
Ryan Fredericks 31 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Lebo Mothiba 28 ST £0 £0
Cédric 32 D/WB RL £0 £0
Ryan Kent 27 AM RLC £0 £0
Achraf Bencharki 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Marcelo 37 D C £0 £0
Adrian Mierzejewski 37 AM LC £0 £0
Alejandro Gómez 36 AM LC £0 £0
Etrit Berisha 35 GK £0 £0
Karim Bellarabi 34 AM RL £0 £0
Christoph Kramer 33 DM £0 £0
Sanjin Prcić 30 DM £0 £0
Bouna Sarr 32 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Layvin Kurzawa 31 D/WB L £0 £0
Alberth Elis 28 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Mateusz Bogusz 22 AM C £0 £0
Kevin Gameiro 37 ST £0 £0
Adrien Silva 35 DM £0 £0
Jean-Paul Boëtius 30 AM LC £0 £0
Bas Dost 35 ST £0 £0
Jack O'Connell 30 D C £0 £0
Juan Sebastián Quintero 29 D C £0 £0
Son Jun-Ho 32 DM £0 £0
Rodri Tarín 28 D C £0 £0
Chofis 29 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Fabián Orellana 38 AM RLC £0 £0
Fernando Forestieri 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Federico Fazio 37 D C £0 £0
Marcelo Cirino 32 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Marlos 36 AM RC £0 £0
Ritchie De Laet 35 D RC £0 £0
Ramiro Enrique 23 ST £0 £0
James McArthur 36 DM £0 £0
Merveille Bokadi 28 D C, DM £0 £0
Daniel 28 DM, AM RLC £0 £0
Vitor Mendes 25 D C £0 £0
Miguel Layún 36 D/WB RL, M R £0 £0
Jesús Dueñas 35 D/WB RL, M C £0 £0
Camilo Sanvezzo 35 AM L, ST £0 £0
Simen Alexander Santos Lyngbø 26 D RL £0 £0
Francesco Caputo 36 ST £0 £0
Adama Soumaoro 32 D C £0 £0
Alexander Hack 30 D C £0 £0
Mickaël Malsa 28 DM £0 £0
Samu Castillejo 29 AM RLC £0 £0
Aleix Vidal 34 D/WB R, AM RL £0 £0
Roberto Torres 35 AM RLC £0 £0
Tomáš Vaclík 35 GK £0 £0
Paul Dummett 32 D LC £0 £0
Kemar Roofe 31 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Jhon Jairo Cifuente 31 ST £0 £0
Timo Baumgartl 28 D C £0 £0
Dadá Belmonte 27 AM LC £0 £0
Oscar Murillo 36 D C £0 £0
José Pedro Fuenzalida 39 D/WB R, AM RC £0 £0
Javier Pastore 35 AM LC £0 £0
Alexandre Pato 34 AM L, ST £0 £0
Edouard Michut 21 DM £0 £0
Mariano 30 ST £0 £0
Diego Rolan 31 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Guillermo May 26 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Juanjo Narváez 29 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Antonio Mirante 41 GK £0 £0
James Tomkins 35 D C £0 £0
Steven Davis 39 M RC £0 £0
Danilo Avelar 35 D LC £0 £0
Moussa Doumbia 29 AM LC £0 £0
Teenage Hadebe 28 D LC £0 £0
Santiago García 36 D LC £0 £0
Nacer Chadli 34 AM RL £0 £0
Manuel da Costa 38 D C £0 £0
Filip Novák 34 D/WB L £0 £0
Filip Benković 26 D C £0 £0
Tomáš Koubek 31 GK £0 £0
Opa Nguette 30 AM RL £0 £0
Sada Thioub 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Enock Kwateng 27 D/WB R £0 £0
Romain Amalfitano 34 M C £0 £0
Leonardo Lopes 25 DM £0 £0
Jáder Obrian 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Seydouba Soumah 33 AM RLC £0 £0
Stefan Ilsanker 35 D C, DM £0 £0
Anton Shunin 37 GK £0 £0
Suk Hyun-Jun 33 AM/F C £0 £0
Moraes 26 D/WB L £0 £0
Juan Cazares 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Mariano Bittolo 34 D/WB L £0 £0
Kader Bamba 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Jorge Hernández 35 DM £0 £0
Marco van Ginkel 31 AM C £0 £0
Marco Benassi 29 AM C £0 £0
Samuel Kalu 26 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Victor Kovalenko 28 AM C £0 £0
Dúvier Riascos 38 ST £0 £0
Felipe Aguilar 31 D C £0 £0
Nelson Barahona 36 AM C £0 £0
Yeison Gordillo 32 DM £0 £0
Ander Capa 32 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Dénys Bain 31 D C, DM £0 £0
Jake Livermore 34 D C, DM £0 £0
Loris Karius 31 GK £0 £0
Mario Vušković 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Bubacarr Sanneh 29 D C £0 £0
Tristan Dingomé 33 AM RC £0 £0
Lucas Melano 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Eiji Kawashima 41 GK £0 £0
Diego Alves 39 GK £0 £0
Benoît Costil 37 GK £0 £0
Cheick Diabaté 36 ST £0 £0
Luis Ángel Mendoza 34 AM RL £0 £0
Marc Pedraza 37 DM £0 £0
Marlon Piedrahita 39 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Andreas Ulmer 38 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Léo Gomes 28 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Lucas Barcelos 25 AM L £0 £0
Nelson Quiñones 21 AM RL £0 £0
Jarosław Niezgoda 29 ST £0 £0
Timothy Tillman 25 AM LC £0 £0
Ibrahima Mbaye 29 D/WB RL, M R £0 £0
Kastriot Dermaku 32 D C £0 £0
Mario Balotelli 33 ST £0 £0
Timothy Fosu-Mensah 26 D RC, DM £0 £0
Ulises Dávila 33 AM RC £0 £0
Miler Bolaños 34 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Sherman Cárdenas 34 AM C £0 £0
Feiver Mercado 34 AM L, ST £0 £0
Santiago Roa 29 D/WB R £0 £0
Borja García 33 AM RLC £0 £0
Jorge 28 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Diego 25 GK £0 £0
Álvaro Negredo 38 ST £0 £0
Salva Sevilla 40 AM RC £0 £0
Stefano Okaka 34 ST £0 £0
Kiko Casilla 37 GK £0 £0
Bart Ogbeche 39 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Anthony Modeste 36 ST £0 £0
Luiz Adriano 37 ST £0 £0
Maxime Gonalons 35 DM £0 £0
Kostas Stafylidis 30 D/WB RL, DM £0 £0
Mehdi Zeffane 32 D/WB R £0 £0
William Yarbrough 35 GK £0 £0
Luis Fuentes 37 D/WB L £0 £0
Nicola Murru 29 D/WB L £0 £0
Hiroki Sakai 34 D/WB RL £0 £0
Luís Neto 36 D C £0 £0
Patrick Yazbek 22 DM £0 £0
Kévin Malcuit 32 D/WB R £0 £0
Jordan Ikoko 30 D/WB R £0 £0
Cédric Brunner 30 D/WB R £0 £0
Henrique 30 D/WB L £0 £0
Brian Farioli 26 AM RC £0 £0
Fernando Godoy 34 DM £0 £0
Moussa Koné 27 ST £0 £0
Claudio Yacob 36 DM £0 £0
Luis Ojeda 34 GK £0 £0
Aliyu Ibrahim 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Antolín Alcaraz 41 D C £0 £0
Cristian Chávez 38 AM RLC £0 £0
Ismael Tajouri-Shradi 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Rafael Vaz 35 D C, DM £0 £0
Nacho 35 D/WB/AM L £0 £0
Oriol Rosell 32 DM £0 £0
Rober Ibáñez 31 AM RL £0 £0
Alexis Hinestroza 35 DM £0 £0

These are the best free players aged under 23 in Football Manager 2024/25 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
Luka Andrade 17 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Mohamed El Arouch 20 DM, AM C £0 £0
Brandon Williams 23 D/WB RL £0 £0
Patrick Yazbek 22 DM £0 £0
Mateusz Bogusz 22 AM C £0 £0
Nathan Ferguson 23 D RLC £0 £0
Petar Zovko 22 GK £0 £0
Aliyu Ibrahim 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Armando Shashoua 23 AM C £0 £0
Jamal Baptiste 20 D C £0 £0
Edouard Michut 21 DM £0 £0
Alexi Pitu 22 AM RL £0 £0
Juan González 20 ST £0 £0
Ramiro Enrique 23 ST £0 £0
Dantouma Touré 20 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Enzo Tayamoutou 20 AM RL £0 £0
Amay Caprice 19 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Medhi Harfi 19 ST £0 £0
Oleh Artemenko 20 D C £0 £0
Moisés Paniagua 16 ST £0 £0
Nelson Quiñones 21 AM RL £0 £0
Marvin De Lima 20 WB/AM L £0 £0
Lawrence Ennali 22 AM RL £0 £0
Anton Bol 21 D C £0 £0
Ismael Gutiérrez 23 DM £0 £0
José Saldaña 23 GK £0 £0
Tom Clayton 23 D LC, DM £0 £0
Louie Watson 23 AM C £0 £0
Mario Vušković 22 D C, DM £0 £0
Giuseppe Agostino 21 GK £0 £0
Akinkunmi Amoo 22 AM R £0 £0
Micael 23 D C £0 £0
Fernando Somolinos 22 D C £0 £0
Maxime Nagoli 23 GK £0 £0
Jan Jurčec 23 AM RL £0 £0
Neder Hernández 23 AM RL £0 £0
Héctor Acosta 23 D C £0 £0
Jannes Van Hecke 22 M C £0 £0
Bruno Agüero 22 DM £0 £0
Ateef Konaté 23 AM RLC £0 £0
Alexis Beka Beka 23 DM £0 £0
Ezequiel Soriano 22 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Francisco Peralta 23 GK £0 £0
Uroš Marković 21 GK £0 £0
Pietro Giordani 22 D C £0 £0
Yeiner Torres 23 D/WB R £0 £0
Williams Guzmán 23 D RC £0 £0
Phil Kemper 22 D/WB L, DM, M L £0 £0
Sebastian Hornung 23 GK £0 £0
Dennis Vos 22 D LC £0 £0
Sölvi Snær Guðbjargarson 22 AM RC £0 £0
Brian Oddei 21 AM R, ST £0 £0
Abass Maïga 23 M C £0 £0
Lautaro Amarilla 22 D C £0 £0
Denival 23 GK £0 £0
Franck Tehe 22 AM RL £0 £0
Christalino Atemona 22 D RC £0 £0
Enzo Gil 22 GK £0 £0
Teddy Allemandou 19 D/WB R £0 £0
Marwan Salah 20 GK £0 £0
Damyan Yordanov 19 AM C £0 £0
Mihajlo Katanić 18 AM RLC £0 £0
Noah Hay 18 D/WB RL £0 £0
Siyabonga Mndebele 18 D C £0 £0
Dalexandro García 20 AM L £0 £0
Adam Špangr 19 ST £0 £0
Ali Amir 21 ST £0 £0
Bello 19 GK £0 £0
Xavier Zengue 23 D RC £0 £0
Nicolas Luft 21 D R £0 £0
Avtandil Duishoev 19 AM RL £0 £0
Salih Viteškić 21 AM C £0 £0
Kebir Ali Canpolat 17 AM RL £0 £0
Nahuel Olmedo 17 ST £0 £0
Nfansu Njié 19 ST £0 £0
Bahoz Taş 17 DM £0 £0
Eric Konaté 19 D/WB L £0 £0
Luciano Miño 18 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Juan Cristaldo 22 AM C £0 £0
Julián Encinas 20 D/WB R £0 £0
Adebayo Fapetu 19 DM £0 £0
Lucas Larroza 23 AM C £0 £0
Miguel Zuluaga 20 AM C £0 £0
Vladyslav Krapyvtsov 19 GK £0 £0
Goodnews Igbokwe 21 ST £0 £0
Bradley Roy 19 D C £0 £0
Benjamín Huerta 21 M C £0 £0
Emin Djurovic 19 GK £0 £0
Shaun Mavididi 17 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Romain Colombier 19 AM L £0 £0
Azizbek Nazarov 18 AM L £0 £0
Naim Chadhuli 20 M C £0 £0
Marcelo Valencia 22 DM £0 £0
Rauf Salifu 22 AM R, ST £0 £0
Gil-Linnart Walther 21 AM RLC £0 £0
Max Dieckerhoff 21 GK £0 £0
Benjamin Holété 20 D C £0 £0
Jakob Brambach 21 GK £0 £0
Jhan Pierre Moreno 20 D/WB L £0 £0
Youssef Abdelnaby Nasr 23 DM £0 £0
Santiago Hoyos 22 ST £0 £0
Mateusz Sobotka 19 AM LC £0 £0
Louis-Dylan Pama Djobo 19 ST £0 £0
Erion Zabeli 19 D C £0 £0
Keny Mbala 20 D LC £0 £0
Kevin Orduy 18 ST £0 £0
Al Amin Aid 19 DM £0 £0
Bismarck Atisu 22 DM £0 £0
Matty Cudjoe 20 AM RLC £0 £0
Luís Fernando 22 D/WB L, AM C £0 £0
Djibril Bastou 17 M C £0 £0
Przemysław Kapek 21 AM/F C £0 £0
Rotceh Aguilar 23 D RC £0 £0
Jared Harlock 21 DM £0 £0
Daniel Szelągowski 21 AM LC £0 £0
André Barbosa da Silva 23 D RC, M R £0 £0
Teodor Stenshagen 23 D C £0 £0
Fabian Messina 21 DM, AM C £0 £0
Hugo Blondel 21 D RC £0 £0
Stuart McKinstry 21 AM RL £0 £0
Yvan Gomes Moreira 20 GK £0 £0
Junior Nare 22 ST £0 £0
Sanele Zwane 21 AM R £0 £0
Anton Sorenson 21 D RL £0 £0
Zinedine Boutmène 23 AM RLC £0 £0
Júnior Quiñónez 22 DM £0 £0
Samuel Maciá 21 D RC £0 £0
Carlos Alberto López 18 D C £0 £0
Valentino Rodrigues Lesieur 21 GK £0 £0
Pierre Rothacher 21 GK £0 £0
Vasilis Sourlis 21 AM C £0 £0
Anders Kaiser 22 M C £0 £0
Jamie Bowden 23 DM £0 £0
Rasmus Beyer 23 AM RC £0 £0
Ítalo 22 DM £0 £0
Diego Almeida 20 D C £0 £0
Oualid Agougil 18 D C, DM £0 £0
Damián Cabrera 20 D R £0 £0
Ramez Hefzalla 20 AM C £0 £0
Carlos Gallego 21 D C £0 £0
Ladislav Kovařík 21 GK £0 £0
Maciej Kowal 21 GK £0 £0
Ryan 22 D LC £0 £0
Duván Balceiro 22 AM LC £0 £0
Cristian Solís 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Delio Ramírez 23 AM R £0 £0
Serano Seymor 22 D LC, DM £0 £0
Ethan Dobbelaere 21 AM RC £0 £0
Rikelmi 22 AM LC £0 £0
Jules Goudiaby 23 D C £0 £0
Sergio Mosquera 21 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Nathan Nkanji 22 D C £0 £0
Alejandro Trinidad 20 DM £0 £0
Lazar Pavlović 22 AM C £0 £0
Nicolas Tié 23 GK £0 £0
Sammy Robinson 22 D RC £0 £0
Juan José Uribe 22 GK £0 £0
Quentin Danloux 22 DM £0 £0
Kevin Cortés 23 AM C £0 £0
Omar Rekik 22 D RLC, DM £0 £0
Alan 23 GK £0 £0
Lukas Fahrnberger 23 AM C £0 £0
Kaká 22 AM RL £0 £0
Patricio Pérez 23 AM C £0 £0
Franco Palomeque 23 D C £0 £0
Lanchi 23 D R £0 £0
Lincoln Vyver 23 GK £0 £0
Admilson Jorge Soares 23 D C £0 £0
Antonio Kaial 23 M RC £0 £0
Keaviano Francis 22 AM R, ST £0 £0
Dejan Perović 21 AM L £0 £0
Cristian Gamboa 23 AM/F C £0 £0
Joaquín Leites 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Gabriel Mendoza 23 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Mika 22 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Rodrigo Del Río 22 ST £0 £0
Sebastián Cristancho 22 AM RLC £0 £0
Dante Silva 22 AM RC £0 £0
Elias Damergy 21 GK £0 £0
Keagan Mitchell 22 M C £0 £0
Rolando Ortiz 21 D C £0 £0
Ricardo Bettocchi 22 GK £0 £0
Óscar Alcócer 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Damiano Pecile 22 DM £0 £0
Vitor Hugo 22 D/WB L £0 £0
Claudinho 23 AM LC £0 £0
Juan David Torres 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Dorian Ciężkowski 23 GK £0 £0
Stefano Rubbi 21 GK £0 £0
Manuel Zanon 22 M C £0 £0
Damián Saez 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Mariano Alviz 23 ST £0 £0
João Daniel 22 DM £0 £0
Andre Reynolds 23 D L £0 £0
Ayman Ouhatti 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Marc Beseler 16 M L £0
Mogau Bowali 21 WB/AM R £0 £0
Dante Brown 22 D RL £0 £0
Solly Khunyedi 23 AM/F C £0 £0
Maxim Gullit 23 D LC £0 £0

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