Have you taken on a difficult save in Football Manager 26 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 FM2026 as well as the free players with the highest potential in FM26. Every player on this page is uncontracted and not at a club in FM 26, so you can buy them for completely free.

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These are the best free players in Football Manager 26 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 Ramos 39 D C £0 £0
Rafinha 32 AM RC £0 £0
Sergio Busquets 36 DM £0 £0
Philippe Coutinho 33 AM LC £0 £0
Jordi Alba 36 D/WB L £0 £0
Fernandinho 40 DM £0 £0
Rafael Carioca 36 DM £0 £0
Lucas Pérez 36 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Fernando 37 DM £0 £0
Dries Mertens 38 AM/F C £0 £0
Grzegorz Krychowiak 35 DM £0 £0
Hugo Mallo 34 D/WB R £0 £0
Koffi Djidji 32 D C £0 £0
Harold Preciado 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Giacomo Bonaventura 35 AM C £0 £0
Diego Costa 36 ST £0 £0
Aaron Ramsey 34 AM RC £0 £0
Ryan Fredericks 32 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Perr Schuurs 25 D C £0 £0
Álvaro Aguado 29 AM C £0 £0
Darren Randolph 38 GK £0 £0
Ismaily 35 D/WB L £0 £0
Jaílson 29 D C, DM £0 £0
Adam Masina 31 D LC £0 £0
Vicente Guaita 38 GK £0 £0
Marcelo 38 D C £0 £0
Jordan Amavi 31 D/WB/M L £0 £0
José Martínez 30 DM £0 £0
Ryan Kent 28 AM RLC £0 £0
Rui Patrício 37 GK £0 £0
Héctor Moreno 37 D C £0 £0
Rick Karsdorp 30 D/WB R £0 £0
Leyvin Balanta 34 D LC £0 £0
Jason Denayer 30 D C £0 £0
Santiago Cáseres 28 DM £0 £0
Chofis 30 AM RC, F C £0 £0
César De la Hoz 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Luis Alfonso Rodríguez 34 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Simen Lyngbø 27 D RL £0 £0
Bruno Wilson 28 D C £0 £0
Zinho Vanheusden 25 D C £0 £0
Hyoran 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Pinheiro Caio 27 D RLC £0 £0
Hirotsugu Nakabayashi 39 GK £0 £0
Jonathan Rodríguez 32 AM L, ST £0 £0
Rolando Blackburn 35 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Alexandre Oukidja 36 GK £0 £0
Ismaël Traoré 38 D C £0 £0
Chicharito 37 ST £0 £0
Joseba Zaldua 33 D/WB R £0 £0
Yoel 36 GK £0 £0
Jemerson 32 D C £0 £0
Luciano Lollo 38 D C £0 £0
Nicolás Gaitán 37 AM LC £0 £0
Andrés Vombergar 30 ST £0 £0
Leonai Souza 30 DM £0 £0
Erick Cabaco 30 D C £0 £0
Diego García 28 AM RLC £0 £0
Diego Fagúndez 30 AM RLC £0 £0
Esteban 36 GK £0 £0
Serge Aurier 32 D/WB R £0 £0
Opa Nguette 31 AM RL £0 £0
Mehdi Bourabia 33 DM £0 £0
Carlos Akapo 32 D R £0 £0
Marcus Danielson 36 D C £0 £0
Paco Alcácer 31 ST £0 £0
Amine Bassi 27 AM RC £0 £0
Samuel Adegbenro 29 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Badou Ndiaye 34 DM £0 £0
Remi Walter 30 DM £0 £0
Jóhann Berg Guðmundsson 34 AM RL £0 £0
Kortney Hause 29 D LC £0 £0
Miralem Pjanić 35 DM £0 £0
Pablo Barrera 38 AM R £0 £0
Lucas Menossi 33 DM, M RC £0 £0
Éder Balanta 32 DM £0 £0
Didier Ndong 31 DM £0 £0
Fernando 33 DM £0 £0
Mattheus Oliveira 31 DM, AM C £0 £0
Aderlan 34 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Manoel 35 D C £0 £0
João Basso 28 D C £0 £0
Divock Origi 30 ST £0 £0
Erik Marxen 34 D LC £0 £0
Lovre Rogić 29 GK £0 £0
Majeed Waris 33 AM L, ST £0 £0
Craig Dawson 35 D C £0 £0
Fedor Smolov 35 AM/F C £0 £0
Robert Berić 34 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Jorge Hernández 36 DM £0 £0
Suk Hyun-Jun 34 AM/F C £0 £0
Nerea Gantxegi 30 D LC, DM £0 £0
Daniel Bocanegra 38 D C £0 £0
Rafael Baca 35 AM RC £0 £0
Yhormar Hurtado 28 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Romain Amalfitano 35 M C £0 £0
Sada Thioub 30 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Adama Soumaoro 33 D C £0 £0
Pedro Augusto 28 DM £0 £0
Maxime Lestienne 33 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Brooks Lennon 27 D/WB/AM R £0 £0
Angelo Ogbonna 37 D C £0 £0
Andrés Desábato 35 GK £0 £0
Luis Ángel Mendoza 35 AM RL £0 £0
Dimitri Payet 38 AM RLC £0 £0
Agustín Fontana 29 ST £0 £0
Ibrahima Niane 26 ST £0 £0
Cheick Diabaté 37 ST £0 £0
Ayman Ashraf 34 D LC £0 £0
Marta Unzué 37 DM, M RC £0 £0
Alfonso Blanco 37 GK £0 £0
David Simão 35 DM £0 £0
Ali Ghazal 33 D C, DM £0 £0
Gerard Deulofeu 31 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Oscar Ustari 39 GK £0 £0
Miguel Ángel Torrén 36 D C £0 £0
Thiago Heleno 36 D C £0 £0
Scott Carson 39 GK £0 £0
Vito Mannone 37 GK £0 £0
Mattia De Sciglio 32 D RLC £0 £0
Roberto Soriano 34 AM C £0 £0
Kyle Bartley 34 D C £0 £0
Yuya Kubo 31 AM C £0 £0
Stoppila Sunzu 36 D C £0 £0
Jerson Malagón 32 D C £0 £0
Nelson Barahona 37 AM C £0 £0
Bubacarr Sanneh 30 D C £0 £0
Nathan 29 AM RLC £0 £0
Arthur Caike 33 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Dodô 33 D LC £0 £0
Titi 37 D C £0 £0
Léo Gomes 29 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Thiago Galhardo 35 AM/F C £0 £0
Rossi 32 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Léo Bonatini 31 ST £0 £0
De Lucca 25 DM £0 £0
Luis Hernández 36 D C £0 £0
Fali 31 D C, DM £0 £0
Hiram Mier 35 D RC £0 £0
Jesús Isijara 35 AM R £0 £0
Moussa Doumbia 30 AM LC £0 £0
Anthony Modeste 37 ST £0 £0
Ibrahim Hesar 31 AM L, ST £0 £0
Joakim Nilsson 31 D C £0 £0
Garazi Murua 30 D LC £0 £0
Nuke Mfulu 31 DM £0 £0
Kévin Malcuit 33 D/WB R £0 £0
Thomas Delaine 33 D/WB RL £0 £0
Franchu 27 AM RL £0 £0
Manu Vallejo 28 AM LC £0 £0
Michael Ortega 34 AM RC £0 £0
Carlos Robles 33 DM £0 £0
Fernando Saucedo 35 DM, AM C £0 £0
Sergio Romero 38 GK £0 £0
Salvatore Sirigu 38 GK £0 £0
Amin Younes 31 AM RLC £0 £0
Luis Fuentes 38 D/WB L £0 £0
Javi Manquillo 31 D/WB R £0 £0
Luan Polli 32 GK £0 £0
Romarinho 34 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Tomáš Vaclík 36 GK £0 £0
Leonel Miranda 31 DM £0 £0
Oscar Murillo 37 D C £0 £0
Cristián Zapata 38 D C £0 £0
Bakary Nimaga 30 DM £0 £0
Silvio Romero 36 ST £0 £0
Cristian Lema 35 D C £0 £0
Javier Rojas 29 GK £0 £0
Yordan Osorio 31 D C £0 £0
Pablo Ceppelini 33 AM RLC £0 £0
Amaury Torralvo 31 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Andrés Ibargüen 33 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Carlos Rolón 33 D C £0 £0
Junior Sambia 28 D/WB R £0 £0
Josuha Guilavogui 34 D C, DM £0 £0
Manolo Gabbiadini 33 ST £0 £0
Luigi Sepe 34 GK £0 £0
Max Gradel 37 AM RL £0 £0
Bashkim Kadrii 34 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Elvis Šarić 34 DM £0 £0
Matej Mitrović 31 D C £0 £0
Everaldo 31 AM RL £0 £0
Douglas 37 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Léo Jabá 26 AM RL £0 £0
Sander 34 D/WB L £0 £0
Madson 33 D/WB R £0 £0
João Paulo 37 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Murilo 30 AM C £0 £0
Airton Moisés 26 AM RC, F C £0 £0
Phil Ofosu-Ayeh 33 D/WB R £0 £0
Tim Leibold 31 D/WB/M L £0 £0
Daniel Amartey 30 D RC, DM £0 £0
Ayman Kari 20 M C £0 £0
Víctor Vázquez 38 AM C £0 £0
Léo Gamalho 39 ST £0 £0
João Victor 36 D C, DM £0 £0
Martín Montoya 34 D/WB RL £0 £0
Pablo Valcarce 32 AM RLC £0 £0
Mamadou Koné 33 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Samu Sáiz 34 AM RLC £0 £0

These are the best free players aged under 23 in Football Manager 26 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
Däulet Orynbasar 16 ST £0 £1m £85k 31-12-2027
Jan-Luca Riedl 16 D C £0 £2m £121k 30-06-2026
Mladen Mijajlović 17 AM C £0 £2m £112k 30-06-2027
Ronald Kaye 20 M C £0 £0
Jayden Braaf 22 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Moïse Diarrassouba 16 AM R £0 £0
Aldo Llanas 22 DM £0 £0
Costi Christodoulou 23 GK £0 £0
Juan González 21 ST £0 £0
Dantouma Touré 21 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Yerar Azcarate 19 DM £0 £0
Samuel Dias Semedo 19 D R £0 £0
Mudaser Sadat 18 AM C £0 £156k £10k 30-06-2026
Dayvisson 19 D C, DM £0 £0
Mamadou Sow 18 DM £0 £0
Chivano Wijks 17 D RC £0 £389k £26k 30-06-2027
Arafat Moldagaliev 16 DM £0 £415k £27k
Amirbek Bazarbayev 18 D C £0 £417k £28k 31-12-2026
Jykese Fields 18 AM R, ST £0 £82k £6k 30-06-2026
Noah Codjo-Evora 17 ST £0 £156k £371k 30-06-2027
Diego Ngambia Dzonga 17 AM RL, ST £929 £1m £83k 30-06-2026
Ben Hawighorst 17 D LC £413 £279k £19k 30-06-2026
Osman Turay 17 D/WB L £0 £1m £79k 30-06-2028
Théodore Pizarro 17 GK £0 £1m £88k
Oskar Engel 17 ST £0 £640k £42k 30-06-2026
Bili 18 AM L £0 £0
Arno Grisel 16 AM LC £0 £211k £13k
Jamie Moore 15 AM L, ST £0 £549k £34k
Abdulbaki Al-Khalaf 17 AM/F C £0 £95k £6k 30-06-2027
Jamshidbek Rustamov 17 AM RL £0 £291k £19k
Enzo Duarte 16 DM, AM C £0 £3m £219k 30-06-2026
Warren Ngana 16 D C £0 £2m £137k
Fadi Zarqelain 16 AM RLC £0 £2m £137k 30-06-2026
Basile 18 D/WB R £0 £0
Lisandru Tramoni 22 AM RLC £0 £0
Akinkunmi Amoo 23 AM R £0 £0
Emeric Depussay 23 DM £0 £0
Diego Zago 23 DM £0 £0
Iago André 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Ivan Marić 23 D C £0 £0
Darío Hidalgo 23 AM RLC £0 £0
Kacper Bieszczad 22 GK £0 £0
Alain Zadi 21 GK £0 £0
Ibrahim Junior Kuribara 23 D C, ST £0 £0
Lucio Falasco 21 AM RC £0 £0
Ezequiel Soriano 23 D/WB R, DM £0 £0
Felix Irorere 23 D C £0 £0
Jeremías Pérez Tica 22 ST £0 £543k £40k 31-12-2026
Sam McClelland 23 D C £0 £0
Christian García 21 D C £0 £463k £33k 30-06-2028
Lautaro 23 D C £0 £0
Marcel Krnjic 22 D C £0 £0
Gabriel Tigrão 23 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Alexis Tibidi 21 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Emiliano Rodríguez 21 ST £0 £0
Rodrigo Esteban 23 D C £0 £0
David Puca 22 DM £0 £0
Diogo Fonseca 23 D C, DM £0 £0
Franco Herrera 21 GK £0 £0
Yosthin Mendoza 21 AM RLC, F C £0 £0
Carlos Alberto López 20 D C £0 £0
Oussmane Kébé 22 D LC £0 £0
Hugo Weckmann 21 ST £0 £0
Elías Galli 21 AM LC £0 £0
Carlos Gallego 22 D C £0 £0
Alam Garcete 23 ST £0 £0
Steven Cave 21 D R £0 £0
Mubaarak Nuh 23 AM RL, ST £0 £0
Valentino Rodrigues Lesieur 22 GK £0 £0
Filip Dymerski 23 D RC £0 £0
Sanele Zwane 22 AM R £0 £0
Libasse Ngom 21 AM LC, F C £0 £0
Amadou N'Diaye 21 D L £0 £0
Putco Khoza 23 GK £0 £0
Kauã Diniz 21 DM £0 £0
Tomáš Netolička 23 GK £29k £16k
Adam Saldana 23 DM £0 £0
Christophe Sakandé 18 ST £0 £0
Kigbafori Soro 17 M C £0 £0
Ilyes Benlebsir 20 AM LC £0 £0
Franco Martínez 22 D RC £0 £0
Geoffroy Bony 20 ST £0 £0
Santiago Hoyos 23 ST £0 £0
Luciano Ferreyra 20 M C £0 £0
Ayman Kari 20 M C £0 £0
Alejandro Trinidad 21 DM £0 £0
Jeppe Corfitzen 20 AM RL £0 £0
Yiriba Coulibaly 21 DM, AM C £0 £0
Romain Colombier 20 AM L £0 £0
Ainoã 20 D/WB L £0 £0
Isaác Muñíz 22 AM L £0 £0
Juan Castilla 20 DM £0 £0
Jeremy del Castillo 22 D LC £0 £0
Luke Musikiri 21 AM R, ST £0 £0
Alex Emeka 20 D C, DM £0 £0
Tim Degener 18 DM £0 £627k £43k 30-06-2026
Matteo Fanciulli 17 AM RC £0 £72k £5k
Tim Blaszczak 17 DM £128 £285k £644k 30-06-2025
Tom Wisbereit 17 GK £128 £389k £878k 30-06-2025
Nico Biedermann 17 GK £0 £251k £16k 30-06-2026
Tom Fiederer 17 D C £0 £168k £11k 30-06-2027
Malik Tubić 17 ST £0 £415k £29k 30-06-2027
Tristan Spranger 17 D LC £128 £251k £596k 30-06-2026
Keziah Oteng-Mensah 17 AM RL £0 £266k £18k 30-06-2027
Benjamin Džanović 17 AM LC £128 £279k £656k 30-06-2025
Christian Prenaj 17 AM C £0 £279k £19k 30-06-2027
Finn Bierle 17 D C, DM £128 £170k £11k 30-06-2027
Max Knoll 17 DM £128 £320k £21k 30-06-2027
Leonard Ruland 17 GK £128 £4k £250 30-06-2024
Serge Daura 19 AM/F C £0 £0
Julian Bamberg 17 GK £128 £114k £7k 30-06-2027
Norbu Lhakpa 17 AM RL, ST £0 £149k £10k
Dylan Pedraza 22 D C £0 £0
Alejandro Cumplido 19 ST £0 £0
Ben Schiffer 17 D C £128 £337k £22k 30-06-2026
Justin Hoy 16 AM RC £128 £273k £18k 30-06-2025
Berkan Ermec 17 ST £128 £104k £7k 30-06-2025
Jin Hiratsuka 19 GK £0 £0
Jonah Berghoff 17 DM £128 £92k £6k 30-06-2025
Simeon Rapsch 17 GK £828 £92k £6k 30-06-2027
Rio Bromfield 17 D/WB L £0 £406k £26k 30-06-2027
Raphael Pavlić 17 D C £0 £109k £7k 30-06-2027
Finn Sherlock 17 D/WB L £0 £251k £17k 30-06-2027
Tyrone Jarrett 17 D C, DM £0 £389k £25k 30-06-2026
Niko Tomašević 17 DM, AM C £4k £203k £13k 30-06-2027
Fabio Lagano 17 D/WB R £0 £141k £9k 30-06-2026
Luca Fantasia 16 GK £0 £0
Marc-Alexis Agboton 17 AM C £0 £112k £7k
Donart Ahmeti 17 ST £0 £92k £6k
Gil Zufferey 17 D C £0 £128k £8k
Kader Cherif 17 GK £0 £112k £7k
Antonio Lopes 19 D/WB/M R £0 £0
Muhamed Kurtishi 18 AM L £0 £84k £5k
Leon Miftari 17 DM £0 £69k £4k
Bennett Hoch 17 GK £0 £120k £8k
Daniel Posch 17 GK £0 £1m £82k 30-06-2027
Baqdäulet Nüraly 18 ST £0 £381k £25k
Albert Gareginyan 16 ST £0 £400k £25k
Alamgir Smaqov 17 AM R £0 £0
Thiago Benítez 20 D R £0 £0
Paul Bahoya 17 D/WB R £0 £227k £15k 30-06-2025
Nassim El Massoudi 17 D RC £0 £68k £4k 30-06-2025
Tanthai Theeten 16 D L £0 £0
Mustafa Shen 18 D C £0 £135k £9k 31-12-2025
Noel Pafla 17 D LC £0 £233k £15k 30-06-2027
Daniiar Tashpulatov 17 D/WB L £0 £803k £55k 31-12-2026
Federico Passariello 17 ST £0 £175k £11k 30-06-2027
Mükhamedali Äbig 17 AM C £0 £154k £10k 31-12-2025
Robin Stolpe 17 ST £0 £292k £19k 30-06-2025
Toni Gabriel Matenda 17 ST £0 £190k £13k 30-06-2026
Elia-Giona Salamone 17 D/WB/M L £0 £209k £14k 30-06-2025
Diego Backes 16 D/WB L £0 £1m £78k 30-06-2026
Kaan Firat 17 ST £0 £270k £19k 30-06-2027
Lumiere Santo 17 AM RL, ST £0 £337k £22k 30-06-2027
Davit Kutalia 17 AM RL £0 £0
Marc Kornwachs 16 DM, AM C £0 £224k £15k 30-06-2026
Frank Egwuatu 16 ST £0 £280k £18k 30-06-2026
Luca Hampel 16 AM LC £0 £331k £21k 30-06-2026
Allan Bohomo 17 D C, DM £0 £150k £10k
Levin Vogt 16 D RL £0 £524k £34k 30-06-2026
Franz Hantschmann 16 GK £0 £398k £26k 30-06-2027
Can Güner 17 AM RL £55 £216k £15k 30-06-2026
Mher Harutyunyan 15 ST £0 £277k £17k
Luc Gigon 16 AM RC £0 £168k £10k
Erbol Kurmanakhan 16 AM RL £0 £484k £30k
Saliou Camara 19 D C £0 £0
Noah Candir 17 DM £0 £214k £14k 30-06-2025
Tom Faust 17 AM R £0 £305k £20k 30-06-2025
Ilija Despotovic 17 AM/F C £0 £92k £6k
Chaïn Ghrissi 19 AM C £0 £0
Kimi Baur 17 M C £0 £251k £16k 30-06-2026
Malik Kassassir 16 M C £0 £698k £45k 30-06-2026
Jakob Benz 17 M C £0 £233k £15k 30-06-2026
Emilio Fritschi 17 DM £0 £233k £15k 30-06-2027
Yanik Boos 17 D C £0 £320k £21k 30-06-2025
Ivan Cossalter 17 AM R, ST £0 £182k £11k
Yannis Odin 16 M LC £0 £107k £6k
Kryštof Čížek 17 AM C £0 £337k £22k 30-06-2027
Tamay Dügdü 17 AM RLC £0 £209k £14k 30-06-2025
Anton Hofbauer 16 D LC, DM £0 £364k £24k 30-06-2027
Dario Kaufmann 16 WB/M R £0 £146k £9k
Noan Hirt 17 GK £0 £149k £9k
Bright Ocran 15 AM LC £0 £247k £15k
Nebe-Sirak Domnic 16 D RC £0 £185k £12k 30-06-2025
Mohamed Moussa Koïta 18 D C £0 £0
Navin Zesiger 16 DM £0 £146k £9k
Ben El Idrissi 16 DM £0 £122k £7k
Tristan Nunez 16 AM RL, ST £0 £211k £13k 30-06-2028
Will Henson 17 ST £0 £0
Maksat Abraev 17 AM RL, ST £0 £307k £19k
Tahiel Allende 17 D R £0 £0
Erblin Bajraktar 16 D R £0 £122k £8k 30-06-2028
Euron Bajraktar 16 AM RL £0 £9k £560 30-06-2028
Dominic Keibach 16 D C £0 £118k £7k
Elias Kurti 16 AM L £0 £132k £8k
Johannes Schäfer 16 D C, M C £0 £80k £5k
Shedrach Ogbodu 16 ST £0 £118k £7k
Julien Werdenberg 16 D/WB R £0 £91k £6k
Destini Megogo 16 D C £0 £2m £139k 30-06-2028
Claudio Bettoni-Katunda 18 D C £172 £176k £12k 30-06-2026

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