Football Manager 2020 Best Free Agents

Ultimate List of Best Free Agents in Football Manager 2020

Today we hand you our preliminary FM20 beta list of the best free agents in Football Manager 2020. This list features current players without a club from the 2019 summer transfer window and who might be available for free in FM20. This list of Football Manager 2020 best free agents will be updated, if necessary with the official unattached players within FM 2020.

Got a minimal transfer budget and forced to improve squad depth in more creative ways? Help is under way as we deliver the list of the best free agents in Football Manager 2020. Here you’ll find players out of contract and on a free transfer that’s highly recommended to buy at the start of every save!

The Football Manager 2020 best free agents list continues our focus on recommended players to buy in FM20 and provides a great opportunity for all of whom who are not managing a top club to find reasonable targets and perhaps gain some money from them relatively quickly.

Our list of the Football Manager 2020 best free agents lets you discover some free Football Manager wonderkids, some potential first team members for premier division clubs as well as excellent players for anyone doing a lower league save. This year we’ve also included more under-23 players with great potential that we recommend to approach on a free transfer and develop.

This list of unattached players is just a summary of the best free agents in FM20. By downloading the featured shortlist you’ll get to know more players available on a free in Football Manager 2020. The latest FM20 free agents shortlist includes 525 players between the age of 18 and 36.

Why Approaching Unattached Players or Free Transfer Players (aka Free Agents)

There are several benefits of approaching players on expired contracts that are available on a free transfer no matter which division you manage in, either its in a top league or a lower league. With the economical benefits of targeting unattached players with international experience comes a chance to improve your club’s squad depth without taking any risks.

Here are some of the benefits of closely checking through our list of the best Football Manager 2019 free agents.

• There are almost none risks taken signing a player on free transfer. The only expenditures attached to signing these players are wages plus perhaps bonuses and clauses.
• Players available on free transfer can be signed no matter if the transfer window is open or closed, as long as they have only played for one club before yours in the current season. This makes you able to search for unattached players the entire season, and strengthen your squad when it’s needed! This is especially beneficial when injury crisis occurs. Should you perhaps have all goalkeepers in your squad out for a long-term injury, you will be able to register a new goalkeeper, which can be picked up on free transfer.
• These players can be used as tutors using their international experience and experience gained throughout a long career at your youth. Some of these players may got player preferred moves, which can only be learned through tutoring.
• Their personality can be used to develop the personality of a youngster which isn’t that professional. A ‘positive’ personality like model professional or driven will let the youngster withstand heavier training workload and may progress faster.
• For a minor squad, these players can improve the current squad depth and become a valuable player in a long season with two matches every week. Just remember to scout the player until 100% scouting knowledge to get information about injury proneness and other hidden attributes which may not be that favorable for valuable member of your squad.
• An unattached player or a free agent may be more interested signing a contract with a squad status of rotation or backup player, something that means he won’t have high expectations of getting many appearances throughout the season, which minimizes the risk of him getting unhappy or complaining about lack of first team matches.
• As most of the players have fully reached their current ability level and won’t develop any further due to their age you will basically know what you will get when buying the player in terms of level of player attributes.
• The Under 23 Players that are listed below has certainly not fulfilled their potential. They are a great target to develop and sell after 1 to 3 years time depending on their progress. The biggest risk and concern is their injury susceptibility.
• The best players available on free transfer can immediately make a decent team a contender for the league trophy, but don’t forget that some may be fragile to injuries or lacks the physic and stamina to play every match of the season as their careers are on the decline.

About Passion4FM’s FM20 Best Free Agents List

This year we have limited the list of the best free agents in Football Manager 2020 according to their abilities and personality. We’ve decided not to include players older than 36 years old within the list.

We have sorted them according to playing position, approximately playing level and age.

These unattached players might be perfect targets for a long term save battling for promotion in one of the suggestion we had for Football Manager 2020 clubs to manage released yesterday.

Explanation to the Star Ratings

International Star
International Star
National Star – Top/Great Premier League Player
National Star – Average/Decent Premier League Player
National Call-Up Prospect – Top Championship Player
Great/Average Championship Player
Top/Great League One Player
Average League One Player / Top League Two
Average League Two Player
Top Lower Leagues Player

Goalkeepers

NATION	NAME	AGE	POS.	NOTES	RATING
	Emiliano Viviano	33	GK	Personality: Fairly Loyal Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Fabiano Ribeiro de Freitas	31	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Sébastien Cibois	21	GK	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Simone Cortinovis	23	GK	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Mouez Hassen	24	GK	Personality: Fairly Sporting Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Guillermo de Amores	24	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Nicolás Rodríguez	25	GK	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Gaspar Servio	26	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Tiago Machowski	26	GK	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Jordan Archer	26	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Raúl Lizoain	28	GK	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Left
	Johann Carrasso	31	GK	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Mario Fernández Cuesta	31	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Ádám Bogdán	31	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Cenk Gönen	31	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Piet Velthuizen	32	GK	Personality: Driven Preferred Foot: Right Only
	David Yurchenko	33	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Geoffrey Jourdren	33	GK	Personality: Perfect. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Stefan Frei	33	GK	Personality: F. Sporting Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Mark Bunn	34	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Roberto Santamaría	34	GK	Personality: Ambitious Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Nicolás Santillán	21	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Nemanja Jevric	22	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Panagiotis Glykos	32	GK	Personality: Fairly Loyal Preferred Foot: Right
	Javi Jiménez	32	GK	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Marc Vidal	28	GK	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Zeljko Brkic	32	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Logan Bailly	33	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left
	Piotr Leciejewski	34	GK	Personality: Fairly Loyal Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Kenneth Udjus	35	GK	Personality: Light-Hearted Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Landry Bonnefoi	35	GK	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left Only

Central Defenders

NATION	NAME	AGE	POS.	NOTES	RATING
	Ricardo Ferreira	26	DC	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Right
	Alexander Milosevic	27	DC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Matías Silvestre	28	DC	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Right
	Slobodan Rajkovic	30	DC	Personality: Prof. Preferred Foot: Left
	Philipp Wollscheid	30	DC	Personality: Light Hearted Preferred Foot: Right
	Jagos Vukovic	31	DC	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Left
	Borja Equiza	31	DC	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Juan Forlín	31	DC	Personality: Spirited Preferred Foot: Right
	Nemanja Pejcinovic	31	DC	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Eugene Khacheridi	32	DC	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Right
	Johan Djourou	32	DC	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Younes Kaboul	33	DC	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Rolando Jorge Pires da Fonseca	33	DC	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Gabriel Paletta	33	DC	Personality: Fairly Sporting Preferred Foot: Right
	Younes Kaboul	33	DC	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Andrea Raggi	35	DC	Personality: Spirited Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Arlind Ajeti	25	DC	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Tommie Hoban	25	DC DRL	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Aleksandar Pantic	27	DC (DR)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Stefan Strandberg	28	DC	Personality: Spirited Preferred Foot: Right
Guinea-Bissau	Eddi Gomes	30	DC	Personality: Fairly Loyal Preferred Foot: Right
	Ondrej Mazuch	30	DC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Guillermo Burdisso	30	DC	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Serdar Taşçı	32	DC	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Felipe Santana	33	DC	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Jérôme Guihoata	24	DC (DR/DM)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Essaïd Belkalem	30	DC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left
	Marc Wilson	32	DC	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Either

Fullbacks / Wingbacks

NATION	NAME	AGE	POS.	NOTES
	Jefferson	30	D/WBL	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left
	Fábio Coentrão	31	D/WBL (MLR)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Ivan Strinic	31	D/WBL (ML)	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Left
	Gregory van der Wiel	31	DR DC/WBR	Personality: Jovial Preferred Foot: Right
	Christian Träsch	31	D/WBR	Personality: Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Ignazio Abate	32	D/WBR	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Dusan Basta	34	D/WBR	Personality: Light-Hearted Preferred Foot: Right
	Alan Hutton	34	D/WBR	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Maximiliano Pereira	35	D/WBR	Personality: Perfect. Preferred Foot: Right
	Marko Petkovic	26	DR (WBR)	Personality: Fairly Loyal Preferred Foot: Right
	Mehdi Zeffane	27	DR	Personality: F. Loyal Preferred Foot: Right
	stefan Stangl	27	DL	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left
	Giulio Donati	29	D/WBR	Personality: Perfect. Preferred Foot: Right
	Franck Tabanou	30	D/WB/M/AML	Personality: Ambitious Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Sandro Sirigu	30	D/WBR	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Right
	Alexander Büttner	30	D/WBL	Personality: F. Sporting Preferred Foot: Left
	Martin Olsson	31	D/WBL	Personality: F. Prof. Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Fabrício dos Santos Silva	32	D/WB/ML	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left
	Mouhamadou Dabo	32	DRL	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Fran Tudor	23	D/WB/M/AMR	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Manolis Tzanakakis	27	D/WBR	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right Only
	Omar Esparza	31	DR (DL)	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Left

Defensive Midfielders

NATION	NAME	AGE	POS.	NOTES
	Lucas Silva	26	DM (MC)	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Dmitry Tarasov	32	DM (MC)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Alberto Martín	30	DM (DC)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Fernando Tissone	32	DM (MC)	Personality: Spirited Preferred Foot: Right
DR Congo	Youssouf Mulumbu	32	DM/MC	Personality: Fairly Loyal Preferred Foot: Right
	Didier Digard	32	DM (MC)	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Right
	Mile Jedinak	34	DM (MC)	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Right
	Lorenzo Crisetig	26	DM/MC	Personality: Professional Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Tom Adeyemi	27	DM/MC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Richardson	27	DM/MC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Isaac Koné	28	DM (DC)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Jack Rodwell	28	DM/MC (DC)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Either
	Fillipe Soutto	28	DM/MC	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Left
	Vurnon Anita	30	DM (DRL)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	John Ogu	31	DM (MC)	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Left
	Darron Gibson	31	DM (MC)	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Denílson Pereira Neves	31	DM/MC	Personality: Fairly Amb. Preferred Foot: Right
	Joe Ledley	32	DM (MC)	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Arouca	32	DM (MC)	Personality: Spirited Preferred Foot: Right
	Gojko Kacar	32	DM (DC)	Personality: Determined Preferred Foot: Right
	Alexandros Tziolis	34	DM/MC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Darren Fletcher	35	DM/MC	Personality: Model Citizen Preferred Foot: Right
	Clément Chantôme	31	DM/MC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Willians Domingos Fernandes	33	DM (MC)	Personality: Fairly Loyal Preferred Foot: Right

Central / Attacking Midfielders [Preliminary list]

NATION	NAME	AGE	POS.	NOTES
	Álvaro Medrán	25	M/AMC	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Jordon Mutch	27	MC (AMC)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Pavel Mamaev	30	MC AMR	Personality: Driven Preferred Foot: Right
	Fran Rico	31	MC DM	Personality: Model Citizen Preferred Foot: Right
	Hatem Ben Arfa	32	AMRC	Personality: Fairly Amb. Preferred Foot: Left
	Yoann Gourcuff	32	M/AMC	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Keisuke Honda	33	AMRC	Personality: Professional Preferred Foot: Left
	Cheikh Ndoye	33	MC (DM)	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Valon Behrami	34	MC (DM)	Personality: Amb. Preferred Foot: Right
	Michael Krohn-Dehli	36	M/AMLC	Personality: F. Loyal Preferred Foot: Right
	Nosa Igiebor	28	M/AMC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Carlos Eduardo	31	M/AMC	Personality: Fairly Amb. Preferred Foot: Left
	Birkir Bjarnason	31	MLC (AMC)	Personality: Fairly Amb. Preferred Foot: Right
	Stephen Ireland	32	M/AMC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	James Morrison	33	MC (MR)	Personality: Fairly Amb. Preferred Foot: Right
	Sergio García	36	AMRC/ST	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right

Wingers

NATION	NAME	AGE	POS.	NOTES
	Biro Biro	24	AMRL	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Jérémie Bela	26	M/AMR	Personality: Fairly Sporting Preferred Foot: Right
	Samu García	28	M/AMR M/AML	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Jonathan Biabiany	31	M/AMR	Personality: Fairly Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Danny	35	AMLC	Personality: Prof. Preferred Foot: Either
	Carlos Luque	27	M/AML	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Adrien Regattin	27	AMRL (AMC)	Personality: Fairly Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Negueba	27	M/AMR	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Carlos Sinisterra	27	M/AML	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Alen Stevanovic	28	AMRL	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Ben Marshall	28	M/AMR AMLC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Billy Ketkeo	29	AMR	Personality: F. Sporting Preferred Foot: Right
	Iván Etevenaux	29	MR AMR	Personality: F. Det. Preferred Foot: Right
	Nicolás Aguirre	29	MLC AML	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left
	Oussama Assaidi	30	AMRL	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Loïc Puyo	30	AML	Personality: F. Prof. Preferred Foot: Left Only
	Aarón Ñíguez	30	AMLC (AMR)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Diego Capel	31	AMLC (AMR)	Personality: F. Det. Preferred Foot: Left
	Birkir Bjarnason	31	MLC (AMLC)	Personality: F. Amb. Preferred Foot: Right
	Aboudakar Oumarou	32	AML/ST	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Ivo Ilicevic	32	M/AML	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Either
	Jay Emmanuel-Thomas	28	AMRC (AML/ST)	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left
	Richard Soumah	32	AML	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Left

Strikers

NATION	NAME	AGE	POS.	NOTES
	Fred Friday	24	ST	Personality: Prof. Preferred Foot: Right
	Dellatorre	27	FC	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Cristian Nazarit	28	ST	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Marcus Pedersen	29	ST	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Jonathas	30	FC	Personality: Fairly Amb. Preferred Foot: Right
	Wilfried Bony	30	ST	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Keirrison	30	ST	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Paulo Henrique Carneiro Filho	30	ST (AMRL)	Personality: Fairly Amb. Preferred Foot: Right
	Victor Anichebe	31	ST (AML)	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Right
	Modibo Maïga	31	ST (AML)	Personality: Ambitious Preferred Foot: Left
	Anatole N’Gamukol	31	ST AMRL	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Giuseppe Rossi	32	ST	Personality: Spirited Preferred Foot: Left
	Ross McCormack	32	AMC/ST	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right
	Obafemi Martins	34	ST	Personality: Resolute Preferred Foot: Left
	Víctor Montaño	35	ST	Personality: Spirited Preferred Foot: Right
	Ikechukwu Uche	35	ST	Personality: F. Amb. Preferred Foot: Right
	Cristián Díaz	32	ST	Personality: Balanced Preferred Foot: Right

Download Instructions

1. Import the file to:

• PC: This Computer/Your Documents/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2020 > shortlist
• MAC*: Users/YOUR Mac USERNAME/Library/Application Support/Sports Interactive/Football Manager 2020 > Shortlist

NB! This folder is hidden by default. Please follow these instructions to locate your Football Manager 2020 Documents*.

2. Restart Football Manager 2020
3. Locate Scouting and Click Shortlist
4. Click Wrench icon – Load shortlist
5. Select the preferred shortlist – Click Open