We continue our focus on staff recommendations for Football Manager by handing you our personal tips of the best scouts in Football Manager 2024. By improving the scouting team you will be able to spot more players and increase the pool of players to target by expanding the world knowledge.
These recommended Football Manager 2024 scouts can become a valuable piece and perhaps the missing link when setting up a successful scouting program that finds the best targets suited for your playing style. With our collection of 5-star scouts and chief scouts, you will be able to set up an efficient scouting team that expands your scouting knowledge rapidly and still provide accurate scout reports.
These members of the recruitment team will be essential in your hunt for wonderkids and talents, as well as when finding suitable prospects to improve your squad by providing more accurate recommendations ratings and star ratings on players‘ current or potential abilities.
Discover the best Football Manager 2024 scouts and set up a 5-star scouting team now!
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About The List of FM24 Best Scouts
This list of 5-star scouts in Football Manager 2024 is just a collection of our recommendations of excellent FM24 scouts to target. With over 500 scouts with great ratings in Football Manager 2024, we have been forced to limit the list, and have therefore provided you with a summary of the best scouts in FM24.
We have compiled a shortlist of the best scouts in FM 2024 which is available to download in the bottom of the post.
By downloading the backroom staff search filter, you can find the best Football Manager 2024 scouts in your save yourself, either they are real scouts from the default database or they are replaced by newgen staff. Together with Passion4FM’s custom views for staff search you can easily sort and find the scouts needed for your own scouting program.
Ranking The Best Football Manager 2024 Scouts & Chief-Scouts
A general scout or the perfect chief scout features excellent ratings in judging player ability and potential. He may not have the best adaptability, but provides accurate scout reports of both young talents and established first-team players. This comes in handy, as you will want the chief scout or this specific general scout to get a second opinion of transfer targets and recommendations provided from other scouts within your scouting team.
These scouts may have other responsibilities too, such as roaming nations, scout competitions, attending matches or scouting the next opposition team but we have not taken into account their Tactical Knowledge nor their Analysing Data attribute.
Our ranking of the best Football Manager 2024 scouts is sorted by their level of judging current ability, then judging player potential and adaptability.
FM24 Scouts
NB! Attributes may vary from save to save
5 Star FM24 Roaming Scouts [WIP]
This list of 5-star roaming scouts for Football Manager 2024 looks to recommend scouts that are perfect for scouting regions and continents as he features excellent adaptability. He can easily adapt to new cultures and won’t need extra time to get accustomed to a foreign country before starting delivering scout reports of local talents.
This list of best roaming scouts in Football Manager 2024 is sorted by each scout’s adaptability with judging player ability and judging player potential as secondary attributes worthy to notice.
Learn more about how to expand the scouting knowledge by utilizing the scouting network here.
| NAME | CLUB | NATION / SCOUT REGION | WAGE | ADAP. | JPA | JPP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bojan Krkic | - | SERBIA, SPAIN | - | 20 | 17 | 18 |
| Javier Ribalta | - | SPAIN, FRANCE, ITALY | 20 | 19 | 18 | |
| Carmine Gentile | Sampdoria | ITALY | €1.6K p/w | 20 | 18 | 13 |
| Bob Arber | Ipswich | ENGLAND, USA | €425 p/w | 20 | 16 | 19 |
| Johnny Peeters | BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, ENGLAND, FRANCE | 20 | 15 | 20 | ||
| Leonardo Scirpoli | Norwich | ITALY, AUSTRIA, GERMANY, ENGLAND | €1.2K p/w | 20 | 15 | 16 |
| Michel Rablat | Everton | FRANCE, ITALY, BELGIUM, SPAIN, ENGLAND' | €1.2K p/w | 20 | 15 | 16 |
| Luis Ferrer | - | ARGENTINA, URUGUAY, PARAGUAY | 20 | 15 | 16 | |
| Bartosz Oledzki | Chelsea | POLAND, ENGLAND | €1.2K p/w | 20 | 14 | 17 |
| Fermin Galeote | Sevilla | SPAIN | €7K p/w | 20 | 14 | 15 |
| John McKenna | Aston Villa | ENGLAND, SCOTLAND | €1.2K p/w | 20 | 14 | 14 |
| Pål Berg | Stabæk | NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, FINLAND, IVORY COAST | €700 p/w | 20 | 13 | 15 |
| Andrew Gosling | LAFC | USA, CANADA, COSTA RICA, HONDURAS, JAMAICA + EUROPE | €1.4K p/w | 20 | 13 | 15 |
| Kamil Nowak | Norwich | POLAND, ENGLAND | €525 p/w | 20 | 13 | 13 |
| Miguel Gutierrez | Club America | MEXICO, USA, ARGENTINA, CHILE, COLOMBIA | €525 p/w | 20 | 12 | 12 |
| Simon Wells | Man Utd | ENGLAND, SCANDINAVIA | €1.2K p/w | 19 | 18 | 19 |
| José Ignacio Castillo | Atalanta | ITALY, ARGENTINA | €4.6K p/w | 19 | 17 | 18 |
| José Boto | - | PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE, BELGIUM, NETHERLANDS, CROATIA | - | 19 | 17 | 16 |
| Amaury Padilla | Atlas | MEXICO, USA, ARGENTINA, CHILE, COLOMBIA | €475 p/w | 19 | 16 | 15 |
| Rui Barros | Porto | PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE, ITALY, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA | €4.1K p/w | 19 | 15 | 15 |
| Karel Brandsma | Heerenveen | NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, GERMANY, DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN | €975 p/w | 19 | 13 | 15 |
| Jakob Friis-Hansen | Bordeaux | DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, ENGLAND, FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY, SPAIN | €1K p/w | 18 | 16 | 16 |
| Søren Lerby | - | DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN | - | 18 | 15 | 15 |
| Steve Hitchen | - | ENGLAND | - | 17 | 15 | 16 |
| Pablo Ibáñez | Brighton | ENGLAND, SPAIN | €825 p/w | 17 | 15 | 16 |
| Hans-Peter Lehnhoff | Bayer 04 Leverkusen | GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND | €1.5K p/w | 17 | 14 | 14 |
| Tobias Ackerman | AIK | SWEDEN, DENMARK, NORWAY, FINLAND, ICELAND | €1K p/w | 17 | 13 | 14 |
| Sebastian Frank | E. Frankfurt | GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND, ENGLAND | €5.5K p/w | 16 | 18 | 17 |
| Juan Carlos Pérez Rojo | Barcelona | SPAIN, ITALY, AUSTRIA, CROATIA, SLOVENIA, GREECE | €1.2K p/w | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| Luca Silvani | Atalanta | ITALY | €7.75K p/w | 16 | 17 | 16 |
| Salim Benahcene | Liverpool | NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, FRANCE, ENGLAND, ITALY, SPAIN, ALGERIA | €1.4K p/w | 16 | 17 | 15 |
| Miguel Soares | Benfica | PORTUGAL, SPAIN, FRANCE, ENGLAND, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, | €3.5K p/w | 16 | 14 | 14 |
| Ismael Poveda | Chelsea | ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, SPAIN | €1.2K p/w | 16 | 14 | 14 |
| Carlos Ruiz | - | ENGLAND, SPAIN | - | 15 | 17 | 16 |
| Tika Musonda | Tottenham | ENGLAND, BELGIUM, FRANCE, SPAIN | €1.2K p/w | 15 | 14 | 14 |
| Roy Beukenkamp | Man Utd | NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, ENGLAND, SCANDINAVIA | €1.2K p/w | 14 | 17 | 16 |
| Gilmar Francisco | - | BRAZIL | - | 14 | 16 | 18 |
| Carlos Lodico | Lanús | ARGENTINA, PARAGUAY, URUGUAY | €450 p/w | 14 | 16 | 16 |
| Henk Grim | De Treffers | NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, GERMANY, DENMARK, NORWAY | €325 p/w | 14 | 15 | 15 |
| Stefano Bonaccorso | Atalanta | ITALY | €3K p/w | 14 | 15 | 15 |
| Piotr Sadowski | Man Utd | ENGLAND, POLAND | €925 p/w | 13 | 17 | 19 |
| Sebastian Arnesen | - | SCANDINAVIA, ENGLAND, SPAIN, GHANA | - | 10 | 18 | 17 |
| José Laranjeira | Braga | PORTUGAL, SPAIN, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, FRANCE, ENGLAND | €3.1K p/w | 9 | 15 | 15 |
NB! Attributes may vary from save to save
Download Passion4FMs Backroom Staff Search Filter
Get our comprehensive backroom staff search filter containing the key attributes for all staff roles in Football Manager 2024 and setup the best coaching team or recruitment team in FM24.
Download Instructions
- Download the file above.
- Put the files into folder :
My Documents / Sports Interactive / Football Manager 2024 / Shortlists - Extract the .rar file with UnZip or WinRar
- Open Football Manager 2024
- Go to:
Staff / Staff Shortlist - Click Load Shortlist
- Import the file:
Best Coaches and etcand click Load - Replicate the process to load the other shortlists
