---
title: "Remove a free agent from the pool"
method: POST
path: "/tournaments/{identifier}/free-agents/{freeAgentId}/remove"
tags: ["Tournament: Free Agents"]
---

# Remove a free agent from the pool

`POST /tournaments/{identifier}/free-agents/{freeAgentId}/remove`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://teambattles.gg/api/v1`
- URL: `https://teambattles.gg/api/v1/tournaments/{identifier}/free-agents/{freeAgentId}/remove`
- Auth: HTTP bearer

Withdraws a free agent from the tournament pool as the organizer and expires their pending offers. Requires the tournaments free_agents capability and MANAGER authority - a tournament MODERATOR qualifies. ORDERING: an agent whose status is PICKED_UP is refused with 400 error_invalid_input ("Remove the player from the team roster first") and nothing is written, because withdrawing them while their FREE_AGENT roster entry survives would strand the player - no re-entry path accepts a non-AVAILABLE pool row, and the surviving roster entry keeps the re-pickup guards rejecting. Delete that roster entry first via DELETE /tournaments/{identifier}/roster-entries/{rosterEntryId}, which releases the agent back to AVAILABLE, then call this endpoint. An AVAILABLE agent can be removed directly.

## Path parameters

- `identifier` string, required: Tournament slug.
- `freeAgentId` string, required: Tournament free-agent pool entry ID.

## Response `200`

The free agent was removed from the pool.

- TournamentWriteAck: Acknowledgement returned by the tournament write endpoints whose backing operation has nothing to return - the organizer writes (endpoints 22-34), the team roster writes (40, 41), and the competitor self actions that neither mint nor resolve a row (38, 39, 44, 45, 47). Endpoints that mint a row answer with that row's id instead, and the two respond endpoints (42, 46) answer with the decision they recorded.
  - `success` true, required: Always true; failures are error responses.
  - `timestamp` string, required: Response generation time (ISO 8601).

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad request (invalid body, cursor, limit, or date).
- `401`: Missing or invalid API key.
- `403`: API key lacks the required permission.
- `404`: Resource not found.
- `429`: Rate limited.
- `500`: Internal server error.

## Changes

- **2026-07-23** `33b122ff59d0`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/teambattles/apis/teambattles-api/changes/tournaments/:identifier/free-agents/:freeAgentId/remove/post.md)

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