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Best Football goalkeepers

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118votes

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0commentsUpdated on 10/17/2026 at 03:00 AM

Manuel Neuer1707

The worldwide ranking generated by 118 votes

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Manuel Neuer1707

Thibaut Courtois1676

Keylor Navas1645

Dida1588

Iker Casillas1551

Petr Čech1551

Gianluigi Buffon1550

Alisson Becker1539

Fabien Barthez1537

#10

Oliver Kahn1521

#11

Edwin van der Sar1488

#12

Mike Maignan1488

#13

Gordon Banks1484

#14

Dino Zoff1464

#15

Sepp Maier1448

#16

Peter Schmeichel1432

#17

Peter Shilton1425

#18

Lev Yashin1410

#19

Ricardo Zamora1398

#20

Michel Preud'Homme1376

#21

Pat Jennings1368

#22

Walter Zenga1353

What the community says

Who's your favorite goalkeeper? Duel between the best goalkeepers in world football: Buffon, Neuer, Van Der Sar, Casillas and more legends.

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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