The Best - FIFA World Goalkeeper

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The FIFA World Goalkeeper is an award given annually by the world association FIFA to the best football goalkeeper . It has been awarded since 2017 and is part of The Best FIFA Football Awards . Previously, the best goalkeeper was not officially recognized, only the appointment to FIFA FIFPro World XI could be seen as a comparable award. In 2019, Sari van Veenendaal became the first FIFA world goalkeeper to be awarded.

In the past, the goalkeepers who received the unofficial award from the IFFHS organization were mostly referred to as world goalkeepers (see award winners there).

Election mode

The award is based on the performance and behavior of the players on and off the pitch. A panel of experts made up of former goalkeepers and strikers selects the winner from a list of nominees.

Award winners

Men

Gianluigi Buffon - First Prize Winner 2017
  • Club : Club for which the excellent goalkeeper was active. If a goalkeeper has changed clubs during the calendar year, the club leaving the club is named in first position.
  • Candidates : goalkeepers who followed in the next two ranks
  • Goalkeepers marked in green were recognized as world goalkeepers by the IFFHS (since 1987) in the same year, goalkeepers marked in yellow received the Yashin trophy for the world goalkeeper from France Football in the same year (since 2019).
year player society Candidates
2017 ItalyItaly Gianluigi Buffon ItalyItaly Juventus Turin GermanyGermany Manuel Neuer Keylor Navas
Costa RicaCosta Rica
2018 BelgiumBelgium Thibaut Courtois SpainSpain real Madrid FranceFrance Hugo Lloris Kasper Schmeichel
DenmarkDenmark
2019
BrazilBrazil Alisson Becker
EnglandEngland Liverpool FC GermanyGermany Marc-André ter Stegen Ederson
BrazilBrazil

Women

  • Club : Club for which the excellent goalkeeper was active. If a goalkeeper has changed clubs during the calendar year, the club leaving the club is named in first position.
  • Candidates : goalkeepers who followed in the next two ranks
  • In the same year, players marked in green were recognized by the IFFHS (since 2012) as world goalkeepers.
year Player society Candidates
2019 NetherlandsNetherlands Sari van Veenendaal EnglandEngland Arsenal FC / Atlético Madrid
SpainSpain  		ChileChile Christiane Endler Hedvig Lindahl
SwedenSweden

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIFA World Goalkeeper on the official FIFA website
  2. ↑ The Best - FIFA World Goalkeeper , fifa.com, accessed July 30, 2020.
  3. ↑ Rules for the award on the official website of FIFA