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A List of the Top 5 Male Goalkeepers in FIFA – Records and Statistics
An international jury made up of the most outstanding goalkeepers in men’s football selects the winner of the Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper Award.
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A goalkeeper is a player specifically assigned to the task of preventing goals from being scored by the opposing team by stopping or deflecting shots on the goal. The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper nominees have been announced by FIFA, and Gianluigi Donnarumma will compete against Edouard Mendy, Alisson Becker, Kasper Schmeichel, and Manuel Neuer. A winner will be announced on January 17 after being evaluated by an international jury made up of managers, international captains, and a specialist journalist from each territory.
The Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper
Here is the list of first, second, third rank holders of goalkeepers of different years.
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| year | Rank | Player | Team(s) |
| 2017 | 1st | Gianluigi Buffon | Juventus |
| 2nd | Manuel Neuer | Bayern Munich | |
| 3rd | Keylor Navas | Real Madrid | |
| 2018 | 1st | Thibaut Courtois | Chelsea
Real Madrid |
| 2nd | Hugo Lloris | Tottenham Hotspur | |
| 3rd | Kasper Schmeichel | Leicester City | |
| 2019 | 1st | Alisson | Liverpool |
| 2nd | Marc-André ter Stegen | Barcelona | |
| 3rd | Ederson | Manchester City | |
| 2020 | 1st | Manuel Neuer | Bayern Munich |
| 2nd | Alisson | Liverpool | |
| 3rd | Jan Oblak | Atlético Madrid | |
| 2021 | 1st | Édouard Mendy | Chelsea |
| 2nd | Gianluigi Donnarumma | Milan
Paris Saint-Germain |
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| 3rd | Manuel Neuer | Bayern Munich | |
A goalkeeper is a player specifically assigned to the task of preventing goals from being scored by the opposing team by stopping or deflecting shots on the goal. Four goalkeepers have received the Best FIFA Men’s Goalkeeper honor, including Manuel Neuer, Gianluigi Buffon, Alisson Becker, Gianluigi Donnarumma. The award’s most recent winner was the keeper for Germany and Bayern Munich. In more than 50 games across competitions, the 35-year-old was instrumental in the Bavarian giants’ second continental victory in 2019–20, recording 22 clean sheets.
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