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The World‘s best Goalkeeper of the 21st Century

Establishing The World‘s best Goalkeeper of the 21st Century can only be done on the basis of the annual world vote (by the IFFHS). Each year many different jurors (countries) have taken part in the vote and, in the early years the jurors voted for the top three places (3 points to 1 point), and only later for the top four places (4 points to 1 point).

So it would not be possible to simply add the points awarded in the annual votes.

The IFFHS has devised an equitable method for determining The World‘s best Goalkeeper of the 21st Century. From the annual ranking of the goalkeepers (as a result of the world vote) the IFFHS will take into consideration the "Top 20" for each year and allocate points to each place. So the first-placed receives 20 points, the second-placed 19 points, the third-placed 18 points ... and a point for twentieth place. If the annual world ranking comprises more than 20 goalkeepers, then the goalkeepers from 21st place onwards receive no points. If the annual world ranking comprises fewer than 20 goalkeepers (based on the fixed rules), no points will be awarded for the unoccupied palces.
From the addition of the points received in the single years produces the world ranking list of the 21st century, which widens of a year every year in January. Each first-placed goalkeeper of this world ranking list is the leading World’s best Referee of the 21st Century to date.

Gianluigi Buffon ahead of Iker Casillas by a hair

After 11 years, Italian "Gigi" Buffon leads the ranking list with only two points ahead of Spaniard Iker Casillas and is therefore the leading World’s best Goalkeeper of the 21st Century - up to now. Both of them have been World’s best Goalkeeper of the Year four times. Should the Spaniard rank three places ahead of "Gigi" Buffon in the "Top 20" in the 2012 world election, he would take the lead in this world ranking list. With the still active Czech Petr ?ech and Oliver Kahn (3x), further former World’s best Goalkeeper follow in the "Top 5", but a considerable part of the career of the German goalkeeper took place already in the 20th century.

South America‘s leading goalkeeper of the 21st century is at the moment »Dida«, ahead of his Brazilian countryman Júlio César. However, should the goalkeeper of FC Internazionale Milano place among the "Top 6" in the 2012 world election, he would become South America’s new no.1 in the 21st century. Among the "Top 10" there are six goalkeepers who never became World’s best Goalkeeper of the Year, but provided world-class performances over more than a decade.

 

Ranking (2001-2011): 

GoalkeeperNationality2001-2011



1.Gianluigi BuffonItalia1992.Iker CasillasEspaña1973.Petr ?ech?eská Republika1544.Edwin van der SarNederland1165.Oliver KahnDeutschland996.Nélson de Jesus e Silva »Dida«Brasil907.Victor Valdes España828.Júlio César Soãres EspíndolaBrasil769.Jens LehmannDeutschland7210.Roberto Carlos AbbondanzieriArgentina6811.Fabien BarthezFrance5512.José Manuel ReinaEspaña5413.Rogério CeniBrasil5314.Francesco ToldoItalia5215.Igor AkinfeevRussia4716.Jerzy DudekPolska4217.Timothy Matthew HowardUSA36
Manuel NeuerDeutschland3619.Santiago CañizaresEspaña3520.Justo Wilmar VillarParaguay3421.Fernando Néstor MusleraUruguay2922.Grégory CoupetFrance2823.Rüstü ReçberTürkiye2724.José Luis Félix ChilavertParaguay26
Maarten StekelenburgNederland2626.José Francisco CevallosEcuador25
Hugo LlorisFrance2528.Andonios NikopolidisHellas2429.René AdlerDeutschland2330.Bradlay Howard FriedelUSA2131.Oscar Eduardo CórdobaColombia1932.Séamus John James GivenIreland17
Marcos Roberto Silveira ReisBrasil17
Francisco Guillermo OchoaMéxico17
Andrés PalopEspaña1736.Vítor Manuel Martins BaíaPortugal16
Ricardo Alexandre Martins Soares Portugal1638.Heurelho da Silva GomesBrasil15
Timo HildebrandDeutschland15 40.Charles Joseph John HartEngland1441.Juan Carlos HenaoColombia13
Woon-Jae LeeKorea (S)1343.Oswaldo SánchezMéxico12
Mark SchwarzerAustralia1245.Ruslan NigmatullinRussia1146.Carlo CudiciniItalia10
Doniéber Alexander Marangon »Doni«Brasil10
Vincent EnyeamaNigeria10
Samir Handanovi?Slovenija10
Andreas IsakssonSverige10
Ivan PellizzoliItalia10
Óscar PérezMéxico10
Peter SchmeichelDanmark1054.Christian AbbiatiItalia9
Eduardo dos Reis CarvalhoPortugal9
Richard Paul Franck KingsonGhana957.Magnus HedmanSverige8
Ricardo Javier TavarelliParaguay8
Pascal ZuberbühlerSchweiz860.Mohamed Saqr AhmedQatar7
Jhonny Cristian HerreraChile7
Nigel MartynEngland7
Sergey OvchinnikovRussia764.Roberto Óscar BonanoArgentina6
Agustín JulioColombia6
Vyacheslav MalafeevRussia6
David SeamanEngland6
Tony Mario SylvaSénégal669.Artur BorucPolska5
Héctor Fabián CariniUruguay5
Carlos Fernando Navarro MontoyaArgentina5
Diego Sebastián SajaArgentina5
Sander WesterveldNederland574.José María BuljabasichArgentina4
Germán Adrian BurgosArgentina4
David De GeaEspaña4
Manuel Almunia RiveroEspaña478.Thomas SørensenDanmark379.Grégory WimbéeFrance280.Carlos Idriss KameniCameroun1