We all love football if we’re here on this page and in particular, there are a few questions in your head about the best goal-keepers that we’ve seen in the FIFA World Cup over the years. Happening once in every four years, the FIFA WC is the grandest event on the football calendar and first taking place even before World War II, it has a very long and rich history.
Before we go on to let you know about the best goal-keepers we’ve seen in the FIFA World Cup history, you can check out the top goal-scorers in each edition in our FIFA WC Golden Boot winners list. And now as we go on, we’re going to celebrate the top goal-keepers that have made fabulous saves and helped their respective countries in every edition of the FIFA WC from 1930 till date…
The FIFA World Cup Golden Glove Award is basically something given out to the best goal-keeper in every edition of the FIFA World Cup, which happens once in four year. While it has been happening since the first edition, the term ‘Golden Glove Award’ was officially coined and given away to keepers since the FIFA WC 2010 edition.
It is said that the first ever official award for the Golden Glove was given away in 1994, and it was known as the Lev Yashin Award, named after the legendary Soviet goal-keeper, Lev Yashin. Prior to this, the award was given away unofficially from 1930 till 1990, which was automatically given to the goal-keeper selected in every World Cup’s All-Star Team.
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The FIFA Technical Study Group selects the winner of the Golden Glove at the end of every edition of the competition. Below, we’ve listed down the Golden Glove Award winner of every edition, updated as of 19th December 2022, after the end of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Take a look at the complete list of these goal-keepers below:
List of FIFA World Cup Golden Glove winners
| Year | Winner | Country |
| 1930 | Enrique Ballestrero | Uruguay 🇺🇾 |
| 1934 | Ricardo Zamora | Spain 🇪🇸 |
| 1938 | František Plánička | Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿 |
| 1950 | Roque Máspoli | Uruguay 🇺🇾 |
| 1954 | Gyula Grosics | Hungary 🇭🇺 |
| 1958 | Harry Gregg | Northern Ireland |
| 1962 | Viliam Schrojf | Czechoslovakia 🇨🇿 |
| 1966 | Gordon Banks | England 🏴 |
| 1970 | Ladislao Mazurkiewicz | Uruguay 🇺🇾 |
| 1974 | Sepp Maier | West Germany 🇩🇪 |
| 1978 | Ubaldo Fillol | Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| 1982 | Dino Zoff | Italy 🇮🇹 |
| 1986 | Jean-Marie Pfaff | Belgium 🇧🇪 |
| 1990 | Luis Gabelo Conejo / Sergio Goycochea | Costa Rica 🇨🇷 / Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| 1994 | Michel Preud’homme | Belgium 🇧🇪 |
| 1998 | Fabien Barthez | France 🇫🇷 |
| 2002 | Oliver Kahn | Germany 🇩🇪 |
| 2006 | Gianluigi Buffon | Italy 🇮🇹 |
| 2010 | Iker Casillas | Spain 🇪🇸 |
| 2014 | Manuel Neuer | Germany 🇩🇪 |
| 2018 | Thibaut Courtois | Belgium 🇧🇪 |
| 2022 | Emiliano Martínez | Argentina 🇦🇷 |
| 2026 | TBD | TBD |
| 2030 | TBD | TBD |
Given the fact that the tournament takes place once in four years, no goal-keeper has gone on to win the Golden Glove Award on two separate occasions. In the initial days of the FIFA World Cup, it was mostly Uruguay who saw their goal-keepers ending as the recipients of this award, bagging it thrice in 1930, 1950, and 1970 respectively, but never after that again.
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When Thibaut Courtois won the Golden Glove in the last FIFA World Cup in 2018, he got Belgium their third such award too, after his countrymen won the same in 1986 and 1994 respectively. The only occasion where two keepers won this award was in 1990 where Luis Gabelo Conejo (Costa Rica) and Sergio Goycochea (Argentina) shared the best goal-keeper award.
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