Top 20 revealed
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This Friday legendary goalkeeper Manuel Neuer celebrates his fortieth birthday. The German has gained all of it; a World Cup winner in 2014 and a Champions League winner twice with Bayern Munich. While strikers usually steal the headlines and midfielders dictate the tempo, it is typically the goalkeepers who quietly rack up the numbers that outline elite consistency. From Premier League legends to LaLiga icons and Bundesliga brick partitions, Transfermarkt has crunched the numbers to disclose the goalkeepers with the most clean sheets in Europe’s prime-5 leagues since 2000. These are the males who’ve made a behavior of preserving the opposition out.
Goalkeepers with most clean sheets in prime-5 leagues since 2000
Leading the means is known Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon. The former Juventus participant managed 263 clean sheets in 560 video games in the prime-5 leagues for Juve, Parma and PSG. In second place is Spaniard Pepe Reina who clocked up 255 clean sheets in 665 matches for Barcelona, Villarreal, Liverpool, Napoli, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Aston Villa, Lazio and Como – one thing of a journeyman. In third place is Manuel Neuer with 245 clean sheets in 542 video games – the German might nonetheless add to that determine and climb the record with Bayern Munich subsequent season.
Former Chelsea and Arsenal keeper Petr Cech is fourth with 231 clean sheets in 513 matches, while ex-Slovenian keeper Samir Handanovič takes fifth with 204 clean sheets in 566 video games. In sixth is Hugo Lloris with 204 clean sheets in 579 matches. He is adopted in seventh by Thibaut Courtois with 200 clean sheets in 465 video games – the second participant on the record nonetheless taking part in in the prime-5 leagues. In eighth place is Atlético Madrid keeper Jan Oblak with 185 clean sheets in simply 395 matches. Steve Mandanda is ninth with 184 clean sheets, adopted by fellow Frenchman Mickaël Landreau in tenth with 183 clean sheets.
