Sport | Association football |
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Awarded for | Best performing man goalkeeper of the calendar year |
Presented by | International Federation of Football History & Statistics |
History | |
First award | 1987 |
Editions | 37 |
First winner | ![]() |
Most wins | ![]() ![]() ![]() (5 awards each) |
Most recent | ![]() |
Website | www |
The IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper is a football award given annually since 1987 to the best goalkeeper of the year as voted by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS). The votes are cast by IFFHS's editorial staff as well as experts from different continents.
The winner is announced at the end of the year. The winning goalkeeper is awarded a gold trophy at the World Football Gala. Italy's Gianluigi Buffon, Spain's Iker Casillas and Germany's Manuel Neuer have each won the award a record five times; Casillas won the award for five consecutive years between 2008 and 2012. Below is a list of the previous winners since the first award in 1987, which was won by Belgium's Jean-Marie Pfaff.[1] Bayern Munich is the team with the most wins, with a total of nine.