ECC CLEAN SHEET RECORD HOLDER
Pepe Reina retired as ECC record holder for clean sheets
Pepe Reina has ended his career after the 2024-25 season as a sovereign record holder for most clean sheets in the major European club competitions (78).
No other goalkeeper in the history has even reached 70. Manuel Neuer has most clean sheets (64) among active goalkeepers but he is yet far enough from the Pepe Reina’s mark.
Here we publish for the first time the ranking for goal keepers who didn’t concede goals in most games at European club competitions.
A clean sheet is credited to a goalkeeper if he does not concede goals in the game, regardless of how much time he spent on the pitch.
| EUROPEAN | CLUB | COMPE | TITIONS | ||||||||
| MOST | CLEAN | SHEETS | |||||||||
| Player | Total | Nation | Years | CL | CQ | EL | CC | CO | IC | SC | |
| 1 | Pepe Reina | 78 | Spain | 2000-2024 | 25 | 8 | 33 | 2 | 10 | ||
| 2 | Gianluigi Buffon | 69 | Italy | 1996-2020 | 53 | 3 | 13 | ||||
| 3 | Edwin van der Sar | 69 | Netherlands | 1992-2011 | 51 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |
| 4 | Manuel Neuer | 64 | Germany | 2007- | 62 | 2 | |||||
| 5 | Iker Casillas | 62 | Spain | 1999-2019 | 59 | 2 | 1 | ||||
| 6 | Petr Čech | 59 | Czech Rep. | 2000-2019 | 49 | 8 | 2 | ||||
| 7 | Ray Clemence | 53 | England | 1969-1985 | 13 | 29 | 10 | 1 | |||
| 8 | Víctor Valdes | 52 | Spain | 2002-2014 | 45 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 9 | Santiago Cañizares | 51 | Spain | 1994-2007 | 28 | 5 | 11 | 7 | |||
| 10 | Jens Lehmann | 48 | Germany | 1996-2010 | 23 | 6 | 19 | ||||
| 11 | Oliver Kahn | 47 | Germany | 1993-2008 | 34 | 2 | 11 | ||||
| 12 | Rui Patrício | 47 | Portugal | 2007- | 5 | 2 | 33 | 7 | |||
| 13 | Jan Oblak | 43 | Slovenia | 2014- | 37 | 6 | |||||
| 15 | Andriy Pyatov | 42 | Ukraine | 2007-2021 | 18 | 7 | 17 | ||||
| 16 | Oleksandr Shovkovskyi | 42 | Ukraine | 1994-2016 | 16 | 12 | 14 | ||||
| 17 | Allan McGregor | 42 | Scotland | 2006-2022 | 4 | 5 | 33 | ||||
| 18 | Michel Preud'homme | 41 | Belgium | 1977-1998 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 19 | 1 | ||
| 19 | Dida | 40 | Brazil | 2000-2010 | 35 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||
| 20 | Thibaut Courtois | 40 | Belgium | 2013- | 30 | 8 | 2 | ||||
| 21 | Igor Akinfeev | 40 | Russia | 2003- | 9 | 8 | 23 |
In the table, the total is broken down by tournament:
Champions League, main stage (CL), including European Cup before 1992,
Champions League, qualification (CQ),
Fairs’ Cup/ UEFA Cup/Europa League (EL),
Cup Winners' Cup (CC),
Conference League (CO),
Intertoto Cup (IC),
Super Cup (SC).
Tie-breaker: clean sheets in Champions League