IFFHS ALL TIME RANKINGS - WORLD'S HIGHEST SCORING GOALKEEPERS

• Feb 20, 2022
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Picture : Argentine Cristian Luchetti is the most prolific active Goalkeeper with 19 goals !

IFFHS All-Time Ranking for the World’s Highest Scoring Goalkeepers

The subject of this ranking is the most scoring goalkeepers in the history of football: all goalkeepers with 20 or more top-level goals.
In contrast to the similar ranking for forwards where the current players (Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi) have taken the leading positions, there are no active goalkeepers on this list. The most prolific active goalie Cristian Lucchetti (Argentina) has just 19 goals at his tally, and he is 43 years old.
The romantic era of goalkeepers-scorers seems to be a thing of the past. The current goalkeepers, with very rare exceptions, are entirely focused on their main business, and do not even risk going to shoot a penalty. There are no new giants on the horizon like Chilavert and Rogério Ceni, whose record (129 goals) seems to be destined for a long life.
Jorge Campos is a special case: the only one in this list who combined the roles of goalkeeper and striker in his career. He was a real striker for a brief spell (the full 1989-90 season, some part of the next one, and then occasionally), but during that period he scored most of his 47 goals, so he's not ranked in this table.

	THE WORLD'S ALL-TIME
	HIGHEST SCORING		GOALKEEPERS
	Player	Years	Country	Goals				Total
				NL	NC	ICC	NT
1	Rogério Ceni	1993-2015	Brazil	103	8	18		129
2	José Luis Chilavert	1982-2004	Paraguay`	46	1	12	8	67
	Jorge Campos	1988-2004	Mexico	34	5	8		47
3	René Higuita	1985–2009	Colombia	33		5	3	41
4	Johnny Vegas Fernández	1995-2015	Peru	40		1		41
5	Dimitar Ivankov	1996-2011	Bulgaria	30	5	4		39
6	Fernando Patterson	1989-2013	Costa Rica	33	2			35
7	Álvaro Misael Alfaro	1988-2010	El Salvador	31				31
8	Hans-Jörg Butt	1997-2012	Germany	26	1	3		30
9	Dragan Pantelić	1971–1985	Yugoslavia	18	4	2	2	26
10	Vincent Enyeama	2001-2017	Nigeria	18	2	4		24
11	Žarko Lučić	1993-2007	Yugoslavia/Montenegro	21				21
12	Nizami Sadiqov	1992-2004	Azerbaijan	18	3			21
13	Sebastián Saja	2001-2016	Argentina	19		1		20

Tiebreaking criteria in case of equal number of total goals: 1) international goals (ICC + NT), 2) goals scored for national team (NT), 3) goals scored in domestic league (NL). 

Abbreviatures:
NL – National League (only top tier)
NC – National Cups
ICC – International Club Competitions (only official)
NT – National Team