IFFHS WORLD'S HIGHEST SCORING GOALKEEPER OF XXIst CENTURY - CENI LEADER !

• Feb 18, 2021
• IFFHS News

Picture : the Top 3 of the Century Ranking : Ceni, Vegas, Eniyama.

The World’s Highest Scoring Goalkeeper of XXIst Century at Jan 1, 2021: Rogério Ceni

Rogério Ceni dominates the category of most scoring goalkeepers in XXIst century. He has scored 112 goals since January 1, 2001 until finishing his career in 2015. 

From this amount, 67 are the converted penalties, 44 direct free-kicks (Picture)and 1 indirect free-kick (he kicked the rolling ball).
Nearest to the leader, the Peruvian Johnny Vegas, achieved three times less goals than Rogério Ceni, 37 goals.
Total 17 goalkeepers have currently scored 10 and more goals in the top world football in XXIst century. They are gathered in the table below. Only 4 of them are still active (marked bold in the table). All four are pretty aged (36 to 40 years). So, nothing menaces the Rogério Ceni’s (whose total tally with the goals scored in XX century makes 129) leadership in foreseeable future.
The scoring goalkeepers is mainly phenomenon of Latin-American football. 12 players out of 17 are from this region (including Phan Văn Santos who played for Vietnam but has Brazilian origin).

IFFHS RANKING WORLD'S HIGHEST SCORING GOALKEEPER OF XXIst CENTURY

	Goalkeeper	Country	Goals				Total	Total	Total
			NL	NC	ICC	NT	XXI	XX	Career
1	Rogério Ceni	Brazil	88 (+15)	7 (+1)	17 (+1)		112	17	129
2	Johnny Vegas	Peru	36 (+4)		1		37	4	41
3	Vincent Enyeama	Nigeria	18	2	4		24		24
4	Álvaro Misael Alfaro	El Salvador	21 (+10)				21	10	31
5	Sebastián Saja	Argentina	19		1		20		20
6	Dimitar Ivankov	Bulgaria	14 (+17)	5 (+2)	1 (+3)		20	22	42
7	Fernando Patterson	Costa Rica	18 (+14)	2 (+1)			20	15	35
8	Cristian Lucchetti	Argentina	17		2		19		19
9	Phan Văn Santos	Vietnam	14		1		15		15
10	Kennedy Mweene	Zambia	11			2	13		13
11	Hugo Suárez	Bolivia	11		1		12		12
12	Hans-Jörg Butt	Germany	9 (+17)	(+1)	2 (+1)		11	19	30
13	Márcio	Brazil	8	1	2		11		11
14	Exar Rosales	Peru	9		1		10		10
15	Žarko Lučić	Yugoslavia	10 (+15)				10	15	25
16	Gastón Losa	Argentina	9	1			10		10
17	Mario Villasanti	Paraguay	9	1			10		10

 

All goals at top senior level are counted (top national divisions, national cups, official international tournaments, official games between national teams).
Brazilian state championships Paulista and Carioca have status equal to national leagues (according to IFFHS decision).
Abbreviatures:
NL – National League
NC – National Cups
ICC – International Club Competitions
NT – National Team
Period:
from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2020 (for the ranking Total XXI);
from career start to December 31, 2020 (for the ranking Total Career).
In brackets - goals scored in XX century.
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).