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. The votes
Belgian goalkeeper Jean-Marie Pfaff was the first ever winner of the award, in 1987.
Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon holds the record for most wins (alongside Manuel Neuer and Iker Casillas).
At the end of the 20th Century, Soviet goalkeeper Lev Yashin was named World's Goalkeeper of the Century by IFFHS.
In 2011, Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon was named World's Best Goalkeeper of the 21st Century's first decade by IFFHS; in 2012, he was named World's Best Goalkeeper of the Past 25 Years. He also holds the record for most IFFHS Goalkeeper of the Year Award victories, alongside Iker Casillas and Manuel Neuer, with five.
Peter Schmeichel
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Peter Bolesław Schmeichel is a Danish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. During eight seasons at English club Manchester United, he won 15 trophies including five Premier Leagu
IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper
…35 3rd Gabelo Conejo Cartaginés 34 1991 1st Walter Zenga Inter Milan 51 2nd Sergio Goycochea Racing Club 37 3rd Cláudio Taffarel Parma 29 1992 1st Peter Schmeichel Manchester United 118 2nd Andoni Zubizarreta Barcelona 28 3rd Hans van Breukelen PSV Eindhoven 23 1993 1st Peter Schmeichel Manchester United 84 2nd…
Schmeichel in 2012
Schmeichel in July 1991, a few days after signing for Manchester United