FIFA World Cup Golden Glove Award Winners Full List Of All Time

FIFA World Cup Golden Glove Award Winners Full List Of All Time

Know about the all-time winners list of the FIFA World Cup Golden Glove

Every FIFA World Cup final competition ends with the awarding of numerous prizes to the individuals and groups who excelled in different elements of the game.

Among the five significant awards, Golden Glove is one of them.

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FIFA World Cup Golden Glove Award Winners List Of All Time

The Golden Glove trophy is given to the best goalkeeper in the competition. In 1994, the prize was given the name Lev Yashin Award in honour of the late Soviet goalkeeper. Golden Glove was given as its new name in 2010. The FIFA Technical Study Group selects the best goalkeeper of the competition based on the player’s performance in the final game. Despite having a separate award solely for the position, goalkeepers are still qualified for the Golden Ball, just as they were when Oliver Kahn won in 2002. In the event of a tie, the Golden Glove Award goes to the goalie who advanced the most during the competition. The next tiebreaker is minutes played, which is followed by saves made.

The list of the award win the the goalkeepers of all-time can be seem below:

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Lev Yashin Award
World Cup Lev Yashin Award
1994 United States Belgium Michel Preud’homme
1998 France France Fabien Barthez
2002 South Korea/Japan Germany Oliver Kahn
2006 Germany Italy Gianluigi Buffon
Golden Glove
World Cup Golden Glove
2010 South Africa Spain Iker Casillas
2014 Brazil Germany Manuel Neuer
2018 Russia Belgium Thibaut Courtois

A history of Golden Glove victories proposing back to 1930 is available on some blog-level websites, however, there was never a formal best goalie award for the FIFA World Cup before 1994. The goalkeepers on the list appear to match those on other unofficial All-Star teams and different blog-level websites. Some of these decisions are supported by additional, more trustworthy sources. As per Wikipedia, here is the unofficial list below of the players winning the award:

World Cup Golden Glove
1930 Uruguay Uruguay Enrique Ballestrero
1934 Italy Spain Ricardo Zamora
1938 France Czechoslovakia František Plánička
1950 Brazil Uruguay Roque Máspoli
1954 Switzerland Hungary Gyula Grosics
1958 Sweden Northern Ireland Harry Gregg
1962 Chile Czechoslovakia Viliam Schrojf
1966 England England Gordon Banks
1970 Mexico Uruguay Ladislao Mazurkiewicz
1974 West Germany Germany Sepp Maier
1978 Argentina Argentina Ubaldo Fillol
1982 Spain Italy Dino Zoff
1986 Mexico Belgium Jean-Marie Pfaff
1990 Italy Costa Rica Gabelo ConejoArgentina Sergio Goycochea

Thibaut Courtois, a goalkeeper for Real Madrid who previously won the Golden Glove award at the World Cup, was named FIFA’s The Best goalie of the 2017–18 season.

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