Arguably the most popular football league in the world - the Premier League is one of the most beautiful destinations for the gamers throughout the globe. The league has hosted some of the quality footballers taking part in in each position.However, goalkeepers typically do no longer get plenty of the interest that they deserve and a single howler from a goalkeeper is probable to clutch extra headlines than the match-deciding saves he makes.
5 Martyn Nigel- 137 clean sheets
Country: England
Age: 54
Date of birth: 11 August 1966
Clubs Played for: Crystal Palace, Leeds United and Everton Martyn Nigel kept 140 clean sheets in 372 Premier League games, putting him at fifth spot on this list. He started his career with Bristol City and moved to Crystal Palace for £1 million in 1989, becoming the first goalkeeper to attract a million-pound transfer fee in English football.He played 272 league games for the Palace before joining Leeds United in 1996. The Englishmen enjoyed a successful career with the Peacocks and was included in the PFA Premier League Team of the Year for three consecutive years between 1997 and 2000.The Bournemouth born keeper moved to Merseyside club, Everton in 2003 for the final years of his professional career and announced his retirement after three seasons with the Toffees in 2006.
4 David Seaman- 144 clean sheets.
Country: England
Age: 57
Date of birth: 19 September 1963
Clubs Played for: Arsenal and Manchester City
Seaman is considered one of the finest English goalkeepers of all time due to his exploits for Arsenal. As part of the Gunners side of the 1990s, the then ponytailed keeper represented Arsenal 405 times keeping 144 clean sheets, winning three league titles including the erstwhile First Division in 1990-91.Seaman has the fifth-best clean sheet percentage in the history of Premier League. The Arsenal great also won the FA Cup four times and the League Cup once. He featured in 75 appearances for the Three Lions including the 1998 and 2002 World Cups. He is currently lending his voice to BBC Commentary on the Premier League.
3 Mark Schwarzer- 153 clean sheets
Country: Australia
Age: 48
Date of birth: 6 October 1972
Clubs Played for: Middlesbrough, Fulham, Chelsea, Leicester City.
Mark Schwarzer has the most appearances for a non-British participant and the 2d most wide variety of appearances for a goalkeeper in the Premier League taking part in in 514 video games across a two-decade-long career in the Premier League the place he moved in from FC Kaiserslautern in 1996.During his time in the Premier League, Schwarzer performed fo Middlesbrough, Fulham, Chelsea and Leicester City with the bulk of it being performed in the first two clubs. He saved 151 smooth sheets in the procedure the place he stored 92 at Middlesbrough and fifty six while at Fulham.Although he didn’t achieve primary success, he was once an integr section of Middlesbrough and Fulham in the course of his time and prov to be a succesful custodian between the sticks. He is additionally th record-appearance maker for Australia with 109 caps for th Socceroos.
2 David James- 172 clean sheets
Country: England
Age: 50
Date of birth: born 1 August 1970
Clubs Played for: Liverpool, Aston Villa, West Ham United, Manchester City and Portsmouth.
Known primarily during his time at Liverpool , David James played for a number of clubs during his long career, which encapsulated 572 games, with 172 clean sheets and a percentage of 30.That James only managed to win one League Cup during his footballing career goes to show the strength of the sides he played in.
1 Petr Cech- 207 clean sheets
Country: Czech Republic
Age: 38
Date of birth: 20 May 1982)
Clubs played for : Chelsea and Arsenal.
Number 1 on our list of Chelsea Goalkeepers and Arsenal Legend with most clean sheets of all time is Petr Cech . The Czech Republic goalkeeper has the most number of clean sheets in the league for Chelsea and is, in my opinion, the greatest goalkeeper Chelsea has ever had. Cech has pulled off some amazing spiderman like dives to save his team from a sure goal. I don’t know how he has done some of the saves he managed during the Abramovich years when Chelsea were dominating.Čech trialed with Chelsea in 2003. Čech’s signed for Chelsea for £7 million in 2004, and was then the most expensive goalkeeper in Chelsea’s history.
Čech won four Premier League titles, four FA Cups, three League Cups, one UEFA Europa League and one UEFA Champions League. Čech kept a club record 220 clean sheets for Chelsea in all competitions.The Czech Republic goalkeeper holds a lot of records. Including the Premier League record for fewest appearances required to reach 100 clean sheets (180). He also has the joint-most number of clean sheets in a season (21), as well as the record for the most number of clean sheets in Premier League history. In the 2004–05 season, Čech went 1,025 minutes without conceding.
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