Premier League Golden Glove

The Premier League Golden Glove is an annual association football award presented to the goalkeeper who has kept the most clean sheets in the Premier League. In football a team's defence or goalkeeper may be said to "keep a clean sheet" if they prevent their opponents from scoring any goals during an entire match. For sponsorship purposes, it has been referred to as the Barclays Golden Glove since its inception during the 2004–05 season until the 2015–16 season and as the Cadbury Golden Glove from 2017–18 season to 2019–20 season. For the 2020–21 season, it was known as the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Golden Glove and for the 2021–22 season, it is known as the Castrol Golden Glove.

Premier League Golden Glove
Joe Hart playing football
Joe Hart is the joint highest winner of the Golden Glove award with four.
Awarded forThe most clean sheets in a given Premier League season
Sponsored byCastrol
CountryEngland
Presented byPremier League
First awarded2005
Currently held byDavid Raya
Highlights
Most awardsPetr Čech and Joe Hart (4)
Most consecutive wins3 (Pepe Reina, Joe Hart, Ederson)
Most number of clean sheets24 (Petr Čech; 2004–05)
Websitehttps://www.premierleague.com/awards?at=2&aw=22&se=-1 Edit this on Wikidata

The Premier League was founded in 1992, when the clubs of the First Division left the Football League and established a new commercially independent league that negotiated its own broadcast and sponsorship agreements.[1] Originally, the Golden Glove could only be won outright by a single player; should there have been a tie, the goalkeeper with the superior clean sheets-to-games ratio received the award.[2] However, starting in the 2013–14 season, the Golden Glove is shared by goalkeepers with an equal number of clean sheets, regardless of the number of games they played.[3]

In 2005, the inaugural Premier League Golden Glove was awarded to Petr Čech of Chelsea.[4] Čech's 24 clean sheets in a single season remains the current record.[5] Since 2005 Čech and Joe Hart have won the award on the most occasions with four successes each, with Čech the only goalkeeper to have won the award with two different teams (Chelsea and Arsenal). Pepe Reina was the first goalkeeper to achieve back-to-back wins of the award, managing to do so in three consecutive seasons between 2005 and 2008. Joe Hart later repeated the achievement with Manchester City between 2010 and 2013, as did Ederson with the same club between 2020 and 2022.[4][6]

During the 2008–09 season, Edwin van der Sar surpassed Čech's previous record of ten consecutive clean sheets by reaching fourteen.[7][8] During his streak, van der Sar went 1,311 minutes without conceding a goal.[8] In the process, he broke both Čech's Premier League record (1,025 minutes),[9] Steve Death's Football League record (1,103 minutes)[10] and also the all-time league record in Britain (1,155 minutes) for most consecutive scoreless minutes.[11]

Winners

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Petr Čech won the inaugural Premier League Golden Glove in 2005.
Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (for goalkeepers with more awards than one)
Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
Denotes the club were Premier League champions in the same season
# Premier League record
Premier League Golden Glove winners
Season Player Nationality Club Clean sheets Ref(s)
2004–05 Petr Čech (1)   Czech Republic Chelsea 24# [5]
2005–06 Pepe Reina (1)   Spain Liverpool 20 [2]
2006–07 Pepe Reina (2)   Spain Liverpool 19 [12]
2007–08 Pepe Reina (3)   Spain Liverpool 18 [13][14]
2008–09 Edwin van der Sar   Netherlands Manchester United 21 [8][15]
2009–10 Petr Čech (2)   Czech Republic Chelsea 17 [2]
2010–11 Joe Hart (1)   England Manchester City 18 [16][17]
2011–12 Joe Hart (2)   England Manchester City 17 [18]
2012–13 Joe Hart (3)   England Manchester City 18 [6][19]
2013–14 Petr Čech (3)   Czech Republic Chelsea 16 [20]
Wojciech Szczęsny   Poland Arsenal 16 [20]
2014–15 Joe Hart (4)   England Manchester City 14 [21]
2015–16 Petr Čech (4)   Czech Republic Arsenal 16 [22]
2016–17 Thibaut Courtois   Belgium Chelsea 16 [23]
2017–18 David de Gea (1)   Spain Manchester United 18 [24]
2018–19 Alisson (1)   Brazil Liverpool 21 [25]
2019–20 Ederson (1)   Brazil Manchester City 16 [26]
2020–21 Ederson (2)   Brazil Manchester City 19 [27]
2021–22 Alisson (2)   Brazil Liverpool 20 [28]
Ederson (3)   Brazil Manchester City 20 [28]
2022–23 David de Gea (2)   Spain Manchester United 17 [29]
2023–24 David Raya   Spain Arsenal 16 [30]

Multiple awards won by player

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The following table lists the number of awards won by players who have won at least two Golden Glove awards.

Players in bold are still active in the Premier League.

Awards Player Country Seasons
4 Petr Čech   Czech Republic 2004–05, 2009–10, 2013–14, 2015–16
Joe Hart   England 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2014–15
3 Ederson   Brazil 2019–20, 2020–21, 2021–22
Pepe Reina   Spain 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08
2 Alisson   Brazil 2018–19, 2021–22
David de Gea   Spain 2017–18, 2022–23

Awards won by nationality

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Country Players Total
  Spain 3 6
  Brazil 2 5
  Czech Republic 1 4
  England 1 4
  Belgium 1 1
  Netherlands 1 1
  Poland 1 1

Awards won by club

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Club Players Total
Manchester City 2 7
Liverpool 2 5
Chelsea 2 4
Arsenal 3 3
Manchester United 2 3

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "History of the Premier League". Premier League. 1 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b c "Chelsea scoop hat-trick of Barclays awards". Premier League. 13 May 2010. Archived from the original on 16 May 2010. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. ^ Wright, Nick (18 May 2015). "Who will win the Golden Glove? Hart, Fabianski, Mignolet, Forster and Courtois in contention". Sky Sports. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
  4. ^ a b Bird, Liviu (12 August 2013). "Premier League Preview: Top 5 goalkeepers to watch". NBC Sports. NBC Sports Group. Archived from the original on 18 February 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  5. ^ a b "Petr Cech Statistics – 2004/05". premierleague.com. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  6. ^ a b Booth, Mark (8 May 2013). "Three in a row for Golden Hart". mancity.com. Manchester City FC. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
  7. ^ "Van der Sar concedes following 14 clean sheets". FourFourTwo. 4 March 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  8. ^ a b c Mariner, James (1 June 2011). "Edwin van der Sar: A career in pictures". The Independent. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  9. ^ "Man Utd record delights Ferguson". BBC. 27 January 2009. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  10. ^ "Where Are They Now? Reading 1978–79". The Football League Paper. London. 6 November 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
  11. ^ Mole, Giles (18 February 2009). "Manchester United's Edwin van der Sar still lags behind European clean sheet record". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  12. ^ Eaton, Paul (8 August 2007). "Reina nets goalkeeping award". Liverpool F.C. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  13. ^ "Reina collects Barclays Golden Glove Award". Premier League. 15 May 2008. Archived from the original on 18 September 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  14. ^ "Pepe Reina picks up Barclays Premier League golden gloves prize". Liverpool Echo. 15 May 2008. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  15. ^ "English Premier League 2008–2009: Table". Statto. Archived from the original on 11 July 2015. Retrieved 11 July 2015.
  16. ^ "Hart handed Barclays Golden Glove". Premier League. 20 May 2011. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  17. ^ Clayton, David (8 May 2013). "Hart wins Golden Glove award". MCFC.com. Manchester City FC. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  18. ^ "Joe Hart wins Premier League Golden Glove award". Manchester Evening News. 14 May 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  19. ^ "Stats Zone Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year". FourFourTwo. 31 May 2013. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  20. ^ a b "Suarez and Pulis claim Barclays season awards". Premier League. 13 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  21. ^ "Aguero and Hart seal Golden Awards double for Man City". Premier League. 25 May 2015. Archived from the original on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  22. ^ Critchley, Mark (18 May 2016). "Petr Cech: Arsenal goalkeeper wins Premier League Golden Glove award ahead of David De Gea". The Independent. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  23. ^ Twomey, Liam (21 May 2017). "Chelsea's Thibaut Courtois wins Premier League Golden Glove award". ESPN. ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  24. ^ "Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea dedicates Golden Glove award to teammates". ESPN. 10 May 2018.
  25. ^ "Alisson takes Golden Glove prize with last-day clean sheet". Goal. Goal.com.
  26. ^ France, Sam (26 July 2020). "Ederson claims Premier League Golden Glove award for most clean sheets". Goal.com. Retrieved 26 July 2020.
  27. ^ "Ederson among elite trio as he retains Golden Glove". Premier League. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  28. ^ a b "Golden Boot: Mohamed Salah and Son Heung-min finish as Premier League's top scorers". BBC Sport. 22 May 2022. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
  29. ^ "Erling Haaland, David de Gea and Kevin De Bruyne win Castrol Golden Awards". 90min.com. 28 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
  30. ^ "Raya wins Golden Glove outright with 15th clean sheet". Premier League. 4 May 2024. Retrieved 4 May 2024.
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