The 'Golden Glove Award' is presented to the most outstanding goal keeper at each FIFA World Cup finals. This best goalkeeper award was first presented in 1994, at the time called the Lev Yashin Award. The award was named in honor of the late and legendary Russian goalkeeper, Lev Yashin. In 2010, this award for the best goalkeeper was renamed the 'Golden Glove Award'.

From 1930 until 1990, the All-Star Team of the tournament named one goalkeeper (except in 1990 when two were named), and this is the name that has been used on the list of the tournament's best goalkeeper below. In 1986 Jean-Marie Pfaff was the goalkeeper in the All-Star Team, but maybe the best goalkeeper should be Toni Schumacher, who won the second best player of the tournament, awarded the silver ball behind Maradona's golden ball award.

The Golden Glove award winner is decided by the FIFA Technical Study Group. Goal keepers are also eligible for the Golden Ball Award too, and in 2002 the German goalkeeper Oliver Kahn won both awards.

List of Golden Glove Award Winners

Year Golden Glove Winner Country
2022 Emi Martinez  Argentina
2018 Thibaut Courtois Belgium
2014 Manuel Neuer Germany
2010 Iker Casillas Spain
2006 Gianluigi Buffon Italy
2002 Oliver Kahn Germany
1998 Fabien Barthez France
1994 Michel Preud'homme Belgium
1990 Luis Gabelo Conejo
Sergio Goycochea		 Costa Rica
Argentina
1986 Jean-Marie Pfaff Belgium
1982 Dino Zoff Italy
1978 Ubaldo Fillol Argentina
1974 Sepp Maier West Germany
1970 Ladislao Mazurkiewicz Uruguay
1966 Gordon Banks England
1962 Viliam Schrojf Czechoslovakia
1958 Harry Gregg Northern Ireland
1954 Gyula Grosics Hungary
1950 Roque Máspoli Uruguay
1938 František Plánička Czechoslovakia
1934 Ricardo Zamora Spain
1930 Enrique Ballestrero Uruguay

Tiebreaker

If there is a tie for the Golden Glove Award, the winner will be the goalkeeper who progressed furthest in the competition. If a further tiebreaker is needed, it will be based on the number of saves made, then minutes played.