Find out which goalkeepers have made the most saves, including from shots from inside and outside the box.
Save leaders 2026-27
These are the goalkeepers that have made the most saves in the Premier League so far this season. You can also rank them by saves from inside the box, outside the box and penalties.
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Premier League save stats 2026/27
James Trafford leads the Premier League save stats for 2026/27 with 20 in five games for Leeds United, and his supporting numbers are the best of anyone near the top: two clean sheets and just three goals conceded.
Lukáš Hornicek of Newcastle United is next on 19, but he has picked the ball out of his net nine times. That contrast is the whole argument about save counts in one line.
Emiliano Martínez has 18 for Chelsea from four appearances, with ten conceded and no clean sheet. Konstantinos Tzolakis of Hull City and Caoimhín Kelleher at Brentford both have 17, and Tzolakis has three clean sheets to show for his.
Read the three columns together rather than the first one alone. Trafford and Tzolakis are making saves that are keeping scorelines intact; a high total with double-figure goals against usually says more about the defence in front.
What is a save?
Opta defines a save as when a goalkeeper prevents the ball from entering the goal from an intentional attempt from an opponent. A save can be made with any part of the goalkeeper’s body – broken down to hands, feet, body or fist. There are also a lot of extra qualifiers for saves such as caught, collected, parried safe, parried danger, fumble and fingertip.
Saves are also counted for unintentional efforts on target from a teammate, but only if it’s not “perceived to be a routine collection of the ball”.
But if the ball goes behind the goal due to a “goalkeeper intervention”, a corner must be awarded for it to be counted as a save. So any wrongly-awarded goal kicks won’t count towards a goalkeeper’s save numbers.
What do save numbers tell us about a goalkeeper?
Saves are an interesting metric for goalkeepers. High save numbers don’t always relate to a good goalkeeper. It may just mean that a goalkeeper has a bad defence, so are forced to make more saves. This is generally the case in the Premier League. For example, Aaron Ramsdale made the second-most saves in the Premier League last season with 125. But he only kept three clean sheets and had a save percentage of 64.89%. He also suffered relegation with Southampton.
That’s not always the case, though. Jordan Pickford made 122 saves and kept 12 clean sheets. And Mark Flekken made 153 saves, with a save percentage of 73.17%.
Who are the best save-makers in Premier League history?
Save stats only go back to the 2006-07 season in the Premier League, when Opta’s records began. Ben Foster leads the way for saves in Premier League history with 1,248, but there’s a chance he could be beaten in 2026-27. Lukasz Fabianski sits second on 1,215 saves and is back in the Premier League with West Ham United. David de Gea, Jordan Pickford and Petr Cech are the only other goalkeepers to break 1,000 saves since records began.