FPL Goalkeepers 2026/27: The Best Pick at Every Price

Data current as of: 19 August 2026, two days before the Gameweek 1 deadline. Prices and ownership are 2026/27 launch values. Coverage: Points, minutes and clean sheets are 2025/26 finals, since no 2026/27 league football had been played when this was written.

Among keepers who started 30 or more games last season, the best returned 162 points and the worst returned 90. Goalkeeper also has the narrowest price range of any position, £4.0m to £6.0m, so closing that 72-point gap costs £1.5m. No other position sells that much of a spread for that little.

The two decisions that matter are whether to pay £6.0m for the best one, and whether your second keeper is a real starter or a £4.0m body.

Every starting keeper, ranked by points per million

The shape of that list is the argument against the middle of the market. The two most efficient keepers cost £4.5m and £5.0m, and the £5.5m bracket sits below both.

Raya at £6.0m: the one premium worth considering

Player	Club	Price	Points	Minutes	Starts	Clean sheets	Owned
Raya	ARS	£6.0m	162	3,330	37	19	33.9%

Raya (ARS, £6.0m) kept 19 clean sheets last season. The next best among current Premier League keepers was Donnarumma (MCI, £5.5m) on 15, and no one else reached 12. He is the most expensive keeper in the game and he outscored the second-best by 19 points.

The case against him is not the price, it is the 33.9% ownership. A third of active managers have him, so he is closer to a template pick than a differentiator, and Arsenal's own GW1 to GW6 run averages 3.00 on FPL's difficulty scale rather than anything soft. If you own him you match the field. If you do not, you carry 19 clean sheets of risk.

Paying £6.0m only makes sense if the rest of your squad does not need the £1.5m. Against Verbruggen (BHA, £4.5m), Raya returned 32 more points last season for a third more money.

£5.0m: Kelleher is the value pick of the position

Kelleher outscored both £5.5m keepers

143 pts

At £5.0m, he beat Donnarumma and Pickford by 8 points each while costing £0.5m less.

Player	Club	Price	Points	Minutes	Starts	Clean sheets	Owned
Kelleher	BRE	£5.0m	143	3,330	37	10	5.8%
Roefs	SUN	£5.0m	136	3,150	35	10	4.8%
Henderson	CRY	£5.0m	131	3,330	37	11	3.2%
Martinez	AVL	£5.0m	120	2,835	32	7	4.8%
Sánchez	CHE	£5.0m	113	3,040	35	9	2.2%
Lammens	MUN	£5.0m	109	2,880	32	8	18.5%
Sels	NFO	£5.0m	105	2,667	30	7	1.6%
Pope	NEW	£5.0m	96	2,416	27	7	1.3%

Kelleher (BRE, £5.0m) is the best non-premium keeper in the game on last season's evidence: 143 points from 37 starts, which is 13 more than the best £4.5m option and 8 more than either £5.5m keeper. At 5.8% ownership he is also a genuine differential.

Roefs (SUN, £5.0m) has the most soft fixtures of any keeper in this bracket. Sunderland have three rated 2 or easier inside the first six gameweeks, tied for the most in the league, and he returned 136 points last season. Everton's run is the better one on average, at 2.83 against Sunderland's 3.00, but it contains fewer outright easy games.

Lammens (MUN, £5.0m) is the ownership outlier at 18.5%. He took over the Man Utd gloves six games into last season and started the remaining 32, but 109 points is the sixth-best return in his own price bracket. Man Utd share the kindest opening run in the league, which is the stronger argument for him than his scoring is.

Pope (NEW, £5.0m) is the shakiest of the group. He started 27 games, the fewest of anyone here, and Horníček (NEW, £5.0m) is priced level with him despite having no Premier League record. That makes Newcastle the one club in this bracket without a settled first choice.

£4.5m: three keepers who never missed a minute

Player	Club	Price	Points	Minutes	Starts	Clean sheets	Owned
Verbruggen	BHA	£4.5m	130	3,420	38	10	18.8%
Petrović	BOU	£4.5m	124	3,420	38	11	3.5%
Leno	FUL	£4.5m	122	3,420	38	9	3.2%
Vicario	TOT	£4.5m	90	2,790	31	7	1.3%

Verbruggen (BHA, £4.5m), Petrović (BOU, £4.5m) and Leno (FUL, £4.5m) each played all 3,420 minutes of last season. Five players in the entire game managed that. Four of them are goalkeepers, and three of those four cost £4.5m.

Verbruggen is the pick of the three on points and Brighton's fixtures average 3.00 across the opening six. Petrović actually kept the most clean sheets of the group with 11, but he has the hardest opening run in the league: Bournemouth average 3.67 across GW1 to GW6 with zero fixtures rated 2 or easier, starting away at Man City. His 124 points came with a much kinder schedule than the one in front of him.

Leno is the quiet one. Fulham's run is second-hardest at 3.33, which caps his ceiling in the same way.

The best £4.0m goalkeeper

The cheapest price in the game is where the second keeper usually comes from, and only one 4m keeper played meaningful football last season.

Player	Club	Price	2025/26 minutes	Owned
Dubravka	TOT	£4.0m	3,150	21.9%
Palmer	IPS	£4.0m	n/a	5.3%
Steele	BHA	£4.0m	0	4.4%
Forster	BOU	£4.0m	0	3.2%

Dubravka (TOT, £4.0m) started 35 games for Burnley last season and moved to Spurs this summer. He is the only £4.0m keeper in the game with a full season of recent Premier League minutes behind him, and at 21.9% he is the most-owned keeper at the price by a distance.

The catch is his new club. He kept 4 clean sheets in those 35 games, the worst rate of any regular starter, and Spurs already had two keepers.

The Tottenham problem

Player	Price	2025/26 minutes	2025/26 starts	Owned
Vicario	£4.5m	2,790	31	1.3%
Kinsky	£4.5m	630	7	20.5%
Dubravka	£4.0m	3,150	35	21.9%
Austin	£4.0m	0	0	0.7%

42.4% of managers own either Kinsky (TOT, £4.5m) or Dubravka (TOT, £4.0m), split almost evenly between the two. Vicario (TOT, £4.5m), who started 31 games for the club last season, is owned by 1.3%.

What none of that tells you is who starts. Dubravka played more league football last season than Vicario did, but he did it at Burnley, and Vicario is the incumbent. No Tottenham keeper appears in the pre-season friendly research, so there is no minutes evidence to break the tie.

At £4.0m Dubravka sits at the joint-cheapest goalkeeper price, which is the price you pay for a keeper you intend to bench. That is the only role the current evidence supports buying him for. If your first choice picks up an injury in September, a player whose own starting spot is unresolved is a poor thing to fall back on.

If you want a Spurs keeper who plays, the minutes history points at Vicario and almost nobody owns him.

The promoted clubs, where ownership and evidence disagree

Coventry, Hull and Ipswich have no Premier League history to price off, so pre-season friendlies are the only evidence available. At all three clubs, the most-owned keeper is not the one the friendly minutes point to.

Club	Friendly starts	Most-owned keeper	Owned
Coventry	Wilson 4 of 4	Dovin (£4.0m)	2.1%
Hull	Tzolakis 1 of 1	Phillips (£4.0m)	1.9%
Ipswich	Scherpen 1 of 1	Palmer (£4.0m)	5.3%

Wilson (COV, £4.5m) started all four of Coventry's friendlies on record. He is owned by 0.6%, while Dovin (COV, £4.0m) at 2.1% does not appear in any of those starting lineups.

Hull's situation changed through pre-season. Butland (HUL, £4.5m) started all three of their friendlies and is now out with an arm injury and no return date, which leaves Tzolakis (HUL, £4.5m), a summer signing who started the one friendly he appears in.

At Ipswich, Scherpen (IPS, £4.5m) started the club's marquee home friendly against Rayo Vallecano on 8 August and looks the front-runner for the opener at home to Sunderland.

None of these are picks to build a squad around. They matter if you are choosing a £4.0m bench keeper and would rather own one with a chance of playing than one without.

What to actually do

Two structures the numbers support:

• £9.5m: Kelleher (£5.0m) plus Verbruggen (£4.5m). Two starters, 273 points between them last season, and no bench filler.
• £10.0m: Raya (£6.0m) plus a £4.0m bench keeper. The best keeper in the game, and you accept that your second slot is a body.

The first is the better use of money for most squads. The second is defensible if you specifically want Arsenal's clean sheets and have the budget spare.

The £5.5m bracket is the one to think hardest about. Both keepers at that price returned 135 points last season, 8 fewer than Kelleher at £5.0m and 5 more than Verbruggen at £4.5m, which is a thin return on the extra money. Pickford (EVE, £5.5m) has the counter-argument: he was the fourth keeper to play all 3,420 minutes last season, and Everton share the kindest GW1 to GW6 run in the league at 2.83. If you want certainty of minutes behind a good early schedule, he is the reason to pay it.

The caveat

All of this is backward-looking. Last season's minutes are the best available evidence that a keeper starts, but goalkeeper is the position where a single managerial decision in August rewrites the whole picture, and three clubs in this post have unresolved competitions right now. Check current team news rather than locking a keeper in from last season's numbers alone.

For the fixture side of the argument, the GW1 to GW6 difficulty runs cover all 20 clubs. If you are filling the cheap slots elsewhere in the squad, the budget enablers post covers the same minutes logic for defenders and midfielders.

Build your opening fifteen in the squad builder to see what a £9.5m goalkeeper pairing frees up everywhere else.