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 2004âÂÂ05 season until the 2015âÂÂ16 season and as the Cadbury Golden Glove from 2017âÂÂ18 season to 2019âÂÂ20 season. For the 2020âÂÂ21 season, it was known as the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar Golden Glove and from the 2021âÂÂ22 to 2023âÂÂ24 seasons, it was known as the Castrol Golden Glove.
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. 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. However, starting in the 2013âÂÂ14 season, the Golden Glove is shared by goalkeepers with an equal number of clean sheets, regardless of the number of games they played.
In 2005, the inaugural Premier League Golden Glove was awarded to Petr ÃÂech of Chelsea. ÃÂech's 24 clean sheets in a single season remains the current record. Since 2005 ÃÂech and Joe Hart have won the award on the most occasions with four successes each, with ÃÂech 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.
During the 2008âÂÂ09 season, Edwin van der Sar surpassed ÃÂech's previous record of ten consecutive clean sheets by reaching 14. During his streak, Van der Sar went 1,311 minutes without conceding a goal. In the process, he broke both ÃÂech's Premier League record (1,025 minutes), Steve Death's Football League record (1,103 minutes) and also the all-time league record in Britain (1,155 minutes) for most consecutive scoreless minutes.
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.