Fantasy Premier League Rankings: Top Goalkeepers for 2020/21

Fantasy Premier League Rankings: Top Goalkeepers for 2020/21

This article is part of our Fantasy Premier League Rankings series.

Goalkeepers are often an afterthought in fantasy Premier League, but they still manage to score enough points where we certainly can't ignore them. Burnley's Nick Pope was the highest scorer in the league official fantasy game last season, and his point total would have been the fourth-highest among defenders, eighth-highest among midfielders and fifth-highest among forwards.

Clean sheets and saves are the name of the game, something that keeps many goalkeepers fairly close to one another in terms of fantasy production. Elite teams usually don't require their goalkeepers to make many saves, while poorer defensive units allow plenty of save opportunities; it's just a matter of whether those chances can be saved or not.

Liverpool's Alisson Becker was certainly an option to finish as the highest scorer last season, but an injury kept him from playing enough to earn those points. However, now fully fit and with another standout defense in front of him, he projects very well for the 2020/21 campaign.

It's also worth appreciating that individual skill matters but not nearly enough to justify taking a goalkeeper from a worse team. For example, Dean Henderson or Sergio Romero would be more than sufficient players if David de Gea were to suffer an injury, so you can almost ignore the player names and just choose the team.

As mentioned in the forward, midfielder and defender rankings, these will change as projections change, and those are updated whenever there is a transfer, injury or change in playing time situation. The rankings will not change as frequently as the projections, but be sure that we will have multiple updates leading up to the start of the season.

And, as always, if you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, please feel free to leave a comment below, hit me up in our subscriber Discord chat or on Twitter.

Note: all columns are sortable

RankPlayerTeamPriceMINSVGCCSIndex
1Alisson BeckerLIV£6.03,42077.7735.2715.65156.15
2EdersonMCI£6.03,42079.7236.1215.39154.15
3David de GeaMUN£5.53,42084.4338.5114.51146.73
4Aaron RamsdaleSHU£5.03,42086.2540.5814.08140.36
5Kasper SchmeichelLEI£5.53,42099.1345.0512.57131.50
6Rui PatricioWLV£5.53,42096.5244.2812.70131.72
7Hugo LlorisTOT£5.53,420100.9846.2212.26128.25
8Kepa ArrizabalagaCHE£5.03,420115.6152.5510.86117.26
9Bernd LenoARS£5.03,420109.2949.8711.15119.67
10Mathew RyanBHA£4.53,420118.3855.109.84106.51
11Martin DubravkaNEW£5.03,420123.6157.389.59104.29
12Vicente GuaitaCRY£5.03,420118.4955.479.82105.56
13Nick PopeBUR£5.53,420119.9656.049.68104.62
14Kiko CasillaLEE£4.53,420122.3556.889.51103.72
15Alex McCarthySOU£4.53,420124.3957.839.41102.69
16Jordan PickfordEVE£5.03,420130.0559.409.06101.97
17Tom HeatonAVL£4.53,420141.4065.447.8789.89
18Marek RodakFUL£4.53,420145.8567.237.4887.14
19Lukasz FabianskiWHU£5.03,420145.2367.407.5086.23
20Sam JohnstoneWBA£4.53,420143.3966.967.5886.05

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