This brief highlights the factors associated with good goalkeeping techniques and their impact
on goalkeepers' performance in elite European football leagues. The goalkeeping performances of
1600 goalkeepers from five consecutive seasons across the English Premier League Spanish La
Liga Italian Serie A and German Bundesliga are studied. The findings from this brief are
useful for identifying the success metrices of top-class goalkeepers that help stakeholders to
devise strategies to further enhance their performances and empower talent identification
experts with pertinent information for mapping out future high-performance goalkeepers.
