Thibaut Courtois is the best-rated goalkeeper at the 2026 World Cup at 6.86 on the season, a fraction ahead of Mike Maignan (6.83) and Bart Verbruggen (6.76).
The Goalkeeper Rankings card on squadranks.com rates every starting keeper by their 2025/26 club season rating. Beside each name sits a second number, the "line" score: the calibrated, league-adjusted rating of the whole goalkeeping position, which also reflects backup depth. The gap between the two is where the position gets interesting.
Courtois, Maignan, and Verbruggen separate themselves at the top, all above 6.75. Behind them, Unai Simón (6.73), Bono (6.71), Emiliano Martínez (6.68), Edouard Mendy (6.65), and Dominik Livaković (6.65) are bunched within a few hundredths of a point. Jordan Pickford (6.64) sits just outside that group.
The bottom of the contenders is the surprise. Manuel Neuer ranks last among the tracked squads at 6.22. At 40 his club season no longer carries the numbers it once did, and Germany head into the tournament with the weakest first-choice keeper of the favorites. Ederson (6.30) and Diogo Costa (6.27) are the only others below 6.50.
The "keeper minus line" gap separates two kinds of squad. A large positive gap means an elite keeper standing in front of thinner depth. Bono is the clearest case: his 6.71 is 0.53 above Morocco's goalkeeping line of 6.18. Livaković (plus 0.49) and Mendy (plus 0.37) are close behind. These are the nations whose No.1 is far better than whoever sits behind him, the keepers their runs most depend on staying fit.
The opposite reading matters too. France's line (6.95) is rated above Maignan himself (6.83), and Portugal's line (6.52) sits well above Diogo Costa (6.27). That is not a knock on the starter. It says the position is deep and the calibration trusts the unit, so an injury would cost less there than it would for Morocco or Croatia.
Goalkeeping swings single matches more than any other position once the tournament turns to elimination. Livaković saved three penalties in Croatia's 2022 shootout win over Japan. Bono kept Spain out in the same round. Emiliano Martínez's late save in the final and his record in the shootout won Argentina the trophy. A keeper does not need a high rating every week. He needs one save in the 120th minute.
That is what the Goalkeeper Rankings card is built to show: not only who is rated highest right now, but which squads are leaning on a single pair of hands.
Open the Insights tab to see every keeper rating, the goalkeeping line score beside it, and the gap that says who a squad cannot afford to lose.
