Serie A doesn’t get nearly as much credit as it should for producing some of the finest goalkeepers in the world, and I don’t think there’s a league in world football right now that has had as much depth at the goalkeeper position among all the teams in the league over the past five years.
Players like Guglielmo Vicario have gone on to have great success after leaving Serie A, but there’s still more than enough high-end talent in the Italian top flight – and that goes beyond internationally recognized names like Yann Sommer and Mike Maignan.
In celebration of all the goalkeepers in Serie A, including the more underrated ones, here’s a ranking of the top 10 goalkeepers in the Italian top flight here in 2025.
All statistics are courtesy of FBRef.com, which has, by far and away, the best databse of goalkeeper statistics on the web.
10. Lukasz Skorupski, Bologna
Bologna goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski had an off year in 2024/25 despite his team’s continued success, but he’s off to a hot start early in the 2025/26 campaign and has generally been one of the better goalkeepers in Serie A.
He’s a safe pair of hands who commands his box well. Over the past year, he is in the 83rd percentile in crosses stopped and in the 79th in clean sheet percentage. Often, a goalkeeper’s best trait is their leadership, and Skorupski does a great job of getting his back line into shape, having their backs in possession, and genuinely raising the level of the defenders who play alongside him.
9. Ivan Provedel, Lazio
The 2024/25 season was a year to forget for Ivan Provedel and Lazio, as Maurizio Sarri’s departure had a massive impact on the club. But Sarri is back, and Lazio, who missed out on European football last season, are already seeing some improvements, including from Provedel in goal.
He’s been great to start the 2025/26 campaign and has genuinely been one of the most underrated goalkeepers in the world since arriving in the Italian top flight as the perennial saviors of underdogs Spezia before moving on to join the big boys in Rome.
Provedel can produce some of the most stunning saves you’ll see in Serie A, and while he briefly lost his job last season, Provedel has been back with a vengeance in 2025/26 with a save percentage of 80 and 0.34 expected goals prevented above average per 90 minutes.
In 2022/23, Provedel led Serie A in save percentage and clean sheet percentage, so he has the quality to be the best goalkeeper in the league, and based on the bounce-back start he’s having this season, you wouldn’t bet against him heading into the top five again.
8. Wladimiro Falcone, Lecce
Like Provedel, Wladimiro Falcone has been a revelation in Serie A and one of the league’s standout goalkeepers ever since becoming a full-time starter for newly promoted underdogs Lecce back in 2022/23.
Ever since the former Sampdoria man joined Lecce, he has helped ensure that his club have never gone back down to Serie B, and even though Lecce allowed more than 1.50 goals per game last season, they managed to weather the storm and stay up.
A large part of that is due to Falcone, who is as consistent as they come with save percentages no lower than 71.7 in his three seasons between the sticks at Lecce, and he’s already at a 75.0 clip to start the 2025/26 campaign.
7. Alex Meret, Napoli
Now a two-time Scudetto winner with Napoli (and a former Serie B champion with SPAL, let’s not forget), Alex Meret is aiming to become the greatest goalkeeper in Napoli history, because he’s already Partenopei royalty as an indispensable part of the squad.
Although Meret can sometimes run cold in goal, he has a case for being a top three goalkeeper in this stacked league when he is at his very best, and he put up some monster numbers in the defensive and structured Antonio Conte scheme last season with 0.75 goals per 90 allowed and a clean sheet percentage just under 50 (47.1, to be exact).
Meret makes top-notch reflex saves and is comfortable on the ball, and he’s also one of the better sweeper keepers in European football when looking at the defensive actions he makes outside the box.
The 28-year-old Italian national has fully bounced back from a woeful 2023/24 season for both himself and the club, and over the past year, he has been in the literal 99th percentile in goals allowed per 90 and clean sheet percentage.
Yes, that speaks to the quality of the defense Napoli have and the coaching instilled in them by the legendary Conte, but you also have to be consistent and safe in goal to be the bedrock of that success.
6. Marco Carnesecchi, Atalanta
One of the most exciting goalkeepers in world football, you just never know what you are going to see when Marco Carnesecchi is patrolling the posts, because he made some of the greatest highlight-reel saves in Serie A last season.
Just 25 years old, Carnesecchi isn’t yet in his prime as a Serie A goalkeeper, and even though most people around the globe have only vaguely heard of him, he is starting to get some more mainstream credit.
Still underrated, Carnesecchi is the centerpiece player for Atalanta after a difficult summer transfer window and is in the 95th percentile in goals allowed per 90 and in the 94th in clean sheet percentage despite playing for an Atalanta side that is traditionally very attacking.
Carnesecchi posted a save percentage of at least 75 in both of his seasons as a starter for Atalanta, and he hadn’t even turned 25 yet. La Dea reached the top four in both campaigns, cementing Carnesecchi’s status as a brilliant young leader.
5. Mile Svilar, Roma
No team in European football experienced a bigger turnaround in the middle of the season than Roma under Claudio Ranieri, who came back to rescue the Giallorossi from their mercurial ownership – and even they couldn’t screw up Ranieri’s momentum on short notice.
Roma were the statistical best team in Serie A in the second half of the season, even above champions Napoli and Champions League Finalists Inter Milan. And their best player was goalkeeper Mile Svilar, who made so many jaw-dropping saves that it was hard to keep track of what he was doing on a weekly basis.
Svilar has accomplished quite a bit in his young carer at Roma thus far, and he has been a night-and-day upgrade on Rui Patricio, transforming the fortunes of the Giallorossi with every acrobatic save and reflex stop.
The 26-year-old is next in a long line of great Belgium-born goalkeepers, though the man in the 95th percentile for save percentage actually plies his craft with the Serbian national team.
Svilar is the future of Serie A, and within the next few years, nobody should be surprised if he usurps the veterans in the top four and even becomes known as the top dog among Serie A goalkeepers.
He’s already been beyond brilliant to start the 2025/26 campaign, too, saving all five of the shots on target he’s faced this season with a clean sheet in both Roma matches.
4. Mike Maignan, AC Milan
Although Mike Maignan wasn’t as spellbindingly brilliant for AC Milan in 2024/25 as he has been in years past, the Rossoneri star was still pretty impressive with a clean sheet in one-third of his games despite playing behind a pretty terrible defense.
Milan missed out on European football and were the most disappointing team in Serie A under a revolving door of managers after arguably the worst transfer window of any big club on the continent.
A lot of work needs to be done before Milan can turn things around, and you wouldn’t blame Maignan for bailing on the team. But Maignan has honestly made his claim to fame by elevating teams to greater heights than they were at previously, being part of historic title triumphs at Lille and then AC Milan in 2021/22.
That 2021/22 season is the biggest reason why the French national team goalkeeper is held in such high regard around the world, and he followed that up with two more good seasons in the Milan goal before the bottom fell out on the Rossoneri’s stagnant sporting project in 2024/25.
Doubting Maignan’s quality as a goalkeeper would be foolish, because he is consistent, great with his hands, great with his feet, and capable of making the top-drawer saves an elite keeper needs to.
3. Michele Di Gregorio, Juventus
In the prime of his career at the age of 28, Italian international Michele Di Gregorio is overshadowed by countryman Gianluigi Donnarumma and even Sommer in his own league, as both men are bigger names than the former Monza man.
But Di Gregorio is a monster who deserves so much more recognition than he gets. It takes a truly top goalkeeper to join Juventus and immediately displace Mattia Perin and Wojciech Szczesny, two of the better Serie A goalkeepers of the previous five years.
That’s the level Di Gregorio is at, given he’s never had a save percentage below 73.3 in any league in Italian football. Di Gregorio was racking up clean sheets and saving 80 percent of his shots for Monza when they arrived in Serie A, keeping them well above the safety range in the relegation fight – and they have missed him badly ever since he took his talents to the biggest team in Italy.
Juventus have such a great lineage of goalkeepers, and Di Gregorio is absolutely part of it. Even when Juve are playing poorly, Di Gregorio shines, and he is now the foundational piece of a side built on defending.
Di Gregorio may not be the absolute best goalkeeper in Italian football right now, but he’s awfully close and was arguably at that level back in 2023/24 in his final season with Monza.
2. David de Gea, Fiorentina
Fiorentina returned to European football last season behind the revivals of former Premier League players Moise Kean and David de Gea, who were two of the best players in Serie A at their respective positions.
And it was De Gea’s story that stole the show, as the former best goalkeeper in the world at Manchester United rebounded from being a meme back to being one of the top goalkeepers in European football.
The former Spanish national team shot-stopper saved 72.6 percent of the shots he faced with a mere 1.09 goals surrendered per contest, making it his best season in about five years since a 2019/20 campaign with Manchester United in which he allowed fewer than a goal per game for the third-best team in the Premier League.
De Gea has always been one of the best goalkeepers in the world in terms of reflexes, but now his distribution has improved with age. He has been the most impressive player on an underrated Fiorentina team filled with standouts.
1. Yann Sommer, Inter Milan
What Yann Sommer did to Barcelona in the Champions League semifinals will endure throughout history as one of the best knockout performances ever, but it was just another day at the office for the Swiss international, who has a career filled with legendary performances like knocking Kylian Mbappe’s France out of the European Championships or setting a Bundesliga record for most saves in a game in a one-man upset of Bayern Munich.
Now a title winner for both Bayern and Inter Milan, Sommer has fully shed the underrated label he accrued after years of unrecognized service for Bundesliga underdogs Borussia Monchengladbach.
Anyone ranking Sommer as the best goalkeeper in Serie A would be well within their right to do so. He is a goalkeeper with no major weaknesses to his game and is capable of elevating his performances to the level of a near-deity when the occasion calls for it.
Joe Soriano is the editor of The Trivela Effect and a FanSided Hall of Famer who has covered world football since 2010. He’s led top digital communities like The Real Champs (Real Madrid) and has run sites covering Tottenham, Liverpool, Juventus, and Schalke. He also helped manage NFL Spin Zone and Daily DDT, covering the NFL and pro wrestling.