I don’t think a lot of fans – including some pretty hardcore ones – understand just how brilliant LaLiga’s goalkeepers have been over the past several years. And I’m not just talking about the divine trinity of Thibaut Courtois, Jan Oblak, and Marc Andre-ter Stegen at the “Big Three” either, because, let’s face it, Oblak and MATS had a couple of rough seasons in between some monster ones.
No, even when you look at the other goalkeepers they’ve fielded like Juan Musso, Wojciech Szczesny, and Andriy Lunin, all those guys would be top five-goalkeepers in many other top European leagues.
But beyond the Big Three is where you really get to see talent. Remember Edgar Badia and Jeremias Ledesma? How about Alex Remiro at Real Sociedad? He’s been on highlight reels in LaLiga for years.
Now in 2025, let’s take a look at the top 10 goalkeepers in LaLiga, ranked from 10th to 1st.
10. Sergio Herrera, Osasuna
You’ve probably heard of Sergio Herrera if you remember Osasuna’s run to the Copa del Rey in the 2022/23 season, and that’s around the time when Herrera established himself as one of the best goalkeepers in LaLiga.
Maybe you think 10th is a little bit low for a keeper who has been so good this season that he’s fifth in post-shot expected goals allowed, but that should tell you just how talented the goalkeepers are in LaLiga. I mean, guys like Rui Silva and Marko Dmitrovic didn’t even make the cut, and they’d be easy top 10s in the Premier League or Bundesliga.
Herrera is a consistent player with such good shot-stopping chops that he’s holding off a backup who is also among the leaders in post-shot expected goals allowed despite only playing in one game. That keeper? Aitor Fernandez, once recognized as one of the league’s best in his own right a few years ago at Levante.
9. Unai Simon, Athletic Club
Unai Simon may have lost the starting job to an even more talented – and younger – goalkeeper, but he’s still one of the best in the business and has a great track record, including being Spain’s starting goalkeeper at Euro 2020.Although Simon is lacking on the ball, he is an excellent shot-stopper who command his line well.
8. Julen Agirrezabala, Athletic Club
One of the big breakout stars of the 2024/25 LaLiga season, Julen Agirrezabala is the latest and greatest young goalkeeper that Athletic Club has produced, with perhaps the most famous being the similarly fun to say Kepa Arrizabalaga of Chelsea, Real Madrid, and Bournemouth fame.
Agirrezabala is fourth in LaLiga in save percentage and sixth in post-shot expected goals allowed, so the only reason why he’s lower on this list is because of hos established the other names ahead of him are.
7. Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Barcelona
I don’t think anyone knows how good Marc-Andre ter Stegen will be when he comes back from a completely ruptured patellar tendon, though early reports on his progress and return are positive.
Ter Stegen is an exceptional keeper when he’s at his best, and perhaps he won’t decline as sharply. But keepers do need to be explosive, and Ter Stegen, maybe more than any other big-name goalkeeper, relied a lot on being spry.
But he’s lower on this list and outside the top five entirely because he wasn’t particularly good before his injury. He really regressed in the 2023/24 season, to the point where Barcelona fans were calling even louder for his replacement despite an amazing bounce-back season in 2022/23 in which the Blaugrana won the league behind Europe’s most statistically impressive defense.
6. Alex Remiro, Real Sociedad
Alex Remiro has been consistently one of LaLiga’s top performing goalkeepers over the years, and he’s improved with each campaign. The Real Sociedad starter is fifth in the league in save percentage this season and was third last season. In fact, he’s been in the top 10 in each of the past four campaigns.
While Remiro can make some baffling mistakes, including in La Real’s recent Copa del Rey elimination match against Real Madrid, he more than makes up for it with jaw-dropping saves that rank among the league’s best – including one of those against Real Madrid in the same game.
5. Wojciech Szczesny, Barcelona
Wojciech Szczesny has been a gift from above. For absolutely nothing, Barcelona got the best goalkeeper of Serie A from the last 10 years out of retirement to replace Ter Stegen, and the Polish international has been a pretty significant upgrade when you compare what MATS was doing in the 2023/24 season.
What sets Szczesny apart is the fact that he’s so consistent. He’s good on the ball, he handles well, he makes plenty of reflex saves, he’s smart, he’s a great leader, and he doesn’t make stupid blunders.
Barcelona fans love him more than they’ve ever loved Ter Stegen for all those reasons, and while it sucks to put it in those terms, I get it. I get why Barcelona fans would prefer a keeper who has his head on straight all the time and doesn’t look like he’s juggling a boiling cabbage whenever a cross comes in.
4. Joan Garcia, Espanyol
It might seem a little presumptuous to have the 23-year-old Joan Garcia ranked so highly – above some very impressive and more established LaLiga keepers – on this list, but I am very bullish on the Arsenal transfer target.
After all, there’s a reason why Arsenal want Garcia despite already having the best Spanish goalkeeper as their starter, David Raya. That’s because Garcia is a phenom who was fantastic in the second league last season before maintaining that level in his first season as a full-time starter at the LaLiga level.
Garcia is one of the LaLiga leaders in save percentage and is behind only David Soria and Jasper Cillessen, who just barely missed out on this list, in expected goals prevented. He’s the next big thing.
3. Jan Oblak, Atletico Madrid
After some rough years, Jan Oblak has bounced back into the top three of LaLiga, and it seems like the Slovenian international saves his best performances for the biggest stages, especially when Atletico Madrid are going up against Real Madrid.
2. David Soria, Getafe
It may seem crazy to have Oblak third behind a goalkeeper from some team other than Barcelona, but I think this should say less about any deficiencies Oblak has – other than a couple of down years – and more about how disgustingly good David Soria is.
Getafe are straight-up terrible at everything other than making their opponents angry and playing dogged defense, and that defense is more down to how brilliant Soria is between the sticks than anything else.
Soria is LaLiga’s great equalizer. He makes saves that he has absolutely no business making, and all the fans of the Big Three in Spanish football hate his guts for how good he is – and that’s why they respect him so much.
This season, Soria is first in LaLiga in post-shot expected goals prevented and save percentage. He is the undisputed best statistically this season, and I wouldn’t fault anyone who thinks he’s the best goalkeeper in LaLiga. Be bold.
1. Thibaut Courtois, Real Madrid
But I am not always bold. It’s impossible for me to pick anyone over Thibaut Courtois for all that he’s done at Real Madrid since the 2019/20 season when he got the stomach bug, got absolutely blasted by his own fanbase, and then made sure that was the last time they gave him crap because he set records and won the Zamora trophy to help Madrid win the 2019/20 LaLiga title.
Well, two more league titles and two Champions League triumphs later, and the man they call the Giraffe is still the best in the business. He keeps Real Madrid in so many games and bails out a back line that has been suspect since Sergio Ramos’s injuries in 2021.
Courtois’s 2021/22 Champions League run alone makes him the best in the world for another five years, but even then, he’s still been the best in terms of performance despite playing with one of the worst back lines of any top club in Europe.
Joe Soriano covers West Ham for Green Street Hammers and writes about Real Madrid for The Real Champs. He has extensive experience covering world football since 2014. Joe is an editor for The Trivela Effect, where he covers the biggest clubs in European football. He has watched professional sports regularly since 2002 and can be found playing the same sports he covers with his friends.