Top 10 Goalkeepers that Scored Goals in the History of Football

The SemFirula team has put together some interesting facts about the 10 greatest goalkeepers in the history of football. Scoring a goal as a goalkeeper is an extraordinary feat, especially nowadays. However, these stars have achieved this feat more than once - in fact, several times, making history as the greatest goal scorers in their position!

Rogério Ceni started out like many goalkeepers: revered for his miraculous saves, but he never imagined that his name would become synonymous with goals. In the 1997 Paulistão, on a February afternoon, his first goal came, a free kick against União São Paulo.

That shot didn't happen by chance: it took hours and hours of training, more than fifteen thousand repetitions until he felt confident enough to risk it in an official game. From then on, Ceni not only defended, but also started to dictate the pace of São Paulo.

Over the course of almost two decades wearing the tricolor jersey, he scored 129 official goals (IFFHS does not count 2 goals in friendlies) in 1,237 matches, distributed among 69 penalties, 59 direct free kicks and even a goal from a rolling ball – an extremely rare feat for someone who plays in the back line. In 2011, Ceni scored his 100th goal, remaining the only goalkeeper to do so to this day. It was against Corinthians, from a free kick, at the Barueri arena. The 100th goal earned him the title of “M1TO of 100 goals” with celebration, fireworks and applause that echoed for weeks.

He proved that a goalkeeper can be an offensive weapon, an idol for fans and a reference for those who dare to dream beyond the goalposts. Rogério Ceni didn't just defend the goal; he redefined the entire game. To this day, he is considered not only one of the best goalkeepers in the world, but also one of the best footballers of all time.

A specialist in penalties and free kicks, Chilavert still holds the record for goals scored by a goalkeeper for a national team (8 - Paraguay) and was the first to score a hat-trick as a goalkeeper.

Despite being a record holder, most of his goals came when he played as a striker. He alternated between goalkeeper and striker in the matches during his first stint at “Pumas”. And because of this, he holds the record for the goalkeeper with the most goals with the ball rolling - 43.

He is also known for being very short for a goalkeeper - 1.70m, and wearing very extravagant shirts, which made him relatively famous in pop culture.

Wherever he went, Johnny was one of the top choices as a penalty taker and free kick taker. This earned him the record for the 4th goalkeeper with the most career goals.

Most of his goals were scored while playing for Atlético Goianiense. At that time, he was competing with Rogério Ceni for the title of “Goalkeeper with the Most Scored Goals”, and he even scored goals against Rogério, as well as conceding goals from him. To this day, he is the Brazilian who has come closest to Ceni’s historic feat.

Still known today for his famous “Scorpion Defense”, Higuita is one of the most remarkable personalities in world football, for being an extremely crazy person on the field. He always carried the ball and dribbled past opposing attackers, resulting in great plays or epic mistakes that resulted in goals.

In addition to everything, he took free kicks and penalties very well, which at the end of his career gave him the title of 6th goalkeeper with the most goals in history.

Fábio plays in the lower divisions of Rio Grande do Sul football, having played for Cruzeiro-RS and São José in the Gaucho series B and in the Brazilian series C and D.

Despite being quite old (36), he is still active and continues to be one of Brazil's promising prospects for breaking more records for top-scoring goalkeepers.

Early in his career, when he played for Hamburger SV, he scored an incredible 21 goals. Due to his performance, he was transferred to Bayer Leverkusen, where he scored another 8 goals.

Despite having a worthy start to his career as a goalscorer, Hans stopped scoring goals as his footballing skills matured and he was promoted to better clubs. He played for the German national team and Bayern Munich, where he scored only one goal.

Misael's career was marked by a serious neck injury, which prevented him from pursuing a career as a goalkeeper. However, after recovering, he became a goalkeeper coach and even became an interim coach for clubs in El Salvador.

In any case, his legendary performance as a goalkeeper who took penalties and free kicks, even though it was relatively brief (for a goalkeeper), earned him a place in the historical ranking of the greatest scorers in the position.

Having his roots in the striker position, at the beginning of his career, Fernando alternated between the goalkeeper and striker positions in the first clubs he played for. However, the overwhelming majority of his goals were scored with the Xelajú jersey, from Guatemala, playing as a goalkeeper.

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