It’s tough to think of a season where a team won the Premier League without a world-class goalkeeper between the posts, and yet, on average, these game-savers are paid significantly less than their outfield counterparts.
Still, even though the highest-paid goalkeepers in the Premier League for the 2025/26 season don’t come close to the highest-paid players list overall, they’re still taking home a good chunk of change for their efforts each week.
Salaries of Premier League players aren’t made public, so for this list, we’ll be referring to the estimations of sources that are reliable in other sports salary matters (Capology and Spotrac) to list the league’s highest-paid goalies.
Alisson, Liverpool (£150,000 p/w)
Arguably the greatest Premier League goalkeeper of the last ten years, Alisson has been pivotal in Liverpool clawing back up the league, winning its first Premier League title in 2019/20, and then its second in 2024/25.
The Brazilian recently played his 300th game for Liverpool, and in that time, he’s only conceded 273 goals while keeping 127 clean sheets. He’s also joined the rather niche group of goalies to score in the Premier League.
Now 32-years-old, Alisson has plenty of time ahead of him to add to his impressive trophy haul, which also includes the UEFA Champions League, FA Cup, UEFA Super Cup, and two League Cups with the Reds.
Naturally, given his success on the pitch with the reigning champions, Alisson is estimated to be the highest-paid goalkeeper in the Premier League this season, scooping up around £150,000 per week.
If he wins the league again, which the Premier League odds are presently leaning towards, the netminder with two seasons left on his current deal might just be in for another pay bump.
Emiliano Martínez, Aston Villa (£150,000 p/w)
Emiliano Martínez landed at Aston Villa in 2020, having outgrown his role as the up-and-coming backup at Arsenal. He immediately hit the ground running, proving to be worth every penny of the roughly £17 million fee.
By the end of 2022, he’d back-stopped Argentina to a World Cup triumph and went on to win Aston Villa’s Footballer of the Year award, having been pivotal in the club climbing to fourth in the table.
With all of this leverage, the 6’4’’ Argentine negotiated a deal for what is thought to make him the joint-highest-paid goalkeeper in the Premier League in the 2025/26 season at £150,000 in weekly wages.
He’s among the reasons why Villa have one of the highest wage bills in England, but given that he’s kept 70 clean sheets in 212 games and only conceded 256, it’d be fair to say that Martínez earns his pay.
Bernd Leno, Fulham (£130,000 p/w)
One of the hottest goalkeepers on the continent with Bayer 04 Leverkusen, it was Arsenal who’d win the race for Bernd Leno in 2018/19. By the opening of 2022/23, however, Arteta’s Arsenal rebuild had found a more suitable option.
So, the German shot-stopper shifted across the capital to Fulham, where he’s underpinned Marco Silva’s impressive work to establish the club as a solid mid-table team after winning promotion in 2021/22.
Leno has been a points-winner on multiple occasions for the Cottagers across his 119 games to date. He’s kept 23 clean sheets and only allowed 178 to breach his coverage, with his one-on-one stats being absurdly impressive.
Even for a mid-table team, Leno’s importance to Fulham has enabled him to command a £130,000 per week salary to make the German one of the highest-paid goalies in the Premier League.
Jordan Pickford, Everton (£125,000 p/w)
A shot-stopper through and through, while he may rank among the most hated players in the league for his outbursts, Jordan Pickford has undoubtedly stepped up when the Toffees have needed him the most.
Over his 320 games at the club so far, Pickford has rarely been in net for a team challenging higher than mid-table, which will have contributed to the 447 shots flying past his mitts to date.
The 89 clean sheets in that time is an admirable tally, and it’s those big-game saves and sudden low stops for the 6’0’’ goalie that keep his highlights in the minds of the club’s higher-ups come negotiation time.
In February 2023, while positioned as England’s number one pick in goal for Gareth Southgate, Pickford sealed a four-and-a-half-year deal for an estimated £125,000 per week, putting him among the league’s highest-paid goalies.
André Onana, Manchester United (£120,000 p/w)
André Onana was seen as a top-class goalkeeping talent throughout his time as a young starter with Ajax before a lengthy ban derailed his career. This wasn’t enough to deter Inter Milan, though, who waited to scoop him up.
Just a season with the Nerazzurri was enough to convince Manchester United to pay around £48 million for the Cameroonian goalie, but little did Onana know that his job would get much more difficult after the switch.
Behind an ever-injured, ever-rotating, and always lacking backline for the last couple of seasons, Onana has been left visibly frustrated on many, many occasions. In 101 matches, he has 24 clean sheets and has conceded 148.
Even so, he’s been able to pull off some incredible saves, pinpoint long passes, and has kept wins on the table by himself, reflecting the 29-year-old’s true talent that earned him the roughly £120,000 per week that ranks him among the highest-paid Premier League goalkeepers in 2025/26.
Having had longer to get accustomed to Ruben Amorim’s very specific system, but without defensive reinforcements to date, Onana and United sit as 10/3 dark horses to land in the top four, per online betting odds.
*Credit for the main photo belongs to Alamy*
*Odds accurate at time of writing - prices subject to change*
