Are you building your squad but you are not sure about which goalkeepers you should buy? Take our suggestions of the best young goalkeepers for FIFA 21 Career Mode.
How to choose the Best Goalkeepers
In this article we suggest the best goalkeepers for FIFA 21 Career Mode. Keep in mind that the best players for us may not be for you. It depends on your club, other players, formation, transfer budget, wages budget, play style, preferences, etc…
To select the best players, we have mainly into consideration their stats, potential and age.
In our website we suggest goalkeepers of two categories:
1 The Best of the Best
Ideal for unlimited wallets or for who wants the best.
2 The Best Young
Under 23 GK with great growth. Potential future top players.
The Best Young Goalkeepers for FIFA 21 Career Mode
01 GIANLUIGI DONNARUMMA
Nationality: 🇮🇹 Italy
Club (first season): AC Milan
Rating: 85
Potential (1): 92
Age: 21
Value: €41.5M
Wage: €34K
Donnarumma is the young goalkeeper that everyone is talking about. He’s the youngest player to be called up to the senior Italian national team since 1911 and also the youngest goalkeeper to start a match in the history of Italian football. If you want the best young goalkeeper of the game, you need to buy him.
04 LUÍS MAXIMILIANO
Nationality: 🇵🇹 Portugal
Club (first season): Sporting CP
Rating: 78
Potential (1): 88
Age: 21
Value: €6M
Wage: €6K
Maximiliano was one of the good surprises this season. He probably won’t be as good as Rui Patrício was, but even so he is a very good option for most of the clubs.
03 ANDRIY LUNIN
Nationality: 🇺🇦 Ukraine
Club (first season): Real Madrid
Rating: 75
Potential (1): 87
Age: 21
Value: €9.5M
Wage: €6K
Lunin is one of the goalkeepers with most balanced stats. In other words, he doesn’t have weak points.
02 ALBAN LAFONT
Nationality: 🇫🇷 France
Club (first season): FC Nantes
Rating: 78
Potential (1): 84
Age: 21
Value: €14.5M
Wage: €15K
With only 21 years old, Lafont is already one of the under 23 players you should pay attention. Buy him, as soon as possible and put him playing in some matches to give him the chance to improve.
05 WUILKER FARÍÑEZ
Nationality: 🇻🇪 Venezuela
Club (first season): Milionarios FC
Rating: 75
Potential (1): 85
Age: 22
Value: €8M
Wage: €2K
There are other better options if you manage a top club but for medium clubs this goalkeeper may be very useful.
06 JUSTIN BIJLOW
Nationality: 🇳🇱 Netherlands
Club (first season): Feyenoord
Rating: 76
Potential (1): 84
Age: 22
Value: €9M
Wage: €7K
Bijlow has everything needed to be the national team goalkeeper in a few years. He’s still not an impressive player but he has plenty of time to improve his skills. Cheap option if you could wait.
07 AARON RAMSDALE
Nationality: 🏴 England
Club (first season): Sheffield United
Rating: 75
Potential (1): 83
Age: 22
Value: €7.5M
Wage: €26K
For mid-table teams, Ramsdale may be an interesting option. You can easily get him on loan, so you can see with your own eyes how good he is before buying him.
08 ALEKSANDR MAKSIMENKO
Nationality: 🇷🇺 Russia
Club (first season): Spartak Moscow
Rating: 73
Potential (1): 83
Age: 22
Value: €4.3M
Wage: €17K
Maksimenk isn’t already an interesting goalkeeper but he will improve a lot in justtwo seasons. No risk option for most of the teams.
09 MAARTEN VANDEVOORDT
Nationality: 🇧🇪 Belgium
Club (first season): KRC Genk
Rating: 68
Potential (1): 87
Age: 18
Value: €1M
Wage: €0.5K
To close this list, we bring you here a very young talent who is also the cheapest option. Don’t count with him now to the starting eleven but in a few years no one will stop him. If you came here by mistake and you only wanted to discover the best goalkeepers to use on the first season, click here.
10 JAKUB MARKOVIC
Nationality: 🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Club (first season): Slavia Praha
Rating: 69
Potential (1): 84
Age: 19
Value: €1.3M
Wage: €500K
If your budget is not as high as you would like, maybe you should try someone younger but with an incredible potential.
🏆 BEST YOUNG GOALKEEPERS
TOP 10
01 🇮🇹 Gianluigi Donnarumma
04 🇵🇹 Luís Maximiliano
03 🇺🇦 Andriy Lunin
02 🇫🇷 Alban Lafont
05 🇻🇪 Wuilker Faríñez
06 🇳🇱 Justin Bijlow
07 🏴 Aaron Ramsdale
08 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Maksimenko
09 🇧🇪 Maarten Vandervoordt
10 🇨🇿 Jakub Markovic
If you want to check the best young goalkeepers of previous years, just click over it:
FIFA 20
FIFA 19
FIFA 18
FIFA 17
FIFA 16
FIFA 15
FIFA 14
Notes:
(1) Potential is an average of estimated rating a player can reach. It doesn’t mean that you will reach that overall nor that you won’t overcome it.