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The best goalkeepers to sign in FC 26 Career Mode

From Noah Atubolu to Robin Roefs, here's a curated of the best young goalkeepers to sign on your FC 26 Career Modes

SCOUTED

19 Sep 2025 — 8 min read

Robin Roefs, one of the best GK wonderkids you can sign on EA Sports FC 26 Career Mode

SCOUTED is a magazine about youth football. Turns out, all that knowledge is pretty useful for FC 26 Career Mode, who'da thought?

Using our big brains, we’ve picked out a few of our favourite young goalkeepers that would be suitable signings on your EA FC 26 Career Mode saves. From Lucca Brughmans to Kauã Santos, these are some of the best young GKs in the new game.

If you’re looking for older players, we have you sorted too: we've added a collection of the ten highest overall goalkeepers at the start of your save, too.

Let's get into the 'keepers.

Who are the best goalkeepers in EA FC 26 Career Mode?

The best goalkeepers in FC 26 Career Mode are those with the highest overall rating at the start of the game. Here's a list, including their overall at the start of the game, and their highest possible potential rating (in brackets):

Gianluigi Donnarumma - 89 (91)
Alisson - 89 (89)
Thibaut Courtois - 89 (89)
Jan Oblak - 88 (88)
Yann Sommer - 87 (87)
Mike Maignan - 87 (88)
David Raya - 87 (87)
Marc-Andre ter Stegen - 86 (86)
Gregor Kobel - 86 (89)

Unsurprisingly, there's not a huge amount of room for the best goalkeepers in the world to improve, and they're likely to set you back a lot of money.

You want to target potential instead. That's where we come in.

Here's our collection of the best young goalkeepers to target in FC 26: those who can be bought cheap relative to their eventual value, and who you can carefully develop into the best goalkeepers in the game.

The best young Goalkeepers to buy in FC 26 Career Mode

For quick reference, here's our full list of the best young goalkeepers - again including their current rating and potential (in brackets) and there should be a player for every Career Mode budget:

Don't worry, we'll go into detail on each in a moment.

Noah Atubolu - 77 (83)
Robin Roefs - 74 (84)
Matthieu Epolo - 73 (85)
Kauã Santos - 71 (82)
Rome-Jayden Owusu-Oduro - 71 (84)
Lucca Brughmans - 59 (82)

As you can tell, each of these players has a lot of room to grow, but some will set you back more of your transfer budget than others. Let's get into it.

Noah Atubolu

Position: GK
Club: SC Freiburg
Nation: Germany
Market Value: £12m

Noah Atubolu is a box-office goalkeeper. His expansive and ambitious passing characterises his game but he is also allergic to conceding spot-kicks. He holds the Bundesliga record for most consecutive penalties saved, stopping five in a row from May 2024 to September 2025.

On Career Mode, he's not the most rewarding investment in terms if potential growth, but he's a mobile shot-stopper that would become a solid number one for most sides.

Overall: 77
Potential: 83
Potential Growth: +6

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Robin Roefs

Position: GK
Club: Sunderland
Nation: Netherlands
Market Value: £7.5m

Robin Roefs is a SCOUTED favourite and a very promising goalkeeper. He has a well-rounded skillset and that knack of making the difficult look easy, similar to a many of the very best.

Despite his summer move to Sunderland, you can still get him relatively cheap.

Overall: 74
Potential: 84
Potential Growth: +10

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Matthieu Epolo

Position: GK
Club: Standard Liège
Nation: Belgium
Market Value: £6m

We first came across Matthieu Epolo when putting together a squad of the most fascinating Under-21 players from around the world. He established himself as number one for Standard Liège as a teenager and finished the 2024/25 season with an impressive 6.2 Goals Prevented and kept a Clean Sheet in 44.4% of his 19 Pro League games.

Epolo has the highest potential growth of any goalkeeper on FC 26 Career Mode with at least an 85 potential rating and he's only 20 years old.

Overall: 73
Potential: 85
Potential Growth: +12

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Kauã Santos

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Kauã Santos is a colossal figure in between the posts, an effective and efficient shot-stopper and an authoritative cross-claimer. The dream.

The Brazilian proved he's a Dida regen against Spurs in the UEFA Europa League last season and although he doesn't quite scale to those heights in terms of potential rating, just remember he's 6 foot 5.

Overall: 71
Potential: 82
Potential Growth: +11

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Rome Jayden Owusu-Oduro

Position: GK
Club: AZ Alkmaar
Nation: Netherlands
Market Value: £3.6m

Last season, Rome-Jayden Owusu-Oduro became the youngest-ever goalkeeper to represent AZ Alkmaar in European competition. He was fast-tracked to the first-team following his heroics in AZ's historic UEFA Youth League run. He’s excellent in one-v-one situations and has the skill to play a big role in build-up phases.

Those are reasons enough to sign on him Career Mode but the 84 potential rating for a player valued at £3.6m should convince any few remaining doubters.

Overall: 71
Potential: 84
Potential Growth: +13

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Lucca Brughmans

Position: GK
Club: Genk
Nation: Belgium
Market Value: 140k

Lucca Brughmans is following in the footsteps of Thibaut Courtois by emerging as a primo goalkeeping prospect developed by the Genk academy. Standing at 1.97m tall, he has the same giant wing-span associated with Real Madrid's number one.

On FC 26 Career Mode, he has one of the largest potential growth spurts. You can develop this 17-year-old lighthouse from a 59-rated prospect to a solid 82-rated number one.

Overall: 59
Potential: 82
Potential Growth: +23

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Sorted. There are the SCOUTED-approved best young goalkeepers to sign for you FC 26 Career Mode save. You could even check out the players that featured on last year's list, we've updated their ratings (and potential) for EA FC 26 below: