The Yashin Award for the Best Goalkeeper is named in honor of the late goalkeeper Lev Yashin (USSR). The FIFA Technical Study Group recognizes the top goalkeeper of the tournament based on the player’s performance throughout the final competition. Although goalkeepers have this specific award for their position, they are still eligible for the Golden Ball as well, as when Oliver Kahn was awarded in 2002. Although the Yashin was first awarded in 1994, every All-Star Team in World Cups prior to 1998 included only one goalkeeper:
Yashin Award
World Cup | Goalkeeper included in the All-Star Team |
1930 | Enrique Ballesteros |
1934 | Ricardo |
1938 | Frantisek Planicka |
1950 | Roque Maspoli |
1954 | Gyula Grosics |
1958 | Harry Gregg |
1962 | Viliam Schrojf |
1966 | Gordon Banks |
1970 | Ladislao Mazurkiewicz |
1974 | Jan Tomaszewski |
1978 | Ubaldo Fillol |
1982 | Dino Zoff |
1986 | Harald Schumacher |
1990 | Sergio Goycoechea |
The Yashin Award was first awarded in 1994
World Cup | Yashin Award winner |
1994 | Michel Preud'homme |
1998 | Fabien Barthez |
2002 Korea/Japan | Oliver Kahn |
2006 | Gianluigi Buffon |
