Campos, Ceni, Higuita: Who are the highest scoring goalkeepers in football history?

Goalkeepers needing to be comfortable in possession of a football in the modern game feels like a new idea, but the reality is that it isn’t all that shocking a concept.

When you consider that, actually, goalkeepers have been up the other end of the pitch scoring goals for years, it makes the idea of having them play a few passes seem more boring than ever.

Just think about it. If your heart is in your mouth watching your number one stopper take a few extra touches around a striker before finding a pass, where would it be watching that same stopper making their way up the pitch and leaving their goal free in an attempt to try and nab a goal themselves?

The art of goalkeeping is a difficult skill to master. Goalkeepers are goalkeepers. They can’t just slot in up top when needed. Unless your name is David James and your manager is Stuart Pearce, and your team is in dire need of a goal.

But apart from that moment of madness from Pearce while in charge at Manchester City, goalkeepers are generally rooted to their 18-yard box. That is not the case for the following 11 keepers, though, who were – if we’re honest – maniacs.

One goal wasn’t enough for this lot, and neither was being involved with a few passes at the start of a play. Instead, these goalkeepers somehow forged out careers as prolific goal scorers, with some amassing numbers that plenty of strikers would merely dream of.

So, without further ado, GIVEMESPORT counts down 11 of the top scoring goalkeepers in football history.

Pantelic racked up the majority of his goals by making a name for himself as a penalty expert, but did once score a match-winning goal from his own penalty area against Velez Mostar in the Yugoslav First League.

He was capped 19 times for