21 unbeatable records set by Iker Casillas

21 unbeatable records set by Iker Casillas
21 unbeatable records set by Iker Casillas

Here are some unbeatable records set by Iker Casillas

If you believe Iker Casillas is the greatest goalkeeper in football history, you aren’t wrong. I mean, he was always a perfect goalie, from diving to reflexes.

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So here are those 21 unbeatable records set by Iker Casillas

  • Most appearances in the UEFA Champions League: 177 (excluding 4 appearances in the qualifying rounds)
  • Most group stage appearances in the UEFA Champions League: 95
  • Most clean sheets in the UEFA Champions League: 57 (excluding 2 in the qualifying rounds)
  • Most consecutive seasons in the UEFA Champions League: 20
  • Youngest goalkeeper to play in a UEFA Champions League final: 19 years and 4 days
  • Youngest goalkeeper to win a UEFA Champions League final: 19 years and 4 days
  • Most penalty kicks saved in the UEFA Champions League (excluding shoot-outs): 7 out of 23
  • Most UEFA Champions League titles won by a goalkeeper: 3 (alongside Juan Alonso, Ray Clemence, Sepp Maier, Keylor Navas, Heinz Stuy, Víctor Valdés and Kiko Casilla)
  • Most appearances in UEFA club competitions: 188 (177 in the UEFA Champions League, 4 in the UEFA Champions League qualifying rounds, 2 in the UEFA Europa League, 3 in the UEFA Super Cup, 2 in the Intercontinental Cup)
  • Most appearances for Real Madrid in UEFA club competitions: 155
  • Most IFFHS World’s Best Goalkeeper Awards: 5 (alongside Gianluigi Buffon and Manuel Neuer)
  • Most appearances by a goalkeeper in the FIFPro World XI: 5
  • Most appearances by a goalkeeper in the UEFA Team of the Year: 6
  • Most international clean sheets: 102
Iker Casillas choses his own GOAT
Iker Casillas
  • Most clean sheets in a single edition of the FIFA World Cup: 5 (in 2010, alongside Gianluigi Buffon, Pascal Zuberbühler, Oliver Kahn, Fabien Barthez and Walter Zenga)
  • Most FIFA World Cup tournaments played by a Spanish player: 4 (alongside Xavi, Andoni Zubizarreta and Fernando Hierro)
  • Longest unbeaten run at the UEFA European Championship: 509 minutes
  • Most clean sheets at the UEFA European Championship: 9 (alongside Edwin van der Sar)
  • Fewest goals conceded in a single edition of the UEFA European Championship: 1 (in 2012, alongside Gianluigi Buffon, Thomas Myhre, and Dino Zoff)
  • Most penalty kicks saved in penalty shoot-outs at the UEFA European Championship: 3 (alongside Gianluigi Buffon)
  • Only goalkeeper to stop penalties in two different editions of the FIFA World Cup (excluding shoot-outs): 2002 (vs. Ireland), 2010 (vs. Paraguay)

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