Who are the Best FPL Budget Goalkeepers for 2025/26 Season?

A goalkeeper is a very important factor for the Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers, as the goalkeeper brings significant points for them throughout the season. Apart from four valuable points from clean sheets, a goalkeeper can bring additional points from saves. Every three saves in a match bring one point for the goalkeeper, and more saves mean more points, and it can also help produce some valuable FPL bonus points. A few goalkeepers are even known as specialists in saving penalties, which can bring five points for saving each penalty.

For the FPL 2025/26 season, the goalkeepers are starting with the valuations of £4.0m, £4.5m, £5.0m, or £5.5m. As the FPL managers are stuck with inflated valuations, selecting 15 strong players under the £100m budget is difficult for many of them. In this situation, even £5.5m valued goalkeepers are often not affordable for the managers, especially when selecting two goalkeepers.

Budget goalkeepers act as the saviours for Fantasy Premier League managers. For the FPL 2025/26 season, £4.0m-£4.5m are the valuations in the list of best budget goalkeepers FPL.

Best Budget Goalkeepers FPL

Here are the best budget goalkeeper picks for Fantasy Premier League 2025/26:

Bart Verbruggen (Brighton & Hove Albion) – £4.5m

Brighton goalie Bart Verbruggen is one of the popular goalkeeping choices under the £4.5m FPL budget. After earning 68 FPL points in the 2023/24 season, he earned 103 points in the last FPL season. Last season, he recorded 91 saves and seven clean sheets, along with one surprising assist. The Dutch glovesman is very consistent between the posts, and he can be a useful selection for the managers.

Apart from facing Manchester City in the third gameweek, Brighton’s other four of the first five PL 2025/26 fixtures have three difficulty ratings, which means he is a favourable choice for the managers among the FPL budget goalkeepers.

Alphonse Areola (West Ham United) – £4.5m

West Ham United’s Alphonse Areola is another strong name among the choices for the best budget goalkeepers FPL. Last season, he managed only 69 FPL points, which was far away from his quality. However, in the 2020/21 and 2023/24 seasons, he scored 124 and 116 points, respectively. Instead of 82 saves last season, the French goalie saved 116 and 138 times in the 2020/21 and 2023/24 seasons, respectively.

As West Ham United have very comfortable fixtures in their first five gameweeks of the PL 2025/26, the managers can pick Areola as a strong budget goalkeeper.

Neto (AFC Bournemouth) – £4.5m

Brazilian goalkeeper Neto is back in the No. 1 shirt for AFC Bournemouth. Last season, he served for Arsenal on loan but couldn’t play a single PL match for the Gunners. Before that season, Neto delivered 93 and 110 FPL points, respectively, for two straight seasons, while recording 100 and 113 saves, respectively. In the 2023/24 season, he also saved a penalty from the Liverpool star Mohamed Salah, while he has recorded five penalty saves in his senior career.

After their new PL season begins with the match against the defending champions Liverpool, Bournemouth’s next four PL fixtures are all below the four-level difficulty. So, there is no doubt that he can be the best budget goalkeeper in FPL.

Caoimhin Kelleher (Brentford) – £4.5m

The Irish goalkeeper Caoimhin Kelleher, the former Liverpool goalkeeper, is now the new no.1 jersey holder for Brentford. It means that the 26-year-old is ready to get more match time in the Premier League. In the last two seasons for Liverpool, he started in 10 PL matches in each season and scored 34 and 45 FPL points, respectively. While he recorded 28 and 27 saves in the last two seasons, respectively, he was trending in the last PL season after saving a penalty from Southampton’s Adam Armstrong. So, get ready to see some real action from this £4.5m budget goalie.

Also, Brentford haven’t any more than three difficulty ratings in their first five fixtures in the PL 2025/26 season. It makes the decision easier for managers while they are looking for the best budget goalkeeper FPL.

Jose Sa (Wolves) – £4.5m

The Wolves goalkeeper Jose Sa is a very popular name in the budget FPL goalkeepers list. After recording three straight 100+ FPL points, the Portuguese just closely missed out on it last season. His last four FPL seasons’ points were 146, 148, 107, and 93, respectively. Last season, he had a poor start, especially suffering a 2-6 home defeat against Chelsea in their second gameweek fixture, and then he missed the next five matches. Later in the season, Sa missed three matches due to a couple of injuries, and these things hampered his FPL points. While he saved 100+ times in three straight previous PL seasons, that streak ended last PL season with 71 saves.

However, Sa saved two out of seven penalties faced in the last season. He also saved two penalties in the 2022/23 PL season, as he has recorded nine penalty saves in his senior professional career.