Brazil are considered one of the hot favourites to win the 2026 World Cup. With Carlo Ancelotti, the world’s most experienced club manager, taking the helm as national coach for the first time, the five-time world champions will field a squad combining world-class talent with experienced players based abroad. The opening match against Morocco at MetLife Stadium promises to be one of the highlights of the group stage.

Manager Carlo Ancelotti has named three goalkeepers for the Seleção: Alisson Becker, Ederson and Weverton. Brazil will face Morocco, Haiti and Scotland in Group C and, despite a turbulent qualifying campaign in which they finished fifth in their South American group, are among the favourites to win the title. Between them, the trio of goalkeepers have three World Cup appearances, two Champions League titles and an Olympic gold medal.

Alisson, aged 33 and born in Novo Hamburgo in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, is quite simply one of the defining goalkeepers of his generation. He has been at Liverpool since 2018, where he won the Premier League Golden Glove Award in his first season with 21 clean sheets, becoming the first goalkeeper in years to do so. Since then, he has won the 2019 Champions League, the 2020 and 2025 Premier League titles, as well as the FA Cup and EFL Cup with Liverpool – a total of 16 club honours. He extended his contract with Liverpool in March 2026 until June 2027. In the 2025/26 season, he had played in 25 league matches with eight clean sheets by mid-March before a thigh injury sidelined him. He is expected to be fit in time for the World Cup – check his current fitness status before publication.

He has been playing for the Seleção since 2015. He featured in the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, won the 2019 Copa América and was voted the tournament’s best goalkeeper. What sets him apart is the combination of a solid line, explosive reflexes and a modern build-up play that makes Liverpool’s pressing football possible in the first place. For Ancelotti’s Brazil, he is the undisputed number one.

Ederson, 32 years old and born in Osasco near São Paulo, is the second of the two great Brazilian goalkeepers of this generation – and has spent years in Alisson’s shadow without ever really being outclassed. After eight years at Manchester City, during which he made 372 competitive appearances, won six Premier League titles, four EFL Cups, two FA Cups and the 2023 Champions League, as well as winning the Golden Glove three times for the most clean sheets in the league, he moved to Fenerbahçe in Istanbul in September 2025 for around €15 million. There, he immediately won the Turkish Super Cup against arch-rivals Galatasaray in January 2026. In the current Süper Lig season, he has made 24 appearances, keeping eight clean sheets.

Ederson is best known for his footballing ability – former goalkeeper Shay Given once described him as the best goalkeeper in the world with the ball at his feet. Under Pep Guardiola, he became the blueprint for the modern goalkeeper as the first point of the build-up play. For Brazil, he is the clear number two – and, should Alisson be injured, a more than worthy replacement.

Weverton, aged 38 and born in Rio Branco in the state of Acre, is the big surprise among the nominated goalkeepers. Ancelotti brought him into the squad as third-choice goalkeeper – a decision that sparked much debate in Brazil, but one based on a long career full of titles. From 2018 to January 2026, he was at Palmeiras, where he won two Copa Libertadores, three Brasileirão titles and the Supercopa do Brasil. Since January 2026, he has been at Grêmio, where he has been putting in solid performances this season with a FotMob rating of 7.18.

His most famous moment on the international stage remains the 2016 Olympics in Rio, where he saved the decisive penalty in the gold medal match against Germany, leading Brazil to their first Olympic football gold. At the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, he made a brief appearance in the round of 16 against South Korea. As third-choice goalkeeper, the 2026 World Cup is likely to be the final chapter in the 38-year-old’s remarkable career.