About Sam Johnstone
Sam Johnstone featured 12 times in the 2025/2026 Premier League (1,080 minutes). Per-match rating over the season: 6.85. Within 28 Premier League goalkeepers with 450+ minutes in 2025/2026, he places in the 71st percentile by match rating, above the median.
His league record spans 15 seasons (2011–2025) across 10 clubs. At his best he averaged 7.17 in 2020/2021, Premier League; at his worst, 6.82 in 2023/2024. Averaged over his last two rated seasons, he sits 0.16 below his earlier career level.
Between the posts he kept 54 clean sheets across 334 league appearances, 16% of them. Across those seasons the tally is 440 goals conceded, 1.29 per 90 minutes, with 818 saves on record. Split by competition, the league record covers 3 domestic leagues: Championship (England) (204 appearances), Premier League (85 appearances) and League One (England) (45 appearances). 6 of those 15 recorded campaigns ended with 25 league appearances or more. The densest run of the record is 2017/2018–2019/2020, with 142 league games — an average of 47 per season.