Paris Saint-Germain rebuilt almost every department over the last two summers. The one they left alone is the one that has generated the most noise. Working out who the PSG goalkeepers are in 2026/27 is straightforward — working out which of them is the first choice is not.
This is the last instalment of our run through Luis Enrique’s squad, after the centre-backs, the full-backs, the midfield and the attack. It is also the shortest list and the least settled.
Who are the PSG goalkeepers in 2026/27?
Three senior goalkeepers are listed in the Paris first-team squad for 2026/27:
- No.30 Lucas Chevalier — French, signed from Lille in the summer of 2025
- No.39 Matvey Safonov — Russian, the man who has started the current season
- No.16 Alessandro Longoni — arrived on a free transfer in the summer of 2026
A fourth name has already appeared on a matchday sheet. When Luis Enrique named his 23 for the Champions League opener against Slovan Bratislava, Longoni was the only member of the squad left out, and academy goalkeeper Adam Mouak took his place, per Get French Football News, who described Longoni as the third choice. The three keepers listed for that night were Safonov, Chevalier and Mouak, in that order.
Lucas Chevalier (No.30) — the €40m succession plan
Chevalier is the most expensive of the three and, on paper, the one the club invested in as a long-term answer. Born in Calais on 6 November 2001, he came through the Lille academy, spent 2022/23 on loan at Valenciennes in Ligue 2, returned as LOSC’s first choice and was voted Ligue 1 Goalkeeper of the Year at the 2024/25 UNFP awards. Paris moved for him weeks after winning their first Champions League, for a fee reported at around €40m.
The football reasoning was specific rather than sentimental. Luis Enrique’s Paris build from inside their own six-yard box and ask the goalkeeper to be the first passer rather than the last defender; Chevalier is left-footed, comfortable receiving under pressure, and opens angles down the left channel that a right-footed keeper has to shift his body to reach. Our full profile of Lucas Chevalier goes through all of it.
What has not followed is an uncontested run in the side. He was named in the Champions League squad for matchday one, but listed behind Safonov.
Matvey Safonov (No.39) — the keeper in possession
Safonov wears the No.39 and is the goalkeeper who has actually played through the opening weeks of the season. He is also the reason the position has become a talking point.
Paris went into the September international break winless in Ligue 1 — a 2-2 draw at Rennes, a 2-2 draw at Lille and a 2-1 defeat by Monaco on 4 September — conceding twice in each. As PSG Talk‘s coverage of that run has noted, six of the nine shots on target Safonov faced across those three games ended up in the net, and L’Equipe handed him a 3 out of 10 after the Monaco defeat, the lowest mark on a sheet that spared very few. We set out the full picture in our piece on the PSG goalkeeper problem.
Two caveats belong with those numbers. Three league games is a tiny sample, and a defence conceding exactly twice a week is leaking chances rather than being let down by one man. But Safonov started the Champions League opener regardless, and Paris conceded once in it — Suleiman Camara drifting inside Illia Zabarnyi in a 6-1 win, per Get French Football News.
Alessandro Longoni (No.16) — the free signing behind them
Longoni arrived in the summer of 2026 on a free transfer and took the No.16 shirt. He is the third of the three, and nobody at the club has pretended that a free signing was meant to displace the man in possession.
His omission from the matchday-one 23 in favour of Mouak is the clearest read on his standing currently available. It is not really a criticism, more a description of the job: at a club chasing a third consecutive European Cup, the third goalkeeper exists for the weeks when the other two cannot play.
Why PSG did not sign a new goalkeeper
This is the department the 2026 window skipped. Paris spent heavily elsewhere — Maghnes Akliouche from Monaco for €50m, Ferran Torres from Barcelona for €48.5m, Mika Godts from Ajax for around €45m — and, per PSG Talk, pursued Zion Suzuki without success while finding no buyer for Chevalier. Longoni’s free transfer was the only goalkeeping movement all summer.
With the window closed since 1 September, Luis Enrique’s options are internal until January: back Safonov to settle, or turn to a goalkeeper the club were reportedly willing to sell weeks ago. Neither is a clean answer, which is precisely why this remains the open question in an otherwise well-stocked squad.
What the goalkeeper actually has to do in this side
Whoever plays, the job description does not change, and it is unusually demanding. Paris defend with a high line, which leaves large amounts of grass behind Marquinhos, Willian Pacho and Zabarnyi for the goalkeeper to patrol. They invite the press deliberately, which means the keeper is asked to play short into a forward running at him rather than clear his lines. And they are back-to-back Champions League holders, so every misjudged claim is examined for a fortnight rather than forgotten by Sunday.
There is already silverware this season — the 2026 UEFA Super Cup, won 2-1 against Aston Villa — and a 1-0 Trophée des Champions defeat to Lens. The competition that will define this goalkeeping department, though, is the Champions League defence, and knockout football at that level tends to be settled by one save. For more on the system these keepers work inside, see our explainer on the Luis Enrique formation and the full 2026/27 squad numbers.
