Ederson Santana de Moraes (born 17 August 1993), simply known as Ederson (), is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Süper Lig club Fenerbahçe and the Brazil national team.
After finishing as a runner-up in the Taça de Portugal and Taça da Liga with Rio Ave in 2014, he returned to Benfica in 2015. He won two Primeira Liga titles and one of each cup before signing for Manchester City for £35 million in 2017. He made 372 appearances for City, winning 18 major honours, including six Premier League titles, two , four , and the Champions League in 2023, as part of a continental treble. He won the Premier League Golden Glove three consecutive times between 2020 and 2022.
Ederson made his senior debut for Brazil in 2017. He was chosen in Brazil's squad for the FIFA World Cup in 2018 and 2022 and the Copa América in 2019 and 2021, winning the 2019 tournament.
Club career
Early career
A year later, Ederson joined Primeira Liga club Rio Ave, signing a contract until 2014 in summer 2012. In April 2015, following a string of good performances and a call up to the Brazil under-23 squad, he signed a new contract with the club that would last until 2019.
Benfica
Manchester City
Ederson was immediately inserted as Pep Guardiola's first choice goalkeeper, supplanting Claudio Bravo. He made his competitive debut for the club on 12 August 2017 in a 0–2 away win at Brighton & Hove Albion, where he kept a clean sheet. On 9 September against Liverpool, Ederson suffered a kick to the face by Sadio Mané, and was forced to leave the game after eight minutes of treatment. Ederson received eight stitches, and Mané was sent off by referee Jon Moss and banned for the subsequent three matches. Ederson made his next start the following week in the Champions League against Feyenoord, sporting a piece of protective headgear. Ederson believed that Mané's collision was accidental, and accepted an apology from the Liverpool player.
On 19 August 2018, Ederson became the first Manchester City goalkeeper to provide a Premier League assist, as his goal-kick was converted by Sergio Agüero for the opening goal in a 6–1 win over Huddersfield Town. In the 2019 EFL Cup final, he saved from Jorginho in a penalty shootout win over Chelsea after a goalless draw; he was again unbeaten in a 6–0 win over Watford in the 2019 FA Cup final as his team won all three major domestic trophies.
Ederson was awarded the Golden Glove for keeping the most clean sheets (16) in the 2019–20 Premier League season after a 5–0 home win against Norwich City. He retained the honour a year later with one game to spare, as Chelsea's Édouard Mendy was unable to match his tally. On 1 September 2021, he signed a new contract to last until 2026. He won the Golden Glove for the third consecutive time in 2021–22, sharing his tally of 20 with compatriot Alisson Becker of Liverpool.
On 15 January 2024, Ederson was awarded the FIFA Best Men's Goalkeeper at the FIFA Best Awards 2023 for keeping the most clean sheets (11) in the 2022–23 Premier League season, most number of saves (22) in the UEFA Champions League and being part of the City team who won the treble in 2023. Four months later, he was ruled out of the last game of the Premier League season and the 2024 FA Cup final after suffering a fractured eye socket in a collision with Cristian Romero in a win over Tottenham Hotspur.
Ederson made a total of 372 appearances across all competitions during his eight-year stay at the club, winning 18 major honours, three Premier League Golden Glove awards, and keeping 122 clean sheets in 276 league appearances, a record for a City goalkeeper.
On 14 September 2025, he made his debut with the team in a 1-0 Süper Lig victory against Trabzonspor. On 24 September 2025, he made his continental debut with the team in a UEFA Europa League match against Dinamo Zagreb.
In June 2021, he made his major tournament debut for Brazil, starting and keeping a clean sheet in a 4–0 group stage victory over Peru at the 2021 Copa América as Tite made five changes. In the quarter-finals against Chile, he was chosen at the expense of Alisson Becker, winning that match 1–0 as well as the semi-finals against Peru. On 10 July, he started in his nation's 1–0 defeat to rivals Argentina in the final.
Ederson was named in the squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He played one game for the quarter-finalists, a 1–0 loss to Cameroon in the final group game once his team had already advanced to the last 16. He was initially called up by Dorival Júnior for the 2024 Copa América, but was replaced before the tournament by Rafael after being unable to recover from a fractured eye socket.
Ederson is also very quick when rushing off his line, and often functions as a sweeper-keeper. Regarded as a highly promising prospect in his formative years, he stood out for his decision making, consistency, and composure in goal, as well as his ability to organise his defence, and has also become an intelligent reader of the game; in 2019, Kasper Schmeichel described him as one of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League.
Benfica
Manchester City
Brazil
Individual
Fenerbahçe
International career
Style of play
Personal life
Career statistics
Club
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!colspan="2" Total Ribeirão 2011–12 Segunda Divisão 0 Rio Ave 2012–13 Primeira Liga 0 2013–14 Primeira Liga 0 2014–15 Primeira Liga 0 Benfica B 2015–16 LigaPro 0 Benfica 2015–16 Primeira Liga 0 2016–17 Primeira Liga 0 Manchester City 2017–18 Premier League 0 2018–19 Premier League 0 2019–20 Premier League 0 2020–21 Premier League 0 2021–22 Premier League 0 2022–23 Premier League 0 2023–24 Premier League 0 2024–25 Premier League 0 Fenerbahçe 2025–26 Süper Lig 0
International
+ Appearances and goals by national team and year Brazil 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Honours
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