Jordan Pickford kept a clean sheet for Everton against Crystal Palace in the 2026–27 Premier League opener. Everton won the match 2–0 on 22 August 2026.
Pickford’s shutout helped Everton begin the season with three points and no goals conceded. The match was part of a busy Saturday programme that also included Hull City versus Manchester United, Ipswich Town versus Sunderland and Brentford versus Tottenham Hotspur.
The goalkeeper is easy to confuse with other opening-weekend clean-sheet keepers. Alisson kept Liverpool’s goal intact in the 2–2 draw with Newcastle only in the sense that he did not: that match ended level with four goals. David Raya and Bart Verbruggen also recorded clean sheets for Arsenal and Brighton respectively during the round.
Pickford later appeared among the league’s leading clean-sheet goalkeepers in the season statistics. His Everton shutout therefore mattered both to the match result and to the early individual goalkeeper record.