Cech played for 15 years in the Premier League, playing for Chelsea and Arsenal
Tuesday 15 January 2019 13:49, UK
With Petr Cech announcing he will retire from football at the end of the season, we take a look back at his career in England in numbers...
Cech has made 443 Premier League appearances since he joined Chelsea in July 2004 for £7m from French club Rennes.
2018-19 is his 15th season as a Premier League player
333 of his 443 appearances came at Chelsea between 2004-05 and 2014-15 (75 per cent), but despite games at Arsenal only making up 25 per cent of his career in the competition, 34 per cent of the goals he has conceded have come in four seasons at the Gunners (125 out of 366).
Cech holds the record for the most clean sheets by a goalkeeper in the Premier League with 202, surpassing David James' long-standing record with his 170th in the competition in a 2-0 victory over Bournemouth in December 2015.
He kept 162 of these clean sheets whilst at Chelsea in the Premier League, a league record for the most clean sheets at a single club. Only SIX goalkeepers have kept 100 or more clean sheets in the Premier League for a single club.
In his first-ever Premier League season at Chelsea, Cech kept an astonishing 24 clean sheets, another Premier League record for a goalkeeper.
He made THREE saves more than the next best (Edwin van der Sar for Manchester United in 2008-09).
The Czech goalkeeper has conceded a goal every 108 minutes on average in the Premier League. This is the best ratio of any goalkeeper to have played 6000 or more minutes in the competition.
He played 1024 minutes in the Premier League without conceding a goal in 2004/05, another English top-flight record at the time.
The only goalkeeper to have won more Premier League winner medals than Cech, who has won FOUR, was Danish goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel, who won FIVE titles at Manchester United (1992/93, 1993/94, 1995/96, 1996/97, 1998/99).
Since his first-ever Premier League season in 2004-05, Cech has made more saves than any other goalkeeper in the competition with 1136.
Of the goalkeepers to have made 500 or more saves in this period, he has the best saves to shots ratio (75.4 per cent).
Cech has saved just ONE of his last 23 penalties faced in the Premier League since April 2011. This came at the Emirates for Arsenal against Watford in March 2018, when he denied Troy Deeney from the spot to help claim his 200th Premier League clean sheet.
