Players›Ali Krieger

Ali Krieger

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1984-07-28 (age 41)
Height:: 168 cm

Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 131 GP · 11,775 min · 1 goals · 7 assists

Composite 2023: 0.390 — ranked 80 of 240 Composite page →

Standard Stats

			Playing Time			Performance									Per 90
Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	GS	Min	Gls	Ast	PK	Sh	SoT	KP	Pass%	CrdY	CrdR	Gls/90	G+A/90
1	2016	Spirit	15	14	1333	1	0	0	9	5	17		2	0	0.07	0.07
2	2017	Pride	24	24	2318	0	2	0	11	8	10		2	0	0.00	0.08
3	2018	Pride	19	19	1822	0	2	0	9	3	9		1	0	0.00	0.10
4	2019	Pride	12	12	1160	0	1	0	4	1	5		1	0	0.00	0.08
5	2021	Pride	23	23	1968	0	2	0	1	0	10	78.4	2	0	0.00	0.09
6	2022	Gotham FC	18	17	1540	0	0	0	9	1	9	80.9	1	0	0.00	0.00
7	2023	Gotham FC	20	20	1634	0	0	0	3	1	1	76.6	2	0	0.00	0.00
	7 Yrs		131	129	11775	1	7	0	46	19	61	78.6	11	0	0.01	0.06

Advanced Stats

Glossary

					Expected			VAEP				Threat
Rk	Season ▴	Team	Min	Gls	xG	G−xG	xG/90	VAEP	Off	Def	VAEP/90	xT	xT/90	DAxT
1	2016	Spirit	1333	1	0.45	0.55	0.03	4.85	4.30	0.55	0.33	6.36	0.43	0.456
2	2017	Pride	2318	0	0.13	-0.13	0.00	3.51	4.42	-0.91	0.14	7.21	0.28	0.653
3	2018	Pride	1822	0	0.80	-0.80	0.04	1.49	1.90	-0.41	0.07	5.51	0.27	0.571
4	2019	Pride	1160	0	0.14	-0.14	0.01	0.79	1.20	-0.42	0.06	3.71	0.29	0.305
5	2021	Pride	1968	0	0.03	-0.03	0.00	3.04	3.26	-0.23	0.14	6.30	0.29	0.366
6	2022	Gotham FC	1540	0	0.51	-0.51	0.03	1.93	2.10	-0.16	0.11	3.87	0.23	0.295
7	2023	Gotham FC	1634	0	0.24	-0.24	0.01	0.85	1.62	-0.77	0.05	3.09	0.17	0.363
	7 Yrs		11775	1	2.30	-1.30	0.02	16.46	18.80	-2.35	0.13	36.05	0.28	3.009

Composite Rating

Our overall player rating, unique to this site: five components — xG, ball carries, passes into the box, defensive value, and goalkeeping — combined into one score and averaged across every selection-model run of the season. Rank is her place among all rated players that year.

Glossary

		Components
Rk	Season ▴	xG	Carries	Box Passes	Defense	GK	Composite	Rank	Pool
1	2022	-1.221	-0.508	1.208	1.594		0.707	25	247
2	2023	-1.645	-0.640	0.708	1.290		0.390	80	240

Structural Roles

Start counts by role, per season — twice. Explicit is where the team sheet wrote her; Inferredis what a model reading only her on-ball events made of each start. The Read column states each season's verdict from the two most common roles.

			Explicit (Team Sheet)								Inferred (Event Data)
Rk	Season ▴	Starts	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	GK	FB	CB	DM	CM	AM	W	ST	Read
1	2016	16		15			1					16							played her role
2	2017	25		5	20							5	20						played her role
3	2018	19		10	9							10	9						played her role
4	2019	12		6	6							6	6						played her role
5	2020	4			4								4						played her role
6	2021	26		3	23							3	23						played her role
7	2022	21		1	16	4						1	16	4					played her role
8	2023	24			24								24						played her role
	8 Yrs	147		40	102	4	1					41	102	4					played her role

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Nearest neighbors by playing-style embedding (most recent embedded season). Similarity is cosine distance in style space, not quality.

Rk	Player	Team	Season	Pos	Similarity
1	Emily Sams	Pride	2023	Defender	0.876
2	Hannah Anderson	Chicago Stars	2024	Defender	0.875
3	Naomi Girma	San Diego Wave	2022	Defender	0.870
4	Jess Carter	Gotham FC	2025	Defender	0.861
5	Sara Doorsoun	Angel City	2025	Defender	0.860
6	Paige Nielsen	Angel City	2022	Defender	0.850
7	Kennedy Wesley	San Diego Wave	2024	Defender	0.836
8	Sam Hiatt	Reign	2022	Defender	0.829
9	Gabrielle Robinson	KC Current	2023	Defender	0.824
10	Elizabeth Ball	KC Current	2022	Defender	0.823