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Ali Riley
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- New Zealand
- Born:
- 1987-10-30 (age 38)
- Height:
- 163 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 66 GP · 4,743 min · 3 goals · 2 assists
Composite 2025: 0.053 — ranked 184 of 258 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 | 2021 | Pride | 20 | 18 | 1556 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 75.3 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 | 2022 | Angel City | 20 | 19 | 1590 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 73.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.11 | 0.23 |
| 3 | 2023 | Angel City | 19 | 15 | 1326 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 71.9 | 3 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.07 |
| 4 | 2024 | Angel City | 5 | 3 | 262 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 5 | 2025 | Angel City | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
| 5 Yrs | 66 | 55 | 4743 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 29 | 73.6 | 5 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.09 | ||
Advanced Stats
| Expected | VAEP | Threat | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | Team | Min | Gls | xG | G−xG | xG/90 | VAEP | Off | Def | VAEP/90 | xT | xT/90 | DAxT |
| 1 | 2021 | Pride | 1556 | 0 | 1.81 | 2.42 | -0.61 | 0.10 | 4.73 | 0.27 | 0.407 | |||
| 2 | 2022 | Angel City | 1590 | 2 | 0.27 | 1.73 | 0.02 | 4.12 | 4.89 | -0.77 | 0.23 | 5.17 | 0.29 | 0.626 |
| 3 | 2023 | Angel City | 1326 | 1 | 0.88 | 0.12 | 0.06 | 2.57 | 3.25 | -0.69 | 0.17 | 4.43 | 0.30 | 0.445 |
| 4 | 2024 | Angel City | 262 | 0 | 0.18 | -0.18 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.14 | -0.12 | 0.01 | 0.55 | 0.19 | 0.038 |
| 5 | 2025 | Angel City | 9 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.04 | -0.01 | 0.35 | 0.02 | 0.21 | ||||
| 5 Yrs | 4743 | 3 | 1.33 | 1.67 | 0.03 | 8.56 | 10.74 | -2.20 | 0.16 | 14.90 | 0.28 | 1.516 | ||
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.
| Components | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rk | Season ▴ | xG | Carries | Box Passes | Defense | GK | Composite | Rank | Pool |
| 1 | 2023 | 1.493 | -0.171 | -0.192 | -0.854 | -0.133 | 238 | 240 | |
| 2 | 2024 | 1.634 | 0.032 | -0.186 | -0.556 | 0.031 | 259 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2025 | 1.752 | 0.232 | -0.285 | -0.609 | 0.053 | 184 | 258 | |
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 | 2021 | 22 | 22 | 22 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2022 | 25 | 25 | 25 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2023 | 17 | 17 | 17 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2024 | 3 | 3 | 3 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 67 | 67 | 67 | played her role | |||||||||||||||
Similar Players
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 | Andrea Kitahata | Gotham FC | 2026 | Forward | 0.675 |
| 2 | Imani Dorsey | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.541 |
| 3 | Michelle Alozie | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.507 |
| 4 | Paige Metayer | Spirit | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.493 |
| 5 | Jasmyne Spencer | Angel City | 2024 | Defender | 0.492 |
| 6 | Allyson Paige Haran | Pride | 2021 | Defender | 0.492 |
| 7 | Zaneta Wyne | Racing Lou | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.478 |
| 8 | Zoey Goralski | Chicago Stars | 2021 | Defender | 0.475 |
| 9 | Mallie McKenzie | Thorns | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.468 |
| 10 | Elli Reed | Reign | 2017 | Defender | 0.468 |