Players›Hina Sugita
Hina Sugita
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- Japan
- Born:
- 1997-01-31 (age 29)
- Height:
- 162 cm
Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 90 GP · 6,892 min · 13 goals · 14 assists
Composite 2025: 0.968 — ranked 19 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 | 2022 | Thorns | 23 | 20 | 1855 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 13 | 42 | 82.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.24 | 0.44 |
| 2 | 2023 | Thorns | 19 | 16 | 1372 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 12 | 16 | 81.8 | 3 | 0 | 0.39 | 0.59 |
| 3 | 2024 | Thorns | 22 | 19 | 1757 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 82.7 | 2 | 0 | 0.10 | 0.31 |
| 4 | 2025 | Thorns | 26 | 22 | 1908 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 6 | 28 | 78.7 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.14 |
| 5 | 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 5 Yrs | 90 | 77 | 6892 | 13 | 14 | 1 | 69 | 34 | 106 | 81.2 | 8 | 0 | 0.17 | 0.35 | ||
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 | 2022 | Thorns | 1855 | 5 | 2.48 | 2.52 | 0.12 | 8.00 | 8.36 | -0.36 | 0.39 | 3.32 | 0.16 | 0.591 |
| 2 | 2023 | Thorns | 1372 | 6 | 5.79 | 0.21 | 0.38 | 4.57 | 4.87 | -0.30 | 0.30 | 2.26 | 0.15 | 0.365 |
| 3 | 2024 | Thorns | 1757 | 2 | 0.66 | 1.34 | 0.03 | 3.48 | 3.68 | -0.21 | 0.18 | 2.61 | 0.13 | 0.741 |
| 4 | 2025 | Thorns | 1908 | 0 | 3.24 | -3.24 | 0.15 | 0.00 | 0.44 | -0.43 | 0.00 | 3.31 | 0.16 | 0.851 |
| 5 | 2026 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 5 Yrs | 6892 | 13 | 12.17 | 0.83 | 0.16 | 16.05 | 17.35 | -1.30 | 0.21 | 11.50 | 0.15 | 2.548 | ||
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 | 2022 | 3.174 | 0.684 | 1.783 | -0.139 | 1.140 | 6 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | 2.665 | 0.012 | 2.660 | -0.202 | 1.140 | 4 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | 3.021 | -0.038 | 2.244 | 0.045 | 1.130 | 12 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2025 | 2.493 | -0.056 | 1.767 | 0.259 | 0.968 | 19 | 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 | 2022 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||
| 2 | 2023 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||
| 3 | 2024 | 22 | 3 | 18 | 1 | 18 | 2 | 2 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||||||
| 4 | 2025 | 22 | 7 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||
| 4 Yrs | 85 | 1 | 14 | 41 | 6 | 23 | 2 | 41 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 3 | an 8, played like a 6 | ||||||
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 | Mikayla Cluff | Pride | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.817 |
| 2 | Claire Hutton | KC Current | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.798 |
| 3 | Morgan Gautrat | Chicago Stars | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.780 |
| 4 | Rocky Rodríguez | Thorns | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.769 |
| 5 | Jess Fishlock | Reign | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.744 |
| 6 | Narumi Miura | Courage | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.743 |
| 7 | Gabrielle Lorraine Seiler | Dash | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.732 |
| 8 | Sarah Woldmoe | Chicago Stars | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.719 |
| 9 | Danielle Colaprico | San Diego Wave | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.718 |
| 10 | Denise O'Sullivan | Courage | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.715 |