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Maiara Niehues
Maiara Carolina Niehues
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- Brazil
- Born:
- 2004-08-11 (age 21)
- Height:
- 176 cm
Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 25 GP · 1,342 min · 7 goals · 0 assists
Composite 2026: 0.381 — ranked 120 of 385 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 | 2025 | Angel City | 14 | 4 | 477 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 61.7 | 3 | 0 | 0.38 | 0.38 |
| 2 | 2026 | Angel City | 11 | 11 | 865 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 62.1 | 0 | 1 | 0.52 | 0.52 |
| 2 Yrs | 25 | 15 | 1342 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 13 | 18 | 61.9 | 3 | 1 | 0.47 | 0.47 | ||
Advanced Stats
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 | 2025 | 0.159 | -0.297 | 0.085 | 0.749 | 0.000 | 0.145 | 160 | 258 |
| 2 | 2026 | 0.856 | 0.494 | -0.417 | 0.866 | 0.000 | 0.381 | 120 | 385 |
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 | 2025 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | an 8, played like a 9 | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2026 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | an 8, played like a 9 | |||||||||
| 2 Yrs | 15 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | an 8, played like a 9 | ||||||||||
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 | Tobin Heath | Reign | 2022 | Forward | 0.848 |
| 2 | Emina Ekic | Racing Lou | 2022 | Forward | 0.734 |
| 3 | Marleen Schimmer | San Diego Wave | 2022 | Forward | 0.728 |
| 4 | Jess Fishlock | Reign | 2019 | Midfielder | 0.727 |
| 5 | Ashley Sanchez | Spirit | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.725 |
| 6 | Adriana | Pride | 2024 | Forward | 0.717 |
| 7 | Savannah DeMelo | Racing Lou | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.717 |
| 8 | Deyna Castellanos | Thorns | 2025 | Forward | 0.686 |
| 9 | Claire Lavogez | KC Current | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.672 |
| 10 | Yazmeen Ryan | Thorns | 2022 | Forward | 0.663 |