Players›Malia Berkely
Malia Berkely
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1998-02-13 (age 28)
- Height:
- 173 cm
Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 90 GP · 7,075 min · 2 goals · 4 assists
Composite 2026: 0.348 — ranked 127 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 | 2022 | Courage | 16 | 11 | 942 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 81.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 | 2023 | Courage | 18 | 18 | 1563 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 88.9 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 3 | 2024 | Courage | 26 | 26 | 2295 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 11 | 89.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.16 |
| 4 | 2025 | Courage | 17 | 15 | 1346 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 80.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.13 |
| 5 | 2026 | Dash | 13 | 9 | 929 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 78.0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 5 Yrs | 90 | 79 | 7075 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 28 | 8 | 26 | 86.0 | 0 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.08 | ||
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 | Courage | 942 | 0 | 0.11 | -0.11 | 0.01 | 1.25 | 1.62 | -0.37 | 0.12 | 1.09 | 0.10 | 0.438 |
| 2 | 2023 | Courage | 1563 | 0 | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.00 | 3.75 | 4.22 | -0.47 | 0.22 | 4.20 | 0.24 | 0.227 |
| 3 | 2024 | Courage | 2295 | 1 | 2.14 | -1.14 | 0.08 | 4.09 | 4.34 | -0.25 | 0.16 | 6.52 | 0.26 | 0.399 |
| 4 | 2025 | Courage | 1346 | 1 | 0.90 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 1.88 | 2.58 | -0.71 | 0.13 | 3.96 | 0.26 | 0.308 |
| 5 | 2026 | Dash | 929 | 0 | 0.28 | -0.28 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.32 | -0.35 | 0.00 | 3.85 | 0.37 | 0.232 |
| 5 Yrs | 7075 | 2 | 3.49 | -1.49 | 0.04 | 10.94 | 13.08 | -2.15 | 0.14 | 19.62 | 0.25 | 1.604 | ||
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 | 1.490 | -0.047 | 0.824 | -0.316 | 0.364 | 80 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2026 | 0.027 | 0.561 | -0.136 | 0.495 | 0.045 | 0.348 | 127 | 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 | 2022 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||
| 2 | 2023 | 26 | 26 | 26 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 3 | 2024 | 30 | 30 | 30 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 4 | 2025 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 5 | 2026 | 9 | 9 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 Yrs | 96 | 81 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 80 | 14 | 2 | 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 | Jayden Perry | Thorns | 2025 | Defender | 0.719 |
| 2 | Rachel Corsie | Royals | 2020 | Defender | 0.671 |
| 3 | Mandy Freeman | Gotham FC | 2021 | Defender | 0.587 |
| 4 | Becky Sauerbrunn | Thorns | 2021 | Defender | 0.551 |
| 5 | Tinaya Chantae Evelyn Alexander | Spirit | 2022 | Forward | 0.550 |
| 6 | Arin Wright | Racing Lou | 2025 | Defender | 0.547 |
| 7 | Bethany Balcer | Racing Lou | 2025 | Forward | 0.535 |
| 8 | Sophie Schmidt | Dash | 2020 | Midfielder | 0.531 |
| 9 | Isabella Obaze | Thorns | 2026 | Defender | 0.530 |
| 10 | Rafaelle | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.526 |