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Melissa Kössler

Position:: Forward
Nationality:: Germany
Born:: 2000-03-04 (age 26)
Height:: 178 cm

Career (2026–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 13 GP · 1,009 min · 4 goals · 0 assists

Composite 2026: 0.990 — ranked 23 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	2026	Denver	13	12	1009	4	0	0	21	11	17	72.4	0	0	0.36	0.36
	1 Yr		13	12	1009	4	0	0	21	11	17	72.4	0	0	0.36	0.36

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	2026	Denver	1009	4	4.16	-0.16	0.37	1.35	1.73	-0.38	0.12	2.61	0.23	0.145
	1 Yr		1009	4	4.16	-0.16	0.37	1.35	1.73	-0.38	0.12	2.61	0.23	0.145

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	2026	1.736	0.535	0.954	0.339	0.000	0.990	23	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	2026	12					1		1	10			1			1	1	9	played her role
	1 Yr	12					1		1	10			1			1	1	9	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	Sarah Weber	Racing Lou	2025	Forward	0.693
2	Jordyn Huitema	Reign	2025	Forward	0.631
3	Addie McCain	KC Current	2022	Midfielder	0.624
4	Keira Barry	Bay	2026	Forward	0.607
5	Bianca St-Georges	Royals	2025	Forward	0.606
6	Diana Ordóñez	Dash	2024	Forward	0.600
7	Cortnee Vine	Courage	2025	Forward	0.580
8	Jorian Nicole Baucom	Racing Lou	2021	Forward	0.577
9	Parker Goins	Racing Lou	2022	Forward	0.570
10	Ella Hase	Racing Lou	2026	Defender	0.556