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Mikayla Cluff

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1999-02-25 (age 27)
Height:: 173 cm

Career (2022–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 58 GP · 3,069 min · 4 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2025: 0.415 — ranked 82 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	Pride	18	8	930	2	0	0	11	5	12	83.1	2	0	0.19	0.19
2	2023	Pride	22	17	1512	2	1	0	13	5	13	79.1	2	0	0.12	0.18
3	2024	Royals	11	5	477	0	0	0	3	2	1	78.8	2	0	0.00	0.00
4	2025	Royals	7	1	150	0	0	0	0	0	1	66.7	1	0	0.00	0.00
	4 Yrs		58	31	3069	4	1	0	27	12	27	79.7	7	0	0.12	0.15

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	2022	Pride	930	2	1.51	0.49	0.15	1.62	2.19	-0.57	0.16	1.11	0.11	0.413
2	2023	Pride	1512	2	1.99	0.01	0.12	0.31	0.88	-0.57	0.02	1.66	0.10	0.756
3	2024	Royals	477	0	0.23	-0.23	0.04	-0.79	-0.18	-0.61	-0.15	0.24	0.05	0.250
4	2025	Royals	150	0	0.07	-0.07	0.04	-0.94	-0.12	-0.83	-0.56	0.07	0.04	0.042
	4 Yrs		3069	4	3.80	0.20	0.11	0.20	2.77	-2.58	0.01	3.08	0.09	1.461

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	2022	0.681	0.497	1.200	-0.046		0.572	42	247
2	2023	0.546	0.147	0.462	0.426		0.385	81	240
3	2024	0.319	-0.257	0.433	0.729		0.332	128	338
4	2025	0.261	-0.261	0.690	0.780		0.415	82	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	13				5	5		2	1				8	1	1	2	1	played her role
2	2023	21				2	19						1	17	3				an 8, played like a 6
3	2024	5				5								5					played her role
4	2025	1					1							1					an 8, played like a 6
	4 Yrs	40				12	25		2	1			1	31	4	1	2	1	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	Jordyn Listro	Pride	2023	Midfielder	0.681
2	Carly Wickenheiser	Courage	2026	Midfielder	0.674
3	Madelyn Desiano	Dash	2023	Defender	0.664
4	Inès Jaurena	Spirit	2023	Midfielder	0.649
5	Dana Foederer	Royals	2024	Midfielder	0.646
6	Macey Hodge	Angel City	2025	Midfielder	0.631
7	Caitlyn Josephine Heap	Dash	2016	Midfielder	0.622
8	Maitane López	Gotham FC	2024	Midfielder	0.608
9	Dani Weatherholt	Reign	2021	Midfielder	0.605
10	Shea Groom	Chicago Stars	2024	Midfielder	0.598