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Alexa Spaanstra
- Position:
- Forward
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 2000-02-01 (age 26)
- Height:
- 165 cm
Career (2023–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 66 GP · 2,412 min · 3 goals · 4 assists
Composite 2026: -1.126 — ranked 374 of 385 Composite page →
Standard Stats
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 | 2023 | KC Current | 529 | 2 | 0.79 | 1.21 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.44 | -0.27 | 0.03 | 0.73 | 0.12 | 0.105 |
| 2 | 2024 | KC Current | 919 | 1 | 1.18 | -0.18 | 0.12 | -1.08 | -0.77 | -0.31 | -0.11 | 1.56 | 0.15 | 0.170 |
| 3 | 2025 | Thorns | 594 | 0 | 0.59 | -0.59 | 0.09 | -0.62 | -0.46 | -0.16 | -0.09 | 0.84 | 0.13 | 0.066 |
| 4 | 2026 | Royals | 370 | 0 | 0.19 | -0.19 | 0.05 | -1.01 | -0.31 | -0.70 | -0.24 | 1.31 | 0.32 | 0.067 |
| 4 Yrs | 2412 | 3 | 2.75 | 0.25 | 0.10 | -2.54 | -1.10 | -1.44 | -0.09 | 4.44 | 0.17 | 0.408 | ||
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 | 2023 | -0.246 | -0.272 | -0.143 | 239 | 240 | |||
| 2 | 2024 | 0.643 | -0.387 | 0.571 | 0.064 | 0.291 | 153 | 338 | |
| 3 | 2026 | -0.557 | -0.888 | -1.063 | -1.464 | 0.000 | -1.126 | 374 | 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 | 2023 | 10 | 10 | 10 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2024 | 12 | 12 | 1 | 10 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2025 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 6 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2026 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 Yrs | 31 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 27 | 1 | 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 | Jorian Nicole Baucom | Courage | 2022 | Forward | 0.643 |
| 2 | Alexandria Loy Hess | Current | 2021 | Forward | 0.583 |
| 3 | Mak Whitham | Gotham | 2025 | Forward | 0.581 |
| 4 | Ava Cook | Stars | 2025 | Forward | 0.561 |
| 5 | Évelyne Viens | Gotham | 2021 | Forward | 0.558 |
| 6 | Ivonne Chacón | Stars | 2025 | Forward | 0.551 |
| 7 | Elyse Bennett | Reign | 2023 | Forward | 0.540 |
| 8 | Grace Chanda | Pride | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.536 |
| 9 | Ifeoma Onumonu | Gotham | 2023 | Forward | 0.533 |
| 10 | Aïssata Traoré | Legacy | 2026 | Forward | 0.528 |