Players›Ali Krieger
Ali Krieger
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1984-07-28 (age 41)
- Height:
- 168 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 131 GP · 11,775 min · 1 goals · 7 assists
Composite 2023: 0.390 — ranked 80 of 240 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 | 2016 | Spirit | 15 | 14 | 1333 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 0.07 | 0.07 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Pride | 24 | 24 | 2318 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Pride | 19 | 19 | 1822 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.10 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Pride | 12 | 12 | 1160 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Pride | 23 | 23 | 1968 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 78.4 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.09 |
| 6 | 2022 | Gotham | 18 | 17 | 1540 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 80.9 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 | 2023 | Gotham | 20 | 20 | 1634 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 76.6 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 7 Yrs | 131 | 129 | 11775 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 46 | 19 | 61 | 78.6 | 11 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.06 | ||
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 | 2016 | Spirit | 1333 | 1 | 0.45 | 0.55 | 0.03 | 4.85 | 4.30 | 0.55 | 0.33 | 6.36 | 0.43 | 0.456 |
| 2 | 2017 | Pride | 2318 | 0 | 0.13 | -0.13 | 0.00 | 3.51 | 4.42 | -0.91 | 0.14 | 7.21 | 0.28 | 0.653 |
| 3 | 2018 | Pride | 1822 | 0 | 0.80 | -0.80 | 0.04 | 1.49 | 1.90 | -0.41 | 0.07 | 5.51 | 0.27 | 0.571 |
| 4 | 2019 | Pride | 1160 | 0 | 0.14 | -0.14 | 0.01 | 0.79 | 1.20 | -0.42 | 0.06 | 3.71 | 0.29 | 0.305 |
| 5 | 2021 | Pride | 1968 | 0 | 0.03 | -0.03 | 0.00 | 3.04 | 3.26 | -0.23 | 0.14 | 6.30 | 0.29 | 0.366 |
| 6 | 2022 | Gotham FC | 1540 | 0 | 0.51 | -0.51 | 0.03 | 1.93 | 2.10 | -0.16 | 0.11 | 3.87 | 0.23 | 0.295 |
| 7 | 2023 | Gotham FC | 1634 | 0 | 0.24 | -0.24 | 0.01 | 0.85 | 1.62 | -0.77 | 0.05 | 3.09 | 0.17 | 0.363 |
| 7 Yrs | 11775 | 1 | 2.30 | -1.30 | 0.02 | 16.46 | 18.80 | -2.35 | 0.13 | 36.05 | 0.28 | 3.009 | ||
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 | -1.221 | -0.508 | 1.208 | 1.594 | 0.707 | 25 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | -1.645 | -0.640 | 0.708 | 1.290 | 0.390 | 80 | 240 | |
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 | 2016 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 16 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 25 | 5 | 20 | 5 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 19 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 4 | 4 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 26 | 3 | 23 | 3 | 23 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 21 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 24 | 24 | 24 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 Yrs | 147 | 40 | 102 | 4 | 1 | 41 | 102 | 4 | 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 | Emily Sams | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.876 |
| 2 | Hannah Anderson | Stars | 2024 | Defender | 0.875 |
| 3 | Naomi Girma | Wave | 2022 | Defender | 0.870 |
| 4 | Jess Carter | Gotham | 2025 | Defender | 0.861 |
| 5 | Sara Doorsoun | Angel City | 2025 | Defender | 0.860 |
| 6 | Paige Nielsen | Angel City | 2022 | Defender | 0.850 |
| 7 | Kennedy Wesley | Wave | 2024 | Defender | 0.836 |
| 8 | Sam Hiatt | Reign | 2022 | Defender | 0.829 |
| 9 | Gabrielle Robinson | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.824 |
| 10 | Elizabeth Ball | Current | 2022 | Defender | 0.823 |