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Ana Tejada
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- Spain
- Born:
- 2002-06-02 (age 24)
- Height:
- 173 cm
Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 51 GP · 4,018 min · 2 goals · 2 assists
Composite 2026: 0.630 — ranked 65 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 | 2024 | Royals | 1318 | 2 | 0.65 | 1.35 | 0.04 | 0.73 | 2.41 | -1.67 | 0.05 | 1.76 | 0.12 | 0.318 |
| 2 | 2025 | Royals | 1674 | 0 | 0.21 | -0.21 | 0.01 | -0.32 | 1.29 | -1.61 | -0.02 | 2.75 | 0.15 | 0.381 |
| 3 | 2026 | Royals | 1026 | 0 | 0.52 | -0.52 | 0.05 | -0.63 | 0.23 | -0.86 | -0.06 | 4.38 | 0.38 | 0.295 |
| 3 Yrs | 4018 | 2 | 1.38 | 0.62 | 0.03 | -0.22 | 3.93 | -4.14 | -0.00 | 8.89 | 0.20 | 0.994 | ||
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 | 2024 | 0.315 | -1.336 | 1.718 | 0.303 | 0.494 | 87 | 338 | |
| 2 | 2026 | -0.295 | 0.300 | 0.701 | 1.297 | 0.000 | 0.630 | 65 | 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 | 2024 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 9 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 2 | 2025 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 10 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2026 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 1 | an 8, played like a 6 | |||||||||||
| 3 Yrs | 50 | 17 | 14 | 19 | 21 | 28 | 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 | Andi Sullivan | Spirit | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.837 |
| 2 | Marisa DiGrande | Racing | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.827 |
| 3 | Sarah Puntigam | Dash | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.823 |
| 4 | Lauren Barnes | Reign | 2021 | Defender | 0.734 |
| 5 | Carrie Lawrence | Pride | 2022 | Defender | 0.712 |
| 6 | Emily van Egmond | Wave | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.703 |
| 7 | Dorian Bailey | Bay FC | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.699 |
| 8 | Jennifer Cudjoe | Gotham | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.697 |
| 9 | Julia Grosso | Stars | 2026 | Midfielder | 0.678 |
| 10 | Cori Dyke | Pride | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.653 |