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Ji So-Yun

So-Yun Ji

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: Korea Republic
Born:: 1991-02-21 (age 35)
Height:: 160 cm

Career (2024–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 39 GP · 2,799 min · 5 goals · 5 assists

Composite 2025: 0.439 — ranked 75 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	2024	Reign	26	22	2047	3	3	0	32	18	31	84.2	1	0	0.13	0.26
2	2025	Reign	13	9	752	2	2	1	5	2	9	82.5	1	0	0.24	0.48
	2 Yrs		39	31	2799	5	5	1	37	20	40	83.7	2	0	0.16	0.32

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	2024	Reign	2047	3	2.62	0.38	0.11	4.23	4.55	-0.32	0.19	3.62	0.16	0.359
2	2025	Reign	752	2	1.67	0.33	0.20	1.01	1.06	-0.05	0.12	1.11	0.13	0.136
	2 Yrs		2799	5	4.29	0.71	0.14	5.24	5.61	-0.37	0.17	4.73	0.15	0.495

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	2024	0.026	-0.378	1.252	0.250		0.081	239	338
2	2025	0.094	0.373	2.442	-1.339		0.439	75	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	2024	23				2	11	2	2	6				4	2	15	2		an 8, played like a 10
2	2025	9					6		2	1				5		3	1		an 8, played like a 6
	2 Yrs	32				2	17	2	4	7				9	2	18	3		an 8, played like a 10

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	Riley Jackson	Courage	2024	Midfielder	0.698
2	Meggie Dougherty Howard	Pride	2022	Midfielder	0.683
3	Jess Fishlock	Reign	2024	Midfielder	0.673
4	Debinha	Current	2023	Midfielder	0.650
5	Olivia Moultrie	Thorns	2022	Midfielder	0.647
6	Delanie Sheehan	Gotham	2024	Midfielder	0.647
7	Alex Chidiac	Racing	2022	Midfielder	0.642
8	Kim Little	Reign	2022	Midfielder	0.632
9	Hina Sugita	Thorns	2022	Midfielder	0.630
10	Marisa DiGrande	Dash	2022	Midfielder	0.621