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Kaleigh Riehl

Position:: Defender
Nationality:: USA
Born:: 1996-10-21 (age 29)
Height:: 173 cm

Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 99 GP · 8,284 min · 2 goals · 3 assists

Composite 2026: -0.243 — ranked 276 of 385 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	2021	Racing Lou	21	19	1684	0	0	0	1	0	2	79.6	3	0	0.00	0.00
2	2022	San Diego Wave	22	19	1887	1	0	0	4	1	2	81.9	4	0	0.05	0.05
3	2023	San Diego Wave	19	18	1632	0	0	0	2	1	1	84.1	1	0	0.00	0.00
4	2024	Royals	14	14	1260	0	1	0	4	0	4	89.4	1	0	0.00	0.07
5	2025	Royals	12	10	831	1	1	0	1	1	1	87.1	1	0	0.11	0.22
6	2026	Royals	11	11	990	0	1	0	3	0	2	84.8	0	0	0.00	0.09
	6 Yrs		99	91	8284	2	3	0	15	3	12	84.1	10	0	0.02	0.05

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	2021	Racing Lou	1684	0	0.34	-0.34	0.02	-0.35	1.71	-2.05	-0.02	4.02	0.21	0.429
2	2022	San Diego Wave	1887	1	0.82	0.18	0.04	1.95	3.54	-1.59	0.09	3.33	0.16	0.370
3	2023	San Diego Wave	1632	0	0.07	-0.07	0.00	0.12	1.09	-0.97	0.01	2.74	0.15	0.322
4	2024	Royals	1260	0	0.86	-0.86	0.06	1.13	1.56	-0.42	0.08	2.73	0.19	0.204
5	2025	Royals	831	1	0.10	0.90	0.01	0.43	1.26	-0.82	0.05	1.20	0.13	0.078
6	2026	Royals	990	0	0.34	-0.34	0.03	1.12	0.93	0.19	0.10	2.28	0.21	0.149
	6 Yrs		8284	2	2.53	-0.53	0.03	4.40	10.09	-5.66	0.05	16.30	0.18	1.552

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	1.937	-0.366	-0.473	1.211		0.269	98	247
2	2023	2.311	-0.174	0.337	0.508		0.342	96	240
3	2024	2.111	-0.280	0.301	-0.316		0.001	273	338
4	2026	-0.007	0.033	-0.778	-0.172	0.026	-0.243	276	385

Goalkeeping

Glossary

Rk	Season ▴	Team	GP	Min	GA	Saves	Save%	CS	PSxG	PSxG−GA
1	2024	Royals	14	1260	18	1	5.3	2
	1 Yr		14	1260	18	1	5.3	2	0.00	0.00

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	2020	1			1								1						played her role
2	2021	21			21								21						played her role
3	2022	21			21							1	20						played her role
4	2023	23		1	22							1	22						played her role
5	2024	17			17								17						played her role
6	2025	10			10								10						played her role
7	2026	11			11								10	1					played her role
	7 Yrs	104		1	103							2	101	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	Megan Montefusco	Pride	2023	Defender	0.834
2	Diane Evelyn Caldwell	Courage	2021	Defender	0.829
3	Alana Cook	Reign	2022	Defender	0.816
4	Katie Lind	Dash	2023	Defender	0.774
5	Emily Sams	Pride	2025	Defender	0.766
6	Abby Dahlkemper	Bay	2025	Defender	0.759
7	Elizabeth Ball	KC Current	2025	Defender	0.752
8	Emily Mason	Reign	2026	Defender	0.751
9	Kayla Sharples	KC Current	2026	Defender	0.749
10	Sarah Gorden	Angel City	2023	Defender	0.737