Players›Kate Del Fava
Kate Del Fava
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1998-07-23 (age 27)
- Height:
- 175 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 122 GP · 10,138 min · 3 goals · 5 assists
Composite 2026: 0.829 — ranked 35 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 | Current | 9 | 3 | 393 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 66.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2 | 2022 | Current | 25 | 22 | 1976 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 13 | 69.3 | 3 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.14 |
| 3 | 2023 | Current | 22 | 21 | 1829 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 76.2 | 3 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| 4 | 2024 | Royals | 26 | 26 | 2340 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 86.3 | 3 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.12 |
| 5 | 2025 | Royals | 26 | 26 | 2340 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 85.5 | 5 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| 6 | 2026 | Royals | 14 | 14 | 1260 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 82.1 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 6 Yrs | 122 | 112 | 10138 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 56 | 15 | 40 | 80.7 | 16 | 0 | 0.03 | 0.07 | ||
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 | 2021 | KC Current | 393 | 0 | 0.44 | -0.44 | 0.10 | -0.33 | 0.47 | -0.79 | -0.07 | 1.18 | 0.27 | 0.231 |
| 2 | 2022 | KC Current | 1976 | 1 | 0.64 | 0.36 | 0.03 | 0.93 | 2.01 | -1.08 | 0.04 | 5.15 | 0.23 | 0.592 |
| 3 | 2023 | KC Current | 1829 | 0 | 0.89 | -0.89 | 0.04 | 1.26 | 2.43 | -1.17 | 0.06 | 5.55 | 0.27 | 0.423 |
| 4 | 2024 | Royals | 2340 | 2 | 2.42 | -0.42 | 0.09 | 1.76 | 3.71 | -1.95 | 0.07 | 5.49 | 0.21 | 0.542 |
| 5 | 2025 | Royals | 2340 | 0 | 2.14 | -2.14 | 0.08 | -1.74 | 1.50 | -3.24 | -0.07 | 5.81 | 0.22 | 0.440 |
| 6 | 2026 | Royals | 1260 | 0 | 0.91 | -0.91 | 0.06 | -0.38 | 0.20 | -0.58 | -0.03 | 2.73 | 0.19 | 0.312 |
| 6 Yrs | 10138 | 3 | 7.44 | -4.44 | 0.07 | 1.50 | 10.32 | -8.81 | 0.01 | 25.91 | 0.23 | 2.540 | ||
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 | -1.104 | 1.027 | -0.220 | 1.683 | 0.530 | 51 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | -0.595 | 0.956 | -0.237 | 1.265 | 0.458 | 62 | 240 | |
| 3 | 2024 | -0.410 | 0.481 | -1.140 | 1.231 | 0.086 | 237 | 338 | |
| 4 | 2026 | 0.968 | 0.416 | -0.795 | 1.563 | 0.120 | 0.829 | 35 | 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 | 2020 | 5 | 5 | 5 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2021 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 3 | 2022 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 19 | 1 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 4 | 2023 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 26 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 2024 | 29 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 28 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2025 | 26 | 26 | 25 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 7 | 2026 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 7 Yrs | 129 | 48 | 78 | 2 | 1 | 46 | 76 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 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 | Amy James-Turner | Pride | 2021 | Defender | 0.844 |
| 2 | Estelle Johnson | Gotham | 2021 | Defender | 0.817 |
| 3 | Rachel Corsie | Current | 2021 | Defender | 0.814 |
| 4 | Hannah Anderson | Pride | 2026 | Defender | 0.813 |
| 5 | Rafaelle | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.786 |
| 6 | Abby Erceg | Courage | 2022 | Defender | 0.783 |
| 7 | Kylie Nadaner | Pride | 2025 | Defender | 0.783 |
| 8 | Sam Hiatt | Reign | 2021 | Defender | 0.772 |
| 9 | Meaghan Nally | Thorns | 2022 | Defender | 0.771 |
| 10 | Gabrielle Robinson | Current | 2024 | Defender | 0.759 |