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Kenza Dali

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: France
Born:: 1991-07-31 (age 34)
Height:: 163 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 42 GP · 3,743 min · 5 goals · 5 assists

Composite 2026: 0.905 — ranked 31 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	2025	Wave	27	27	2456	5	3	0	37	21	47	86.9	2	0	0.18	0.29
2	2026	Wave	15	15	1287	0	2	0	10	5	39	85.7	2	0	0.00	0.14
	2 Yrs		42	42	3743	5	5	0	47	26	86	86.5	4	0	0.12	0.24

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	2025	San Diego Wave	2456	5	2.36	2.64	0.09	7.59	8.24	-0.65	0.28	7.33	0.27	0.375
2	2026	San Diego Wave	1287	0	0.63	-0.63	0.04	1.54	2.01	-0.46	0.11	14.79	1.03	0.213
	2 Yrs		3743	5	2.99	2.01	0.07	9.13	10.25	-1.11	0.22	22.12	0.53	0.588

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	2025	-0.095	0.863	1.152	-0.225		0.480	69	258
2	2026	0.197	1.427	2.261	-0.533	0.000	0.905	31	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	2025	27				13	14							14	1	11		1	an 8, played like a 6
2	2026	15				3	12							8	2	5			an 8, played like a 6
	2 Yrs	42				16	26							22	3	16		1	an 8, played like a 6

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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	Leicy Santos	Spirit	2025	Midfielder	0.775
2	Heather Stainbrook	Spirit	2024	Midfielder	0.754
3	Ally Lemos	Pride	2025	Midfielder	0.741
4	Vanessa DiBernardo	Current	2024	Midfielder	0.721
5	Deyna Castellanos	Bay FC	2024	Forward	0.704
6	Joelle Anderson	Bay FC	2024	Midfielder	0.701
7	Erika Tymrak	Pride	2022	Midfielder	0.687
8	Kristie Mewis	Gotham	2023	Midfielder	0.675
9	Dzsenifer Marozsán	Reign	2021	Midfielder	0.663
10	María Sánchez	Wave	2025	Midfielder	0.653