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Manaka Hayashi

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: Japan
Born:: 2004-08-16 (age 21)
Height:: 164 cm

Career (2025–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 30 GP · 1,543 min · 0 goals · 1 assists

Composite 2026: 0.074 — ranked 193 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	Stars	17	7	653	0	1	0	5	2	16	74.2	1	0	0.00	0.14
2	2026	Stars	13	11	890	0	0	0	7	3	6	78.6	2	0	0.00	0.00
	2 Yrs		30	18	1543	0	1	0	12	5	22	76.6	3	0	0.00	0.06

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	Chicago Stars	653	0	0.83	-0.83	0.11	-0.13	0.37	-0.50	-0.02	1.18	0.16	0.310
2	2026	Chicago Stars	890	0	0.18	-0.18	0.02	-0.64	-0.27	-0.37	-0.06	3.80	0.38	0.316
	2 Yrs		1543	0	1.01	-1.01	0.06	-0.77	0.10	-0.87	-0.04	4.98	0.29	0.626

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	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	191	258
2	2026	-0.633	0.015	-0.236	0.800	0.000	0.074	193	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	7				1	6						1	5		1			an 8, played like a 6
2	2026	11				2	9						1	6	1		3		an 8, played like a 6
	2 Yrs	18				3	15						2	11	1	1	3		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.

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1	Emily van Egmond	Wave	2023	Midfielder	0.565
2	Caprice Dydasco	Gotham	2022	Defender	0.520
3	Angela Salem	Thorns	2021	Midfielder	0.519
4	Katie Zelem	Angel City	2024	Midfielder	0.518
5	Sofia Huerta	Reign	2024	Defender	0.499
6	Andi Sullivan	Spirit	2024	Midfielder	0.497
7	Christen Westphal	Thorns	2021	Defender	0.489
8	Jenna Bike	Stars	2025	Forward	0.478
9	Tara Rudd	Spirit	2023	Defender	0.474
10	Vanessa DiBernardo	Current	2025	Midfielder	0.468