Players›Meghan Klingenberg
Meghan Klingenberg
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- USA
- Born:
- 1988-08-02 (age 37)
- Height:
- 158 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 153 GP · 12,458 min · 0 goals · 21 assists
Composite 2024: -0.123 — ranked 337 of 338 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 | 2016 | Thorns | 14 | 14 | 1332 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Thorns | 23 | 22 | 2043 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.26 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Thorns | 20 | 20 | 1852 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 27 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.10 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Thorns | 23 | 23 | 2219 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.16 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Thorns | 23 | 21 | 1747 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 47 | 77.6 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.15 |
| 6 | 2022 | Thorns | 17 | 16 | 1303 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 23 | 79.4 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.14 |
| 7 | 2023 | Thorns | 21 | 21 | 1714 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 37 | 76.9 | 2 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.16 |
| 8 | 2024 | Thorns | 12 | 2 | 248 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 78.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.36 |
| 8 Yrs | 153 | 139 | 12458 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 47 | 20 | 209 | 77.9 | 9 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.15 | ||
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 | 2016 | Thorns | 1332 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.93 | 2.08 | -0.15 | 0.13 | 4.38 | 0.30 | 0.194 |
| 2 | 2017 | Thorns | 2043 | 0 | 0.15 | -0.15 | 0.01 | 1.48 | 2.32 | -0.84 | 0.07 | 7.40 | 0.33 | 0.496 |
| 3 | 2018 | Thorns | 1852 | 0 | 0.46 | -0.46 | 0.02 | 2.24 | 3.35 | -1.12 | 0.11 | 7.78 | 0.38 | 0.498 |
| 4 | 2019 | Thorns | 2219 | 0 | 0.28 | -0.28 | 0.01 | 3.94 | 4.72 | -0.79 | 0.16 | 10.44 | 0.42 | 0.462 |
| 5 | 2021 | Thorns | 1747 | 0 | 0.18 | -0.18 | 0.01 | 3.83 | 4.99 | -1.17 | 0.20 | 10.20 | 0.53 | 0.411 |
| 6 | 2022 | Thorns | 1303 | 0 | 0.17 | -0.17 | 0.01 | 1.08 | 2.07 | -0.99 | 0.07 | 4.49 | 0.31 | 0.222 |
| 7 | 2023 | Thorns | 1714 | 0 | 0.30 | -0.30 | 0.02 | 1.65 | 2.69 | -1.04 | 0.09 | 7.75 | 0.41 | 0.352 |
| 8 | 2024 | Thorns | 248 | 0 | 0.06 | -0.06 | 0.02 | 0.26 | 0.45 | -0.19 | 0.10 | 0.72 | 0.26 | 0.095 |
| 8 Yrs | 12458 | 0 | 1.60 | -1.60 | 0.01 | 16.41 | 22.67 | -6.29 | 0.12 | 53.16 | 0.38 | 2.730 | ||
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 | 2024 | -1.694 | 0.179 | 0.240 | 0.048 | -0.123 | 337 | 338 | |
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 | 2016 | 15 | 15 | 15 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 22 | 22 | 19 | 3 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 24 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 9 | 9 | 9 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 26 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 20 | 20 | 20 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 8 | 2023 | 26 | 25 | 1 | 25 | 1 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 9 | 2024 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | played her role | |||||||||||
| 9 Yrs | 170 | 163 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 161 | 2 | 7 | 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 | Allysha Chapman | Dash | 2025 | Defender | 0.728 |
| 2 | Madison Pogarch | Royals | 2025 | Defender | 0.694 |
| 3 | Courtney Petersen | Dash | 2024 | Defender | 0.684 |
| 4 | Kiki Pickett | Courage | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.680 |
| 5 | Perle Morroni | Wave | 2026 | Defender | 0.679 |
| 6 | Feli Rauch | Courage | 2024 | Defender | 0.667 |
| 7 | Kerry Abello | Pride | 2024 | Defender | 0.665 |
| 8 | Elizabeth Eddy | Gotham | 2021 | Defender | 0.655 |
| 9 | Casey Krueger | Spirit | 2024 | Defender | 0.652 |
| 10 | Emily Fox | Courage | 2023 | Defender | 0.650 |