Players›Nahomi Kawasumi
Nahomi Kawasumi
- Position:
- Midfielder
- Nationality:
- Japan
- Born:
- 1985-09-23 (age 40)
- Height:
- 157 cm
Career (2016–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 115 GP · 7,575 min · 11 goals · 21 assists
Composite 2023: 0.900 — ranked 18 of 240 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 | Reign | 10 | 8 | 797 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 11 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0.34 | 0.56 | |
| 2 | 2017 | Reign | 24 | 22 | 2007 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 30 | 17 | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0.27 | 0.67 | |
| 3 | 2018 | Reign | 14 | 11 | 899 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.30 | |
| 4 | 2019 | Gotham | 19 | 10 | 1160 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 | |
| 5 | 2021 | Gotham | 24 | 19 | 1576 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 25 | 79.6 | 0 | 0 | 0.06 | 0.29 |
| 6 | 2022 | Gotham | 20 | 11 | 1117 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 76.8 | 0 | 0 | 0.08 | 0.24 |
| 7 | 2023 | Gotham | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 89.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 7 Yrs | 115 | 81 | 7575 | 11 | 21 | 0 | 75 | 46 | 126 | 78.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.13 | 0.38 | ||
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 | Reign | 797 | 3 | 1.00 | 2.00 | 0.11 | 3.28 | 3.43 | -0.15 | 0.37 | 3.02 | 0.34 | 0.088 |
| 2 | 2017 | Reign | 2007 | 6 | 3.45 | 2.55 | 0.15 | 5.43 | 5.71 | -0.28 | 0.24 | 4.73 | 0.21 | 0.415 |
| 3 | 2018 | Reign | 899 | 0 | 0.65 | -0.65 | 0.06 | 0.57 | 0.74 | -0.17 | 0.06 | 2.35 | 0.24 | 0.204 |
| 4 | 2019 | Gotham FC | 1160 | 0 | 1.03 | -1.03 | 0.08 | 0.31 | 0.33 | -0.03 | 0.02 | 1.77 | 0.14 | 0.272 |
| 5 | 2021 | Gotham FC | 1576 | 1 | 1.06 | -0.06 | 0.06 | -0.14 | 0.29 | -0.43 | -0.01 | 4.09 | 0.23 | 0.343 |
| 6 | 2022 | Gotham FC | 1117 | 1 | 0.86 | 0.14 | 0.07 | 2.44 | 2.75 | -0.31 | 0.20 | 2.22 | 0.18 | 0.172 |
| 7 | 2023 | Gotham FC | 19 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.07 | -0.04 | 0.18 | 0.17 | 0.79 | ||||
| 7 Yrs | 7575 | 11 | 8.05 | 2.95 | 0.10 | 11.93 | 13.32 | -1.41 | 0.14 | 18.35 | 0.22 | 1.494 | ||
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 | 1.126 | 0.393 | 0.585 | 1.064 | 0.762 | 17 | 247 | |
| 2 | 2023 | 1.398 | 0.176 | 0.645 | 1.509 | 0.900 | 18 | 240 | |
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 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 8 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2017 | 22 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||
| 3 | 2018 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 9 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2019 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||
| 5 | 2020 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 6 | 2021 | 24 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 1 | a winger, played like a fullback | |||||||
| 7 | 2022 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | played her role | |||||||
| 7 Yrs | 97 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 70 | 4 | 17 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 56 | 4 | 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 | Ryan Gareis | Dash | 2025 | Forward | 0.611 |
| 2 | Adriana Leon | Thorns | 2023 | Forward | 0.501 |
| 3 | Savannah McCaskill | Wave | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.479 |
| 4 | Makenna Morris | Spirit | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.472 |
| 5 | Izzy Rodriguez | Current | 2022 | Defender | 0.468 |
| 6 | Kelsey Turnbow | Wave | 2022 | Midfielder | 0.466 |
| 7 | Emily Curran | Dash | 2021 | Midfielder | 0.459 |
| 8 | Meredith Speck | Courage | 2025 | Midfielder | 0.458 |
| 9 | Courtney Petersen | Racing | 2025 | Defender | 0.455 |
| 10 | Christen Press | Angel City | 2025 | Forward | 0.452 |