Players›Natalia Kuikka
Natalia Kuikka
- Position:
- Defender
- Nationality:
- Finland
- Born:
- 1995-12-01 (age 30)
- Height:
- 168 cm
Career (2021–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 96 GP · 7,484 min · 2 goals · 6 assists
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 | Thorns | 20 | 15 | 1459 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 27 | 71.3 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.06 |
| 2 | 2022 | Thorns | 21 | 18 | 1658 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 16 | 74.8 | 2 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.16 |
| 3 | 2023 | Thorns | 22 | 20 | 1859 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 13 | 76.1 | 3 | 0 | 0.05 | 0.15 |
| 4 | 2024 | Stars | 26 | 26 | 2152 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 14 | 79.9 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| 5 | 2025 | Stars | 7 | 5 | 356 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 70.7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
| 6 | 2026 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| 6 Yrs | 96 | 84 | 7484 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 51 | 14 | 70 | 75.6 | 7 | 0 | 0.02 | 0.10 | ||
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 | Thorns | 1459 | 0 | 0.48 | -0.48 | 0.03 | 1.87 | 2.97 | -1.10 | 0.12 | 6.68 | 0.41 | 0.711 |
| 2 | 2022 | Thorns | 1658 | 1 | 1.28 | -0.28 | 0.07 | 1.49 | 3.33 | -1.84 | 0.08 | 5.07 | 0.28 | 0.597 |
| 3 | 2023 | Thorns | 1859 | 1 | 0.82 | 0.18 | 0.04 | -0.09 | 2.31 | -2.39 | 0.00 | 5.67 | 0.27 | 0.618 |
| 4 | 2024 | Chicago Stars | 2152 | 0 | 0.11 | -0.11 | 0.00 | 1.61 | 2.03 | -0.42 | 0.07 | 6.13 | 0.26 | 0.512 |
| 5 | 2025 | Chicago Stars | 356 | 0 | 0.27 | -0.27 | 0.07 | 0.01 | 0.12 | -0.11 | 0.00 | 1.14 | 0.29 | 0.101 |
| 6 | 2026 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||
| 6 Yrs | 7484 | 2 | 2.96 | -0.96 | 0.04 | 4.89 | 10.76 | -5.86 | 0.06 | 24.69 | 0.30 | 2.539 | ||
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 | 2021 | 20 | 18 | 2 | 18 | 2 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 2 | 2022 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 3 | 2023 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 1 | played her role | |||||||||||||
| 4 | 2024 | 26 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 15 | played her role | ||||||||||||
| 5 | 2025 | 5 | 5 | 5 | played her role | ||||||||||||||
| 5 Yrs | 96 | 80 | 16 | 77 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 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 | Dorian Bailey | Spirit | 2023 | Midfielder | 0.895 |
| 2 | Camryn Biegalski | Stars | 2025 | Defender | 0.891 |
| 3 | Haley McCutcheon | Pride | 2023 | Defender | 0.871 |
| 4 | Maximiliane Rall | Stars | 2024 | Defender | 0.861 |
| 5 | Celia Jiménez | Pride | 2022 | Defender | 0.833 |
| 6 | Lauren Milliet | Racing | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.831 |
| 7 | Annaïg Butel | Spirit | 2023 | Defender | 0.826 |
| 8 | Kate Del Fava | Current | 2023 | Defender | 0.815 |
| 9 | Paige Metayer | Spirit | 2024 | Midfielder | 0.813 |
| 10 | Carrie Lawrence | Pride | 2024 | Defender | 0.812 |