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Thembi Kgatlana

Position:: Midfielder
Nationality:: South Africa
Born:: 1996-05-02 (age 30)
Height:: 156 cm

Career (2018–, regular seasons; 2020 excluded): 30 GP · 1,321 min · 4 goals · 4 assists

Composite 2024: 0.325 — ranked 133 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	2018	Dash	16	2	589	2	3	0	15	7	6		1	0	0.31	0.76
2	2023	Racing	14	7	732	2	1	0	16	7	9	73.3	3	0	0.25	0.37
	2 Yrs		30	9	1321	4	4	0	31	14	15	73.3	4	0	0.27	0.55

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	2018	Dash	589	2	1.45	0.55	0.22	1.95	2.18	-0.23	0.30	0.94	0.14	0.053
2	2023	Racing Lou	732	2	2.48	-0.48	0.30	0.74	1.41	-0.67	0.09	1.73	0.21	0.125
	2 Yrs		1321	4	3.93	0.07	0.27	2.69	3.59	-0.90	0.18	2.67	0.18	0.178

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	2023	-0.507	1.607	0.793	0.531		0.307	109	240
2	2024	-0.266	1.434	0.868	0.087		0.325	133	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	2018	2							1	1								2	a winger, played like a 9
2	2023	9							9								6	3	played her role
3	2024	3							3								2	1	played her role
	3 Yrs	14							13	1							8	6	played her role

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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	Rosemonde Kouassi	Spirit	2024	Forward	0.897
2	Simone Charley	Thorns	2021	Forward	0.850
3	Sophia Wilson	Thorns	2023	Forward	0.845
4	Messiah Bright	Pride	2023	Forward	0.832
5	Dudinha	Wave	2025	Forward	0.830
6	Temwa Chawinga	Current	2024	Forward	0.830
7	Racheal Kundananji	Bay FC	2024	Forward	0.827
8	Amanda West	Dash	2024	Forward	0.825
9	Princess Marfo	Bay FC	2024	Forward	0.823
10	Barbra Banda	Pride	2025	Forward	0.819