WLAFCMLS⭐ Shooting Star · 2019

Carlos Vela

5'10" · 170 lbsBorn March 1, 1989Mexico2018–2023

MLS Stats

Career Snapshot

Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.

MLS profile

Peak 3Y VAL

24.1

2018, 2019, 2022 avg

Career VAL

95.3

Value Above League

Minutes

12,280

Goals

Assists

69.8

39.5

Playoff VAL

80.8

postseason

Career Shape

All-time standings

Career boards only, within MLS · corpus from 2013

+ 4 more career boards inside the all-time top 100.

On the MLS Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.

Cross-sport prominence: 99.6th percentile among MLS careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.

On the boards· Appears on 5 boards

Boards that rank MLS careers

MLS Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High Leaps MLS Career Arc Types MLS Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categories

Similar careers

Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.

Where this data comes from

Player bios, per-season advanced metrics (xG/xA/shots/minutes), teams, and coaches come from ASA's free public API.

American Soccer Analysis (ASA) — Free public API; facts extracted under Feist, courtesy attribution

Methodology · Trust Center

Season	Age	Team	Min	G	A	Sh	SoT	KP	xG	xA	g+	G/90	A/90	G+A/90	xG/90	xA/90	KP/90	SoT%	Conv%	G−xG	g+/90	VAL
2018	28–29	LAFC	2,611	14	10	97	44	80	11.64	9.83	7.03	0.48	0.34	0.83	0.40	0.34	2.76	45.4%	14.4%	2.36	0.24	18.1
2019	29–30	LAFC	2,985	34	10	160	71	91	29.04	12.27	13.58	1.03	0.30	1.33	0.88	0.37	2.74	44.4%	21.3%	4.96	0.41	38.6
2020	30–31	LAFC	477	4	1	22	10	13	2.59	1.40	1.38	0.75	0.19	0.94	0.49	0.26	2.45	45.5%	18.2%	1.41	0.26	3.4
2021	31–32	LAFC	1,402	5	5	59	18	35	6.61	3.85	2.51	0.32	0.32	0.64	0.42	0.25	2.25	30.5%	8.5%	-1.61	0.16	8.1
2022	32–33	LAFC	2,528	12	9	61	26	74	9.59	7.38	5.23	0.43	0.32	0.75	0.34	0.26	2.63	42.6%	19.7%	2.41	0.19	15.6
2023	33–34	LAFC	2,277	9	7	61	25	66	10.28	4.78	3.27	0.36	0.28	0.63	0.41	0.19	2.61	41.0%	14.8%	-1.28	0.13	11.5

Carlos Vela

MLS Stats

Career Snapshot

All-time standings

On the boards· Appears on 5 boards

Boards that rank MLS careers

Similar careers

Where this data comes from

Career arc · VAL by season

What he added · wins above replacement

Intelligence

Complete attacking hub

Career Geography