Domestic-league season · Santa Clara.
| Competition | Apps | G | A | Min | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Primeira Liga | 18 | 0 | 0 | 1447 | 6.72 |
Adriano's current-season form is down 71% on last season (Season 28→8), while his Rating eased 65→49. His peak season for form remains 2022/23 (Season 32).
| Season | Club | Apps | G | A | Match | RTG | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | Santa Clara · 13th | 18 | 0 | 0 | 6.72 | 49 | 8 |
| 2024/25 | Santa Clara · 5th | 32 | 0 | 2 | 6.71 | 65 | 28 |
| 2023/24 | Santa Clara · 1st | 32 | 0 | 2 | 6.71 | 54 | 26 |
| 2022/23 | Santa Clara · 18th | 32 | 1 | 1 | 6.73 | 59 | 32 |
Domestic-league totals per season. RTG = Field Insider Rating (potential / ceiling); Season = age-blind form that year.
Adriano is a 26-year-old central midfielder at Santa Clara, rated 49.2 overall by Field Insider's model, ranking 216th of 315 in the Primeira Liga. In his prime years, he has been a rotation option this season (47.3% of available minutes). His defensive output reads 1.31 tackles, blocks and interceptions per 90. Below: strengths, watch-points, market-value outlook and the latest transfer news on Adriano.
Judged on this season alone, Adriano graded 8 — a workmanlike campaign that ranks 39th of 41 of the 41 central midfielders in the Primeira Liga, on 0 goals, 0 assists and 1.306 defensive actions per 90.
Year-on-year, that's a drop on last season (Season 28 → 8). Over the 4 seasons on record his form has drifted down, peaking in 2022/23.
On long-term talent our Rating reads 49, 31st of 41 of the 41 central midfielders in the Primeira Liga. At 26 Adriano is in his prime years, and a market index of 52.2 reflects that trajectory.
Past his 2022/23 peak — the recent trend is downward, so buyers are paying for what's left, not what was.
1.31 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — light defensive volume, with 5 clean sheets across 18 appearances. Doing that for a lower-table side (13th of 18) is harder than the bare numbers suggest: a back line under more pressure has to defend more often and protects fewer leads, so the volume — and any clean sheets — carry real weight.
With a Rating of 49.2, Adriano carries the 31st-highest potential of the central midfielders in the Primeira Liga of 41, and he is posting that for a lower-table side (Santa Clara finished 13th of 18) — individual numbers are harder to earn on a struggling team, so his underlying level likely sits a touch above the ranking. Defensively he reads as light defensive volume (1.31 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90). In the prime window — at or near peak market value, so the next two seasons are the ones to cash in or build around.
Generated from Field Insider's rating model · AI-written analysis to follow.
The gold line is market value — an index (not €) blending rating, age and league. It climbs through the early 20s, peaks around ages 23–27 (~52), then tapers with age. At 26, Adriano sits on 52.2, at or near its peak. The blue line is Adriano's projected Rating — 49.2 today — recomputed at each age, so it follows the same rise-and-fall as a career matures and declines. Solid = up to today; dashed = projected.
No transfer news found for this player.
