Domestic-league season · Tondela.
| Competition | Apps | G | A | Min | Match |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Primeira Liga | 13 | 0 | 0 | 624 | 6.76 |
Afonso's current-season form is up 83% on last season (Season 6→11), while his Rating held around 11. His peak season for form remains 2023/24 (Season 22).
| Season | Club | Apps | G | A | Match | RTG | Season |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | Tondela · 17th | 13 | 0 | 0 | 6.76 | 11 | 11 |
| 2024/25 | Tondela · 1st | 8 | 0 | 0 | 6.51 | 10 | 6 |
| 2023/24 | Torreense · 7th | 33 | 2 | 0 | — | 22 | 22 |
| 2022/23 | Torreense · 9th | 29 | 2 | 0 | — | 23 | 21 |
| 2021/22 | Santa Clara · 7th | 15 | 0 | 0 | 6.61 | 26 | 15 |
| 2020/21 | Santa Clara · 6th | 26 | 0 | 0 | 6.83 | 32 | 21 |
Domestic-league totals per season. RTG = Field Insider Rating (potential / ceiling); Season = age-blind form that year.
João Afonso is a 36-year-old central defender at Tondela, rated 10.9 overall by Field Insider's model, ranking 311th of 315 in the Primeira Liga. A seasoned veteran, he has been a fringe squad member this season (20.4% of available minutes). His defensive output reads 5.77 tackles, blocks and interceptions per 90. Below: strengths, watch-points, market-value outlook and the latest transfer news on Afonso.
Judged on this season alone, Afonso graded 11 — a workmanlike campaign that ranks 49th of 55 of the 55 centre-backs in the Primeira Liga, on 1 clean sheet and 5.769 defensive actions per 90.
Year-on-year, that's a clear step up on last season (Season 6 → 11). Over the 6 seasons on record his form has drifted down, peaking in 2023/24.
On long-term talent our Rating reads 11, 53rd of 55 of the 55 centre-backs in the Primeira Liga. At 36 Afonso is into the veteran stage, where the age curve weighs on the projection, and a market index of 3.5 reflects that trajectory.
Past his 2023/24 peak — the recent trend is downward, so buyers are paying for what's left, not what was.
5.77 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — high defensive volume, with 1 clean sheet across 13 appearances. Doing that for a relegation-threatened side (17th 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 10.9, Afonso carries the 53rd-highest potential of the centre-backs in the Primeira Liga of 55 — though on just 13 appearances this season, so the standing rests on a small sample. Defensively he reads as high defensive volume (5.77 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90). Veteran phase — a short-term, lower-fee proposition as both level and value decline (0.6× and falling).
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 (~12), then tapers with age. At 36, Afonso sits on 3.5, past its peak and easing. The blue line is Afonso's projected Rating — 10.9 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.
