Lucas Soares

Soares's current-season form is up 20% on last season (Season 25→30), while his Rating eased 54→45. His peak season for form remains 2023/24 (Season 35).

Domestic career

Season	Club	Apps	G	A	Match	RTG	Season
2025/26	Santa Clara · 13th	28	0	0	6.65	45	30
2024/25	Santa Clara · 5th	32	0	1	6.54	54	25
2023/24	Santa Clara · 1st	32	0	1	6.54	48	35
2022/23	Casa Pia · 10th	27	1	2	6.81	61	33
2021/22	Casa PiaLoan · 2nd	29	2	0	—	52	35

Domestic-league totals per season. RTG = Field Insider Rating (potential / ceiling); Season = age-blind form that year. 2 earlier seasons and 3 youth-team spells in the full career.

Scout report

Project playerFull-back

Lucas Soares is a 28-year-old full-back at Santa Clara, rated 45.1 overall by Field Insider's model, ranking 239th of 317 on scout potential in the Primeira Liga. An experienced operator, he has been a regular starter this season (68.2% of available minutes). His defensive output reads 2.76 tackles, blocks and interceptions per 90. Below: strengths, watch-points, market-value outlook and the latest transfer news on Soares.

Judged on this season alone, Soares graded 30 — a solid campaign that ranks top 40% of the 55 full-backs in the Primeira Liga, on 7 clean sheets and 2.761 defensive actions per 90.

Year-on-year, that's a clear step up on last season (Season 25 → 30). Over the 5 seasons on record his form has drifted down, peaking in 2023/24.

On long-term talent our Rating reads 45, 40th of 55 of the 55 full-backs in the Primeira Liga. At 28 Soares is in his prime years, and a market index of 11.4 reflects that trajectory.

From the career report

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Below his 2023/24 peak but holding a solid level — the platform for a return is there.

Peak: 2023/24Holding levelRemarkably consistentStepped up 2022/23

Current potential40th of 55 full-backs · Primeira Liga Current seasonTop 40% full-backs · Primeira Liga22nd-best full-back in the Primeira Liga239th in the Primeira Liga · potential40th-highest potential full-back in the Primeira Liga

45.1

Ratingi

40th of 55 full-backs

29.9

Seasoni

below regular-starter level

68.2%

Minutes

a regular starter

2.76

Def. actions / 90

moderate defensive volume

Output in context · Santa Clara finished 10th of 20 · a mid-table side

2.76

Def. / 90

Tackles

Interceptions

Clean sheets

2.76 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90 — moderate defensive volume, with 7 clean sheets across 28 appearances.

Strengths

Availability. On the pitch for 68.2% of available minutes — a dependable presence in the XI.

Watch points

Level. Rates below a nailed-on top-tier starter on our model.

Outlook

With a Rating of 45.1, Soares carries the 40th-highest potential of the full-backs in the Primeira Liga of 55. Defensively he reads as moderate defensive volume (2.76 tackles, blocks & interceptions per 90). Experienced and reliable, but the value curve is easing (1.2× now → 0.9× projected in three years).

Generated from Field Insider's rating model · AI-written analysis to follow.

Per 90 & availability

Minutes played %68.2%

Available fixtures34 of 34

Goals / 900

Assists / 900

Goal contribution / 900

Defensive actions / 902.761

Player flow

Goal involvements0

Shot conversion %0

Shot accuracy %20

Pass accuracy %80

Dribble success %62.5

Cards / 900.216

Foul involvement / 903.236

Season-by-season progression

Rating (potential)Season (form)

Value & potential by age

Market valueRating

Solid = now · dashed = projected

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 (~19), then tapers with age. At 28, Soares sits on 11.4, past its peak and easing. The blue line is Soares's projected Rating — 45.1 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.