João Tomás
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | João Henrique Pataco Tomás | ||
| Date of birth | 27 May 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Oliveira do Bairro, Portugal | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1986–1993 | Oliveira Bairro | ||
| 1993–1994 | Troviscal | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1995 | Águas Boas | ||
| 1995–1996 | Anadia | ||
| 1996–1999 | Académica | 81 | (28) |
| 2000–2001 | Benfica | 41 | (19) |
| 2001–2004 | Betis | 32 | (7) |
| 2003–2004 | → Vitória Guimarães (loan) | 20 | (3) |
| 2004–2006 | Braga | 59 | (30) |
| 2006–2007 | Al-Arabi | 17 | (8) |
| 2007 | Al Rayyan | 9 | (8) |
| 2007–2008 | Braga | 10 | (1) |
| 2008–2009 | Boavista | 28 | (12) |
| 2009–2010 | Rio Ave | 15 | (6) |
| 2010 | Al Sharjah | 1 | (2) |
| 2010–2013 | Rio Ave | 65 | (34) |
| 2013 | Libolo | ? | (4) |
| National team | |||
| 2000–2007 | Portugal | 4 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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João Henrique Pataco Tomás (born 27 May 1975) is a retired Portuguese footballer who played as a striker.
He represented mostly Braga (three seasons) and Rio Ave (four) during his 19-year senior career. In his only full season with Benfica he scored 17 goals in 31 games, going on to amass Primeira Liga totals of 261 goals and 98 goals over the course of ten campaigns.
Abroad, Tomás spent some time in Spain and Asia.
Born in Oliveira do Bairro, Aveiro District, João Tomás achieved some notability playing for Académica de Coimbra, earning the nickname of O Jardel de Coimbra (Coimbra's Jardel) after Mário Jardel.
He subsequently played for S.L. Benfica, Real Betis – joining in the 2001 summer alongside teammate José Calado, he scored seven La Liga goals in his debut season, but appeared scarcely in his second year – Vitória de Guimarães and S.C. Braga, to where he returned after a Qatari stint in 2006–07, where he represented Al-Arabi SC, netting eight times in seventeen games before switching to Al Rayyan SC in 2007, leaving for Asia for free.
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