# Ana Tomaz Heads South: Racing Power Land Sporting Loan Ahead of 2026/27

**By Luca Bertolini**  \nPublished July 21, 2026  \nUpdated July 21, 2026

> A 20-year-old forward with a taste of Sporting's first team and a steady B-team scoring habit lands at the Vale do Rosa. Racing Power have made their move early in the window.

Two days after turning the calendar to the new season, Racing Power made their first move of the summer feel official. The club from Setúbal announced on Sunday that Ana Tomaz, a 20-year-old forward, will join their attack for 2026/27 on loan from Sporting CP. The phrase the club used to frame it was modest; the implications for both ends of the deal are not.

Tomaz arrives with a CV that is short but pointed. Across the last campaign, she scored six goals in sixteen appearances for Sporting's B side, a respectable return for a developmental team in a league designed to bridge the academy and the first team. Five of those outings came with the senior squad, where she added two more goals to her tally. She is also a Portuguese youth international, which is the kind of line on a résumé that does a particular kind of work for a club trying to recruit a young attacker: it tells you the federation has already scouted her.

What the record does not say, and what only a year of senior football can, is whether a young forward who has feasted on second-tier minutes can keep producing when the games get tighter. That is the open question for Racing Power's staff. The talent is visible; the sample size is small. In a Liga BPI increasingly squeezed by Benfica's dominance and the recent arrival of FC Porto, every signing has to clear a bar that is rising, not falling.

## A two-way street between Alvalade and the Sado

The loan is a clean piece of housekeeping for both clubs. For Sporting, it keeps Tomaz inside their ecosystem, in a competitive women's league rather than a bench, and gives her the kind of minutes that a club with serious senior options ahead of her would struggle to guarantee. The pattern is familiar: Sporting are also reportedly closing in on Ana Dias from Fomget to bolster their own forward line, and they recently took Madalena Marau from Racing Power on a permanent move. The current between the two clubs runs both ways.

For Racing Power, the calculation is more straightforward. They have just come through a turbulent stretch off the field. In January 2025, the club left Seixal and relocated to Setúbal, with home matches set to be played at the Estádio Vale da Rosa. Pulling up roots in the middle of a season is the kind of move that unsettles a squad, and the team that takes the field in August will be working to re-establish routines in a new home. Bringing in a forward with a point to prove, at an age where the footballer's curve is still bending upward, is a sensible way to spend a loan slot.

## What Tomaz actually brings

The numbers are tidy enough to write on a scouting card. Six goals in sixteen B-team games is a goal every two and a half matches. Two in five first-team appearances is a better rate, though the sample is thin. For context, the kind of profile Racing Power are betting on is the one that has already been tested against senior opposition without being exposed. The November 2024 meeting between Sporting and Racing Power at the Estádio Nacional, when Sporting won 3-0, is a reminder that the gap between the two clubs in head-to-head terms is still real; the two 0-0 draws and other fixtures in that same season show that it is not impassable.

Tomaz's own framing of the move was short and purposeful. Pronta para esta nova etapa. Prometo trabalho, atitude e ambição, she told Racing Power's media, which translates roughly as: ready for the new stage, promising work, attitude and ambition. It is the kind of sentence a coach underlines rather than reads aloud. Whether it becomes the kind of line that gets quoted back at the end of a successful season will depend on goals, assists, and the harder-to-measure habits of a young player learning to lead a line on her own.

## The competitive stakes for 2026/27

Racing Power's place in the Liga BPI picture is a specific one. They are not chasing the title, and they are not fighting relegation; they are trying to be the kind of mid-table side that punishes bigger clubs on the right afternoon. That is the lane where a young loan forward can actually move the needle. If Tomaz can convert her B-team habits into senior minutes in a league where defenses can be both organized and exposed, she becomes the kind of asset that Sporting will want to bring back, and Racing Power will want to extend.

The window is still young, and the summer is long. But the pattern of the last few months is clear: the Liga BPI is getting deeper, with FC Porto's entry adding pressure on the established order, and Benfica's sixth straight title setting the standard everyone else is trying to close. Racing Power's answer, for now, is a 20-year-old who has already scored against senior defenders and has the next ten months to show she can keep doing it in a new shirt, in a new city, in a league that will not wait for her to settle.

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