It’s happening: Leonardo Vonic has scored his first goal of the 2025/2026 season for FC Porto’s B team.

It was a picture-perfect day for Leonardo Vonic: FC Porto B beat Portimonense 1-0 on Sunday, November 23, 2025. And you get three guesses as to who scored the winning goal.

That’s right: Vonic scored the goal of the day in the 47th minute to give Porto’s reserves the win. It was also the first goal of the season for the striker, who has only played eight times this season. So far, things have been going well for the 22-year-old in Porto—until the start of the current series. While Vonic scored seven goals in twelve games last season, he currently has one goal in eight matches.

It remains to be seen whether the Croatian-born former Rot-Weiss Essen player will find his form after his goal debut in 25/26.

Vonic moved from Rot-Weiss Essen to FC Porto’s second team in January 2025. And that for a whopping €500,000! Only RWE legends Horst Hrubesch (equivalent to €600,000) and Frank Mill (€555,000) achieved higher transfer fees.

However, it is also true that this half a million for Vonic includes various bonus payments, such as professional appearances and a resale. This would ultimately bring third-division club RWE to a half-million transfer fee for Vonic. Porto paid €350,000 to Essen for the initial sale.

When he left Essen at the beginning of 2025, Vonic wrote to the fans of Rot-Weiss Essen: “Thank you very much for your great support over the past 1.5 years! Special thanks go to the fans, my teammates, the coaches, and everyone in charge. I was able to take my first steps in professional soccer with you—I am infinitely grateful for that. I will always have fond memories of our time together and wish the club and all of you all the best for the future. Rot-Weiss Essen will always remain something special to me! Stay healthy, we’ll definitely see each other again!”