Club Deportivo Tenerife Femenino have brought one of the most exciting attacking talents in women's football to their team, as they have recently announced the signing of Natalia Padilla from Bayern Munich.
The Polish international will definitely represent an important attacking signing for Tenerife that is expected to be extremely useful on the short and long-term, given the player’s talent and experience.
Despite being 23 years old, Padilla has 51 caps and 13 goals with the Poland national team.
Furthermore, her career is already diversified with experiences at all Malaga, Servette, Bayern Munich, FC Koln, and Sevilla.
These experiences helped her in becoming tactically more mature and adapt to the different leagues she played at.
More importantly, having played at both Malaga and Sevilla means that she will not be having an issue of adaptation to Liga F when she starts playing for Tenerife.
In fact, Padilla is expected to even become an attacking leader at Tenerife, given her impressive attacking input and her remarkable experience.
Natalia Padilla’s History-Making for Poland in UEFA EURO 2025
Padilla became an even more distinguishable forward following her participation in the UEFA Women's EURO 2025, as she scored the historic Poland’s first goal in a Women's EURO.
This was against Denmark, a match during which she provided two assists as well and was selected as the player of the match.
Padilla’s exceptional movements inside the final third and especially inside the box as well as her ability to escape from marking at the right timing makes her a “wanted” forward.
More importantly, her ability to score goals from various situations and using both feet is also a trait that will eventually help Tenerife score more goals next season and be more ambitious especially if they know how to exploit Padilla’s attacking potential in the best possible way.
What guarantees the attacking input of Padilla is the fact that she has been useful to all the teams she played for in terms of goalscoring.
At Servette, for instance, she netted 23 goals in 44 games before she moved to Bayern Munich.
During the 2024-25 season, she turned out to be Sevilla's leading scorer, tallying 11 goals in 28 Liga F matches.
Therefore, succeeding at Liga F will not be something too complicated to achieve for a player who has already been successful in this Spanish league.
Moreover, her attacking stats can only confirm Padilla’s exceptional attacking talent and why she is considered among the top actual attacking players in women's football at the moment.
Why Padilla's Versatility Makes Her A Perfect Fit For Tenerife
One of Padilla’s most impressive traits is her attacking versatility and flexibility.
Throughout her career, Padilla was never used continuously at a single position.
She alternated between playing as a right and left winger, as an advanced playmaker, as a second striker, and as a striker.
This ability and experience of playing at the different attacking positions represents a huge advantage for Tenerife, since they will be able to use her in more than one position without impacting her input considerably especially because she proved more than once that she can be impactful in any of these positions.
Her main traits include pace, intelligent movements without the ball, active contribution in the playmaking and in the attacking transitions, and clinical right/left-footed finishing abilities.
Her dynamism and goalscoring instinct made the difference for Bayern Munich in the final third and are expected to help her make the difference for Tenerife as well.
For Tenerife, this transfer has the potential to become one of their most significant attacking additions of the season.
Padilla combines international experience, proven goalscoring ability, positional versatility and leadership qualities despite her young age.
If she adapts quickly, (and that’s very probable), she can become the leader of Tenerife's attack and potentially one of the standout performers in Liga F next season.
