Racing de Ferrol

Racing de Ferrol

Full name	Racing Club de Ferrol, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	Os Departamentais Os Diaños Verdes (Green Devils)
Founded	5 October 1919; 105 years ago (5 October 1919)
Ground	Estadio Municipal de A Malata Ferrol (La Coruña), Galicia, Spain
Capacity	11 922
Owner	Ferrol City Council
President	Manolo Ansede
Head coach	Cristóbal Parralo
League	Segunda División
2023–24	Segunda División, 10th of 22
Website	www.racingclubferrol.net
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Racing Club de Ferrol, commonly known as Racing de Ferrol, is a Spanish football team based in Ferrol, Province of A Coruña, in the autonomous community of Galicia.

Founded in 1919, the club currently plays in Segunda División, holding home games at Estadio da Malata. Club colours are green shirts with white shorts, though during the early years of its existence green and white shirts with vertical stripes were used.

Although Racing has never played in Spain's top division of La Liga, the club has spent many years in the second tier before being in the third tier more recently. Racing holds the record for most seasons in the second tier without making La Liga (35).

The history of football in Ferrol is associated with the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and drydocks and the British technical advisors,^[1][2][3] hired to work locally who used to play against each-other at first, but later on, local workers and military personnel stationed in Ferrol. The renewal of the shipyards and the creation, in town of the "school of Naval Engineers"^[4] meant that from the mid-nineteenth century, a mostly French at first but, latter on mostly British, Engineers and Technicians, a constant influx was developed; bringing to Ferrol not new technologies. From those early years to these days many football clubs came and go over the decades but only one of them actually survived for a considerable time and for that, only as an amalgamation of some other previous teams and this is el Racing de Ferrol.

Racing Ferrol Football Club, can trace back its origins back to July 1919, but starting very strongly from the beginning on a massive winning all matches spree that allow the team to play against the best national squads in the country so only ten years after its creation Racing Ferrol Football Club was taking part on its first national championships competition and fluctuating later over the decades between first and second divisions as follows: the second – first presence in 1939–40 – and third divisions. In 1977–78 the Galicians won the inaugural edition of Segunda División B and promoted again, only to be immediately relegated back.

It would not until the year 2000 that Racing would again reach the second level, going on to spend there five of the following six years. In the 2006–07 campaign the club gained promotion to the category in the playoffs, with a 2–1 aggregate win against Alicante CF. In the following season the team finished fourth from the bottom and dropped back to the third division, and to the fourth only two years later. In the 2012–13 campaign, the club achieved promoted to third division. Five years later, the club was relegated to fourth division. But one year later the club achieved promotion back to third division.

In the 2022-23 campaign, Ferrol promoted back to second division after spending 15 years in third and fourth division.

• 36 seasons in Segunda División
• 2 seasons in Primera Federación/Primera División RFEF
• 27 seasons in Segunda División B
• 27 seasons in Tercera División

As of 20 November 2024^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  ESP Emilio Bernad 2 DF  ESP Julián Delmás 3 DF  ESP Rober Correa 4 DF  SRB Aleksa Purić 5 DF  BRA Naldo 6 MF  ESP Álvaro Sanz 7 FW  ESP Christian Borrego 8 MF  ESP Álex López (captain) 9 FW  ESP Eneko Jauregi 10 MF  ESP Josep Señé 11 FW  ESP Nacho Sánchez 12 FW  CPV Bebé 13 GK  ESP Yoel Rodríguez

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 MF  ESP Aitor Gelardo 15 DF  ESP David Castro 16 MF  ESP Fran Manzanara 17 FW  ESP Josué Dorrio 18 DF  ESP Brais Martínez 19 MF  ESP Manu Vallejo 20 FW  ESP Álvaro Giménez 21 DF  ESP Moi Delgado 22 DF  ESP Aitor Buñuel 23 DF  URU Erick Cabaco 24 MF  ESP Luis Perea 25 GK  ESP Jesús Ruiz 26 MF  ESP David Carballo

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Position	Staff
Head coach	Cristóbal Parralo
Assistant coach	Javier Manjarín
Goalkeeping coach	César Caamaño
Fitness coach	Luis Rodríguez
Rehab fitness coach	Óscar Ares
Delegate	Manuel Ángel Mesa
Kit man	Uxío Romero José M. Alcudia
Doctor	Carlos Lariño Carlos Brage Rodríguez
Physiotherapist	Jorge Méndez Rodríguez Iván Losada

• Galician Championships: 1928–29, 1937–38, 1938–39^[6]

• Campeonato de España / Copa del Generalísimo: Runner-up 1938–39
• Segunda División B: Promotion 1999–00, 2006–07

Note: this list includes players that have played at least 100 league games and/or have reached international status.

Estadio da Malata holds 12,043 spectators, and was built in 1993.^[7] The pitch dimensions are 105 x 68 metres.

Racing used three main stadiums over the years, starting with Campo de Futbol O Inferniño, which was utilized until a move to Estadio Manuel Rivera in 1954 took place. This was an oval-shaped enclosure with a single cantilever stand. In the 1970s, a cover was erected over the popular terrace.

In 1993, the metropolitan area of Ferrol built Estadio da Malata to the west of the town, near the valley of Serantes. The total cost of the development was 1700 million pesetas. The first match on the new grounds was played on 18 April 1993, in a 3–2 friendly win over Atlético Madrid B. The official inauguration took place on 29 August, in a triangular tournament featuring the home side and neighbours Celta de Vigo and Deportivo de La Coruña.

• Ferrol
• SECN
• Vickers-Armstrong
• SDC Galicia Mugardos, reserve team

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)
• The British School @ Ferrol (1909–1936)
• Aerial Views of Ferrol in North Western Spain 2004 (archived)
• Soccerway profile