Racing de Ferrol

Football club

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; 104 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| Club website

Home colours

Away colours

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Racing Club de Ferrol 2023–24.

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).

## History

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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.

Chart of Racing Club de Ferrol league performance 1929–present.

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.

Racing Club de Ferrol 1919–1920.

## Season to season

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| Season  | Tier  | Division  | Place  | Copa del Rey

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1929–30 | 3  | 3ª | 1st  |
1930–31 | 3  | 3ª | 3rd  |
1931–32 | 3  | 3ª | 1st  |
1932–33 | 3  | 3ª | 4th  | Round of 32
1933–34 | 3  | 3ª | 5th  | Round of 32
1934–35 | 2  | 2ª | 8th  | Third round
1939–40 | 2  | 2ª | 2nd  | Runners-up
1940–41 | 2  | 2ª | 4th  |
1941–42 | 2  | 2ª | 3rd  |
1942–43 | 2  | 2ª | 6th  |
1943–44 | 3  | 3ª | 1st  |
1944–45 | 2  | 2ª | 10th  | Round of 16
1945–46 | 2  | 2ª | 7th  | First round
1946–47 | 2  | 2ª | 10th  | First round
1947–48 | 2  | 2ª | 3rd  | Round of 16
1948–49 | 2  | 2ª | 14th  | Fourth round
1949–50 | 2  | 2ª | 12th  |
1950–51 | 2  | 2ª | 8th  |
1951–52 | 2  | 2ª | 3rd  |
1952–53 | 2  | 2ª | 9th  | Second round
| Season  | Tier  | Division  | Place  | Copa del Rey

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1953–54 | 2  | 2ª | 8th  |
1954–55 | 2  | 2ª | 12th  |
1955–56 | 2  | 2ª | 6th  |
1956–57 | 2  | 2ª | 16th  |
1957–58 | 2  | 2ª | 12th  |
1958–59 | 2  | 2ª | 10th  | First round
1959–60 | 2  | 2ª | 16th  | Round of 32
1960–61 | 3  | 3ª | 1st  |
1961–62 | 3  | 3ª | 2nd  |
1962–63 | 3  | 3ª | 1st  |
1963–64 | 3  | 3ª | 3rd  |
1964–65 | 3  | 3ª | 1st  |
1965–66 | 3  | 3ª | 1st  |
1966–67 | 2  | 2ª | 7th  | First round
1967–68 | 2  | 2ª | 7th  | First round
1968–69 | 2  | 2ª | 4th  |
1969–70 | 2  | 2ª | 10th  | Quarter-finals
1970–71 | 2  | 2ª | 8th  | Round of 32
1971–72 | 2  | 2ª | 18th  | Third round
1972–73 | 3  | 3ª | 9th  |
| Season  | Tier  | Division  | Place  | Copa del Rey

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1973–74 | 3  | 3ª | 4th  | Third round
1974–75 | 3  | 3ª | 3rd  |
1975–76 | 3  | 3ª | 9th  | Fourth round
1976–77 | 3  | 3ª | 6th  | First round
1977–78 | 3  | 2ª B | 1st  | Second round
1978–79 | 2  | 2ª | 20th  | Third round
1979–80 | 3  | 2ª B | 16th  |
1980–81 | 3  | 2ª B | 11th  |
1981–82 | 3  | 2ª B | 17th  |
1982–83 | 3  | 2ª B | 9th  |
1983–84 | 3  | 2ª B | 20th  |
1984–85 | 4  | 3ª | 3rd  |
1985–86 | 4  | 3ª | 8th  |
1986–87 | 4  | 3ª | 17th  |
1987–88 | 4  | 3ª | 1st  |
1988–89 | 3  | 2ª B | 13th  |
1989–90 | 3  | 2ª B | 17th  |
1990–91 | 4  | 3ª | 5th  |
1991–92 | 4  | 3ª | 1st  |
1992–93 | 3  | 2ª B | 12th  | Third round
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1993–94 | 3  | 2ª B | 13th  |
1994–95 | 3  | 2ª B | 1st  |
1995–96 | 3  | 2ª B | 2nd  |
1996–97 | 3  | 2ª B | 7th  |
1997–98 | 3  | 2ª B | 5th  |
1998–99 | 3  | 2ª B | 4th  |
1999–2000 | 3  | 2ª B | 3rd  | Preliminary
2000–01 | 2  | 2ª | 16th  | Round of 64
2001–02 | 2  | 2ª | 9th  | Round of 32
2002–03 | 2  | 2ª | 20th  | Round of 32
2003–04 | 3  | 2ª B | 2nd  | Round of 64
2004–05 | 2  | 2ª | 16th  | Round of 64
2005–06 | 2  | 2ª | 20th  | Second round
2006–07 | 3  | 2ª B | 3rd  | Second round
2007–08 | 2  | 2ª | 19th  | Second round
2008–09 | 3  | 2ª B | 7th  | First round
2009–10 | 3  | 2ª B | 19th  |
2010–11 | 4  | 3ª | 2nd  |
2011–12 | 4  | 3ª | 8th  |
2012–13 | 4  | 3ª | 1st |
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2013–14 | 3  | 2ª B | 2nd  | First round
2014–15 | 3  | 2ª B | 3rd  | Second round
2015–16 | 3  | 2ª B | 2nd  | Third round
2016–17 | 3  | 2ª B | 7th  | Second round
2017–18 | 3  | 2ª B | 18th  | Second round
2018–19 | 4  | 3ª | 1st  |
2019–20 | 3  | 2ª B | 11th  | First round
2020–21 | 3  | 2ª B | 5th / 1st |
2021–22 | 3  | 1ª RFEF | 3rd  | First round
2022–23 | 3  | 1ª Fed. | 1st  | First round
2023–24 | 2  | 2ª | 10th  | Round of 32
2024–25 | 2  | 2ª |  |
Estadio Municipal da Malata.

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

## Current squad

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As of 9 September 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

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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
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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

### From Youth Academy

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

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## Technical staff

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Position  | Staff

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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

Last updated: October 2024
Source: Cuerpo Técnico

## Honours / Achievements

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### Regional

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

### Domestic

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

## Notable former players

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

* Samuel Piette
* Raúl Palacios
* Dubravko Pavličić
* Dwight Pezzarossi
* Kaba Diawara
* Nabil Baha
* Samir Boughanem
* Ikechukwu Uche
* Nenad Grozdić
* José Manuel Aira
* Gabriel Alonso
* José Bello Amigo

* Ángel Cuéllar
* Guillermo Gorostiza
* Joselu
* Manel
* Jonathan Martín
* Nacho Novo
* Carlos Rodríguez
* Pablo Rodríguez
* Luis César Sampedro
* Jonay Hernández
* James Langtry
* Ante Razov

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See also: Category:Racing de Ferrol footballers

## Stadium

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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.

## See also

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

## References

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1. ^ "SPANISH NAVY: Huge Contract in British Hands" (1909) The Manchester Guardian, 1 February 1909, Page 12: Manchester <<... Vickers, Armstrong and Brown... it has been determined to put down a new shipyard at Ferrol in Spain... Mr A J Campbell... has been appointed manager of the Ferrol yard... Mr Peter Muir ... has been appointed assistant manager. A considerable number of expert shipbuilders have sign on to go to Spain... there is a reason to believe that employment will be found to some hundreds of British shipbuilders, engineers, electricians, and other tradesmen in the new Spanish yard for several years to come.>>
2. ^ "British Vice-Consulate at Ferrol": General Correspondence FO 63/1041. The National Archives – Official website
3. ^ "British Vice-Consulate at Ferrol": General Correspondence FO 72/1689. The National Archives – Official website
4. ^ "The Armies of Europe - Spain as a War-making power". The New York Times. 6 February 1858.
5. ^ "Plantilla 2020/2021". Racing Club de Ferrol (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 March 2021.
6. ^ Spain – List of Champions of Galicia; at RSSSF
7. ^ "Racing Ferrol - Segunda División B G 1". www.resultados-futbol.com. Retrieved 16 January 2020.

## External links

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* 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)
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*[5th]: Group 1 – Subgroup A (first phase)
*[1st]: Group 1 – Subgroup D (second phase)
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