Racing Club de Ferrol, commonly known as Racing de Ferrol or Racing 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 , 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 The history of football in Ferrol is associated with the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and drydocks and the British technical advisors,"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.>>"British Vice-Consulate at Ferrol": General Correspondence FO 63/1041. The National Archives – Official website"British Vice-Consulate at Ferrol": General Correspondence FO 72/1689. The National Archives – Official website 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" 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. But two years later, Ferrol was relegated back to third division.

Season to season SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey1929–3033ª1st1930–3133ª3rd1931–3233ª1st1932–3333ª4thRound of 321933–3433ª5thRound of 321934–3522ª8thThird round1939–4022ª2ndRunners-up1940–4122ª4th1941–4222ª3rd1942–4322ª6th1943–4433ª1st1944–4522ª10thRound of 161945–4622ª7thFirst round1946–4722ª10thFirst round1947–4822ª3rdRound of 161948–4922ª14thFourth round1949–5022ª12th1950–5122ª8th1951–5222ª3rd1952–5322ª9thSecond roundSeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey1953–5422ª8th1954–5522ª12th1955–5622ª6th1956–5722ª16th1957–5822ª12th1958–5922ª10thFirst round1959–6022ª16thRound of 321960–6133ª1st1961–6233ª2nd1962–6333ª1st1963–6433ª3rd1964–6533ª1st1965–6633ª1st1966–6722ª7thFirst round1967–6822ª7thFirst round1968–6922ª4th1969–7022ª10thQuarter-finals1970–7122ª8thRound of 321971–7222ª18thThird round1972–7333ª9th SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey1973–7433ª4thThird round1974–7533ª3rd1975–7633ª9thFourth round1976–7733ª6thFirst round1977–7832ª B1stSecond round1978–7922ª20thThird round1979–8032ª B16th1980–8132ª B11th1981–8232ª B17th1982–8332ª B9th1983–8432ª B20th1984–8543ª3rd1985–8643ª8th1986–8743ª17th1987–8843ª1st1988–8932ª B13th1989–9032ª B17th1990–9143ª5th1991–9243ª1st1992–9332ª B12thThird roundSeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey1993–9432ª B13th1994–9532ª B1st1995–9632ª B2nd1996–9732ª B7th1997–9832ª B5th1998–9932ª B4th1999–200032ª B3rdPreliminary2000–0122ª16thRound of 642001–0222ª9thRound of 322002–0322ª20thRound of 322003–0432ª B2ndRound of 642004–0522ª16thRound of 642005–0622ª20thSecond round2006–0732ª B3rdSecond round2007–0822ª19thSecond round2008–0932ª B7thFirst round2009–1032ª B19th2010–1143ª2nd2011–1243ª8th2012–1343ª SeasonTierDivisionPlaceCopa del Rey2013–1432ª B2ndFirst round2014–1532ª B3rdSecond round2015–1632ª B2ndThird round2016–1732ª B7thSecond round2017–1832ª B18thSecond round2018–1943ª1st2019–2032ª B11thFirst round2020–2132ª B / 2021–2231ª RFEF3rdFirst round2022–2331ª Fed.1stFirst round2023–2422ª10thRound of 322024–2522ª21stRound of 322025–2631ª Fed.12thSecond round2026–2731ª Fed.

36 seasons in Segunda División 4 seasons in Primera Federación/Primera División RFEF 27 seasons in Segunda División B seasons in Tercera División

Current squad

Out on loan

Technical staff

Honours / Achievements

Regional Galician Championships: 1928–29, 1937–38, 1938–39Spain – List of Champions of Galicia; at RSSSF

Domestic Campeonato de España / Copa del Generalísimo: Runners-up 1939 Segunda División B: Promotion 1999–2000, 2006–07

Notable former players 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 Fernando Pumar Carlos Rodríguez Pablo Rodríguez Luis César Sampedro Jonay Hernández Ante Razov

Stadium

Estadio da Malata holds 12,043 spectators, and was built in 1993. 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 SECN Vickers-Armstrong SDC Galicia Mugardos, reserve team

References

External links

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