Racing de Ferrol

Racing Club de Ferrol

Full name	Racing Club de Ferrol, S.A.D.
Nickname(s)	Os Departamentais Os Diaños Verdes (Green Devils)
Founded	5 October 1919
Ground	A Malata, Ferrol, Galicia, Spain
Capacity	12,043
President	José Criado
Head coach	Emilio Larraz
League	2ªB - Group 1
2018–19	3ª - Group 1, 1st
Home colours Away colours

Racing Club 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 B – Group 1, 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.

History

The history of football in Ferrol is associated with the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and drydocks and the British technical advisors, 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 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 only new technologies (paid for by the Spanish state),but also, political ideas and ways for workers to unite against unfair salaries and working conditions (let's not forget that the creator of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the Spanish General Workers' Union (UGT) was a man born in Ferrol at this time) and of course, football as well. This influx of Britons will increase exponentially from 1909 when Spain signed a massive contract with Vickers-Armstrong, John Brown and a few others though mostly Vickers-Armstrong for the renewal of the local dry-docks and dockyards and foundries after the Naval disaster of 1898. 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.

Racing Club de Ferrol 1919-1920.

Season to season

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1929–30 3 3ª 1st 1930–31 3 3ª 3rd 1931–32 3 3ª 1st 1932–33 3 3ª 4th 1933–34 3 3ª 5th 1934–35 2 2ª 8th 1939–40 2 2ª 2nd 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 1945–46 2 2ª 7th 1946–47 2 2ª 10th 1947–48 2 2ª 3rd 1948–49 2 2ª 14th 1949–50 2 2ª 12th 1950–51 2 2ª 8th 1951–52 2 2ª 3rd 1952–53 2 2ª 9th

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 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 1959–60 2 2ª 16th 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 1967–68 2 2ª 7th 1968–69 2 2ª 4th 1969–70 2 2ª 10th 1970–71 2 2ª 8th 1971–72 2 2ª 18th 1972–73 3 3ª 9th

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1973–74 3 3ª 4th 1974–75 3 3ª 3rd 1975–76 3 3ª 9th 1976–77 3 3ª 6th 1977–78 3 2ªB 1st 1978–79 2 2ª 20th 1979–80 3 2ªB 16th 1980–81 3 2ªB 11th 1981–82 3 2ªB 17th 1982–83 3 2ªB 9th 1983–84 3 2ªB 20th 1984–85 4 3ª 3rd 1985–86 4 3ª 8th 1986–87 4 3ª 17th 1987–88 4 3ª 1st 1988–89 3 2ªB 13th 1989–90 3 2ªB 17th 1990–91 4 3ª 5th 1991–92 4 3ª 1st 1992–93 3 2ªB 12th

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 1993–94 3 2ªB 13th 1994–95 3 2ªB 1st 1995–96 3 2ªB 2nd 1996–97 3 2ªB 7th 1997–98 3 2ªB 5th 1998–99 3 2ªB 4th 1999–2000 3 2ªB 3rd 2000–01 2 2ª 16th 2001–02 2 2ª 9th 2002–03 2 2ª 20th 2003–04 3 2ªB 2nd 2004–05 2 2ª 16th 2005–06 2 2ª 20th 2006–07 3 2ªB 3rd 2007–08 2 2ª 19th 2008–09 3 2ªB 7th 2009–10 3 2ªB 19th 2010–11 4 3ª 2nd 2011–12 4 3ª 8th 2012–13 4 3ª 1st

Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey 2013–14 3 2ªB 2nd First round 2014–15 3 2ªB 3rd Second round 2015–16 3 2ªB 2nd Third round 2016–17 3 2ªB 7th Second round 2017–18 3 2ªB 18th Second round 2018–19 4 3ª 1st 2019–20 3 2ªB First round

Estadio Municipal da Malata.

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• 34 seasons in Segunda División
• 26 seasons in Segunda División B
• 28 seasons in Tercera División

Current squad

As of 8 March 2020

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	Diego Rivas
2	DF	ESP	Diego Seoane
3	DF	ESP	Miguel Villarejo
4	DF	ESP	Jon García
5	DF	ESP	Diego Garrido
6	MF	ESP	Joel López
7	FW	ESP	Adrián Armental
8	MF	ESP	Álex López
9	FW	ESP	Juan Antonio Sánchez
10	MF	ESP	Pablo Rey
11	FW	ESP	Javi Sanmartín

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
13	GK	ESP	Chema Leobalde
14	FW	ESP	Raúl Tavares
15	DF	ESP	Quique Fornos
16	MF	ESP	Iker Rodellar
17	FW	ESP	Dani Abalo
18	MF	ESP	Fernando Beltrán
19	FW	ESP	Marcos Álvarez
20	MF	ESP	Javi Rey
21	DF	ESP	Bruno Rivada
22	FW	ESP	Joselu

Honours / Achievements

Regional

• Galician Championships: 1928–29, 1937–38, 1938–39

Domestic

• Campeonato de España / Copa del Generalísimo: Runner-up 1938–39
• Segunda División B: Promotion 1999–00, 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 Manel Jonathan Martín Nacho Novo Carlos Rodríguez Pablo Rodríguez Luis César Sampedro Jonay Hernández James Langtry Ante Razov

See also: Category:Racing de Ferrol footballers

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

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

External links

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