
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 , 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
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, 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
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in
Ferrol is associated with the
shipbuilding
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yards,
workshops,
foundries and
drydocks and the
British
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* British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
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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 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
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– first presence in 1939–40 – and
third divisions. In
1977–78 the
Galicians
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won the inaugural edition of
Segunda División B
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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

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*36 seasons in
Segunda División
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*3 seasons in
Primera Federación/Primera División RFEF
*27 seasons in
Segunda División B
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*27 seasons in
Tercera División
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Current squad
Technical staff
Honours / Achievements
Regional
*Galician Championships: 1928–29, 1937–38, 1938–39
Domestic
*
Campeonato de España / Copa del Generalísimo: Runners-up
1939
*
Segunda División B
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: 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.
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
Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña (), commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña () or simply Depor, is a Spanish professional association football, football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia, that competes in the Segunda División, the ...
.
See also
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Ferrol
*
SECN
*
Vickers-Armstrong
*
SDC Galicia Mugardos, reserve team
References
External links
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Futbolme team profileThe British School @ Ferrol (1909–1936)(archived)
Soccerway profile
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Football clubs in Galicia (Spain)
Association football clubs established in 1919
1919 establishments in Spain
Segunda División clubs
Primera Federación clubs
Ferrol, Spain