Racing de Ferrol

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 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

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

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: 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.

References

References

1. [https://web.archive.org/web/20080128160733/http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/guide/atoz/guardian/ "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. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=2576713 "British Vice-Consulate at Ferrol": General Correspondence FO 63/1041. The National Archives – Official website]
3. [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=4349592 "British Vice-Consulate at Ferrol": General Correspondence FO 72/1689. The National Archives – Official website]
4. (6 February 1858). "The Armies of Europe - Spain as a War-making power". The New York Times.
5. "Racing Ferrol » Squad 2025/2026".
6. [https://www.rsssf.org/tabless/span-galiciachamp.html Spain – List of Champions of Galicia]; at [[Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. RSSSF]]
7. "Racing Ferrol - Segunda División B G 1".