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Racing de Santander

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Sport: soccer
Home town: Santander, Spain
Founding year: 1913
Leagues: La Liga, Copa del Rey
Manager: Marcelino Garcia Toral

Real Racing Club de Santander often referred simply as Racing Santander are a Spanish club based in the city of Santander in the Cantabria region of Spain. They are currently playing in La Liga and are flying high in the Spanih top flight in the 2007-2008 season.

Racing Santander were founded in the year 1913 and during the regime of the Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco, the club had to rechristen themselves as Real Santander. That was in 1941 but the name was restored back to Racing Santander in 1977 immediately after Franco’s demise.

Racing Santander have featured in La Liga for a total of 39 seasons and are not traditionally a big club in Spain. They play their home matches at Estadio El Sardinero that can house a total of 22,271 people. Racing bear the nicknames Verdiblancos, Racinguistas and Montaneses.

Racing de Santander

Game stats

Our match database contains 150 number of games played between Aug '04 - May '08 by Racing de Santander in the La Liga.

During that period, they scored a total of 72 goals as a home team. Their average number of goals scored as a home team was 0.96 per game. As the away team, they scored a total of 65 goals, with an average number of goals of 0.87 per game.

The average for all teams combined within the La Liga was 1.19 goals scored per game, and an average of 1.23 goals allowed against per game. This means that Racing de Santander scored fewer goals than the average team, and also allowed more goals.

The average team in the La Liga won 35.35% of its games, compared to Racing de Santander's 26.00%.