Racing de Santander

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Rating: 6.00/10
Sport: soccer
Home town: Santander, Spain
Founding year: 1913
Leagues: La Liga
Manager: Marcelino Garcia Toral

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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.

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The graphs and numbers for Racing de Santander here are based on their last 40 played games. (12 wins, 11 draws and 17 losses.)

During that period, their average number of goals scored was 1.55 per game. The average for all teams combined within the La Liga was 1.45 goals scored per game. This means that Racing de Santander is slightly better than its peers when it comes to scoring goals.

Racing de Santander is particularly weak as a home team, winning just 35% of their home games, compared to the La Liga average with home teams winning 48.4 % of the time. The team has lost two of its three latest games, suggesting a slight negative trend.