Racing Club de Montevideo

Racing de Montevideo
Full name	Racing Club de Montevideo SAD
Nickname(s)	La Escuelita; Racinguistas; Cerveceros
Founded	April 6, 1919; 105 years ago
Ground	Estadio Osvaldo Roberto, Montevideo, Uruguay
Capacity	8,500
Chairman	C.N. Raúl Rodríguez
Manager	Eduardo Espinel
League	Primera División
2023	Primera División, 6th of 16
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours

Racing Club de Montevideo is a

football club from Montevideo in Uruguay. It currently participates in the Uruguayan Primera División Profesional

since winning the Torneo Competencia in 2022.

Racing CM is known as "La Escuelita" (The Little School) due to the high standard of players that have emerged from their teams. Racing is one of Uruguay's traditional teams, in terms of victories and fans. Recently, Racing has faced economic problems and struggled to remain consistent and perform well at the Uruguayan League.^[

which?] This drove the club toward economic reorganization and a transformation into a sports corporation (SAD), as is customary in Europe.^[1] An associated investment program created the basis for sporting promotion to Uruguay's first division in 2022. In the 22/23 season, the promoted team qualified for the qualifying round of the Copa Sudamericana at the first attempt.^[1] Following this change, Red&Gold Football, a joint venture between FC Bayern München and Los Angeles Football Club, became the new majority shareholder in the club, driving further investment into the club's infrastructure in order to further expand and improve the existing foundations.^[2]

Racing's main rival is Fénix, with whom they contest the Clásico del Oeste.

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

Copa Libertadores: 1 appearance

2010: Second Round

Players

Current squad

As of 17 February, 2024 ^[3]

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	URU	Renzo Bacchia
2	DF	URU	Hugo Magallanes
3	DF	URU	Gastón Bueno
4	DF	URU	Guillermo Cotugno
5	DF	URU	Lucas Monzón
7	MF	URU	José Varela
8	FW	URU	Luis Gorocito
9	FW	URU	Dylan Nandín
10	FW	URU	Juan Rivero
17	MF	URU	Erik De Los Santos
18	FW	URU	Agustín Alani
19	FW	ARG	Carlos Airala


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	MF	URU	Lucas Rodríguez
21	FW	URU	Matías Benítez
22	DF	URU	Matías Velázquez
23	FW	URU	Axel Pérez
25	GK	URU	Rodrigo Odriozola
27	FW	URU	Tomás Verón Lupi
28	MF	URU	Mateo Carrizo
34	DF	URU	Agustín Pereira
52	MF	ARG	Emiliano Méndez
72	DF	URU	Jonathan Sandoval
—	DF	ECU	Oscar Quiñónez
—	FW	URU	Nicolás Sosa Sánchez
—	FW	URU	Felipe Rodríguez

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player

Notable coaches

Julio "Cascarilla" Morales (1983–87)
Ricardo "Tato" Ortíz (July 1, 1992 – Dec 31, 1992)
Adolfo Barán (July 1, 1998 – June 30, 1999)
Gerardo Pelusso (Jan 1, 2000 – Dec 31, 2000)
Julio Acuña (April 17, 2002 – Dec 31, 2002), (Jan 1, 2007 – July 1, 2007)
Eduardo Favaro (Aug 1, 2007 – Dec 27, 2007)
José Puente (Jan 1, 2008 – Dec 31, 2008)
Juan Verzeri (July 1, 2008 – May 6, 2010)
José Puente (2010)
Álvaro Regueira (Oct 2010)
Edgardo Arias (Oct 4, 2010 – April 19, 2011)
Osvaldo Streccia (July 1, 2011 – Dec 21, 2011)
Jorge Giordano (Dec 23, 2011 – Oct 8, 2012)
Miguel Angel Piazza (Oct 9, 2012 – Jan 3, 2013)
Juan Tejera (Jan 5, 2013 – June 30, 2013)
Rosario Martínez (July 1, 2013 – Dec 31, 2013)
Mauricio Larriera (Jan 3, 2014–)

Titles

Segunda División: 5

1955, 1958, 1974, 1989, 2008

Divisional Intermedia: 3

1923, 1929, 1930

Other teams

Racing Club de Montevideo also has a esports division, with a squad of FIFA video game series, competing in the championship organized by the Uruguayan Virtual Football Federation.^[4]