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Real Racing Club de Santander, S.A.D., sometimes abbreviated to Racing or Racing Santander, is a Spain La Liga football (soccer) club based in Santander, Cantabria which was founded in 1913. During the period of Francoist Spain, it was renamed as Real Santander in 1941 (because of the prohibition of non-Spanish names). The name was restored in 1977. The best result of Racing Santander was 2nd in 1930-31 season. Racing Santander finished 6th in La Liga 2007-08 and qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time in their history.

1936 Algiers invitational tournament

In 1936, Racing de Santander competed in a four team invitational tournament in Algiers, Algeria. With Algeria then under France colonial rule, the official programme listed the venue as Stade-Velodrome Municipal d'Alger and the participants as:

Le Queen of the South F.C. - La Belle Equipe Ecossaise de Première Division

Racing Club de Santander - Favori des Championnats d'Espagne

Floriana F.C. - Champion Officiel et Vainqueur de la Coupe

R.U.A. - Champion de l'Afrique du Nord 1935

The match days were Thursday May 21 and Sunday May 24.

Home side Racing Universitaire d'Alger (R.U.A. for whom Nobel Prize winning author/philosopher Albert Camus had played in goals for their junior team) had already won both the North African Champions Cup and the North African Cup in the 30s (R.U.A. would win each twice by the decade's end). Goals by Willie Thomson and Joe Tulip saw Queens book a place in the invitational tournament final with a 2 - 1 victory against them.

In the final Queens faced a Racing Santander side who had just finished 4th in Spain's La Liga, notching home and away double victories against both Real Madrid and F.C. Barcelona. Racing had seen off Floriana in their semi final. Norrie Haywood's goal and a 1 - 0 scoreline saw victory for La Belle Equipe Ecossaise. The trophy can still be seen in Queens' club museum today.

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- 32 seasons in Segunda División
- 1 seasons in Segunda División B
- 4 seasons in Tercera División

As of July 2 2009

Out on loan

Famous players

- Diego Mateo
- Marcelo Espina
- Carlos Maximiliano Estévez
- Ezequiel Garay
- Óscar Alcides Mena
- Gabriel Schürrer
- Lionel Scaloni
- Erwin Lemmens
- Anderson Silva de França
- Argelico Fucks
- Arthuro Henrique Bernhardt
- Felipe Melo de Carvalho
- Mauricio Pinilla
- Morten Donnerup
- Javier Balboa
- Rodolfo Bodipo
- Juan Ramón Epitié Dyowe
- Stéphane Dalmat
- Wilfried Dalmat
- Claude Gnakpa
- Michel Pineda
- Liam Buckley
- Alan Campbell (footballer)
- Dudu Aouate

- Yossi Benayoun
- Hoalid Regragui
- Luis de la Fuente
- Gerardo Torrado
- Mutiu Adepoju
- Frode Grodås
- Sigurd Rushfeldt
- Raúl Vicente Amarilla
- Euzebiusz Smolarek
- Vítor Damas
- Vladimir Beschastnykh
- Ilshat Faizulin
- Dmitri Popov
- Dmitri Radchenko
- Sergey Shustikov
- Dejan Petković
- Nikola Žigić
- Ho-Jin Lee
- José Emilio Amavisca
- Antonio Ramiro Pérez
- Javier Casquero
- Thomas Christiansen
- Damià Abella
- Francisco Gento

- Marquitos
- Miguel Muñoz
- Salva Ballesta
- Santillana (footballer)
- Quique Setién
- Víctor Sánchez del Amo
- Angel Vivar Dorado
- Alvaro Cervera Díaz
- Óscar Engonga
- Olof Mellberg
- Mehdi Nafti
- László Sepsi
- Andrei Zygmantovich
- Nelson Abeijón
- Diego Alonso
- Fernando Correa
- Luis Diego López
- Federico Magallanes
- Mario Regueiro
- Washington Tais
- José Zalazar
- Julio Álvarez
- Nando Yosu

- Patrick O'Connell (Irish footballer)
- Nando Yosu
- Javier Irureta
- Marcos Alonso
- Gustavo Benítez
- Andoni Goikoetxea Olaskoaga
- Miguel Ángel Portugal
- Marcelino García Toral
- Juan Ramón López Muñiz
- Juan Carlos Mandiá Lorenzo

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