Racing Club de Montevideo

Racing Club de Montevideo is a professional football club from Montevideo in Uruguay. It currently participates in the Uruguayan Primera División since winning the Torneo Competencia in 2022.

Racing de Montevideo

Full name	Racing Club de Montevideo SAD
Nickname(s)	La Escuelita Racinguistas Cerveceros
Founded	April 6, 1919; 106 years ago (1919-04-06)
Ground	Estadio Osvaldo Roberto, Montevideo, Uruguay
Capacity	8,500
Chairman	C.N. Raúl Rodríguez
Manager	Eduardo Espinel
League	Primera División
2024	Primera División, 7th of 16
Website	racingclub.com.uy
Home colours Away colours

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. 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 Munich and Los Angeles FC, 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

• Copa Sudamericana: 1 appearance

2024: Knockout Stage

Players

For a list of all former and current Racing players with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Racing Club de Montevideo players.

Current squad

As of 5 September 2024 ^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. 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 12 GK  BRA Alexandre Castro 14 MF  URU Erik De Los Santos 15 MF  ARG Mateo Cáceres (on loan from Tigre)

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 DF  URU Robinson Ferreira 18 FW  URU Agustín Alaniz 20 FW  URU Jonathan Urretaviscaya 21 MF  URU Lucas Rodríguez 23 FW  URU Nicolás Sosa 24 MF  URU Rodrigo Teliz 25 GK  URU Rodrigo Odriozola 26 FW  URU Hugo Silveira 29 FW  URU Alexander Hernández 32 DF  URU Thiago Espinosa 33 DF  URU Germán Peralta 34 DF  URU Agustín Pereira

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  ECU Oscar Quiñónez (at Orense until 31 December 2024) — FW  URU Mateo Carrizo (at La Luz until 31 December 2024) — FW  ARG Carlos Airala (at Oriental until 31 December 2024)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  URU Axel Pérez (at Fénix until 31 December 2024) — FW  URU Rodrigo Rey (at La Luz until 31 December 2024) — FW  ARG Tomás Verón Lupi (at Grasshoppers until 30 June 2025)

Notable coaches

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