Editing Racing de Ferrol (section)

==History==
The history of [[Association football|football]] in [[Ferrol, Galicia|Ferrol]] is associated with the [[shipbuilding]] yards, [[workshop]]s, [[Foundry|foundries]] and [[drydock]]s and the [[United Kingdom|British]] technical advisors,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080128160733/http://rylibweb.man.ac.uk/specialcollections/collections/guide/atoz/guardian/ "SPANISH NAVY: Huge Contract in British Hands" (1909) The Manchester Guardian, 1 February 1909, Page 12: Manchester] ''<<... Vickers, Armstrong and Brown... it has been determined to put down a new shipyard at Ferrol in Spain... Mr A J Campbell... has been appointed manager of the Ferrol yard... Mr Peter Muir ... has been appointed assistant manager. A considerable number of expert shipbuilders have sign on to go to Spain... there is a reason to believe that employment will be found to some hundreds of British shipbuilders, engineers, electricians, and other tradesmen in the new Spanish yard for several years to come.>>''</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=2576713 "British Vice-Consulate at Ferrol": General Correspondence FO 63/1041. The National Archives – Official website]</ref><ref>[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=6&CATID=4349592 "British Vice-Consulate at Ferrol": General Correspondence FO 72/1689. The National Archives – Official website]</ref> hired to work locally who used to play against each-other at first, but later on, local workers and military personnel stationed in Ferrol. The [[Spanish Royal Academy of Naval Engineers|renewal of the shipyards]] and the creation, in town of the [[School of Naval and Industrial Engineers|"school of Naval Engineers"]]<ref>{{Cite journal|date=6 February 1858|title=The Armies of Europe - Spain as a War-making power|journal=The New York Times}}</ref> meant that from the mid-nineteenth century, a mostly French at first but, latter on mostly British, Engineers and Technicians, a constant influx was developed; bringing to Ferrol not new technologies. From those early years to these days many [[Football team|football clubs]] came and go over the decades but only one of them actually survived for a considerable time and for that, only as an amalgamation of some other previous teams and this is el Racing de Ferrol.

''Racing Ferrol Football Club,'' can trace back its origins back to July 1919, but starting very strongly from the beginning on a massive winning all matches spree that allow the team to play against the best national squads in the country so only ten years after its creation Racing Ferrol Football Club was taking part on its [[Spanish first division|first national championships competition]] and fluctuating later over the decades between first and second divisions as follows: the [[Segunda División|second]] – first presence in 1939–40 – and [[Tercera División|third divisions]]. In [[1977–78 Segunda División B|1977–78]] the [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicians]] won the inaugural edition of [[Segunda División B]] and promoted again, only to be [[1978–79 Segunda División|immediately relegated back]].
[[File:Racing Club de Ferrol league performance 1929-present.svg|thumb|Chart of Racing Club de Ferrol league performance 1929–present.]]
It would not until the year 2000 that Racing would again reach the second level, going on to spend there five of the following six years. In the [[2006–07 Segunda División B|2006–07 campaign]] the club gained promotion to the category in [[2006–07 Segunda División Play-Off|the playoffs]], with a 2–1 aggregate win against [[Alicante CF]]. In [[2007–08 Segunda División|the following season]] the team finished fourth from the bottom and dropped back to the third division, and to the fourth only [[2009–10 Segunda División B|two years later]].  In the [[2012–13 Tercera División|2012–13 campaign]], the club achieved promoted to third division. [[2017–18 Segunda División B|Five years later]], the club was relegated to fourth division. But [[2018–19 Tercera División|one year later]], the club achieved promotion back to third division.

In the [[2022–23 Primera Federación|2022-23 campaign]], Ferrol promoted back to second division after spending 15 years in third and fourth division. But 
[[2024–25 Segunda División|two years later]], Ferrol was relegated back to third division.
[[File:Racing Ferrol Football Club 1919-1920.jpg|294x294px|right|Racing Club de Ferrol 1919–1920.]]