Rayo Cantabria
Full nameRayo Cantabria
Founded1926
GroundLa Albericia, Santander,
Cantabria, Spain
Capacity1,000
PresidentManuel Higuera S.A.
Head coachEzequiel Loza
LeagueSegunda Federación – Group 1
2022–23Segunda Federación – Group 1, 10th of 18

Rayo Cantabria, formerly known as Real Racing Club de Santander "B" is the reserve team of Racing de Santander, a Spanish football team based in Santander, in the autonomous community of Cantabria.

Founded in 1926 as a separate club, affiliated with Racing de Santander from 1951 and incorporated formally into the professional club's structure in 1993, the team currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 1, holding home games at La Albericia, with a capacity of 1,000 spectators.[1]

History

Rayo Cantabria was founded in 1926 as Gimnástica de Miranda,[2] later being renamed Sociedad Deportiva Rayo Cantabria.[3] Having competed independently in the Cantabrian Regional Championship, in 1946 they were promoted to the third tier of Spanish football, the old Tercera División, for the first time; the following campaign, they faced the biggest local club Racing de Santander (or Real Santander as they were known at the time), Rayo being relegated and Racing promoted. In the 1950–51 Tercera División season, Rayo came up against the Racing youth team, Juventud RS with both entering the relegating playoffs; Juventud went down and folded soon after, and from that time Rayo became the Racing farm team.[2]

They went on to spent 20 consecutive years at the third level, coming close to promotion on a few occasions,[2] also performing the important task in developing young local players, some of whom (including Paco Gento, Marquitos, Ico Aguilar, Pedro Zaballa, Vicente Miera and Nando Yosu) went on to great success.[4] They temporarily disassociated from Racing in the 1968–69 and 1969–70 seasons when both were in the same division.[2] After league restructuring in the mid 1970s, Rayo played just one further season at the third level (now Segunda División B) – that was in 1987–88, and they were relegated.[2] Further elite players produced via a spell in the team included Tuto Sañudo, Juan Carlos, Manolo Preciado, Pedro Munitis and José María Ceballos.[4]

In 1993 the original Rayo was dissolved in a national move to formally absorb affiliated teams into the professional clubs' structure, and Racing de Santander B took its place.[3] A new Rayo Cantabria, who started playing as an independent club in the regional leagues from 1993,[4] was also affiliated to Racing for four seasons, from 2003–04 to 2006–07.[2] Racing B have since played nine seasons in Segunda B, lasting no more than two years in any single spell at that level; they would usually meet Dep. Rayo when relegated back to the fourth tier, and finished below their 'sibling' club on three occasions.

In 2018, previous manager Ángel Meñaca was recognised by the city of Santander for his lifetime efforts and contributions towards the running of both the original Rayo up to 1993 and the 'new' Rayo from then on.[5]

In summer 2019, Racing de Santander successfully applied to have their B-team renamed as Rayo Cantabria going forward;[3][4] the other Rayo club had been removed from the league a year earlier due to unpaid debts.[6][7]

Club names

Old logo of SD Rayo Cantabria
  • Gimnástica de Miranda (1926–1931)[2]
  • Rayo Sport de Miranda (1931–1941)
  • Sociedad Deportiva Rayo Cantabria (1941–1993)
  • Racing de Santander B (1993–2019)
  • Rayo Cantabria (2019–)[4]

Season to season

  • As a farm team
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1940–41 4 1ª Reg. 5th
1941–42 3 1ª Reg. 2nd
1942–43 3 1ª Reg. 4th
1943–44 4 1ª Reg.
1944–45 4 1ª Reg.
1945–46 4 1ª Reg.
1946–47 3 3ª 4th
1947–48 3 3ª 13th 2nd round
1948–49 4 1ª Reg. 7th
1949–50 3 3ª 17th
1950–51 3 3ª 16th
1951–52 3 3ª 3rd
1952–53 3 3ª 13th
1953–54 3 3ª 7th
1954–55 3 3ª 5th
1955–56 3 3ª 5th
1956–57 3 3ª 9th
1957–58 3 3ª 3rd
1958–59 3 3ª 2nd
1959–60 3 3ª 7th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1960–61 3 3ª 1st
1961–62 3 3ª 4th
1962–63 3 3ª 7th
1963–64 3 3ª 9th
1964–65 3 3ª 8th
1965–66 3 3ª 2nd
1966–67 3 3ª 5th
1967–68 3 3ª 9th
1968–69 3 3ª 14th
1969–70 3 3ª 17th 1st round
1970–71 4 1ª Reg. 4th
1971–72 4 1ª Reg. 2nd
1972–73 4 1ª Reg.
1973–74 3 3ª 18th 2nd round
1974–75 4 Reg. Pref. 5th
1975–76 4 Reg. Pref. 2nd
1976–77 4 Reg. Pref. 2nd
1977–78 4 3ª 16th 3rd round
1978–79 4 3ª 6th
1979–80 4 3ª 10th
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1980–81 4 3ª 18th
1981–82 5 Reg. Pref. 1st
1982–83 4 3ª 4th
1983–84 4 3ª 17th 2nd round
1984–85 4 3ª 5th
1985–86 4 3ª 4th 2nd round
1986–87 4 3ª 1st 2nd round
Season Tier Division Place Copa del Rey
1987–88 3 2ª B 19th 2nd round
1988–89 4 3ª 3rd 1st round
1989–90 4 3ª 2nd
1990–91 4 3ª 5th
1991–92 4 3ª 9th
1992–93 4 3ª 2nd
  • As a reserve team
Season Tier Division Place
1993–94 4 3ª 2nd
1994–95 4 3ª 1st
1995–96 4 3ª 2nd
1996–97 4 3ª 2nd
1997–98 3 2ª B 17th
1998–99 4 3ª 1st
1999–2000 4 3ª 3rd
2000–01 3 2ª B 17th
2001–02 4 3ª 2nd
2002–03 3 2ª B 11th
2003–04 3 2ª B 17th
2004–05 4 3ª 1st
2005–06 3 2ª B 8th
2006–07 3 2ª B 20th
2007–08 4 3ª 2nd
2008–09 3 2ª B 14th
2009–10 3 2ª B 17th
2010–11 4 3ª 3rd
2011–12 4 3ª 3rd
2012–13 3 2ª B 17th
Season Tier Division Place
2013–14 4 3ª 8th
2014–15 4 3ª 3rd
2015–16 4 3ª 3rd
2016–17 4 3ª 5th
2017–18 4 3ª 5th
2018–19 4 3ª 5th
2019–20 4 3ª 3rd
2020–21 4 3ª 2nd / 2nd
2021–22 4 2ª RFEF 4th
2022–23 4 2ª Fed. 10th
2023–24 4 2ª Fed.

Current squad

As of 11 September 2023.[8]

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 Spain ESP Germán Fernández
2 DF Spain ESP Mario Jorrín
3 DF Spain ESP Mario García
4 DF Spain ESP Javier Entrecanales
5 DF Spain ESP Marco Carrascal
6 MF Spain ESP Juan Casar
7 MF Spain ESP Izan Yurrieta
8 MF Spain ESP Diego Campo
9 FW Spain ESP Jorge Delgado
10 MF Spain ESP Dani González
11 MF Spain ESP Neco Celorio
13 GK Spain ESP Álvaro Jiménez
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF Spain ESP Adrián Corral
15 MF Spain ESP Marcos Bustillo
16 DF Spain ESP Brayan Ademán
17 MF Spain ESP Diego Fuentes
18 DF Spain ESP Iñigo Gomeza
19 FW Spain ESP Álvaro Santamaría
20 FW Ghana GHA Isaac Obeng
21 DF Spain ESP Mateo Gandarillas
22 DF Spain ESP Samu Calera
28 FW Spain ESP Jeremy Arévalo
— FW Spain ESP Pablo Lomas

Current technical staff

Position Staff
Head coach Spain Ezequiel Loza
Fitness coach Spain Daniel Salvador
Goalkeeping coach Spain Laureano Echevarría
Physiotherapist Spain Omar Bilal Katerji
Kit man Spain Chisco
Delegate Spain Raúl González Salces

Last updated: 26 September 2022
Source: [9]

Players

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "The latest news from Rayo Cantabria: squad, results, table". www.besoccer.com. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Rayo Cantabria La Futbolteca (in Spanish)
  3. 1 2 3 El Racing B volverá a ser el Rayo Cantabria (Racing B will be Rayo Cantabria again), Aqui Hay Pelotas, 20 June 2019 (in Spanish)
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "El filial racinguista adopta oficialmente la denominación 'Rayo Cantabria'" [The racinguista subsidiary officially adopts the designation 'Rayo Cantabria'] (in Spanish). Racing de Santander. 3 July 2019.
  5. ↑ Santander premia a los jóvenes deportistas más destacados de 2017 y reconoce a Ángel Meñaca (Santander rewards the most outstanding young athletes of 2017 and recognizes Ángel Meñaca), Santander.es, 26 September 2018 (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ El Rayo Cantabria se queda fuera de la competición oficial (Rayo Cantabria stays out of the official competition), El Diario Montañés, 30 June 2018 (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ El Rayo Cantabria pide amparo a ProLiga (Rayo Cantabria asks ProLiga for protection), ProLiga, 3 July 2018 (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ "Plantilla RAYO CANTABRIA" [Squad] (in Spanish). Real Racing Club. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
  9. ↑ "Plantilla RAYO CANTABRIA" (in Spanish). Real Racing Club. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
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