Racing Rioja CF : History, Season to season, Former players Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Racing Rioja CF

Spanish association football club

Football club

Racing Rioja

Full name

Racing Rioja Club de Fútbol

Founded

2018

Dissolved

2024

Ground

El Salvador
Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

Capacity

1,160

Chairman

José Coelho

Manager

Óscar Sáenz

2023–24

Tercera Federación – Group 16, 12th of 18

Home colours

Away colours

Racing Rioja Club de Fútbol was a football club based in Logroño, La Rioja. Founded in 2018 and dissolved in 2024, they held home games at the Campo de Fútbol El Salvador, with a capacity of 1,160 people.

History

Founded in 2018, the club submitted their registration to the La Rioja Football Federation in August of that year, immediately entering in the Regional Preferente.^[1] In their second season, the club won promotion to Tercera División after finishing first in the first tier, also assuring a Copa del Rey berth.^[2]

In the 2020–21 Copa del Rey, Racing Rioja qualified to the first round, but was knocked out by La Liga side SD Eibar. At the end of the 2023–24 Tercera Federación, the club dissolved after it could not pay their debts with the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE).^[3]

Season to season

Season	Tier	Division	Place	Copa del Rey
2018–19	5	Reg. Pref.	7th
2019–20	5	Reg. Pref.	1st
2020–21	4	3ª	1st / 1st	First round
2021–22	4	2ª RFEF	7th	First round
2022–23	4	2ª Fed.	17th	First round
2023–24	5	3ª Fed.	12th

2 seasons in Segunda Federación/Segunda División RFEF
1 season in Tercera División
1 season in Tercera Federación

Former players

Yuan Yung-cheng – Taiwan youth international player^[4]

References

^ "El capital extranjero llega al fútbol riojano con el Racing Rioja" [Foreign money arrives at the Riojan football with Racing Rioja] (in Spanish). NueveCuatroUno. 4 August 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
^ "El Eibar visita al Racing Rioja, un 'tercera' con dos años de historia" [Eibar visit Racing Rioja, a 'tercera' with two years of history] (in Spanish). La Vanguardia. 16 December 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
^ García Arnáiz, Daniel. "El Racing Rioja deja de competir: no se inscribe en Tercera para la próxima temporada". NueveCuatroUno (in Spanish).
^ "Yuan Yung-cheng: Taiwan's first soccer pro in Europe". english.cw.com.tw.