Rayo Cantabria

Not to be confused with Deportivo Rayo Cantabria.

Rayo Cantabria

Full name	Rayo Cantabria
Founded	1926
Ground	Campo Santi Gutiérrez Calle, Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Capacity	1,000
President	Manuel Higuera S.A.
Head coach	Ezequiel Loza
League	Segunda Federación – Group 1
2023–24	Segunda Federación – Group 1, 5th of 18
Home colours Away colours

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 spend 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 2021–22 4 2ª RFEF 4th 2022–23 4 2ª Fed. 10th 2023–24 4 2ª Fed. 5th 2024–25 4 2ª Fed.

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• 10 seasons in Segunda División B
• 4 seasons in Segunda Federación/Segunda División RFEF
• 57 seasons in Tercera División

Current squad

As of 11 September 2024. ^[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   ESP Álvaro Jiménez 2 DF   ESP Adrián Argos 3 DF   ESP Samu Calera 4 DF   ESP Javier Entrecanales 5 DF   ESP Marco Carrascal 6 DF   ESP Iñigo Gomeza 7 MF   ESP Izan Yurrieta 8 FW   ESP Pablo Lomas 9 FW   GNB Quicala Bari 10 MF   ESP Dani González 11 MF   ESP Diego Fuentes 13 GK   NED Dani Atanes

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 FW   ESP Sergi Baldrich 15 MF   ESP Néstor Lucas 16 FW   ESP Mario Fuente 17 DF   ESP Ángel Pérez (on loan from Huesca) 18 MF   ESP Marcos Fernández 19 FW   GHA Isaac Obeng 20 MF   ESP Mario Solórzano 21 FW   ESP Iñigo López 22 DF   DOM Brayan Ademán 23 DF   ESP Aitor Crespo 24 FW   ESP Diego Díaz 30 DF   ESP Jorge Salinas

Reserve team

Main article: Racing de Santander Juvenil A

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 FW   ESP Rodrigo Ramos

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK   ESP Laro Gómez (at Escobedo until 30 June 2025) — MF   ESP Dani Cobo (at Bezana until 30 June 2025)

Current technical staff

Position	Staff
Head coach	Ezequiel Loza
Assistant coach	Oriol Lozano
Fitness coach	José Ángel Gutiérrez
Goalkeeping coach	Laureano Echevarría
Delegate	Raúl González
Kit man	Jesús Herrera Chisco
Doctor	José Pallás
Physiotherapist	Omar Bilal Katerji
Rehab coach	Roberto Cabielles Sainz

Last updated: 26 September 2022
Source: ^[9]

Players

See also: Category:Racing de Santander B players

Honours

• Tercera División (3rd tier): 1960–61
• Tercera División (4th tier): 1986–87, 1994–95, 1998–99, 2004–05
• Copa Federación de España: 1998–99

Related teams

• Deportivo Rayo Cantabria

References

1. "The latest news from Rayo Cantabria: squad, results, table". BeSoccer. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
2. Rayo Cantabria La Futbolteca (in Spanish)
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. "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.

External links

• Racing de Santander official website (in Spanish)
• Futbolme team profile (in Spanish)