Racing Club de Montevideo

Club · Uruguay · Primera División - Apertura

«La Escuelita»

243 Matches

96 wins

79 draws

68 losses

279–244 Goals

+35 Difference

1.1 Scored per game

Form D L W D W D

Parque Osvaldo Roberto sits on Avenida Millán in Sayago, a stretch of Montevideo the club settled into in 1941–42. Racing built it themselves, and it has held roughly 8,500 ever since — no expansion, no redevelopment, just the one stand and the pitch it has always had.

The club started out in 1913 as Yuyito F.C., then Guaycurú, before taking the Racing Club name. What it has produced since is the reason locals still call it La Escuelita — the little school. Víctor Santos Iriarte, who scored the winning goal in the 1930 World Cup final, came through here, as did Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, part of Uruguay's 1970 World Cup squad. Fernando Morena, the country's all-time leading scorer, started his career at Racing before moving on to build that record elsewhere.

For most of the twentieth century the club's rhythm was promotion and relegation — Segunda División titles in 1955, 1958, 1974, 1989 and 2008 kept bringing it back up, but the top flight never stuck. That changed on 26 April 2026, when Racing won the Torneo Apertura, its first Primera División championship. Fernando Cavenaghi, who became the club's principal shareholder after it restructured as a Sociedad Anónima Deportiva in 2021, watched a side built on the same academy pipeline get over the line.

Continental football arrived late but not quietly: Racing's 2010 Copa Libertadores debut made it the first Uruguayan club to survive the qualifying round, and in 2024 it reached the last 16 of the Copa Sudamericana, only for Huachipato to eliminate it on penalties after Racing had won the first leg 3–2. None of it has changed much back in Sayago, where the ground still seats the same 8,500 it always has.

Latest results

All matches

23 Aug	Primera División - Apertura	Danubio A	0:0	D
15 Aug	Primera División - Apertura	Club Nacional H	2:0	W
10 Aug	Primera División - Apertura	Deportivo Maldonado A	2:2	D
2 Aug	Primera División - Apertura	Boston River H	1:0	W
26 Jul	Primera División - Apertura	Cerro A	0:1	L
12 Jul	Primera División - Apertura	Peñarol Montevideo H	1:1	D

Standing

Primera División - Apertura

Group stage · Primera: Apertura

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
1	Racing Club de Montevideo	15	9	4	2	23:14	31
2	Deportivo Maldonado	15	9	2	4	24:16	29
3	Albion FC	15	8	4	3	26:16	28
4	Peñarol Montevideo	15	8	3	4	23:16	27
5	Central Espanol	15	7	3	5	23:22	24

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 243

243 Matches

96 wins

79 draws

68 losses

279–244 Goals

+35 Difference

1.1 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 243

96 79 68

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	243	122	121
Scored	279	138	141
Conceded	244	103	141
Scored per game	1.1	1.1	1.2
Conceded per game	1.0	0.8	1.2
Difference	+35	+35	0

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Federico Ismael Varese Valenzuela Goalkeeper 16 Matches

Felipe Álvarez Defender 16 Matches

Esteban Santiago da Silva Álvarez Midfielder 16 Matches

Álex Bacilio Vázquez Álvez Midfielder 16 Matches

Facundo Machado Goalkeeper 15 Matches

R. Dudok Forward 14 Matches

Guillermo Gastón Cotugno Lima Defender 14 Matches

Gonzalo Erik de los Santos Olivera Midfielder 14 Matches

Squad of Racing Club de Montevideo

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Age	Matches
12	Federico Ismael Varese Valenzuela	Goalkeeper	23	16
13	Felipe Álvarez	Defender	22	16
10	Esteban Santiago da Silva Álvarez	Midfielder	25	16
39	Álex Bacilio Vázquez Álvez	Midfielder	24	16
1	Facundo Machado	Goalkeeper	22	15
19	R. Dudok	Forward	19	14
4	Guillermo Gastón Cotugno Lima	Defender	31	14
14	Gonzalo Erik de los Santos Olivera	Midfielder		14
37	J. Oyarzo	Midfielder	18	13
3	Ignacio Ramiro Brazionis Suárez	Defender	24	13
23	Nicolás Sosa Sánchez	Forward	30	13
18	Thomas Habib	Forward	24	13
17	Martín Ferreira	Defender	34	13
9	S. da Silva	Forward	24	12
8	Felipe Cairos	Midfielder		12
77	Bautista Euclides Tomatis	Forward		12
29	Facundo Gonzalez	Defender		12
81	Mohammed Abdul Qayoom Dur Mohamamd Abubakar	Forward	21	11
11	Franco Suárez Rodríguez	Forward		11
5	J. Bosca	Midfielder	21	10
40	Axel Atum	Midfielder		10
15	Samir Galmami	Defender		7
21	Agustín Álvarez Wallace	Midfielder		7
7	Jose Varela	Midfielder	38	6
24	Juan Antonio Perez	Midfielder		5
2	Facundo Parada	Defender		4
8	Lucca Loprete	Midfielder	20	3
20	Elias Bentancor	Defender	20	2
30	Rodrigo Gadea	Forward	20	2
8	Felipe Cairus	Midfielder		2
34	Agustin de la Costa	Midfielder	20	1
27	Lucca Loprete Araújo			1
33	German Peralta Dominguez	Defender		1
6	T. N. Espinosa Dovat	Defender		1