Racing Santander

During the period of Francoist Spain, it was renamed as Real Santander in 1941 because of the prohibition of non-Spanish names. The name was restored in 1977. The best result of the club was 2nd in 1930-31 season. Racing Santander finished 6th in 2007-2008 and qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time in their history.

HISTORY

In 1936, Racing de Santander competed in a four team invitational tournament in Algiers, Algeria. With Algeria then under French colonial rule, the official programme listed the venue as Stade-Velodrome Municipal d'Alger and the participants as:

Home side Racing Universitaire d'Alger (R.U.A. for whom Nobel Prize winning author/philosopher Albert Camus had played in goals for their junior team) had already won both the North African Champions Cup and the North African Cup in the 30s (R.U.A. would win each twice by the decade's end). Goals by Willie Thomson and Joe Tulip saw Queens book a place in the invitational tournament final with a 2 - 1 victory against them.

In the final Queens faced a Racing Santander side who had just finished 4th in Spain's Primera División, notching home and away double victories against both Real Madrid and Barcelona. Racing had seen off Floriana in their semi final. Norrie Haywood's goal and a 1 - 0 scoreline saw victory for La Belle Equipe Ecossaise. The trophy can still be seen in Queens' club museum today