2017–18 Racing Club de Avellaneda season

Racing Club de Avellaneda
2017–18 season
President	Víctor Blanco
Manager	Diego Cocca; (until 27 November 2017); Juan Ramón Fleita (int.); (from 28 November 2017 to 17 December 2017); Eduardo Coudet; (from 17 December 2017)
Stadium	Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón
Primera División	14th
2016–17 Copa Argentina	Round of 32
2017–18 Copa Argentina	Round of 64
Copa Sudamericana	Quarter-finals
Copa Libertadores	Group stage
Top goalscorer	League: Lisandro López (7); All: Lisandro López (8)
	← 2016–17 2018–19 →

The 2017–18 season is Racing Club de Avellaneda's 33rd consecutive season in the top-flight of Argentine football. The season covers the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018.

Current squad

As of 22 March 2018.^[1]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	ARG	Juan Musso
2	DF	ARG	Alejandro Donatti
3	DF	ARG	Leandro Grimi
4	DF	ARG	Iván Pillud
5	MF	ARG	Nery Domínguez (on loan from Querétaro)
6	DF	ARG	Miguel Barbieri
8	MF	ARG	Diego González
32	FW	ARG	Lautaro Martínez
10	GK	ARG	Juan Musso
11	FW	ARG	Braian Mansilla
13	GK	ARG	Javier García
15	FW	ARG	Lisandro López
16	MF	ARG	Marcelo Meli
17	MF	ARG	Martín Ojeda


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
18	MF	ARG	Augusto Solari
19	MF	ARG	Neri Cardozo
20	DF	ARG	Lucas Orbán
21	DF	ARG	Rodrigo Schlegel
22	FW	ARG	Ricardo Centurión
23	DF	ARG	Alexis Soto
24	GK	ARG	Gastón Gómez
26	DF	ARG	Renzo Saravia (on loan from Belgrano)
27	FW	ARG	Pablo Cuadra
28	MF	ARG	Matías Zaracho
29	DF	ARG	Gonzalo Piovi
30	MF	ARG	Santiago Rosales
30	DF	ARG	Leonardo Sigali
32	FW	ARG	Enrique Triverio

Out on loan

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	ARG	Gustavo Bou (at Tijuana until 30 June 2018)
—	MF	ARG	Santiago Rosales (at Olimpia until 31 December 2018)
—	DF	PAR	Juan Patiño (at Olimpia until 31 December 2018)
—	MF	ARG	Nicolás Oroz (at O'Higgins until 31 December 2018)
—	DF	ARG	Sergio Vittor (at Universidad de Concepción until 31 December 2018)
—	FW	ARG	Juan Dinenno (at Barcelona S.C. until 31 December 2018)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	FW	ARG	Facundo Castillón (at Lanús until 30 June 2018)
—	DF	ARG	Yonathan Cabral (at Atlético Tucumán until 30 June 2018)
—	FW	ARG	Brian Fernández (at Unión La Calera until 31 December 2018)
—	FW	ARG	Martín Pérez Guedes (at Mitre (SdE) until 30 June 2018)
—	FW	ARG	Ricardo Noir (at Huracán until 31 December 2018)

Transfers

In

Date	Pos.	Name	From	Fee
1 July 2017	DF	Lucas Orbán	Genoa	€2,500,000
1 July 2017	DF	Juan Patiño	Guaraní	€1,250,000
1 July 2017	DF	Miguel Barbieri	Defensores de Belgrano	€260,000
1 July 2017	DF	Egidio Arévalo Ríos	Veracruz	Free
18 July 2017	MF	Augusto Solari	River Plate	€2,000,000
18 July 2017	MF	Martín Ojeda	Ferro Carril Oeste	€500,000
19 July 2017	FW	Andrés Ibargüen	Atlético Nacional	€1,000,000
4 August 2017	DF	Alexis Soto	Banfield	€1,350,000
15 August 2017	FW	Enrique Triverio	Toluca	€1,250,000
15 August 2017	GK	Javier García	Tigre	Free
31 December 2017	MF	Brian Fernández	Metz	End of loan
31 December 2017	FW	Juan Dinenno	Deportivo Cuenca	End of loan
31 December 2017	MF	Nicolás Oroz	Chacarita Juniors	End of loan
5 January 2018	MF	Neri Cardozo	Monterrey	Free
18 January 2018	FW	Ricardo Centurión	Genoa	€5,700,000
19 January 2018	DF	Leonardo Sigali	Dinamo Zagreb	€1,680,000
19 January 2018	DF	Alejandro Donatti	Tijuana	€1,600,000
31 January 2018	DF	Gonzalo Piovi	Argentinos Juniors	€800,000

Out

Date	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
1 July 2017	MF	Luciano Aued	Universidad Católica	Free
1 July 2017	GK	Agustín Orion	Colo-Colo	Free
1 July 2017	FW	José Luis Gómez	Lanús	€2,200,000
1 July 2017	MF	Washington Camacho	Rosario Central	€810,000
6 July 2017	DF	Gastón Campi	Estudiantes de La Plata	€525,000
18 July 2017	MF	Francisco Cerro	Rayo Vallecano	Free
21 July 2017	FW	Marcos Acuña	Sporting Lisbon	€9,590,000
26 July 2017	DF	Pablo Álvarez	Huracán	Undisclosed
27 July 2017	DF	Germán Voboril	Universidad Católica	Free
3 August 2017	MF	Gastón Díaz	Vélez Sarsfield	Free
7 August 2017	MF	Ezequiel Videla	Instituto	Free
31 December 2017	DF	Marco Torsiglieri	Rosario Central	End of loan
5 January 2018	FW	Andrés Ibargüen	América	€3,300,000
30 January 2018	DF	Egidio Arévalo Ríos	None	Fired

Loan in

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	From
1 July 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Egidio Arévalo Ríos	Veracruz^[2]
7 July 2017	30 June 2018	DF	Renzo Saravia	Belgrano^[2]

Loan out

Date from	Date to	Pos.	Name	To	Fee
1 July 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Gustavo Bou	Tijuana	€3,000,000
18 July 2017	30 June 2018	DF	Yonathan Cabral	Atlético Tucumán	Free
14 August 2017	30 June 2018	MF	Facundo Castillón	Lanús	Free
14 August 2017	30 June 2018	FW	Martín Pérez Guedes	Mitre (Santiago del Estero)	Free
23 August 2017	31 December 2017	FW	Brian Fernández	Metz	Free
1 January 2018	31 December 2018	FW	Santiago Rosales	Olimpia	€500,000
1 January 2018	31 December 2018	DF	Juan Patiño	Olimpia	€125,000
5 January 2018	31 December 2018	FW	Brian Fernández	Unión La Calera	Free
9 January 2018	31 December 2018	MF	Nicolás Oroz	O'Higgins	€67,000
14 February 2018	31 December 2018	FW	Juan Dinenno	Barcelona	Free
16 February 2018	31 December 2018	DF	Sergio Vittor	Universidad de Concepción	€56,000

Friendlies

Pre-season

Win Draw Loss

20 July 2017 Friendly	Racing Club	0–1	Defensa y Justicia	Córdoba, Argentina
09:30		Report	I. Rivero	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Perón

20 July 2017 Friendly	Racing Club	0–1	Defensa y Justicia	Córdoba, Argentina
10:45		Report	N. Di Giano	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Perón

26 July 2017 Friendly	Belgrano	Cancelled	Racing Club	Córdoba, Argentina
11:00		Report

10 August 2017 Friendly	Racing Club	5–2	Tristán Suárez	Avellaneda, Argentina
	Li. López D. González N. Oroz	Report	J. Vatter Lu. López	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón

14 August 2017 Friendly	Racing Club	1–1	San Telmo	Avellaneda, Argentina
	Li. López	Report	N. Oviedo	Stadium: Predio Tita Mattiussi

14 August 2017 Friendly	Racing Club	3–0	San Telmo	Avellaneda, Argentina
		Report		Stadium: Predio Tita Mattiussi

Torneos de Verano

15 January 2018	Racing Club	0–1	Temperley	Mar del Plata, Argentina
	Soto 90+2'	Report	Arregui 19' Sánchez Sotelo 31' Escobar 54'	Stadium: Estadio José María Minella

19 January 2018	Independiente	2–2 (3–1 p)	Racing Club	Mar del Plata, Argentina
	Fernández 9' (pen.), 22' Amorebieta 56' Albertengo 81'	Report	Martínez 26', 90' González 86' Barbieri 91'	Stadium: Estadio José María Minella

Primera División

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
5	Talleres (C)	27	13	7	7	33	20	+13	46	Qualification for Copa Libertadores second stage
6	Independiente	27	13	7	7	29	19	+10	46	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage
7	Racing	27	13	6	8	46	32	+14	45	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage
8	River Plate	27	13	6	8	39	26	+13	45	Qualification for Copa Libertadores group stage^[a]
9	Defensa y Justicia	27	13	5	9	41	34	+7	44	Qualification for Copa Sudamericana first stage

Source: AFA
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) play-off (only if needed to decide championship); 3) goal difference; 4) goals scored; 5) head-to-head points; 6) head-to-head goal difference; 7) head-to-head goals scored.^[3]^[4]
Notes:

^ River Plate qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2018 Copa Libertadores.

Results by matchday

Matchday	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	D	W	L	D	L	W	L	D	W	L	D	W
Position	14	4	12	14	17	18	20	20	15	19	18	14

Updated to match(es) played on 12 December 2017. Source: Soccerway
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

27 August 2017 1	San Lorenzo	1–1	Racing Club	Buenos Aires, Argentina
16:05	E. Cerutti 52'	Report	Li. López 13'	Stadium: Estadio Pedro Bidegain Referee: Fernando Echenique (Argentina)

9 September 2017 2	Racing Club	4–1	Temperley	Avellaneda, Argentina
20:05	E. Triverio 45+2' M. Zaracho 65' S. Vittor 73' A. Ibargüen 86'	Report	R. Costa 81'	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Silvio Trucco (Argentina)

17 September 2017 3	Banfield	1–0	Racing Club	Banfield, Argentina
16:05	D. Cvitanich 18'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Florencio Sola Referee: Ariel Penel (Argentina)

24 September 2017 4	Racing Club	0–0	San Martín	Avellaneda, Argentina
20:05		Report		Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Néstor Pitana (Argentina)

30 September 2017 5	Argentinos Juniors	2–0	Racing Club	Buenos Aires, Argentina
20:05	M. Quiroga 88' L. Pisculichi 90+2'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Diego Armando Maradona Referee: Mauro Vigliano (Argentina)

14 October 2017 6	Racing Club	1–0	Tigre	Avellaneda, Argentina
20:05	A. Ibargüen 80'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Germán Delfino (Argentina)

28 October 2017 7	Atlético Tucumán	3–1	Racing Club	San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina
18:20	F. Álvarez 4' G. Acosta 17' M. Barbieri 21' (o.g.)	Report	L. Martínez 45+4'	Stadium: Estadio Monumental José Fierro Referee: Fernando Echenique (Argentina)

4 November 2017 8	Racing Club	1–1	Talleres	Avellaneda, Argentina
21:30	A. Ibargüen 66'	Report	M. Torres 53'	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Fernando Rapallini (Argentina)

19 November 2017 9	Boca Juniors	1–2	Racing Club	Buenos Aires, Argentina
19:15	D. Benedetto 41' (pen.)	Report	L. Martínez 37' A. Solari 54'	Stadium: La Bombonera Referee: Darío Herrera (Argentina)

25 November 2017 10	Racing Club	0–1	Independiente	Avellaneda, Argentina
21:30		Report	L. Fernández 30'	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Germán Delfino (Argentina)

2 December 2017 11	Newell's Old Boys	2–2	Racing Club	Rosario, Argentina
21:30	L. Leal 12' B. Sarmiento 33' (pen.)	Report	L. Martínez 21' Li. López 64'	Stadium: Estadio Marcelo Bielsa Referee: Ariel Penel (Argentina)

10 December 2017 12	Racing Club	3–1	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Avellaneda, Argentina
19:15	Li. López 45+1', 72' L. Martínez 90+3'	Report	B. Alemán 3'	Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Diego Abal (Argentina)

January 2018 13	Unión Santa Fe	–	Racing Club	Santa Fe, Argentina
		Report		Stadium: Estadio 15 de Abril

Copa Argentina

Win Draw Loss

18 August 2017 R64	Racing Club	2–1	Mitre	Banfield, Argentina
21:10	Li. López 78' L. Grimi 84'	Report	R. Fergonzi 23'	Stadium: Estadio Florencio Sola Referee: Nicolás Lamolina (Argentina)

1 September 2017 R32	Racing Club	2–4	Olimpo	Banfield, Argentina
15:00	M. Zaracho 39' D. González 45'	Report	E. Tellechea 55' (pen.) T. Costa 69' F. Troyansky 71' L. Vila 90+4'	Stadium: Estadio Florencio Sola Referee: Ariel Penel (Argentina)

Copa Sudamericana

Win Draw Loss

Second stage

27 July 2017 Second leg	Independiente Medellín	2–3 (agg: 3–6)	Racing Club	Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
21:45	L. Castro 4', 24'	Report	D. González 45' P. Cuadra 61' (pen.) B. Mansilla 90'	Stadium: Atanasio Girardot Stadium Referee: Ulises Mereles (Paraguay)

Round of 16

13 September 2017 First leg	Corinthians	1–1	Racing Club	São Paulo, Brazil
21:45	Maycon 30'	Report	E. Triverio 74'	Stadium: Arena Corinthians Referee: Éber Aquino (Paraguay)

20 September 2017 Second leg	Racing Club	0–0 (agg: a1–1)	Corinthians	Avellaneda, Argentina
21:45		Report		Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Leodán González (Uruguay)

Quarter-finals

24 October 2017 First leg	Libertad	1–0	Racing Club	Asunción, Paraguay
21:45	S. Salcedo 26'	Report		Stadium: Estadio Dr. Nicolás Léoz Referee: Raphael Claus (Brazil)

1 November 2017 Second leg	Racing Club	0–0 (agg: 0–1)	Libertad	Avellaneda, Argentina
19:15		Report		Stadium: Estadio Presidente Juan Domingo Perón Referee: Anderson Daronco (Brazil)

Copa Libertadores

Win Draw Loss

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References

^ "Racing Club squad". Soccerway. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Racing Club transfers". Soccerway. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
^ "Reglamento del Campeonato de Primera División 2017–18" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.
^ "Reglamento General AFA" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.

[table_note_res_CLGS30.880487697609-3] River Plate qualified for the Copa Libertadores group stage by winning the 2018 Copa Libertadores.

[Soccerway_profile-1] "Racing Club squad". Soccerway. 22 March 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2018.

[Soccerway_transfers-2] "Racing Club transfers". Soccerway. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2017.

[rules-4] "Reglamento del Campeonato de Primera División 2017–18" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.

[5] "Reglamento General AFA" (PDF) (in Spanish). AFA.

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