Avellaneda derby

History

• Racing Club dominated the amateur era of Argentine football, winning more trophies than any other surviving team; they won nine to Independiente's two.
• Racing Club's dominance extended into the 1950s where they became the first team in the professional era to win three consecutive championships.
• In 1964, Independiente became the first Argentine team to win the Copa Libertadores.
• In 1967, Racing Club became the first Argentine club to win the Copa Intercontinental; this achievement marked the end of Racing Club's supremacy.
• Between 1972 and 1975, Independiente won an unprecedented four consecutive Copa Libertadores titles.
• In 1984, Independiente won their seventh Copa Libertadores, earning them the nickname "King of Cups."
• In 2001, Racing Club won the Apertura, their first league title in 35 years.
• The most recent local title earned by either of the two clubs was the 2018-19 Argentine Primera División, won by Racing Club.
• In 2017, Independiente won their second Copa Sudamericana, the last international title earned by either team.
• In 2019, Racing achieves its second local league in 5 years and the "champions trophy", a national cup.

  Stadiums

Statistics

Head-to-head

Titles by club

Independiente highlights

• On November 3, 1940 Independiente beat Racing 7–0, the biggest winning margin in the history of the derby.
• On August 20, 1961 Independiente secured a 4–0 home win, but it was not enough to stop Racing club from eventually winning the championship.
• On December 17, 1967 on the last day of the Nacional Independiente beat the visiting Racing Club team 4–0 with 2 goals from Luis Artime to win the championship.
• The last round of fixtures during the Metropolitano 1970 saw River Plate beat Unión de Santa Fe 6–0 to give them a chance of stealing the championship for Independiente. On July 27 Independiente travelled to El Cilindro eventually winning the game 3–2 to give them the championship by the narrowest of margins, they finished level on points with River, both teams with a +18 goal difference, Independiente had scored 43 goals to River's 42.
• On March 24, 1974 Independiente beat Racing 4–1 with a hat-trick from Ricardo Bochini, the only one he scored in 714 games for the club.
• On May 19, 1974 during the Metropolitano 1974 Independiente won 5–1 at El Cilindro. They repeated the 5–1 away win less than one year later on March 2, 1975 in the Metropolitano 1975.
• On December 22, 1983 in the last game of the Metropolitano Independiente knew that a win would see them crowned champions what's more the visiting Racing team had already been relegated from the Primera for the first time in the professional era of Argentine football. Independiente won 2–0 with goals from Ricardo Giusti and Enzo Trossero to win the championship.
• In the 1994 Opening Tournament, Independiente wins the derby after 11 years of not being able to achieve it.
• In the 1997 Opening Tournament, Independiente wins the "double visor" derby after 14 years of not being able to achieve it.
• On August 19, 2002 Independiente won 4–1 at River Plate Stadium on their way to winning the Apertura 2002 championship.
• On September 11, 2005 Independiente won 4–0 at the Doble Visera, with a hat-trick from Nicolás Frutos and the best goal of Sergio Agüero.
• On November 25, 2017 Independiente, with reserve players, won 1-0 at "El Cilindro".

  Racing highlights

• On May 31, 1931 the teams were due to meet for the first round of fixtures of the professional era of Argentine football. Racing asked to postpone the game and Independiente accepted. This meant that the first game between the two took place on September 27 at Racing Club's ground the eventual score was 7–4 to Racing, it still stands as the highest scoring game between the two.
• On September 15, 1963 Racing secured a 4–0 away win, but Independiente recovered to win the championship virtually mirroring the events of 1961.
• On November 20, 1966 Racing Club were crowned as champions, one week later they played Independiente, and the game finished 3–3.
• On September 21, 1975 during the Nacional Racing won 5–4 in el Cilindro with Alberto Jorge scoring 4 goals, three from the penalty spot. Jorge is the only player to score 4 in the Avellaneda derby and this was the last time that Racing were given 3 penalties in a game.
• In 1992 Racing Club and Independiente met in the Supercopa Sudamericana, Racing Club won their home leg 2–1 and on October 8, 1992 held Independiente to a 0–0 draw to win on aggregate. It is the only time the two have met in international competition.
• On August 26, 2001 in the 2nd round of fixtures Racing Club's Gabriel Loeschbor scored in the last minute of the game to earn a 1–1 draw. At the end of the Apertura 2001 Racing won the championship by one point.
• In 2015 they met in the "Liguilla Pre-Libertadores", Racing won 2-0 the first leg in the Independiente's stadium, Independiente won 2-1 in the Racing's stadium, but Racing qualified to the Copa Libertadores by a global score of 3-2.
• On February 23, 2019 the Derby was played at the Estadio Libertadores de América, Racing came as the leader of the championship and Independiente had hopes of damaging Racing chances of winning the tournament. Racing defeated Independiente 3-1 and got a very important victory that would allow them to remain as leader and eventually get their 18th championship on March 31, 2019 after drawing against Tigre.
• On February 9, 2020 Racing obtained the victory in the most important derby in history, playing with 2 players sent off for a whole time and winning 1 0 with 9 vs 11.

  A history of violence

1961

2006

Players for both clubs

• Roque Avallay
• Agustín Balbuena
• Gabriel Calderón
• Néstor Clausen
• Luis Alberto Carranza
• Emmanuel Culio
• Osvaldo Escudero
• Carlos Fren
• Esteban Fuertes
• Claudio Graf
• Miguel Ángel Ludueña
• Osvaldo Miranda
• Hilario Navarro
• José Omar Pastoriza
• Hugo Pérez
• Norberto Raffo
• Marcelo Saralegui
• José Serrizuela