page_title: Racing Club de Avellaneda
section_title: Return to international success
hierarchical_section_title: Racing Club de Avellaneda / History / Return to international success
caption_attribution_description: English: Racing Club players (with goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol on the top) with the 1988 Supercopa Libertadores won to Brazilian team Cruzeiro, in Belo Horizonte.
context_page_description: Racing Club de Avellaneda, also known simply as Racing, is an Argentine professional sports club based in Avellaneda, a city of Buenos Aires Province. Founded in 1903, Racing has been historically considered one of the "big five" clubs of Argentine football. Racing currently plays in the Primera División, the top division of the Argentine league system.
  Racing has won the Primera División 18 times, apart from winning 13 National cups such as five Copa Ibarguren, four Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires and one Copa Beccar Varela. Due to those achievements the team was nicknamed La Academia which still identifies the club and its supporters.
  On the international stage, the club has won 6 titles, 3 of them organised by CONMEBOL and other international bodies. Those achievements include one Copa Libertadores, one Intercontinental Cup and the first edition of the Supercopa Sudamericana. In addition, Racing won AFA-AUF competitions, played against the Uruguayan champions: Copa Aldao twice and Copa de Honor Cousenier once.
  The first team plays its home games in the Estadio Presidente Perón, nicknamed El Cilindro de Avellaneda.
context_section_description: Racing won its third international competition in 1988, when the team won the first edition of the 1988 Supercopa Sudamericana, defeating Brazilian team Cruzeiro in the finals, with Alfio Basile still as coach. That same year Racing won the non-official Supercopa Interamericana beating Sportivo Herediano from Costa Rica 3–0.
  Racing also played another Supercopa final and was defeated by Cruzeiro 4–0 in Belo Horizonte. Racing won the 2nd match 1–0 but the cup was awarded to the Brazilian team by goal difference.
caption: Racing players with the Supercopa won in 1988 to Cruzeiro in Belo Horizonte, the first international title for the club after 21 years
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