page_title: Racing Club de Avellaneda
section_title: The tri-championship
hierarchical_section_title: Racing Club de Avellaneda / History / The tri-championship
caption_attribution_description: English: Argentine football team Racing Club (Avellaneda), which in 1949 won the first of three consecutive titles for the institution.
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 the championship three years running between 1949 and 1951.
  In 1958 Racing won the league title, and they were runners-up to San Lorenzo de Almagro the following year.
  During those years Racing Club had many notable players that made their contribution to the successful campaigns. Some of them were Norberto Mendez, Rubén Bravo, Llamil Simes, Mario Boyé, Alberto Rastelli, Pedro Dellacha, Ezra Sued, Roberto Blanco (footballer), Ernesto Gutiérrez, Pedro Manfredini,  Arnaldo Balay, Juan José Pizzuti, Rubén Héctor Sosa and Omar Oreste Corbatta.
caption: The 1949 Racing team won the first of three consecutive Primera División titles.
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