Racing Santander 1 - Györi Eto 0

Racing: Borja; Bakhar, Coromina, Claude, Sietes; Pablo Lago (Collantes 65'), Juvenal, Edu Aguilar (Raúl 78'), Txiki; Epitié, Jonathan (Morán 60'). 4-4-2.

Goals:
1-0. 41. Coromina. Got on the end of Pablo Lago corner to score.

Only one week after the cup final closed the 2002-3 season, the new campaign is under way. Racing Santander were the first team to play a competitive match, winning the first leg of their Intertoto Cup second round match against Hungary's Györi thanks to a goal late in the first half from Coromina. With most of their star players on holiday, the Cantabrians lined up with a makeshift squad which included several players from the junior teams and two new signings, Epitié and Juvenal.

Coromina gave them the lead following a Pablo Lago corner, and they should have gone further ahead when the visiting keeper Sebok saved a Pablo Lago penalty in the first minutes of the second half after a foul by Oross. However in the end Bakhar had to clear a last minute effort from Nemeth off the line to keep the clean sheet which gives the Spaniards the edge for the second leg in Hungary next Saturday.