Primera División (Chile)
| Campeonato Nacional Scotiabank | |
| First edition | 1933 |
| hierarchy | 1st League |
| Teams | 16 |
| master | CD Universidad Católica (14th track) |
| Record champions | CSD Colo-Colo (32) |
| Record player |
 Adolfo Nef (625)
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| Record scorer |
Francisco Valdés (224)
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| Website | www.anfp.cl |
| Qualification for |
Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana Supercopa de Chile |
The Primera División is the top division in Chilean club football and is being organized these days by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional , which is subordinate to the national association Federación de Fútbol de Chile . Currently the official league name is "Campeonato Nacional Scotiabank", named after the current league sponsor. The record champion is CSD Colo-Colo from the capital Santiago de Chile with a total of 31 titles. As is common in South America, two half-yearly championships have been held every year since 2002, the so-called Apertura in the first half of the calendar year and the Clausura in the second half of the calendar year. This mode of competition was also used on a trial basis in 1997.
Historical
Before the league was introduced, only regional championships were held in Chile. The Primera División took up the game with eight clubs in 1933 as Liga Profesional de Fútbol . The founding members were CSD Colo-Colo , CD Magallanes , Unión Española , Audax Italiano , Morning Star , which today operates as CD Santiago Morning , as well as the nonexistent clubs Santiago National FC and Santiago Badminton Club . Green Cross from Temuco , the predecessor of today's CD Temuco , was the only club from the province. CD Magallanes won the first three championships.
The league was increased to twelve clubs in 1934. In 1935 and 1936 it was reduced to six clubs. In 1937 and 1938 it was increased again to seven clubs. Until the increase to 18 clubs in 1962, ten clubs took part in the game from 1939 and from 1944 onwards, between 12 and 14 clubs.
After the championship was initially held in normal league mode with a round-trip round, between 1968 and 1970 experiments were also carried out with division into regional groups with subsequent finals. From 1979 to 1984 and 1990 there were two additional points for winning the cup and one additional point each for participating in the semi-finals at the Copa Chile . But these were never decisive for the awarding of the title.
From 1987 the league was reduced to 16 clubs. In the meantime there were further short-term experiments with a regional division. In the 1990s, the allocation of places to participate in the Copa Libertadores was introduced by a so-called small league, a Liguilla , of the leading clubs at the end of the season, although the champions were still automatically qualified.
Current mode
The Primera División was reduced from 18 to 16 clubs for the 2015/2016 season. The league mode is divided into two phases. The Apertura , the spring and the Clausura , the autumn championship. The teams play against each other once per half series. Then the best 8 clubs determine the champions in a round-trip mode, play-offs with a final final.
At the end of a season, the points scored from each half series are added up for each team and an overall table is created. The teams in positions 15 & 16 rise in the second league, the Primera B decreases.
Qualification for the Copa Libertadores
The two half-year champions are automatically qualified for the Copa Libertadores . If the half-year champions are identical, the team with the most points in the Clausura group games qualifies as the second club. The third club is the one that has the most points when adding up the points from the Apertura and Clausura group games and is not yet otherwise qualified. In 2010, both the first round leader and the champions qualify for the Copa Libertadores 2011. Between places 2 to 5, a relegation for third place on the grid will be played out.
Participants 2019
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Teams of the 2019 season |
The following clubs take part in the 2019 championship:
The master
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Half-season championships in
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Annual championships
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Championship history
Master since 2002
| 2019 | Universidad Católica |
| 2018 | Universidad Católica |
| 2017 | T: Colo Colo |
| 2016/17 | A: Universidad Católica C: Universidad de Chile |
| 2015/16 | A: CSD Colo Colo C: CD Universidad Católica |
| 2014/15 | A: Universidad de Chile C: CD Cobresal |
| 2013/14 | A: O'Higgins Rancagua C: CSD Colo-Colo |
| 2013 | - Unión Española |
| 2012 | A: CF Universidad de Chile C: CD Huachipato |
| 2011 | A: CF Universidad de Chile C: CF Universidad de Chile |
| 2010 | - CD Universidad Católica |
| 2009 | A: CF Universidad de Chile C: CSD Colo-Colo |
| 2008 | A: CD Everton Viña del Mar C: CSD Colo-Colo |
| 2007 | A: CSD Colo-Colo C: CSD Colo-Colo |
| 2006 | A: CSD Colo-Colo C: CSD Colo-Colo |
| 2005 | A: Unión Española C: CD Universidad Católica |
| 2004 | A: CF Universidad de Chile C: CD Cobreloa |
| 2003 | A: CD Cobreloa C: CD Cobreloa |
| 2002 | A: CD Universidad Católica C: CSD Colo-Colo |
| A = Apertura (spring), C = Clausura (autumn), T = Transición (transition) | |
Master 1933-2001
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All previous participants in the Primera División
| society | founding | Playing times | Best place 1 |
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| Antofagasta | 1966 | 1969–1977, 1983–1984, 1991–1997, 2006–2008, since 2012 | 7th place (1992 and 1996) |
| Deportes Arica 2 | 1978 | 1982–1985, 2013, 2014-2016 | 4th place (1984) |
| Audax Italiano | 1910 | 1933–1971, 1977–1986, since 1996 | 4 times champion |
| CD Aviación 3 | 1957 | 1974-1980 | 8th place (1977 and 1978) |
| Badminton FC 4 | 1898 | 1933-1949 | 3rd place (1933 and 1935) |
| Carlos Walker | 1934 | 8th place (1934) | |
| CD Cobreloa | 1977 | 1978-2015 | 8 times champion |
| CD Cobresal | 1979 | 1984–1992, 1994, 1999, 2002-2017, since 2019 | Champion 2014/15 (C) |
| Colo-Colo | 1925 | since 1933 | Record champion with 30 titles |
| Deportes Concepción | 1966 | 1968-1981, 1985-1993, 1995-02, 2005-2008 | Runner-up (1975) |
| Coquimbo Unido | 1957 | 1963–1965, 1978–1980, 1984, 1991–2007, since 2019 | Runner-up (1991, Ape 2005) |
| CDP Curicó Unido | 1973 | 2009, since 2017 | 8th place (Transición 2017) |
| Everton Viña del Mar | 1909 | 1944–1972, 1975–1981, 83-95, 2000, 2004-2010, 2013-14, since 2016 | 4 times champion |
| Deportes Alemán | 1934 | 11th place (1934) | |
| Fernández Vial 5 | 1903 | 1983-1984, 1986-1992 | 5th place (1991) |
| Ferrobadminton 4 | 1950 | 1950–1964, 1966 | 3rd place (1952) |
| CD Ferroviarios de Chile 4 | 1916 | 1934 | 9th place (1934) |
| CD Green Cross | 1916 | 1933-1934, 39-58, 61-62, 64-80, 83-84 | Master 1945 |
| CD Huachipato | 1947 | 1967–1978, 1983–1990, 1992, since 1995 | 2 times champion |
| Deportes Iberia | 1933 | 1946-1954 | 5th place (1948) |
| Deportes Iquique | 1978 | 1980–1990, 1993, 98-99, 2009, since 2011 | 3rd place (1988) |
| Deportes La Serena | 1955 | 1958–1959, 62-76, 81-82, 84, 88-95, 97-99, 2004-12, since 2020 | 3rd place (1958) |
| Lota's brother-in-law | 1966 | 1970–1980, 1987, 2007 | 6th place (1977) |
| CD Magallanes | 1897 | 1933-1960, 1962-1975, 1980-1986 | 4 times champion |
| Deportes Melipilla | 1992 | 1993, 2005, 2007-2008 | 10th place (2007) |
| Metropolitano | 1939 6 | ||
| Morning Star 7 | 1903 | 1933-1934 | 6th place (1933) |
| Naval de Talcahuano 8 | 1944 | 1972-1976, 1979-1990 | 5th place (1981 and 1982) |
| Deportivo Ñublense | 1916 | 1977-1979, 1981, 2007-2011, 2013-2015 | 7th place (2008) |
| CD O'Higgins | 1955 | 1955–1963, 65-75, 77-85, 88-96, 99-01, since 2006 | Champion 2013 (A) |
| Deportes oval | 1963 | 1976-1977 | 10th place (1976) |
| CD Palestino | 1920 | 1953–1970, 1973–1988, since 1990 | Master in 1955 and 1978 |
| Provincial Osorno | 1983 | 1991, 1993-1998, 2000, 2008 | 6th place (1996) |
| Deportes Puerto Montt | 1983 | 1997-2001, 2003-2007 | 7th place (1998) |
| Rangers de Talca | 1902 | 1953-1976, 1978, 1982-1987, 89, 94, 98-99, 2001-06, 08-09, 12-14 | Runner-up (1969) |
| Regional Atacama 9 | 1979 | 1982-1984, 1994-1996 | 6th place (1994) |
| San Luís Quillota | 1919 | 1956–1957, 1959–1967, 1981, 1984–1987, 2010, 2015-2018 | 10th place (1959 and 1986) |
| Santiago FC 7 | 1903 | 1934-1935 | 6th place twice |
| CD Santiago Morning 7 | 1936 | 1936-1956, 60-69, 75-79, 82, 1999-2002, 06, 2008-2011 | Master 1942 |
| Santiago National FC 10 | 1900 | 1933-1934, 1939-1948 | 3rd place (1940) |
| Santiago Wanderers | 1892 | 1937, 44–77, 79-80, 83-84, 90-91, 96-98, 2000-07, 10-17, since 2020 | 3 times champion |
| Deportes Temuco | 1960 | 1992–1998, 2002–2005, 2016–2018 | 4th place (1995) |
| Trasandino de Los Andes | 1906 | 1986 | 14th place (1986) |
| Unión Española | 1897 | 1933–1997 11 , since 2000 | 7 times champion |
| Unión La Calera | 1954 | 1962–1974, 1985, 2011-2016, since 2018 | 6th place (1971) |
| Unión San Felipe | 1956 | 1962–1968, 1971–1974, 1983–1986, 1989, 2001–2005, 2010–2015 | Master 1971 |
| Universidad Católica | 1937 | 1939–1955, 1957–1973, since 1976 | 10 times champion |
| Universidad de Chile | 1927 | 1938–1988, since 1990 | 17 times champion |
| Universidad de Concepción | 1994 | 2003-2012, since 2013 | Runner-up (Cla 2007) |
| Deportes Valdivia | 1983 | 1988-1989 | 10th place (1988) |
1 In Chile a final table was not determined every season and since 2002 the champions have been determined according to the Mexican model in play-offs, which are held every six months, so that since then two champions have been determined per year, which was already the case in 1997 was the case. If no championship or runner-up could be achieved and the said team achieved their best placement in a time in which a procedure other than that of the overall table was valid, the position indicated here was determined on the basis of an overall annual table, as is common in most countries.
2 The association has been operating under the name Club Deportivo San Marcos de Arica since 2005 .
3 The Club de Deportes Aviación , an association of the Chilean Air Force, was dissolved in 1981.
4 The Badminton Football Club , founded by British immigrants in Valparaíso , merged with the railway association Club Deportivo Ferroviarios de Chile in 1950 and traded under the name Ferrobadminton for the next 19 years . In 1969 the merger was dissolved again and the original clubs reactivated.
5 Full name: Club Deportivo Ferroviario Almirante Arturo Fernández Vial
6 Metropolitano was disqualified after 9 games (1 draw and 8 defeats).
7 Morning Star and Santiago FC merged to become Santiago Morning in 1936 .
8 Former association of the Chilean Navy, dissolved in 1991.
9 The team was disbanded in 1998.
10 Santiago National FC briefly merged with Juventus and competed under the name Santiago National Juventus in the 1940 and 1941 seasons . In the championship round in 1939 National was disqualified after 17 of 24 game days. The association was dissolved in 1954.
11 Disqualified after only one game in the 1939 championship round.
Well-known former league players
See also
Web links
- Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional
- Chile - List of Champions and Runners Up
- Chile - Final Tables 1933-1996
Individual evidence
- ↑ Championship was canceled six game days before the end because of the protests in Chile
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