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Santiago Wanderers
Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a football club based in Valparaíso, a founding member of the Chilean Football Federation. Their home ground, Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, is in the north-west of the city. Wanderers have played their games there since 1931 after moving from Barrio Puerto.
Founded on 15 August 1892, it is the country's oldest club and the oldest football team in Chile and the entirety of the Americas. For this reason, Wanderers is known in Chile as the Decano del fútbol chileno ("The dean of Chilean football") and forms part of CONMEBOL's Club de los 100, section which congregates Latin-American teams founded over 100 years ago. In 2007, the club was declared as part of Valparaíso's intangible heritage. The club's home colours are green shirts and socks with white shorts, which are based on the colours of the Irish national football team.
Wanderers have a fierce rivalry with cross-city neighbours Everton and the two sides contest the Clásico Porteño (Seaport Derby), the oldest derby in Chile, which started in 1916. Wanderers are historically the working-class club whereas Everton are considered to be from the wealthier tourist and beach resort districts.
In the club's early history, the club was a member of the local championship held in the Valparaíso Region called Liga Valparaíso, winning seven titles. In 1926, the football associations in Chile were unified, and Valparaíso went into decline as the administrative hub of Chilean football. After this period, having joined the professional football association in 1944, the club has won three further league titles in 1958, 1968, and 2001.
Wanderers have produced important players in Chilean football history like Elías Figueroa, who is considered the best Chilean footballer of all time, as well as one of the greatest defenders of football, alongside Franz Beckenbauer, according to FIFA. Other important players Wanderers has produced for Chile have been Moisés Villarroel, Reinaldo Navia, David Pizarro and Eugenio Mena, the two latter who were both 2015 Copa América champions, the nation's first ever title in the continental football tournament.
Santiago Wanderers was officially established on 15 August 1892 in the port district, Barrio Puerto in Valparaíso. Due to the presence of another team called Valparaíso Wanderers, the name Santiago was adopted by the club's founders to distinguish from the already existing team.[citation needed]
Until 1936, the club played at amateur level until officially joining the professional league competition in 1937 as soon as the Chilean Football Federation began organising championships in 1933 across the centre and the south zones of Chile. In their first season competing in the professional league, after finishing bottom of the table – in seventh place – and without points, Wanderers decided to leave the Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago (federation's official governing body that organised the professional football tournament; current ANFP) and return to the local football association. In 1944 however, Wanderers joined the professional league once again on a permanent basis and displayed consistent performances and campaigns during the late 1940s and early 1950s.[citation needed]
Wanderers' first successful era started when José Pérez was appointed manager in 1955. In 1958, his third season in charge, the club won its first league title and in 1959 its first ever Copa Chile defeating Deportes La Serena 5-1 in the final. In 1961, Wanderers once again reached the Cup title defeating Universidad Católica on aggregate. For the remainder of the 1960s, the club finished fifth and eighth in the following seasons, and in 1968, Santiago Wanderers won its second league title and enjoyed an era of success that saw the emergence of promising players like central defender Elías Figueroa.
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Santiago Wanderers
Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a football club based in Valparaíso, a founding member of the Chilean Football Federation. Their home ground, Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, is in the north-west of the city. Wanderers have played their games there since 1931 after moving from Barrio Puerto.
Founded on 15 August 1892, it is the country's oldest club and the oldest football team in Chile and the entirety of the Americas. For this reason, Wanderers is known in Chile as the Decano del fútbol chileno ("The dean of Chilean football") and forms part of CONMEBOL's Club de los 100, section which congregates Latin-American teams founded over 100 years ago. In 2007, the club was declared as part of Valparaíso's intangible heritage. The club's home colours are green shirts and socks with white shorts, which are based on the colours of the Irish national football team.
Wanderers have a fierce rivalry with cross-city neighbours Everton and the two sides contest the Clásico Porteño (Seaport Derby), the oldest derby in Chile, which started in 1916. Wanderers are historically the working-class club whereas Everton are considered to be from the wealthier tourist and beach resort districts.
In the club's early history, the club was a member of the local championship held in the Valparaíso Region called Liga Valparaíso, winning seven titles. In 1926, the football associations in Chile were unified, and Valparaíso went into decline as the administrative hub of Chilean football. After this period, having joined the professional football association in 1944, the club has won three further league titles in 1958, 1968, and 2001.
Wanderers have produced important players in Chilean football history like Elías Figueroa, who is considered the best Chilean footballer of all time, as well as one of the greatest defenders of football, alongside Franz Beckenbauer, according to FIFA. Other important players Wanderers has produced for Chile have been Moisés Villarroel, Reinaldo Navia, David Pizarro and Eugenio Mena, the two latter who were both 2015 Copa América champions, the nation's first ever title in the continental football tournament.
Santiago Wanderers was officially established on 15 August 1892 in the port district, Barrio Puerto in Valparaíso. Due to the presence of another team called Valparaíso Wanderers, the name Santiago was adopted by the club's founders to distinguish from the already existing team.[citation needed]
Until 1936, the club played at amateur level until officially joining the professional league competition in 1937 as soon as the Chilean Football Federation began organising championships in 1933 across the centre and the south zones of Chile. In their first season competing in the professional league, after finishing bottom of the table – in seventh place – and without points, Wanderers decided to leave the Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago (federation's official governing body that organised the professional football tournament; current ANFP) and return to the local football association. In 1944 however, Wanderers joined the professional league once again on a permanent basis and displayed consistent performances and campaigns during the late 1940s and early 1950s.[citation needed]
Wanderers' first successful era started when José Pérez was appointed manager in 1955. In 1958, his third season in charge, the club won its first league title and in 1959 its first ever Copa Chile defeating Deportes La Serena 5-1 in the final. In 1961, Wanderers once again reached the Cup title defeating Universidad Católica on aggregate. For the remainder of the 1960s, the club finished fifth and eighth in the following seasons, and in 1968, Santiago Wanderers won its second league title and enjoyed an era of success that saw the emergence of promising players like central defender Elías Figueroa.