| Campeonato Nacional | |
| Pixels: | 200px |
| Country: | Chile |
| Confed: | CONMEBOL |
| Teams: | 16 |
| Relegation: | Primera B |
| Levels: | 1 |
| Domest Cup: | Copa Chile |
| Confed Cup: | Copa Libertadores Copa Sudamericana |
| Champions: | Huachipato (3rd title) |
| Season: | 2023 |
| Most Successful Club: | Colo-Colo (33 titles) |
| Most Appearances: | Adolfo Nef (624)[1] |
| Top Goalscorer: | Esteban Paredes (221)[2] |
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| Current: | 2024 Chilean Primera División |
The Chilean Primera División (English: First Division of Chile) is a professional football league, being the highest division of Chilean football league system. It is organized by the ANFP. The league was previously known as the Campeonato AFP PlanVital for sponsorship reasons. In 2023, the ANFP signed a partnership with Betsson Group to become the official naming sponsor of the competition, which became known as Campeonato Betsson.[3]
As of the 2018 season, 16 teams compete in the league, playing against each other twice, once at home and once away.
Currently, the two teams with the worst scores in the season, are relegated to Primera B, and replaced by the champions and the playoff winners of this division.
The league champions qualify for the following year's Copa Libertadores, as well as the runners-up and the third-placed team. The teams placing fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh qualify for the following year's Copa Sudamericana.
In 1933, eight big clubs at that time, namely, Unión Española, Badminton, Colo-Colo, Audax Italiano, Green Cross, Morning Star, Magallanes and Santiago National F.C., founded the Liga Profesional de Football de Santiago (LPF) on May 31, 1933. The newly formed body was recognized by the Football Federation of Chile on June 2, 1933.
The first edition of professional competition was contested by the eight founding teams and was won by Magallanes after defeating Colo-Colo in a decisive match. In the following year, according to the disposition of Federación de Fútbol de Chile, Liga Profesional returned to integrate with the AFS. As part of the negotiations for reunification, four teams from AFS, namely, Club Deportivo Ferroviarios, Carlos Walker, Deportivo Alemán, and Santiago F.C., would join the 1934 professional competition. Moreover, it was also decided that the last six teams in the 1934 competition would be eliminated to form the new second division in 1935. The title of the expanded 1934 edition was again clinched by Magallanes, which won 10 out of the 11 matches that year.[4]
There are 16 teams playing in the Primera División, as of the 2024 season.[5]
| Club | City | Stadium | Capacity | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audax Italiano | Santiago | Bicentenario de La Florida | align=center | 12,000 | |
| Cobreloa | Calama | Zorros del Desierto | align=center | 12,346 | |
| Cobresal | El Salvador | El Cobre | align=center | 12,000 | |
| Colo-Colo | Santiago | Monumental David Arellano | align=center | 47,347 | |
| Coquimbo Unido | Coquimbo | Francisco Sánchez Rumoroso | align=center | 18,750 | |
| Deportes Copiapó | Copiapó | Luis Valenzuela Hermosilla | align=center | 8,000 | |
| Deportes Iquique | Iquique | Tierra de Campeones | align=center | 13,171 | |
| Everton | Viña del Mar | Sausalito | align=center | 22,360 | |
| Huachipato | Talcahuano | CAP | align=center | 10,500 | |
| Ñublense | Chillán | Municipal Nelson Oyarzún Arenas | 12,000 | ||
| O'Higgins | Rancagua | El Teniente | align=center | 13,849 | |
| Palestino | Santiago | Municipal de La Cisterna | align=center | 8,000 | |
| Unión Española | Santiago | Santa Laura-Universidad SEK | align=center | 19,000 | |
| Unión La Calera | La Calera | Municipal Nicolás Chahuán Nazar | align=center | 9,200 | |
| Universidad Católica | Santiago | San Carlos de Apoquindo | align=center | 20,000[6] | |
| Universidad de Chile | Santiago | Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos | align=center | 48,665 |
Source:[9]
| scope=col width=20 | Rank | scope=col width=150 | Club | scope=col width=80 | Winners | scope=col width=100 | Runners-up | scope=col class="unsortable" | Winning years | scope=col class="unsortable" | Runners-up years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colo-Colo | 33 | 22 | 1937, 1939, 1941, 1944, 1947, 1953, 1956, 1960, 1963, 1970, 1972, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1997 Clausura, 1998, 2002 Clausura, 2006 Apertura, 2006 Clausura, 2007 Apertura, 2007 Clausura, 2008 Clausura, 2009 Clausura, 2014 Clausura, 2015 Apertura, 2017 Transición, 2022 | 1933, 1943, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1959, 1966, 1973, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997 Apertura, 2003 Apertura, 2003 Clausura, 2008 Apertura, 2010, 2015 Clausura, 2016 Clausura, 2017 Clausura, 2019, 2021 | ||||||
| 2 | Universidad de Chile | 18 | 8 | 1940, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969, 1994, 1995, 1999, 2000, 2004 Apertura, 2009 Apertura, 2011 Apertura, 2011 Clausura, 2012 Apertura, 2014 Apertura, 2017 Clausura | 1957, 1961, 1963, 1971, 1980, 1998, 2005 Clausura, 2006 Apertura | ||||||
| 3 | Universidad Católica | 16 | 21 | 1949, 1954, 1961, 1966, 1984, 1987, 1997 Apertura, 2002 Apertura, 2005 Clausura, 2010, 2016 Clausura, 2016 Apertura, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 | 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1989, 1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Clausura, 1999, 2001, 2002 Clausura, 2007 Apertura, 2009 Clausura, 2011 Apertura, 2013 Transición, 2013 Apertura, 2014 Clausura, 2015 Apertura | ||||||
| 4 | Cobreloa | 8 | 8 | 1980, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1992, 2003 Apertura, 2003 Clausura, 2004 Clausura | 1978, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1993, 2000, 2004 Apertura, 2011 Clausura | ||||||
| 5 | Unión Española | 7 | 10 | 1943, 1951, 1973, 1975, 1977, 2005 Apertura, 2013 Transición | 1945, 1948, 1950, 1970, 1972, 1976, 2004 Clausura, 2009 Apertura, 2012 Clausura, 2017 Transición | ||||||
| 6 | Audax Italiano | 4 | 8 | 1936, 1946, 1948, 1957 | 1934, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1947, 1951, 2006 Clausura | ||||||
| Magallanes | 4 | 4 | 1933, 1934, 1935, 1938 | 1936, 1937, 1942, 1946 | |||||||
| Everton | 4 | 2 | 1950, 1952, 1976, 2008 Apertura | 1977, 1985 | |||||||
| 9 | Santiago Wanderers | 3 | 4 | 1958, 1968, 2001 | 1949, 1956, 1960, 2014 Apertura | ||||||
| Huachipato | 3 | — | 1974, 2012 Clausura, 2023 | — | |||||||
| 11 | Palestino | 2 | 4 | 1955, 1978 | 1953, 1974, 1986, 2008 Clausura | ||||||
| 12 | Cobresal | 1 | 3 | 2015 Clausura | 1984, 1988, 2023 | ||||||
| Santiago Morning | 1 | 2 | 1942 | 1939, 1941 | |||||||
| O'Higgins | 1 | 1 | 2013 Apertura | 2012 Apertura | |||||||
| Green Cross | 1 | — | 1945 | — | |||||||
| Unión San Felipe | 1 | — | 1971 | — |
| Rank | Country | Player | Goals | Years | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Esteban Paredes | 221 | 2000-2022 | |
| 2 | 215 | 1961-1983 | |||
| 3 | | Pedro González | 214 | 1985-2006 | |
| 4 | | Honorino Landa | 193 | 1959-1974 | |
| 5 |  | Óscar Fabbiani | 188 | 1974-1987 | |
| 6 | | Marcelo Corrales | 188 | 1990-2007 | |
| 7 | | Carlos Campos | 184 | 1956-1969 | |
| 8 | | Jaime Riveros | 175 | 1990-2011 | |
| 9 | | Atilio Cremaschi | 174 | 1941-1960 | |
| 10 | | Carlos Caszely | 171 | 1967-1986 | |
| 11 | | José Fernández | 171 | 1948-1961 | |
| 12 | | Luis Hernán Álvarez | 168 | 1958-1969 | |
| 13 | | Juan Soto | 166 | 1957-1969 | |
| 14 | | Leonel Sánchez | 161 | 1953-1970 | |
| 15 | | Anibal González | 156 | 1983-2001 | |
| 16 | | Julio Crisosto | 154 | 1969-1983 |
