The Campeonato Nacional Fútbol Femenino ( es, Campeonato Nacional Primera División de Fútbol Femenino), is the main league competition for women's football in

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. The winner qualifies for the

Copa Libertadores de Fútbol Femenino The CONMEBOL Libertadores Femenina, named as "Copa Libertadores Femenina" ( pt, Copa Libertadores Feminina or Taça Libertadores Feminina) is an annual international women's association football club competition in South America. It is organized by ...

, the South American Champions League. The competition is organised by the

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. Since 2008, the league has been turned to semi-professionalism in order to improve women's football standard in the competition, with the name change and the establishment of a part-time fund for the team. In March 2022, the league will turn to full-time professional, ending a decade of semi-professional status of Chilean female players, starting from 2023 season.

Format

The

Apertura and Clausura The ' and ' tournaments is a split season format for Spanish-speaking sports leagues. It is a relatively recent innovation for many Latin American football leagues in which the traditional association football season from August to May is div ...

format is used, thus there are two champions per year. Apertura starts early in the year, Clausura starts mid year and ends in December. As of 2013 about 20 teams play in two divisions, a Southern one and a Central one. They play a single

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. After that the top four teams advance to the quarter-finals. Since 2014 the final is played in only one match, as the other knock-out matches, before that the final was two-legged. If different teams win the Apertura and Clausura there is a play-off for the Copa Libertadores spot.

2023 Teams

List of champions

Below is the list of champions. In 2011 an

format was introduced. Titles before 2008 were unofficial(?), as

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is credited with the first title in 2016. * 1999: Universidad de Chile * 2000: Universidad de Chile * 2001: Universidad de Chile * 2002:

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* 2005: Universidad de Chile

Titles by club

References

External links

ANFP
Federation website's women's football portal {{Top level women's association football leagues around the world

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Women's football in Chile Women's sports leagues in Chile