Green Cross is a defunct Chilean sports club that was based in the city of

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

until 1965, when it moved to

Temuco Temuco () is a List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune, capital (political), capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile. The city is located south of Santiago de Chile, Santiago. The city ...

History

The club was founded on 27 June 1916, and its first chairman was ''Francisco Tapia''. It was one of the eight teams that founded the professional Chilean football league in 1933. The club had other sports branches besides football; these were

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, and

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. The club won its first and only Chilean league title in 1945. In April 1961 a number of players were killed in a plane crash in the

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. The remains of the plane were found ten days after the accident. The wreckage was rediscovered in February 2015 by a climbing party.ABC.net: "Chile: Plane carrying Green Cross football players found in Andes 53 years after crash"
Retrieved 9 February 2015. In 1965 the club moved to Temuco where it merged with the local football team

Deportes Temuco Deportes Temuco is a Chilean football club based in Temuco, Araucanía Region. It currently plays in the Chilean Primera División B, holding home games at the new '' Estadio Municipal Germán Becker''. The club was founded on February 22, 196 ...

. Known for the first two decades as ''Green Cross Temuco'', in 1985 the club reverted to the name ''Deportes Temuco''.

Honours

National titles

* Primera División de Chile (1): 1945. * Segunda División de Chile (2): 1960, 1963.

Amateur titles

* Honour Division of Liga Metropolitana de Deportes (2): 1917, 1918.

Friendly Titles

* Nino Brusadelli Cup (1): 1928.

Records and data

* Seasons in Primera División: 25 (1933–1934; 1939–1958; 1961–1962; 1964). * Seasons in Segunda División: 3 (1959–1960; 1963). * Bigger victory achieved: ** In Primera División: 6–1 against Santiago National on 23 August 1942 and 6 October 1946; against O'Higgins on 11 June 1955. * Bigger defeat received:. ** In Primera División: 1–10 against

Unión Española Club Unión Española S.A.D.P. is a professional football club based in the Independencia neighborhood, commune of Santiago, Chile. They currently participate in the Primera División de Chile. It has a branch of women's football, and competes ...

on 8 July 1934. * Best position in Primera División: 1º (1945) * Worst position in Primera División: 18º (1962) * Best scorer: Juan Morcillo (75 goals)

Notes

References

Short background of the club

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