Santiago City FC is a Chilean association football club based in

Las Condes Las Condes is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The area is inhabited primarily by upper-mid- to high income families, and known in the Chilean collective consciousness as home to the country's economi ...

Santiago, Chile Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital (political), 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 Regions of Chile, region, t ...

. They were founded in 2020 by Jorge Sotomayor and currently play in Tercera A at the Municipal Stadium in Santiago.

History

Santiago City were founded in 2020 and entered the Chilean football leagues at tier 5 in the

Tercera B Tercera División B de Chile (Third Division B of Chile), is the fifth category of Chilean football (soccer) in the Liga Chilena de Fútbol, and is organized by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile and the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Amateur ...

. The club's president Jorge Sotomayor expressed a desire for the club to be promoted to the top tier. In their first season, they were promoted as champions. Their next season, they finished third in Tercera A. In November 2023, Sotomayor sold the club to a local lawyer. However, in December 2023 the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Amateur de Chile (ANFA) suspended Santiago City for 3 years for failing to comply with media access requirements and for attempting to censor press coverage of the club. Specifically for cutting the electric cables that the media used. The club appealed against the sanction but their appeal was rejected and they were thrown out of the Tercera leagues. A further appeal in January 2024 to the ANFA Council of Presidents was successful and the ban was lifted.

Colours and crest

When the club was founded, the colours were decided as a result of a market study. Black and pink were selected on the grounds that no other club in Chile aside of Colo-Colo played in a predominantly black kit and the pink was a tribute to women suffering from breast cancer, despite claims they looked like the American club

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. In February 2022, the English

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club

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and its holding group City Football Group, issued a

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letter against Santiago City for their crest being similar to the Manchester City crest. A year later, Santiago City announced they would follow any guidelines for their crest set down by Manchester City but had not received any.

Players

Current squad

Managers

* Cristian Febre 2022 *

Jorge Acuña Jorge Cristian Acuña Concha (born 31 July 1978 in Ovalle), also known by his nickname Kike Acuña, is a Chilean football manager and former footballer who played as a midfielder. Club career Born in Ovalle, IV Region of Coquimbo, Acuña joi ...

2023 * Carlos Bussenius 2023 * Cristian Febre 2023 * 2024–Present

References

External links

* {{Instagram, id=sancityfc, name=Santiago City FC
Official website
Football clubs in Santiago 2020 establishments in Chile Las Condes Association football clubs established in 2020