Campeonato de Apertura (Chile)The Campeonato de Apertura (Opening Championship) was an annual competition for Chilean football teams at the beginning of the season. It was played from 1933 to 1950, but didn't have regularity through years, not being played in 1935, 1936, 1939, 1943, 1945, 1946 and 1948. The Campeonato de Apertura was sometimes disputed in a knock-out system, other times in a mini-league system.
Asociación Nacional de Fútbol ProfesionalThe Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP) monitors all the conforming clubs and acts as the organizational body for professional competitions, governing the Primera División de Chile and Primera B with 32 associate clubs all together. In 2008, it also established the Primera División of the national female football league, which comprises 14 teams.
Chilean football league systemThe Chilean football league system, called the Campeonatos Nacionales de Fútbol en Chile or Liga Chilena de Fútbol in Spanish, is a series of interconnected leagues for football clubs in Chile.
Liga de PrimeraProfessional association football league in ChileFootball leagueThe Liga de Primera or Campeonato Nacional de la Primera División del Fútbol Profesional Chileno (English: "National Championship of the First Division of Chilean Professional Football") is a professional association football league in Chile and the highest level of the Chilean football league system. Founded in 1933, it is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP).
COVID-19 pandemic in ChileThe worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) severely affected Chile. The virus was confirmed to have reached Chile on 3 March 2020.
ChileChile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the Southern Cone of southwestern South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, extending along a narrow strip of land between the Andes Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. According to the 2024 census, Chile had an enumerated population of 18.5 million.Single-elimination tournamentA single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports.
Campeonato Nacional Primera BThe Campeonato Nacional de la Primera B del Fútbol Profesional Chileno (English: National Championship of the First B of Chilean Professional Football) is the second tier in the Chilean football league system, and is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. It was established in 1952 as Segunda División, and later renamed in 1996 to the current name.
South AmericaSouth America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and most in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern subregion of the Americas.
Spanish languageSpanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It originated in the Kingdom of Castile, a historical kingdom in north-central Spain. Today, it is a global language with 519 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 636 million speakers total, including second-language speakers.Segunda División Profesional de ChileSegunda División Profesional del Fútbol Profesional Chileno (English: Second Professional Division of Chilean Professional Football) is the third level of Chilean football league system, since the season 2012, is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. The Chilean Segunda División Profesional was established in 2012.
Asociación Nacional de Fútbol AmateurThe Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Amateur (National Association of Amateur Football), locally known by its abbreviation ANFA, is the governing body of Chileanfootball on amateur level, and along with Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP), who is responsible for the professional counterpart, they made the Chilean Football Federation. Its functions are to organize and promote the amateur football in Chile.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.