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| Full name | Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers | |||
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| Nickname(s) | Caturros (Cockatiels) El vagabundo (Harbour Men) Decano (Dean) La verde (The green) | |||
| Founded | 15 August 1892 | |||
| Ground | Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander Valparaíso, Chile | |||
| Capacity | 20,575 | |||
| Chairman |  Reinaldo Sánchez | |||
| Manager | Jaime García Arévalo | |||
| League | Primera B | |||
| 2023 | 3rd | |||
| Website | http://www.santiagowanderers.cl/ | |||
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Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a football club based in Valparaíso, a founding member of the Chilean Football Federation. Their home ground, Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, is in the north-west of the city. Wanderers have played their games there since 1931 after moving from Barrio Puerto.
Founded on 15 August 1892, it's the country's oldest club and the oldest football team in Chile. For this reason, Wanderers is known in Chile as the Decano del fútbol chileno ("The dean of Chilean football") and forms part of Conmebol's Club de los 100, section which congregates Latin-American teams founded over 100 years ago.[1] In 2007, the club was declared as part of Valparaíso's intangible heritage.[2] The club's home colours are green shirts and socks with white shorts, which are based on the colours of the Irish Football Association team.[3]
Wanderers have a fierce rivalry with neighbours Everton and the two sides contest the Clásico Porteño (Seaport Derby), the oldest derby in Chile, which started in 1916.[4] Wanderers are historically the working-class club whereas Everton are considered to be from the richer tourism-orientated areas.[5]
In the club's early history, the club was a member of the local championship held in the Valparaíso Region called Liga Valparaíso, where it won seven titles. In 1926, the football associations in Chile were unified, and Valparaíso went into decline as the administrative centre of the Chilean football. After this period, having joined the professional football association in 1944, the club has won three further league titles in 1958, 1968, and 2001.
Wanderers have produced important players in Chilean football history like Elías Figueroa, who is considered the best Chilean footballer of all time, as well as one of the greatest defenders of football, alongside Franz Beckenbauer, according to FIFA.[6] Other important players that Wanderers has produced for Chile have been David Pizarro and Eugenio Mena, who were both 2015 Copa América champions, the first ever title of the nation in this contest.[7]
- ^ "Conmebol - El club de los 100". Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ "Santiago Wanderers: el decano del fútbol chileno cumple 125 años". T13.cl. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ Patricio Vidal Walton (2004). "Verde que te quiero, Verde". Idioma y Deporte. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ "En 94 años de Clásico Porteño, la ventaja es de Everton". El Mercurio de Valparaíso. 9 April 2010. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
- ^ "Esas clásicas diferencias". Mercuriovalpo.cl (in Spanish). 13 November 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2016.
- ^ "Figueroa, Chile's defensive commander". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 10 April 2016. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- ^ "El perfil de la "generación dorada" del fútbol chileno". Radio Cooperativa. 4 July 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2017.