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Chile national soccer team

Chile
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) La Roja (The Red One)
Association Federación de Fútbol de Chile (FFCh)
Confederation CONMEBOL (South America)
Head coach Juan Antonio Pizzi
Captain Claudio Bravo
Most caps Claudio Bravo (110)
Top scorer Marcelo Salas (37)
Home stadium Estadio Nacional
FIFA code CHI
FIFA ranking
Current 4 Steady(12 January 2017)
Highest 3 (April–May 2016)
Lowest 84 (December 2002)
Elo ranking
Current 5 Steady(15 January 2017)
Highest 2 (July 2016)
Lowest 60 (April 2003)
First international
 Argentina 3–1 Chile 
(Buenos Aires, Argentina; 27 May 1910)
Biggest win
 Chile 7–0 Venezuela 
(Santiago, Chile; 29 August 1979)
 Chile 7–0 Armenia 
(Viña del Mar, Chile; 4 January 1997)
 Mexico 0–7 Chile 
(Santa Clara, United States; 18 June 2016)
Biggest defeat
 Brazil 7–0 Chile 
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 17 September 1959)
World Cup
Appearances 9 (first in 1930)
Best result Third place, 1962
Copa América
Appearances 38 (first in 1916)
Best result Champions, 2015 and 2016
Confederations Cup
Appearances 1 (first in 2017)
Best result TBD, 2017

The Chile national football team (Selección de fútbol de Chile) represents Chile in all major international football competitions and is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile which was established in 1895. The team is commonly referred to as La Roja ("The Red One"). They have appeared in nine World Cup tournaments and were hosts of the 1962 FIFA World Cup where they finished in third place, the highest position the country has ever achieved in the World Cup. Since the mid to late 1960s, the Elo ratings ranks Chile among the 25 strongest football teams in the world.

Chile are the reigning Copa América champions; after winning 2015 Copa América on home soil, it successfully defended their title in the United States in the Copa América Centenario in 2016. Prior to this, Chile had been runners-up in the competition on four occasions. As a result of winning the 2015 Copa América, they qualified for the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup.

The Federación de Fútbol de Chile is the second oldest South American federation, having been founded in Valparaíso on June 19, 1895.

Chile is one of the four founding member nations of CONMEBOL. Together with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, the four competed in the first South American Championship, later to be renamed the Copa América, in 1916. On October 12, 1926, Chile made the first corner-kick goal in Copa América history in a match against Bolivia.


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