Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers
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| Full name | Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers |
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| Nickname(s) |
Caturros (Cockatiels) Porteños (Harbour Men) Decano (Dean) |
| Founded | 15 August 1892 |
| Ground |
Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander Valparaíso, Chile |
| Capacity | 23,000 |
| Chairman |
 Jorge Lafrentz |
| Manager |
 Eduardo Espinel
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| League | Campeonato Nacional |
| 2015–16 | Apertura: 8th Liguilla Apertura: Not qualified Clausura: 6th Liguilla Clausura: Finalists Overall: 6th |
| Website | Club home page |
Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers are a football club in Valparaíso, Chile, which plays in the Campeonato Nacional, the first tier of the Chilean Football Federation. Founded on 15 August 1892, it’s the country’s oldest club and the oldest football team at Latin America as well. There is a controversy in this last point because there are four clubs older than Wanderers in Perú and Argentina, but none of them started as football clubs and all of their football branches started after 1892.
Being Santiago Wanderers the oldest club in the Chilean football it has many cups won along its history. In the early times of the club, the institution was part of the Liga Valparaíso, where it won the leagues of: 1907, 1909, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1933, 1934 and 1935. In 1926 there was an unification of the football associations in Chile and begun the decline of Valparaíso as the administrative center of the Chilean football. After this period, the club won three additional league titles in (, and 2001).
Nevertheless, Wanderers have a rivalry with neighbour Everton and the two sides contest the Seaport Derby. The club have been based at Elías Figueroa Brander Stadium in Playa Ancha Hill, Valparaíso, since 1931, after moving from Barrio Puerto district.
Wanderers have had important players in the 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.
Wanderers form part of the Club de los 100 alongside other Chilean teams like Audax Italiano or Unión Española, which brings together all Conmebol clubs with over 100 years. Noteworthy, the club was declared as intangible heritage of Valparaíso. The club's home colours are green shirts and socks with white shorts, which are based in the Republic of Ireland national team colors.
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