Chile

Missing image Chile_football_association.gif Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname	-
Association	Federación de Fútbol de Chile
Coach	Juvenal Olmos (2003-)
Most caps	Leonel Sánchez (84)
Top scorer	Marcelo Salas (34)
Home colours 　 Away colours
First International Argentina 3 - 1 Chile (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 27 May, 1910)
Largest win Chile 7 - 0 Venezuela (Santiago, Chile; 29 August, 1979) Chile 7 - 0 Armenia (Santiago, Chile; 5 January, 1997)
Worst defeat Brazil 7 - 0 Chile (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 17 September, 1959)
World Cup
Appearances	7 (First in 1930)
Best result	Third place, 1962
Copa América
Appearances	34 (First in 1916)
Best result	Second place, 1955, 1956, 1979, 1987

The Chile national football team best World Cup finish is third place in 1962, when the finals were hosted in Chile. Chile beat Yugoslavia 1-0 in the third place match.

Between 1990 and 1994, Chile was barred from participating in the World Cup by FIFA. It resulted from an incident during a qualifier with Brazil, when the Chilean goalkeeper Robert Rojas pretending to be seriously injured by firecrackers thrown from the Brazilian sections of the crowd, to try and force the abandonment of the match. Brazil were leading 1-0 with 23 minutes left and a defeat would have meant Chile would have not qualified for the World Cup. Hoping for a rematch, Chilean officials and medical staff escorted the players off the pitch. After studying a video of the match, FIFA realised that the firecracker had not made contact with Rojas and the event had been a deception on the part of the Chile team. They banned Rojas for life from football, awarded Brazil a 2-0 win and banned Chile from the 1994 World Cup.

Contents

1 World Cup record 2 Copa América record 3 Famous Players 4 External links

World Cup record

• 1930 - Round 1
• 1934 - Withdrew
• 1938 - Did not enter
• 1950 - Round 1
• 1954 - Did not enter
• 1958 - Did not qualify
• 1962 - Third place
• 1966 - Round 1
• 1970 - Did not qualify
• 1974 - Round 1
• 1978 - Did not qualify
• 1982 - Round 1
• 1986 - Did not qualify
• 1990 - Disqualified
• 1994 - Banned
• 1998 - Round 2
• 2002 - Did not qualify

Copa América record

1916 - Fourth place 1917 - Fourth place 1919 - Fourth place 1920 - Fourth place 1921 - Withdrew 1922 - Fifth place 1923 - Withdrew 1924 - Fourth place 1925 - Withdrew 1926 - Third place 1927 - Withdrew 1929 - Withdrew 1935 - Fourth place 1937 - Fifth place 1939 - Fourth place 1941 - Third place 1942 - Sixth place 1945 - Third place 1946 - Fifth place 1947 - Fourth place 1949 - Fifth place

1953 - Fourth place 1955 - Runners-up 1956 - Runners-up 1957 - Sixth place 1959 - Fifth place 1959 - Withdrew 1963 - Withdrew 1967 - Third place 1975 - Round 1 1979 - Runners-up 1983 - Round 1 1987 - Runners-up 1989 - Round 1 1991 - Third place 1993 - Round 1 1995 - Round 1 1997 - Round 1 1999 - Fourth place 2001 - Quarterfinals 2004 - Round 1

Famous Players

• Elías Figueroa
• Marcelo Salas
• Iván Zamorano

External links

• RSSSF archive of results 1910-2003 (http://www.rsssf.com/tablesc/chil-intres.html)
• RSSSF archive of most capped players and highest goalscorers (http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/chil-recintlp.html)
• Planet World Cup archive of results in the World Cup (http://www.planetworldcup.com/NATIONS/chi.html)
• Planet World Cup archive of squads in the World Cup (http://www.planetworldcup.com/NATIONS/chi_squads.html)
• Planet World Cup archive of results in the World Cup qualifiers (http://www.planetworldcup.com/NATIONS/chi_qualify.html)

National football teams of South America (CONMEBOL)

Argentina | Bolivia | Brazil | Chile | Colombia | Ecuador | Paraguay | Peru | Uruguay | Venezuela

International Football

FIFA - World Cup - Women's World Cup - World Rankings - Player of the Year Asia: AFC - Asian Cup | Africa: CAF - African Nations Cup South America: CONMEBOL - Copa América | North America: CONCACAF - Gold Cup Oceania: OFC - OFC Nations Cup | Europe: UEFA - European Championship

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