Santiago Wanderers
Full name | Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
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 | Rafael González | |||
Manager | Francisco Palladino | |||
League | Primera B | |||
2023 | 3rd | |||
Website | Club website | |||
|
Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a
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
Wanderers have a fierce rivalry with neighbours
In the club's early history, the club was a member of the local championship held in the
Wanderers have produced important players in Chilean football history like
History
Beginnings
Santiago Wanderers was officially established on 15 August 1892 in Barrio Puerto at Valparaíso. Because the presence of a team called Valparaíso Wanderers, the name Santiago was adopted by the club founders to distinguish the new team to the already existent.[citation needed]
Until 1936, the club played at an amateur level until officially joining the league competition in 1937 as soon as the
1955–2007
Wanderers' first successful era started when José Pérez was made manager in 1955. In 1958, his third season in charge, the club won their first league title and in 1959 its first ever Copa Chile where beat 5–1 win to Deportes La Serena in the final. In 1961, Wanderers again reached the Cup title defeating Universidad Católica in the aggregate.[8] For the remainder of the 1960s, after finishing fifth and eighth the following seasons, in 1968, Wanderers reached its second league title and closed a cycle where saw the emergence of players like Elías Figueroa.[9]
However, the success did not continue during the 1970s; José Pérez left the club and Wanderers were relegated to second division in 1977, following a permanent internal turmoil at the board and bad campaigns. Nevertheless, the club was promoted at the first attempt after winning the championship, just two points clear of Naval from Talcahuano. Once in top-tier Wanderers did not highlighted and generally finished on mid-table or the last places.
Wanderers were relegated for the third time in 1984 and did not return until 1989, after beating 4–1 to Unión San Felipe in the promotion playoffs. However, in 1991, Wanderers were relegated again to second division and celebrated its 100th anniversary close to fall to the third division, only five points from relegation. Following four seasons at second-tier, Wanderers finally returned to top level in 1995.
After spending between the second division and the first division between 1997 and 1999, once definitely settled at top-level, in 2001, Wanderers led by Jorge Garcés achieved its third League title following thirty three years without won an honour, after winning 4–2 to Audax Italiano during the tournament's final matchday at Estadio Nacional in Santiago with 50,000 supporters that travelled from Valparaíso.[10][11]
The ups and downs: 2007–present
Following relative good seasons, in 2007, the club back to Primera B after finishing in the annual table's penultimate place.
In 2014, Wanderers realized an impressive
In 2017, the club won its
Colours
In its early years the color that characterized Wanderers were white with the initials "SW" stamped in black. These uniforms were made manually (often by players' wives), which made lose uniformity, as usually they differed from each other.
In 1907 the team added a black diagonal band in the classic white uniform, although differences remained between the players costumes. It was like that when James McLean, an Englishman who had come to
Since then the team has maintained its home kit with some exceptions, where it was used a white shirt with thin green stripes in late 60s or in 2001 when Wanderers won its third league title.
In 2007 was released a similar uniform to the used in 1965 and 1966, as a way to honour the 115 years of the institution.
Kit manufacturers & shirt sponsors
Period | Kit manufacturer | Shirt sponsor |
---|---|---|
1892–1975 | None | None |
1976–1980 | Costa | |
1983 | Haddad | La Estrella de Valparaíso |
1988 | Le Coq Sportif | Óptica Naranjo Internacional New York |
1989 | Adidas | Pilsener Dorada |
1990–1992 | ENAP | |
1993–1994 | Avia | Cristal |
1995–1997 | Uhlsport | |
1998 | Avia | |
1999 | Sauro | |
1999–2000 | Avia | |
2001 | Corre Corre | None |
2001–2002 | Wanderers Sport | Metalpar |
2003 | Adidas | None |
2004 | Training | Promepar |
2005 | Lotto | Pullman Bus |
2006–2008 | Training | None |
2008 | TPS | |
2009–2015 | Mitre | |
2016– | Macron |
Rivalries
Santiago Wanderers' traditional rivals are
During the amateurism Wanderers dominated the record of facings against Everton, but today the club has not been able to reverse that difference in the professional era, which explains the current historical disadvantage (only overcome in the early 1970s). Deepening the last point, both have faced off 157 times, of which 43 have been draws, 65 have been victories for Everton and 49 have been for Wanderers, whilst for
The first professional match between Wanderers and Everton team took place on 9 July 1944 with a 2–0 win for Vina del Mar's team. Nevertheless, it was in these times where the biggest win for derbies came, with a 17–0 victory for Everton on 30 April 1950.
Stadium
Players
Current squad
Current squad of Santiago Wanderers as of 27 January 2024
(
Sources: ANFP Official Web Site
|
|
2021 Winter transfers
In
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
|
|
Out
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
|
|
Supporters
The club's supporters are known as Porteños or Wanderinos. Wanderers principal
Anthem
Based in the rhythm of English march Captain Craddock, the most commonly accepted and widespread version is that this dates back to 1912 and would be work from the performer and composer Efrain Arévalo López, who would have donated the composition in a gesture of thanks to the club's board, for the joys lived with the team.
Managers
- Pedro Mazullo (1935–36)
- Ramón Opazo (1937)
- Fermín Lecea (1943–45)
- Pedro Duhart (1946)
- Francisco Platko (1948)
- José Pérez (1949–50)
- Francisco Platko (1951–52)
- Héctor Velasco (1952–53)
- Carlos Sponeck (1954)
- José Pérez (1955–61)
- Sergio Cruzat (1962)
- Donato Hernández (1963)
- Martín García (1964-1965)
- Donato Hernández (1966)
- Guillermo Díaz (1967)
- José Pérez (1968)
- Donato Hernández (1969)
- Jorge Luco (1970–71)
- Jorge Vásquez (1971)
- Luis Álamos (1971)
- Francisco Hormazábal (1972)
- Hernán Gárate (1972)
- Washington Urrutia (1973)
- Hernán Gárate (1973–74)
- Donato Hernández (1974)
- Adolfo Rodríguez (1974)
- José Pérez (1975–76)
- Ricardo Contreras (1976)
- Alfredo Rojas (1977)
- José Pérez (1977)
- Guillermo Díaz (1978–79)
- Donato Hernández (1979)
- Luis Álamos (1979-1980)
- Jorge Luco (1980)
- Jorge Toro (1980)
- Dante Pesce (1981)
- Armando Tobar (1981)
- Jorge Venegas (1981–82)
- Guillermo Díaz (1982)
- Juan Rodríguez Vega (1982)
- Pedro Morales (1983)
- Luis Ibarra (1983)
- Guillermo Díaz (1984–86)
- Luis Parraguez (1987)
- Alberto Ferrero (1988)
- Hernán Godoy (1988)
- Isaac Carrasco (1989–90)
- Luis Santibáñez (1990)
- Oscar Blanco (1991)
- Hernán Godoy (1991)
- Armando Tobar (1992)
- Isaac Carrasco-Roque Mercury (1992)
- Elías Figueroa (1993)
- Raúl Aravena (1994)
- Jorge Luis Siviero (1994–97)
- Jorge Socías (1997)
- Leonardo Véliz (1998)
- Pedro García (1998)
- Guillermo Páez (1999)
- Juan Rivero (1999)
- Jorge Garcés (1999–2001)
- Ricardo Dabrowski (2002)
- Yuri Fernández (2003–04)
- Raúl Aravena (2004)
- Carlos González (2005)
- Mario Soto (2005–06)
- Hernán Godoy (2006–07)
- Raúl Aravena (2007)
- Yuri Fernández (2007)
- Héctor Robles (2007)
- Gustavo Huerta (2008)
- Jorge Aravena (2008–09)
- Humberto Zuccarelli (2009–10)
- Jorge Garcés (2010)
- Juan Manuel Llop (2011)
- Héctor Robles (2011)
- Arturo Salah (2012)
- Héctor Robles (2012)
- Ivo Basay (2012–14)
- Héctor Robles (2014)
- Emiliano Astorga (2014–15)
- Alfredo Arias (2016)
- Eduardo Espinel (2016–17)
- Silvio Fernández (2017)
- Nicolás Córdova (2017–18)
- Moisés Villarroel (2018)
- Miguel Ramírez (2018–21)
- Ronald Fuentes (2021)
- Víctor Rivero (2021)
- Moisés Villarroel (2021)
- Emiliano Astorga (2021)
- Moisés Villarroel (2021)
- Domingo Sorace (2021)
- Jorge Garcés (2021–22)
- John Valladares (2022)
- Miguel Ponce (2022)
- Francisco Palladino (2023–)
Honours
Amateur era
- National Football Association
- Winners (1): 1897
- Liga de Valparaiso
- Winners (10): 1907, 1909, 1913, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1921, 1933, 1934, 1934
- Copa Sporting
- Winners (1): 1907
- Challenge Cup Football Association of Chile
- Winners (1): 1899
Professional era
- Primera División
- Winners (3): 2001
- Runner-up (4): 1949, 1956, 1960, 2014-A
- Winners (3):
- Copa Chile
- Primera B
- Supercopa de Chile
- Runner-up (1): 2018
- Campeonato de Apertura
- Runner-up (1): 1949
- Copa Apertura Segunda División
- Runner-up (1): 1986
South American cups history
Season | Competition | Round | Country | Club | Home | Away | Aggregate |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1969 | Copa Libertadores | Group 2 | Universidad Católica | 2–3 | 3–1 | 2nd Place | |
Sporting Cristal | 2–0; 1–1 | 1–2 | |||||
Juan Aurich | 4–1 | 1–3; 1–0 | |||||
Second Stage | Nacional | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3rd Place | |||
Deportivo Cali | 3–3 | 1–5 | |||||
2002 | Copa Libertadores | Group 6 | Boca Juniors | 1–0 | 0–0 | 3rd Place | |
Montevideo Wanderers | 1–1 | 1–3 | |||||
Emelec | 2–1 | 1–1 | |||||
2002 | Copa Sudamericana | Second Round | Cobreloa
|
3–2 | 1–0 | 4–2 | |
Quarterfinals | Santa Fe | 1–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 5-6p | |||
2004 | Copa Sudamericana | Preliminary Round | Universidad de Concepción | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–3 | |
2015 | Copa Sudamericana | First Round | Libertad | 0–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | |
2018 | Copa Libertadores | Second Prel. Round | Melgar | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | |
Third Prel. Round | Santa Fe | 1–2 | 0–3 | 1–5 |
Records
Seasons and participations
- 61 seasons in Primera División1937, 1944–77, 1979, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991, 1996–98, 2000–07, 2010–2017, 2020-
- 17 seasons in Primera B1978, 1981, 1982, 1985–89, 1992–95, 1999, 2008–09, 2018–2019
- 3 Participations in Copa Libertadores 1969, 2002, 2018
- 3 Participations in Copa Sudamericana 2002, 2004, 2015
Results and players achievements
- Record Primera División victory: 7–0 v. Everton (1949) & v. Universidad Católica (1954).
- Record Copa Chile victory: 7–2 v. San Luis (2014)
- Record Primera División defeat: 1–7 Audax Italiano (2007)
- Record defeat (overall): 0–17 v. Everton (1950)
- Most goals scored (Primera División matches) — 84, Juan Álvarez
- Most goals scored in a Primera División league — 30, Mario Véner (1996).
- Highest home attendance — 30,099 v. Colo-Colo (30 August 1964) (at Estadio Sausalito)
- Primera DivisiónBest Position — Champions (1958, 1968, 2001)
- Copa Chile Best Season — Champions (1959, 1961, 2017)
See also
References
- ^ "Conmebol - El club de los 100". Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- T13.cl. 15 August 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
- ^ a b 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.
- FIFA.com. Archived from the originalon 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.
- ^ "La historia de un gigante: José 'Gallego' Pérez". Santiagowanderers.cl (in Spanish). 15 November 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Santiago Wanderers Campeón 1968". Santiagowanderers.cl (in Spanish). 29 October 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Santiago Wanderers Campeón 2001". Emol.com (in Spanish). 3 November 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
- T13.cl(in Spanish). 15 February 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Plantel de Santiago Wanderers fue desmantelado tras descenso a Primera B". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish). 22 November 2007. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Wanderers empata con San Luis y sube a la Primera División". La Nación (in Spanish). 22 December 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Santiago Wanderers empata ante Naval y aseguró su permanencia en la Primera A". Puranoticia.cl (in Spanish). 10 December 2011. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- T13.cl(in Spanish). 4 December 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- ^ "Palestino humilla a Wanderers y se queda con el tercer cupo para la Copa Libertadores 2015". Emol.com (in Spanish). 22 December 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- CDF(in Spanish). 22 December 2014. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
- AS.com(in Spanish). 11 November 2017. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
External links
- Media related to Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website