| Football Federation of Chile | |
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| Founded | 23 October 1987; 38 years ago (1987-10-23)[1] |
| Headquarters | Santiago,Chile |
| FIFA affiliation | 1914 |
| Football Federation of Chile affiliation | 1916 |
| President | Pablo Milad Abusleme |
| Website | anfp.cl |
TheAsociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP) monitors all the conforming clubs and acts as the organizational body for professional competitions, governing thePrimera División de Chile andPrimera B with 32 associate clubs all together. In 2008, it also established the Primera División of the national female football league, which comprises 14 teams.
Legally, it is a corporation of deprived right, different from and independent of the clubs that integrate with it, and comprises theFederación de Fútbol de Chile. Through this linkage, it is related to the Olympic Committee of Chile, theCONMEBOL andFIFA, accepting the statutes, regulations and rules of the game promulgated by the International Board F.A.[2]
Before the formal establishment of the ANFP on 23 October 1987, there were four organisations performing the same functions in different eras. The first one was theLiga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF) created in 1933 by the dissident clubs of theAsociación de Fútbol de Santiago (AFS), the first organizer of a national football competition, after a dispute over the policy of paying salaries to their players. The dissident clubs includedUnión Española, Bádminton,Colo-Colo,Audax Italiano, Green Cross, Morning Star,Magallanes andSantiago National, which used the percentage of their income which they originally had to submit to the AFS to establish the LPF. In 1934, a compromise was reached between the LPF and the AFS, resulting in their merger. The newly formed body was renamed theSección Profesional de la Asociación Santiago, and three years later, on 18 February 1937, there arose theAsociación de Fútbol Profesional. Then, on 29 May 1938, theAsociación Central de Fútbol (ACF) replaced the Asociación de Fútbol Profesional, and functioned as the governing body of professional football in Chile until the mid-eighties. Finally, the ANFP was established in 1987 and has been performing the job of its predecessors since then. In summary, the different eras of the organization of professional football in Chile are:
In the 2015–16 Chilean football season the Youth Players Rule was adopted, the rule specifies that all professional teams must include at least two Chilean players born on or after 1 July 1995 in their team lineup, and that a youth player of the team plays at least 675 minutes. The rule is forCampeonato Nacional,Primera B de Chile,Segunda División de Chile andCopa Chile. The rule does not apply to international competitions such asCopa Libertadores orCopa Sudamericana.[3] Teams that do not comply with this regulation will suffer the loss of three points plus a fine of five hundred development units (500 UF), which will be deducted from both the table of the regular season, and the cumulative standings.
The Association is under the leadership of the following authorities:
The following bodies are responsible for different aspects of the Association:
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