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2 unusual facts about Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago


Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago

It was formed in 1903 and organized non-professional football in Santiago.

In the early twentieth century, in Santiago there did not exist any organization for the various college football clubs that were emerging and therefore no any football tournament was contested, unlike what happened in Valparaiso, where competitions were held by the Football Association of Chile since 1895 and there was a championship each year.


Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional

The first one was the Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF) created in 1933 by the dissident clubs of the Asociación 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.


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