FFCh — Federación de Fútbol de Chile

What is the FFCh?

The Federación de Fútbol de Chile (FFCh) is the national association for football in Chile and the body that represents the country in FIFA and CONMEBOL. FIFA’s member-association page lists it as the Chilean Football Association, under CONMEBOL, with www.anfp.cl as its website.^[3] CONMEBOL’s profile of its member describes it as “Institución madre del fútbol chileno, fundadora de la CONMEBOL y una de las más antiguas del mundo” — the mother institution of Chilean football, a founder of CONMEBOL and one of the oldest in the world, in CONMEBOL’s words.^[1]

FIFA gives the ANFP’s website as the federation’s, and the federation’s board is published on the institutional page of the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP), which lists a “Directorio FFCh” beside the ANFP’s own board; the two share a president and a general secretary.^[6] The ANFP’s site gives the same Santiago address for both.^[7] FIFA’s list of the federation’s officers gives the same address and names a vice-president and a general secretary beside the president, head coaches of the men’s and women’s national teams, a futsal coordinator and a chair of the referees committee.^[2]

What does the FFCh govern or do?

Under CONMEBOL’s description, the FFCh sits above two bodies: “De ella dependen la ANFP (Asociación del Fútbol Profesional) y la ANFA (Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Amateur)”.^[1] The professional game is run through the ANFP, whose site publishes the 2026 competition rules (bases) for the Campeonato Nacional de Primera División, the Campeonato Ascenso, the Segunda División, the Copa Chile, the Copa de la Liga, the Liga Femenina and Ascenso Femenino, the futsal leagues and the national youth championships.^[5]

On discipline, the ANFP publishes a disciplinary code it describes as defining infractions, setting the corresponding sanctions and regulating the organisation and operation of the disciplinary authorities.^[8] The institutional page also lists the commissions and tribunals of the professional game.^[6] FIFA lists a chair of the federation’s referees committee among its officers.^[2] Amateur football outside the professional divisions belongs to the ANFA, the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Amateur, which CONMEBOL places under the federation.^[1]

When was the FFCh founded and where is it based?

CONMEBOL’s profile gives the federation’s founding date as 19 June 1895 and calls it one of the oldest football bodies in the world.^[1]

CONMEBOL’s statutes record Chile as one of the four associations with membership dated from 1916, the year CONMEBOL itself was founded (9 July 1916).^[4] The present name, Federación de Fútbol de Chile, is the one both CONMEBOL’s statutes and its member list use.^[4][9]

The seat CONMEBOL gives is Avda. Quilín 5635, Peñalolén, Santiago,^[1] the same address the ANFP gives for itself.^[7] FIFA’s officer list gives it as Avda. Quilín No. 5635, Comuna Peñalolén, Santiago de Chile.^[2]

How is the FFCh recognised?

FIFA. FIFA’s member-association page lists the Chilean Football Association, with CONMEBOL as its confederation and Pablo Milad as president.^[3]

CONMEBOL. Article 5(3) of the CONMEBOL statutes approved by the extraordinary congress of 4 June 2019 names the ten member associations, among them “Federación de Fútbol de Chile desde 1916”.^[4] CONMEBOL’s association profile states “Ingreso CONMEBOL: 1916” and calls the federation a founder of the confederation.^[1] Chile appears among the ten associations on CONMEBOL’s members page.^[9] The statutes also oblige every member association to “instaurar un sistema de concesión de licencia de clubes que cumpla con los requisitos mínimos establecidos por la CONMEBOL y la FIFA” — to set up a club-licensing system meeting CONMEBOL’s and FIFA’s minimum requirements.^[4]

What does the FFCh organise?

The national teams are presented on the ANFP’s site in three groups — the men’s team (Selección Masculina), the women’s team (Selección Femenina) and the youth teams (Selecciones Juveniles).^[7] They enter the FIFA World Cup qualifiers and the Copa América through CONMEBOL; FIFA’s page shows the country’s tournament record, including youth and Olympic tournaments.^[3]

Domestic competition is published by the ANFP. Its bases page for 2026 carries the rules of the Campeonato Nacional de Primera División — the Liga de Primera — and of the Campeonato Ascenso, the Segunda División, the Copa Chile, the Copa de la Liga, the Supercopa (2025 edition), the Liga Femenina and Ascenso Femenino, futsal leagues in men’s, women’s, second-tier and under-20 categories, and national and regional youth championships from the under-11s upward.^[5] Chilean clubs qualify from these competitions for the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Sudamericana, which CONMEBOL organises.

Who are its members?

CONMEBOL’s profile names two bodies that depend on the federation: the ANFP, for professional football, and the ANFA (Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Amateur), for amateur football.^[1] Professional football is organised through the ANFP, whose board — president, two vice-presidents, a general secretary and two directors — is published separately from the federation’s own board of seven, which includes a vice-president and a treasurer.^[6]

The two boards are linked at the top: the FFCh board published on the ANFP’s institutional page shares its president and general secretary with the ANFP board.^[6] FIFA gives the ANFP’s website as the federation’s own and lists the federation’s address as the ANFP’s Santiago headquarters.^[3][2]