The often known as the ANFP, is the governing organization of professional football in Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

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Structure and functions

Legally, it is a corporation of deprived right, different from and independent of the clubs that integrate with it, and comprises the Federación de Fútbol de Chile

Federación de Fútbol de Chile

The Chilean Football Federation is the governing body of association football in Chile. It was founded June 19, 1895, making it the second oldest South American federation, and is a founding member of CONMEBOL in 1916...

. Through this linkage, it is related to the Olympic Committee of Chile, the CONMEBOL

CONMEBOL

The South American Football Confederation , commonly known as CONMEBOL , is the continental governing body of association football in South America and it is one of FIFA's six continental confederations...

 and FIFA

FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

, accepting the statutes, regulations and rules of the game promulgated by the International Board F.A.

The Association monitors all the conforming clubs and acts as the organizational body for professional competitions, governing the Primera División de Chile and Primera B

Primera B (Chile)

Primera División B del Fútbol Profesional Chileno is the second level of Chilean football in the Chilean football league system, and is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional....

 with 32 associate clubs altogether. In 2008, it also established the Primera División of the national female football league, which comprises 14 teams.

History

Before the formal establishment of the ANFP on October 23, 1987, there were four organizations performing the same functions in different eras. The first one was the Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF) created in 1933 by the dissident clubs of the Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago

Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago

The Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago was the first organization in Chile to organize football tournament. It was formed in 1903 and organized non-professional football in 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 included Unión Española

Unión Española

Club Unión Española S.A.D.P is a professional Chilean football based in Independencia, Santiago de Chile. Founded by a Spanish immigrants on 18 May 1897, Unión Española have participated in the top-tier of Chilean football for all of their existence but two seasons in the late '90s .Unión Española...

, Bádminton, Colo-Colo

Colo-Colo

Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo is a Chilean football club based in the commune of Macul, Santiago. It competes in the Primera División, the top-flight football league in the country, from which they have never been relegated. Their home ground is the Estadio Monumental David Arellano.Colo-Colo...

, Audax Italiano

Audax Club Sportivo Italiano

Audax Italiano La Florida is a Chilean football club based in La Florida. Founded in 1910, it plays in the Chilean Primera División and has spent most of their history in the top tier of Chilean football. Audax has been national champions four times, being the sixth chilean team with more title...

, Green Cross, Morning Star, Magallanes

Club Deportivo Magallanes

Deportes Magallanes are a Chilean Football club based in Maipu, Santiago. They currently play at the second level of Chilean football, the Primera B....

 and Santiago National

Santiago National

Santiago National, is an extinct Chilean football club based in the city of Santiago. The club was founded October 10, 1900 and it was one of the 8 teams that founded the first division professional of the Chilean football league, in 1933....

, 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 the Sección Profesional de la Asociación Santiago, and three years later, on February 18, 1937, there arose the Asociación de Fútbol Profesional. Then, on May 29, 1938, the Asociación 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:

• 1933: Liga Profesional de Fútbol (LPF)
• 1934-1936: Sección Profesional de la Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago
• 1937: Asociación de Fútbol Profesional
• 1938-1986: Asociación Central de Fútbol (ACF)
• Since 1987: Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP)

Authorities

The Association is under the leadership of the following authorities:

• Council of Presidents, the body with highest authority, composed of the chairmen of all clubs from Primera División and Primera B
  Primera B (Chile)
  Primera División B del Fútbol Profesional Chileno is the second level of Chilean football in the Chilean football league system, and is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional....
  
  ;
• Board of Directors, composed of the President of ANFP with six directors;
• President, the legal representative of the Association;
• Court, the body being responsible for affairs concerning discipline, heritage and honor;
• Permanent and Transitional Commissions, which establish the Council and the Board of Directors.

Organizations of the Association

The following bodies are responsible for different aspects of the Association:

• Committee on Operations
• Youth Football Committee
• Arbitration Commission
• Legal Commission
• Doping Control Commission: responsible for ensuring compliance with international doping regulations
• National Technical Commission: responsible for planning for the Chile national football team
• Review Commission of Audits: responsible for inspecting and reviewing the bookkeeeping of the Association, all its agencies and also associated clubs
• Disciplinary Tribunal: responsible for dealing with sanctions due to violations of rules and regulations of the Federation, the foundation of competition, and the regulations of FIFA.
• Tribunal of Honor
• Tribunal of Hereditary Affairs: responsible for resolving conflicts that arise between the clubs or between the clubs and the Association, regarding the interpretation, application, compliance, denial, resolution, invalidity, etc. of a contract or agreement. It also has jurisdiction over and judges situations arising from contractual liability of the Association and clubs that breach a contract or agreement