Santiago Wanderers
| Full name | Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers | |||
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| Nicknames | 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 | Reinaldo Sánchez | |||
| Manager | Héctor Robles | |||
| League | Primera B | |||
| 2025 | Primera B, 8th of 16 | |||
| Website | www | |||
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Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a football club based in Valparaíso, Chile that currently plays in the Chilean Primera Division. Wanderers have played their games there since 1931 at Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, which has a capacity of 20,000.
Founded in 1892, it is the country's oldest club and the oldest football team in Chile and the entirety of the Americas. For this reason, Wanderers is known in Chile as the Decano del fútbol chileno ("The dean of Chilean football") and forms part of CONMEBOL's Club de los 100, section which congregates Latin-American teams founded over 100 years ago. In 2007, the club was declared as part of Valparaíso's intangible heritage. The club's home colours are green shirts and socks with white shorts, which are based on the colours of the Irish national football team.
Wanderers have a fierce rivalry with cross-city neighbours Everton and the two sides contest the Clásico Porteño (Seaport Derby), the oldest derby in Chile, which started in 1916. Wanderers are historically the working-class club whereas Everton are considered to be from the wealthier tourist and beach resort districts.
In the club's early history, the club was a member of the local championship held in the Valparaíso Region called Liga Valparaíso, winning seven titles. In 1926, the football associations in Chile were unified, and Valparaíso went into decline as the administrative hub of Chilean football. After this period, having joined the professional football association in 1944, the club has won three further league titles in 1958, 1968, and 2001.
Wanderers have produced important players in Chilean football history like Elías Figueroa, who is considered the best Chilean footballer of all time, as well as one of the greatest defenders of football, alongside Franz Beckenbauer, according to FIFA. Other important players Wanderers has produced for Chile have been Moisés Villarroel, Reinaldo Navia, David Pizarro and Eugenio Mena, the two latter who were both 2015 Copa América champions.