1968 Primera División de Chile

Campeonato Profesional de Fútbol

Dates	27 April 1968 – 11 January 1969
Champions	Santiago Wanderers (2nd title)
Relegated	Unión San Felipe
1969 Copa Libertadores	Santiago Wanderers Universidad Católica (Play-off Winners)
Matches played	325
Goals scored	1,018 (3.13 per match)
Top goalscorer	Eladio Zárate (32 goals)
Biggest home win	Unión La Calera 7–0 Rangers (10 November)
Highest attendance	70,481 Universidad Católica 0–0 Universidad de Chile (13 November)
Total attendance	3,697,921
Average attendance	11,378
← 1967 1969 →

The 1968 Campeonato Nacional de Futbol Profesional was Chilean first tier’s 36th season. Santiago Wanderers were the champions, winning its second title.

First stage

Torneo Metropolitano

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Universidad de Chile	14	9	1	4	34	18	+16	19	Qualified to Torneo Nacional
2	Audax Italiano	14	5	7	2	26	23	+3	17
3	Universidad Católica	14	5	4	5	17	16	+1	14
4	Santiago Morning	14	5	4	5	28	38	−10	14
5	Colo-Colo	14	4	5	5	30	25	+5	13	Qualified to 5th-place play-off
6	Unión Española	14	5	3	6	25	24	+1	13
7	Palestino	14	4	5	5	23	23	0	13
8	Magallanes	14	2	5	7	18	34	−16	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home \ Away	AUDI	COLO	MAGA	PALE	SMOR	UESP	UCAT	UCHI
Audax I.		2–1	2–2	2–2	2–2	5–3	1–0	2–2
Colo-Colo	2–2		3–3	4–2	2–2	0–0	4–0	3–4
Magallanes	1–1	1–6		0–3	3–2	0–1	0–3	2–1
Palestino	2–1	2–4	2–2		3–1	2–2	1–1	1–0
S. Morning	2–2	2–1	5–4	0–0		2–1	4–2	0–5
U. Española	1–2	2–0	3–0	4–3	1–2		1–1	4–2
U. Católica	3–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	5–2	1–0		0–1
U. de Chile	0–2	3–0	2–0	1–0	7–2	4–2	2–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

5th-place play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Palestino	2	1	1	0	3	1	+2	3	Qualified to Torneo Nacional
2	Colo-Colo	2	1	0	1	4	3	+1	2
3	Unión Española	2	0	1	1	0	3	−3	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home \ Away	COLO	PALE	UESP
Colo-Colo			3–0
Palestino	3–1
U. Española		0–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Torneo Provincial

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Deportes Concepción	18	8	7	3	23	12	+11	23	Qualified to Torneo Nacional
2	Santiago Wanderers	18	7	7	4	23	15	+8	21
3	Huachipato	18	6	8	4	28	14	+14	20
4	Green Cross Temuco	18	8	4	6	21	18	+3	20
5	Rangers	18	3	11	4	14	16	−2	17	Qualified to 5th-place play-off
6	Deportes La Serena	18	6	5	7	14	17	−3	17
7	Unión La Calera	18	6	5	7	18	25	−7	17
8	Everton	18	6	5	7	24	32	−8	17
9	Unión San Felipe	18	5	5	8	24	32	−8	15
10	O'Higgins	18	5	3	10	22	30	−8	13

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home \ Away	DCON	EVER	GCRT	HUAC	DLSE	OHIG	RANG	USFE	ULCA	SWAN
D. Concepción		2–2	4–0	0–0	2–0	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0	1–1
Everton	1–1		1–3	0–2	1–0	2–3	2–1	2–0	3–1	1–1
Green Cross T.	2–1	3–2		0–0	1–1	2–0	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–0
Huachipato	0–0	5–0	1–0		0–0	5–1	0–1	1–1	5–0	1–1
D. La Serena	0–1	0–1	1–0	2–1		1–0	1–1	3–0	3–2	1–0
O'Higgins	0–1	1–2	1–0	2–2	3–0		1–1	5–2	1–2	0–1
Rangers	0–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–0	1–0		2–2	1–2	1–1
U. San Felipe	1–1	2–2	3–1	1–3	3–1	3–1	1–0		1–0	1–2
U. La Calera	2–1	1–1	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–1	0–0	2–1		0–0
S. Wanderers	0–1	4–0	0–3	2–0	1–0	3–0	0–0	2–2	4–1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

5th-place play-off

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Everton	3	2	0	1	8	3	+5	4	Qualified to Torneo Nacional
2	Deportes La Serena	3	2	0	1	5	3	+2	4
3	Rangers	3	2	0	1	4	5	−1	4
4	Unión La Calera	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home \ Away	EVER	DLSE	RANG	ULCA
Everton			5–0	2–1
D. La Serena	2–1		0–1
Rangers				3–0
U. La Calera		1–3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

Torneo Promocional

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Colo-Colo	14	9	5	0	37	17	+20	23	Qualified to Serie A
2	Unión Española	14	8	2	4	32	25	+7	18
3	Magallanes	14	5	6	3	29	24	+5	16
4	Rangers	14	5	5	4	16	22	−6	15
5	Unión La Calera	14	4	4	6	27	22	+5	12
6	Deportes La Serena	14	3	5	6	14	21	−7	11
7	O'Higgins	14	3	3	8	19	35	−16	9
8	Unión San Felipe	14	2	4	8	18	26	−8	8

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home \ Away	COLO	DLSE	MAGA	OHIG	USFE	ULCA	RANG	UESP
Colo-Colo		3–1	2–2	2–2	2–1	4–2	3–1	1–0
D. La Serena	0–3		3–3	1–0	1–1	1–2	0–0	2–1
Magallanes	2–2	2–0		4–2	1–1	2–1	1–2	4–4
O'Higgins	1–6	2–1	1–2		1–1	3–1	0–0	0–2
U. San Felipe	1–3	0–1	3–3	0–2		2–0	3–1	2–3
U. La Calera	2–2	1–0	1–2	6–1	2–1		7–0	2–3
Rangers	1–1	1–1	1–0	4–1	1–0	0–0		2–1
U. Española	1–3	2–2	2–1	5–3	3–1	1–0	4–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Final stage

Torneo Nacional

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Santiago Wanderers	18	11	3	4	37	20	+17	25	Champions. Qualified to 1969 Copa Libertadores
2	Universidad Católica	18	10	4	4	42	25	+17	24	Qualified to Pre-Copa Libertadores play-off
3	Universidad de Chile	18	9	6	3	31	17	+14	24
4	Palestino	18	7	6	5	37	34	+3	20
5	Huachipato	18	7	3	8	18	20	−2	17
6	Audax Italiano	18	5	5	8	20	26	−6	15
7	Green Cross Temuco	18	5	5	8	29	36	−7	15
8	Deportes Concepción	18	4	6	8	21	28	−7	14
9	Santiago Morning	18	5	4	9	32	46	−14	14
10	Everton	18	4	4	10	20	35	−15	12

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home \ Away	AUDI	DCON	EVER	GCRT	HUAC	PALE	SMOR	UCAT	UCHI	SWAN
Audax I.		0–1	4–3	1–1	0–3	3–1	2–1	3–2	1–0	3–3
D. Concepción	1–1		2–0	0–0	2–1	1–1	5–2	0–2	0–2	0–1
Everton	1–1	2–0		0–1	0–1	3–3	1–1	2–0	1–3	2–1
Green Cross T.	2–1	2–2	0–0		1–0	0–1	5–0	0–1	1–1	0–3
Huachipato	2–1	1–1	2–0	1–0		0–1	1–1	1–4	0–1	2–1
Palestino	4–3	1–1	4–1	1–2	1–2		3–3	3–3	0–2	3–1
S. Morning	2–2	4–3	4–0	4–2	1–0	0–1		2–1	3–5	0–2
U. Católica	2–0	2–1	5–2	6–2	3–1	5–2	3–2		0–0	2–2
U. de Chile	2–1	2–0	1–2	1–0	0–0	3–3	5–0	1–1		0–2
S. Wanderers	5–2	4–1	2–0	3–1	2–0	0–1	2–1	1–0	2–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Serie A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Colo-Colo	6	5	0	1	24	11	+13	10
2	Unión Española	6	4	1	1	17	10	+7	9
3	Rangers	6	1	1	4	10	15	−5	3
4	Magallanes	6	1	0	5	7	22	−15	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home \ Away	COLO	MAGA	RANG	UESP
Colo-Colo		4–3	2–1	3–2
Magallanes	0–6		3–2	1–3
Rangers	1–6	3–0		3–3
U. Española	4–3	4–0	1–0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Serie B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
1	Deportes La Serena	6	4	0	2	13	9	+4	8
2	O'Higgins	6	4	0	2	10	8	+2	8
3	Unión La Calera	6	2	1	3	13	12	+1	5
4	Unión San Felipe	6	1	1	4	7	14	−7	3	Relegated to 1969 Segunda División de Chile

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Home \ Away	OHIG	DLSE	USFE	ULCA
O'Higgins		2–3	2–1	2–1
D. La Serena	1–2		4–0	3–2
U. San Felipe	0–1	2–0		2–5
U. La Calera	2–1	1–2	2–2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Title

Campeonato Profesional 1968 champion
Santiago Wanderers 2nd title

Pre-Copa Libertadores play-off

Universidad Católica v Universidad de Chile

9 January 1969	Universidad Católica	1 – 0	Universidad de Chile	Estadio Nacional, Santiago
	Livingstone 39'			Attendance: 33,294 Referee: J. Cruzat

Universidad de Chile v Universidad Católica

11 January 1969	Universidad de Chile	2 – 1	Universidad Católica	Estadio Nacional, Santiago
	Marcos 70' Hodge 76'		48' Herrera	Attendance: 63,720 Referee: J. Cruzat

Universidad Católica also qualified for the 1969 Copa Libertadores due to better goal difference in the Final stage

Top goalscorers

Rank	Name	Club	Goals
1	Eladio Zárate	Unión Española	32
2	Osvaldo Castro	Unión La Calera	31
3	Carlos Reinoso	Audax Italiano	21

Sources

• RSSSF Chile 1968
• Tablas 1968

External links

• ANFP (in Spanish)