The Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP) monitors all the conforming clubs and acts as the organizational body for professional competitions, governing the Primera División de Chile and Primera B with 32 associate clubs all together.
In 2008, it also established the Primera División of the national female football league, which comprises 14 teams.
Through this linkage, it is related to the Olympic Committee of Chile, the CONMEBOL and FIFA, accepting the statutes, regulations and rules of the game promulgated by the International Board F.A.
The dissident clubs included Unión Española, Bádminton, Colo-Colo, Audax Italiano, Green Cross, Morning Star, Magallanes and Santiago National, which used the percentage of their income which they originally had to submit to the AFS to establish the LPF.
[3] Teams that do not comply with this regulation will suffer the loss of three points plus a fine of five hundred development units (500 UF), which will be deducted from both the table of the regular season, and the cumulative standings.