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.

[6] 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, the nation's first ever title in the continental football tournament.

[citation needed] Until 1936, the club played at amateur level until officially joining the professional league competition in 1937 as soon as the Chilean Football Federation began organising championships in 1933 across the centre and the south zones of Chile.

In their first season competing in the professional league, after finishing bottom of the table – in seventh place – and without points, Wanderers decided to leave the Asociación de Fútbol de Santiago (federation's official governing body that organised the professional football tournament; current ANFP) and return to the local football association.

[8] For the remainder of the 1960s, the club finished fifth and eighth in the following seasons, and in 1968, Santiago Wanderers won its second league title and enjoyed an era of success that saw the emergence of promising players like central defender Elías Figueroa.

Following four seasons in the second division, Wanderers finally achieved promotion to Primera in 1995 winning the league 4-1 on aggregate over two legs against Audax Italiano after finishing 0-0 and on equal 52 points on the ladder after 30 rounds.

In season 1999 and in mid-table under manager Guillermo Páez, the club appointed Jorge Garcés who achieved promotion in the last round 1-1 draw to Deportes Ovalle.

Defeating Audax Italiano 4-2 in the final match day of the 2001 league championship at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago with 50,000 supporters that travelled from Valparaíso.

In 2014, Wanderers performed an impressive Torneo Clausura finishing runner-up behind giants Universidad de Chile after beating Colo-Colo and advance to the second place.

It remained until James McLean, an Englishman who had moved to Valparaiso a few years earlier, proposed shipping in uniforms from England, where kits were already manufactured specifically for football teams.

[3] Since then the team has maintained its home kit with some exceptions, where it was used a white shirt with thin green stripes in late 60s or in 2001 when Wanderers won its third league title.

Current squad of Santiago Wanderers as of 13 November 2024 (edit) Sources: ANFP Official Web Site Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.

Based in the rhythm of English march Captain Craddock, the most commonly accepted and widespread version is that this dates back to 1912 and would be work from the performer and composer Efrain Arévalo López, who would have donated the composition in a gesture of thanks to the club's board, for the joys lived with the team.