The Federacion de Futbol de Chile is the second-oldest South American federation, having been established in Valparaiso on 19 June 1895. Chile was among the four founding members of CONMEBOL. Along along with Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay they took part in the first South American Championship, later to be renamed Copa America, in 1916. On October 12, 1926 Chile achieved the first corner goal of Copa America history in a match against Bolivia. Chile was among the 13 national teams who participated in the first World Cup in 1930. The team had a great start by beating Mexico as well as France and not conceding a single goal. The loss of 3-1 in the final game against Argentina during the last match ended the Chilean team second within the group, and eliminated it from the competition. In 1950's World Cup, Chile defeated the United States, 5-2, however, they were eliminated in the opening round.
The most successful Chilean performance at the World Cup was third place in 1962, when it was Chile was the hosts nation. Chile was defeated 4-2 by the eventual champion Brazil in the semi-final, but then beat Yugoslavia with a score of 1-0, securing third place. Chilean players achieved 2 World Cup firsts: the first person to not miss the World Cup penalty kick was the Chilean Guillermo Subiabre, in the 1930 FIFA World Cup match against France as well as Carlos Caszely of Chile became the first player to be dismissed by a red card in a game in the match against West Germany at the 1974 World Cup.
A scandal dubbed "El Maracanazo" was discovered on the 3rd of September 1989. In the 90 FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Rio's Maracana stadium Brazil had a lead of Chile 1-1 and La Roja required a win. Chilean goalkeeper Roberto Rojas fell to the pitch and suffered an apparent head injury. A firework was thrown into the stands by an Brazilian fan who was named Rosenery Mello do Nascimento and was burning about a foot away. Following the incident, Rojas was removed from the field, Chilean team and their coaches stated that the conditions were not safe , and they did not want to return, which is why the game was canceled. However, video footage from the game revealed that the firework hadn't hit Rojas. FIFA cancelled the match in Brazil, Chile was banned from qualifying in 1994's FIFA World Cup, and Rojas was exiled for life, but an amnesty was granted to him in 2001.
On the 19th of July, 2007 on 19 July 2007, the Chilean Football Federation banned six of the players from the national team due to "internal irresponsibility" in the Copa America tournament, for 20 international matches per match because they damaged the team's hotel's property when they were drunk. The players who were banned were the captain Jorge Valdivia, defenders Alvaro Ormeno, Rodrigo Tello, Jorge Vargas, Pablo Contreras and striker Reinaldo Navia. Nelson Acosta's resignation as manager was announced following the fact that Chile were eliminated from in 2007's Copa America. After being banned for 10 games, suspension, every player, except of Ormeno wrote an apology letter acknowledging their actions, which allowed them to be released from the suspension. Chile was in the quarter-finals with an 3-2 victory over Ecuador and a 0-0 draw with Mexico. However, two losses, one being a 6-1 loss against Brazil was the final straw for Acosta's fate. A former Argentina coach Marcelo Bielsa was appointed to being the Chile national team's manager in prepping for World Cup in 2010. World Cup qualifiers.
On October 16, 2008. Chile won Argentina 1-1 for the first time during a qualification tournament and made history. Marcelo Bielsa was acclaimed for the feat by both Chilean as well as Argentinian people. This game was considered to be one of the factors which ended Alfio Basile's time in Argentina's coaching.
After finishing in second position in the CONMEBOL qualifying matches in 2010's FIFA World Cup held in South Africa and reaching the round of 16 of the tournament Head trainer Marcelo Bielsa signed a contract extension for Chilean national team until 2015. Chilean nation's national side until the year 2015. Bielsa declared that he would quit his job in the event that Jorge Segovia were elected as the president of the Chilean Football Board. Bielsa acted on the warning, in spite of Segovia's appointment being invalidated, and then quit in February of 2011. Claudio Borghi then became Chile's manager in March of 2011.
After a string of poor performances and severe critics Claudio Borghi stepped down as Chile's manager in November of 2012. The new coach, Jorge Sampaoli, was named in December 2012. A close ally of Marcelo Bielsa, Jorge Sampaoli broke record records at La Roja by winning 10 games, drawing 3 and only losing three of his 15 games as head of the Chilean national team.
Through Sampaoli, Chile were able to be selected for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, reaching to the round of 16 in which Chile were defeated by Brazil on penalties.
At the year 2015 of the Copa America, Chile won their first match against Ecuador in a 2-0 win. the score. In their next game, Chile drew against Mexico. Chile made it to the knockout phase with the distinction of being Group A winners with 7 points and the most goals scored of any team at that competition (10). Then , they defeated Uruguay during the quarterfinal stage, and Peru during the semifinals. In the final match, Chile beat Argentina by penalty (4-1) after an 0-0 draw winning their very first Copa America title.
In January of 2016, 6 months following the win in 2015 Copa America, Jorge Sampaoli was fired as Chile's manager. A new manager was appointed, that of the Argentinean Juan Antonio Pizzi, was appointed at the conclusion of that month. who later led La Roja to a second Copa America Centenario 2016 victory following a resounding win over Argentina at the end of the game.
At the 2016 FIFA Confederations Cup held in Russia in which they qualified after having won their first Copa America, Chile won their first match in the group stage against Cameroon with a 2-0 score. In their second game against Germany, Chile drew after an intense match, and both teams scored 1. In their final match in the stage group, against Australia, Chile drew once again, but advanced to the knockout stage by the basis of scoring higher points than Australia even though they had fewer numbers than Germany. The semis were played following an exciting and tense game, Chile came out on the top of the table, beating Portugal on penalties 3-1 and thus were selected for 2017's FIFA Confederations Cup Final. In their first final at a FIFA sanctioned event, Chile faced Germany and ended up losing by 1-0.
On the 10th of October, 2017, after losing the match 3-0 against Brazil, Chile failed to be able to qualify for this year's FIFA World Cup in Russia and ended what was thought to be the country's "golden generation". The team ended up being the most highly ranked team which did not qualify, finishing 9th position, and placed 6th in round-robin competition after losing on goal differential to Peru with the amount of points remaining equal.
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