Football is the most popular sport in Chile. Another sport also almost as popular in the country is tennis (all tennis betting).

Betting on the Chilean Championship

The dominant football team for several seasons has been Universidad Catolica, with six league titles to their name since 2016. In terms of overall record, the reference club remains Colo Colo, which has already lifted more than thirty league titles and more than ten Chilean Cup successes.

In addition to these national achievements, Colo-Colo remains the only Chilean club to win the Copa Libertadores, a feat they achieved in 1991. Colo-Colo is the team with the most fans in Chile and has a long-standing rivalry with the University of Chile, the second most successful team in the Chilean Primera Division.

Chile earns four spots in the Copa Libertadores tournament (all Copa Libertadores bets), as do all nations except Brazil and Argentina. Despite being generally recognised as a powerful football nation, Chile has fewer continental championships than Colombia, Uruguay, and Paraguay (nations whose collective population is just over half that of Chile).

Betting on a football match in Chile

The Chilean football landscape is dominated by the city of Santiago, which is not surprising as the city represents one-third of the national population and is more than five times larger than its nearest rival. The capital can sometimes count six teams in the Primera Division tournament, which is composed of about 16 teams - three of which make up the "Big Three" of Chilean football: Colo-Colo, Universidad de Chile and Universidad Catolica. Out of the 100 trophies awarded in the Chilean league, two-thirds of them are distributed among these three teams.

Recommended bets on the Chilean championship

Unsurprisingly, these three teams represent the bulk of the league's attendance figures. They are the only clubs that average more than 10,000 spectators per game. Even the other clubs from Santiago, Audax Italiano, Palestino and Union Espanola, the latter being no stranger to an occasional title race, get less than half that. Therefore, we recommend betting on a team from the "Big Three". Make your bets on football, the most popular sport worldwide - for many reasons.