1955 Primera División de Chile

Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Profesional

Dates	7 May 1956 – 21 December 1956
Champions	Palestino (1st title)
Relegated	Universidad Católica
Matches played	225
Goals scored	815 (3.62 per match)
Top goalscorer	Nicolás Moreno (27 goals)
Biggest away win	Ferrobádminton 3–9 Palestino (1 November)
Highest attendance	42,843 Audax Italiano 1–0 Colo-Colo (12 June)
Total attendance	1,821,503
Average attendance	8,095
← 1954 1956 →

The 1955 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, was the 23rd season of top-flight football in Chile. Palestino was the tournament’s champion, winning its first ever title.

First Stage

Scores

	AUD	COL	EVE	FEB	GCR	MAG	OHI	PAL	RAN	SMO	UES	UCA	UCH	SWA
Audax		1–0	2–2	3–2	3–3	0–0	4–3	0–4	2–2	1–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	4–2
Colo-Colo	2–1		0–0	1–3	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–0	5–1	4–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	3–1
Everton	2–0	4–3		2–1	4–1	2–0	2–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	2–1	1–0	0–4	1–1
Ferrobádminton	2–2	1–2	3–3		0–2	3–4	0–1	3–9	1–3	2–2	1–1	3–3	2–2	2–1
Green Cross	0–2	1–1	1–1	3–3		1–1	6–1	1–2	5–1	2–0	1–1	3–2	1–0	2–1
Magallanes	3–1	2–2	4–3	2–0	3–1		3–3	2–3	0–1	1–0	1–2	2–0	2–2	2–1
O'Higgins	3–3	3–1	3–2	3–2	1–1	3–3		2–2	4–2	2–0	3–1	0–0	0–1	1–1
Palestino	3–3	3–2	2–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	4–2		5–3	3–0	1–1	5–3	2–4	3–1
Rangers	2–2	2–2	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–0		3–0	1–3	0–1	4–1	0–0
S. Morning	1–1	2–1	2–2	1–3	2–0	4–3	2–0	1–1	2–1		0–1	0–0	0–3	1–2
U. Española	3–3	1–0	1–4	1–1	0–1	3–0	2–0	2–6	1–1	2–0		2–3	4–2	4–0
U. Católica	4–5	1–6	1–0	5–3	1–3	2–3	0–1	1–2	3–0	0–2	2–0		1–3	1–3
U. de Chile	3–5	2–2	1–0	0–2	3–0	2–3	7–2	1–2	3–3	3–1	0–0	0–1		6–1
S. Wanderers	3–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	4–3	3–0	1–2	2–2	0–0	4–1	1–2	1–1	2–2

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Palestino	26	16	8	2	69	39	+30	40	Qualified to the Championship stage
2	Unión Española	26	11	8	7	42	36	+6	30
3	Everton	26	10	9	7	40	34	+6	29
4	Universidad de Chile	26	10	8	8	57	42	+15	28
5	Colo-Colo	26	10	8	8	49	39	+10	28
6	Audax Italiano	26	8	12	6	54	54	0	28
7	Green Cross	26	9	9	8	45	41	+4	27
8	Magallanes	26	10	7	9	46	47	−1	27
9	O'Higgins	26	9	8	9	45	53	−8	26
10	Santiago Wanderers	26	7	9	10	40	48	−8	23
11	Rangers	26	5	12	9	36	45	−9	22
12	Ferrobádminton	26	4	11	11	46	59	−13	19
13	Santiago Morning	26	6	7	13	27	45	−18	19
14	Universidad Católica	26	7	4	15	38	52	−14	18

Source:

Championship stage

Scores

	AUD	COL	EVE	GCR	MAG	PAL	UES	UCH
Audax		1–4	4–2	1–1	1–1	3–5	1–1	1–2
Colo-Colo			2–6	1–3	2–2	6–2	3–1	5–1
Everton				2–2	1–0	2–3	1–1	5–2
Green Cross					2–1	5–3	0–1	0–3
Magallanes						4–3	2–0	2–2
Palestino							2–1	4–5
U. Española								0–4
U. de Chile

Standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Colo-Colo	7	4	1	2	23	16	+7	9
2	Universidad de Chile	7	4	1	2	19	17	+2	9
3	Everton	7	3	2	2	19	14	+5	8
4	Green Cross	7	3	2	2	13	12	+1	8
5	Magallanes	7	2	3	2	12	11	+1	7
6	Palestino	7	3	0	4	22	26	−4	6
7	Audax Italiano	7	1	3	3	12	16	−4	5
8	Unión Española	7	1	2	4	5	13	−8	4

Source:

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Palestino	33	19	8	6	91	65	+26	46	Champions
2	Colo-Colo	33	14	9	10	72	55	+17	37
3	Universidad de Chile	33	14	9	10	76	59	+17	37
4	Everton	33	13	11	9	59	48	+11	37
5	Green Cross	33	12	11	10	58	53	+5	35
6	Magallanes	33	12	10	11	58	58	0	34
7	Unión Española	33	12	10	11	47	49	−2	34
8	Audax Italiano	33	9	15	9	66	70	−4	33

Source:

Campeonato Nacional 1955 Champions
Palestino 1st title

Relegation stage

Scores

	FEB	OHI	RAN	SMO	UCA	SWA
Ferrobádminton		1–1	2–0	0–1	4–4	0–4
O'Higgins			1–5	5–2	3–2	2–1
Rangers				1–3	1–0	1–1
S. Morning					3–1	1–1
U. Católica						4–1
S. Wanderers

Standings

Pos	Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Santiago Morning	5	3	1	1	10	8	2	7
1	O'Higgins	5	3	1	1	12	11	1	7
3	Rangers	5	2	1	2	8	7	1	5
4	Santiago Wanderers	5	1	2	2	8	8	0	4
5	Ferrobádminton	5	1	2	2	7	10	-3	4
6	Universidad Católica	5	1	1	3	11	12	-1	3

Aggregate table

Pos	Team	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
9	O'Higgins	31	12	9	10	57	64	-7	33
10	Santiago Wanderers	31	8	11	12	48	56	-8	27
11	Rangers	31	7	13	11	44	52	-8	27
12	Santiago Morning	31	9	8	14	37	53	-16	26
13	Ferrobádminton	31	5	13	13	53	69	-16	23
14	Universidad Católica	31	8	5	18	49	64	-15	21

Relegated to Segunda División

Topscorer

Name	Team	Goals
Nicolás Moreno	Green Cross	27

External links

• ANFP (in Spanish)
• RSSSF Chile 1955