Chile Football Shirts

Chile Kits

Since UKSoccershop were founded in 2004, one of the jerseys which has experienced the biggest uplift in sales has been those of the Chilean national team. Often overshadowed by their more illustrious South American neighbours Brazil and Argentina, Chile’s back to back Copa America victories in 2015 and 2016 have catapulted them up our international football shirt sales rankings.

The emergence of exciting players such as Arturo Vidal and Alexis Sanchez have helped grow the popularity of La Roja to soccer fans around the world, although in truth they have never been short of a global superstar, having previously boasted two of footballs best strikers in Marcelo Salas and Ivan Zamarano. Their rise as a football power has been a breath of fresh air and only a penalty shoot out defeat at the hands of hosts Brazil ended their journey at the 2014 World Cup.

The Chile Home Shirt is made up of a deep red jersey and is generally worn with blue shorts and white socks. This combination was first worn at the 1947 South American Championships and has been kept to the modern day although for the 2016 Copa America red shorts were introduced at FIFA’S request as this is apparently the most optimal combination for high definition TV.

The Chile Away Shirt is white. A little known fact about this jersey is that the colour white was chosen to pay tribute to the beautiful snow-capped Andes mounting which are one of Chile’s most famous features.

Between 2004 and 2010, the national team kits were manufactured by local supplier Brooks Sports. However, in an increasingly commercial and competitive market as well as (and believe us – we speak from experience!) difficulties in co-ordinating international supply, they lost the contract after the 2010 World Cup to Puma, who paid $3 million a year as official supplier to the national team.

Puma also failed to fully capitalise on the opportunities provided by the rise of the national team and after the 2015 Copa America, Nike took over the contract on a multi-year deal which will run until the 2022 FIFA World Cup.