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Green Cross Full name Club de Deportes Green Cross Nickname(s) Los pijes Founded 1916 Ground Estadio Municipal de Temuco
(Capacity: 22,000)League Primera División 1984 23rd 
Home coloursAway coloursGreen Cross, is an extinct Chilean sports club based in the city of Santiago until 1965, when they moved to Temuco.
The club were founded on June 27, 1916, and their first chairman was Francisco Tapia. It was one of the 8 teams that founded the professional Chilean football league, in 1933.
The club had other sports branches besides football; these were basketball, cyclism, and waterpolo.
The club won their first, and only Chilean league title in 1945.
In 1965 moved to Temuco where they merged with the local football team Deportes Temuco, and since then, they were known as Green Cross Temuco, until 1985 when the club was folded.
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National honours
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- 1945
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- 1960, 1963
- 43 seasons in Primera División
- 5 seasons in Segunda Division
Records
- Record Primera División victory — 8-0 v. Santiago Morning (1977)
- Record Primera División defeat — 1-10 v. Unión Española (1934)
- Most goals scored (Primera División matches) — 75, Juan Morcillo
Notable players
Gustavo Albella- Félix Díaz
- Nicolás Moreno
- Julio Musimessi
- Juan Zárate
Ernesto Álvarez- Juan Covarrubias
Jorge Fossati
See also
- Deportes Temuco
References
- Short background of the club (Spanish)
- RSSSF.com
Categories:- Chilean football clubs
- Association football clubs established in 1916
- Association football clubs disestablished in 1985
- Sport in Santiago
- Chilean sport stubs
- South American football club stubs
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