CLUB
La Cruz Football Club
Chile
Overview
La Cruz is recorded as the club affiliation for 2 players in Footballopedia’s registered 1930 World Cup roster data for Chile. This historical club card is built from the tournament-era roster connection; broader club history can be enriched independently without breaking the player-to-club link.
Key facts
- Country
- Chile
- City
- Valparaíso
- 1930 name
- La Cruz
- Club status
- defunct
- Founded
- 1897
- Dissolved / identity ended
- c. 1987
- Historical status
- No longer exists as the same 1930 club identity
- 1930 team context
- Chile
- 1930 linked players
- 2
- Identity status
- verified-historical-identity
History
Pre-1930 chronologyDescription: Before the 1930 World Cup, La Cruz Football Club already had a documented club history extending from 1897 through the tournament era. Footballopedia now keeps that pre-1930 story as a season-aware chronology rather than treating 1930 as the club’s starting point.
Chapter 1Description: La Cruz was founded in Valparaíso in 1897 and became one of the city’s strongest early football clubs.
Chapter 2Description: It won the Valparaíso league repeatedly, including the 1930 season, and later the inaugural Asociación Porteña professional title in 1940.
Chapter 3Description: The historic club disappeared around 1987.
Historical overview
Identity and place in football historyDescription: Founded in Valparaíso in 1897 and rooted in the city’s earliest organised football culture; it was also linked to the early anti-alcohol league movement and the Football Association of Chile.
The club around the 1930 World CupDescription: In Footballopedia’s 1930 graph, La Cruz Football Club is linked to 2 World Cup roster player(s) through tournament-era club affiliation. This club page records those names inside club/season history only; no player profile was created or expanded in this pass.
End of the original identityDescription: The historic club eventually disappeared in the late twentieth century; later namesakes are not automatically merged into this canonical identity.
Historical timeline
1897Description: Foundation / earliest canonical start of the La Cruz Football Club identity.
Pre-1930 chronologyDescription: Before the 1930 World Cup, La Cruz Football Club already had a documented club history extending from 1897 through the tournament era. Footballopedia now keeps that pre-1930 story as a season-aware chronology rather than treating 1930 as the club’s starting point.
Chapter 1Description: La Cruz was founded in Valparaíso in 1897 and became one of the city’s strongest early football clubs.
Chapter 2Description: It won the Valparaíso league repeatedly, including the 1930 season, and later the inaugural Asociación Porteña professional title in 1940.
Chapter 3Description: The historic club disappeared around 1987.
1930 World Cup eraDescription: Documented club affiliation for: Ulises Poirier, Guillermo Riveros.
c. 1987Description: The historic Valparaíso club disappeared around 1987.
Season-by-season history
1897Season: 1897 · Competition: Club formation · Finish: Founded · Notes: Founded 9 May 1897 in Valparaíso.Founding milestone.
1899Season: 1899 · Competition: Liga Antialcohólica · Finish: Founding participant · Notes: La Cruz was among the founding clubs of this early Valparaíso competition.No full roster asserted.
1909Season: 1909 · Competition: Copa Sporting · Finish: Winners · Notes: Documented Copa Sporting title.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1914Season: 1914 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1914Season: 1914 · Competition: Copa Sporting · Finish: Winners · Notes: Documented Copa Sporting title.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1916Season: 1916 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1917Season: 1917 · Competition: Copa Sporting · Finish: Winners · Notes: Documented Copa Sporting title.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1918Season: 1918 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1922Season: 1922 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1922Season: 1922 · Competition: Copa Sporting · Finish: Winners · Notes: Documented Copa Sporting title.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1923Season: 1923 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1923Season: 1923 · Competition: Copa Sporting · Finish: Winners · Notes: Documented Copa Sporting title.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1924Season: 1924 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1925Season: 1925 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1928Season: 1928 · Competition: Copa Sporting · Finish: Winners · Notes: Documented Copa Sporting title.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1929/30Season: 1929/30 · Competition: Valparaíso football · Finish: Active · Notes: World Cup-era club link in the Chile graph.Documented players: Ulises Poirier, Guillermo RiverosWorld Cup-linked player(s) only; not a full squad.
1929Season: 1929 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
pre-1930Season: pre-1930 · Competition: Liga Valparaíso / local competitions · Finish: Nine-time historical champion across its history · Notes: A major early Valparaíso club; exact year-by-year rosters require local newspaper/archive sources.No season roster asserted.
1930Season: 1930 · Competition: Liga Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: Won the Valparaíso league title, one of nine historic championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1930Season: 1930 · Competition: Liga de Valparaíso · Finish: Champions · Notes: One of La Cruz Football Club’s nine documented Valparaíso league championships.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1940Season: 1940 · Competition: Asociación Porteña de Fútbol Profesional · Finish: Champions · Notes: Founding participant and champion of the inaugural professional Porteña competition.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1945Season: 1945 · Competition: Asociación Porteña / Apertura · Finish: Apertura runners-up · Notes: Documented late participation in the Porteña professional structure.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1945Season: 1945 · Competition: Torneo de Apertura de la Asociación Porteña · Finish: Runners-up · Notes: Documented runner-up finish in the Porteña opening tournament.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1949Season: 1949 · Competition: División de Honor Amateur (DIVHA) · Finish: Participant · Notes: Joined the national amateur honor division structure.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
1954Season: 1954 · Competition: Chilean Segunda División · Finish: Last; relegated · Notes: Spent one season in the national second tier and was relegated after finishing last.No full roster asserted; season row is source-gated.
Competition chronology
1897Description: Club formation | Founded | Founded 9 May 1897 in Valparaíso.
1899Description: Liga Antialcohólica | Founding participant | La Cruz was among the founding clubs of this early Valparaíso competition.
pre-1930Description: Liga Valparaíso / local competitions | Nine-time historical champion across its history | A major early Valparaíso club; exact year-by-year rosters require local newspaper/archive sources.
1929/30Description: Valparaíso football | Active | World Cup-era club link in the Chile graph.
Honours and achievements
Honour / achievementDescription: Valparaíso League champion: 9 titles.
Honour / achievementDescription: Asociación Porteña professional champion: 1940.
Stadium and ground history
Venue-history ruleDescription: Only grounds supported by historical evidence are attached. A modern ground is never projected backward into the 1930 period merely because a successor or namesake later used it.
1930 World Cup-linked players
Ulises PoirierDescription: DF · Chile · tournament-era club affiliation
Guillermo RiverosDescription: DF · Chile · tournament-era club affiliation
What happened to the club
Canonical historical identityDescription: No longer exists as the same 1930 club identity
What happened nextDescription: The historic club eventually disappeared in the late twentieth century; later namesakes are not automatically merged into this canonical identity.
Continuity policyDescription: Successor, merger partner, refoundation and namesake are stored as related entities/lineage. They are not silently collapsed into the 1930 club unless legal and sporting continuity is demonstrated.
Club lineage
1930 identityDescription: La Cruz
End of original identityDescription: The historic Valparaíso club disappeared around 1987.
Legacy and identity note
This page preserves the La Cruz identity as it existed around the 1930 World Cup. Later clubs using a similar name are not automatically treated as the same legal entity.
Squad
Ulises PoirierPosition: DF · National Team: Chile · Player Slug: ulises-poirier
Guillermo RiverosPosition: DF · National Team: Chile · Player Slug: guillermo-riveros
Sources
Notes
Historical-identity ruleDescription: Footballopedia keeps the 1930 club as its own canonical historical entity even when a successor, merger partner, refoundation or namesake exists.
World Cup linkDescription: Linked to 2 player(s) in the 1930 World Cup roster graph.
Related
ChileRole: National team context · Type: national_team