Worst start in 72 years

Santiago Wanderers suffers the worst start of a team in 72 years, playing in the Chilean First Division. The Caturros lost 1-0 to Antofagasta as a visitor and have not been able to add wins in ten games, with a draw and nine losses and a yield of 3.3 percent.

To find such a bad start you have to go back to the 1949 championship, when Badminton they lost their first ten games, with 11 goals scored and 36 conceded. That year, the aurinegros avoided relegation by merging with the DIVHA (Division of Amateur Honor) champion, Ferroviarios, forming the Ferrobádminton club.

In the 1942 tournament, Santiago National he had exactly the same start as Wanderers, a draw and nine losses, in ten games. That year, they finished with only that unit in the table, and in last place, but there was no relegation.

The caturros only add one point in the contest, which they got against O’Higgins at home on the eighth day. They lost all other games to Unión Española (1-3), Unión La Calera (1-2), Cobresal (1-2), Ñublense (1-2), Universidad de Chile (0-1), Melipilla (0- 3), Everton (0-1), Universidad Católica (0-1) and Antofagasta (0-1).

The last team that did not add victories, in its first ten First Division games, was Cobresal in Transition 2013. First with Oscar del Solar and then with José Cantillana, he registered two draws and eight defeats. In that semester he avoided the decline in the Promotion against Curicó Unido.

The special case of 1937

In his first season in the First Division, in 1937, Santiago Wanderers participated as a guest and he was counted 12 defeats in his 12 games. However, on the court, the Caturros won two of their first four games: 2-1 against Magallanes and 4-3 against Badminton.

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