2025 Supercopa de Chile

With Colo-Colo and Universidad de Chile having qualified to play the Supercopa de Chile, it was originally planned to deviate from the usual single-match format for the competition and have the Supercopa played over two legs due to safety concerns, with the fans of each club being entitled to only attend the match hosted by their club,^[7] however the competition could not be scheduled over two legs during its usual January timeframe given that Universidad de Chile could not host their home leg during that month, with their regular home stadium Estadio Nacional being unavailable and no other alternate stadiums willing to host Universidad de Chile's home match.^[8]

Since it became unfeasible to play the Supercopa over two legs in January, it was decided to return to the single-match format, but the cities of Concepción and Temuco both declined to host the match on safety grounds.^[9][10] Eventually, an agreement was reached to schedule the match for 25 January 2025 at Estadio La Portada in La Serena with the attendance of local fans only,^[11] however, four days before the date the match was scheduled to be played the ANFP announced its suspension as it had not been granted authorization by the Presidential Delegation of the Coquimbo Region to hold the event while also condemning threats from Colo-Colo's barra brava group Garra Blanca in the previous days.^[12]

With the suspension of the match being confirmed, Aníbal Mosa, president of the Blanco y Negro concessionaire that manages Colo-Colo, expressed his support for having the Supercopa played as a two-legged series which he had originally proposed to the ANFP.^[13] On 29 January, ANFP president Pablo Milad confirmed that the Supercopa would change its format and would be contested over two legs, being tentatively rescheduled for July 2025.^[14] On 9 April, the ANFP's Professional Leagues manager Yamal Rajab informed that the Supercopa would be played over two legs between 15 and 22 July 2025, but this plan also fell through since Universidad de Chile qualified to play the knockout round play-offs of the Copa Sudamericana, which were set to be played in those dates.^[15]

Given the difficulties on dates and stadiums to play the competition, the ANFP presented a final proposal to play the Supercopa under its original format of a single match on neutral ground on 13 September in Santiago with fans of both teams in attendance, and the first stadium option to host the match was Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida, which was not approved by the local authorities,^[16] with the mayor of La Florida proposing instead to allow the match to be played behind closed doors.^[17] Eventually, on 20 August it was confirmed that the match would be played in the Chilean capital, but at Estadio Santa Laura in the commune of Independencia.^[1]