Leonel Sánchez

**Leonel Sánchez** (25 April 1936 – 2 April 2022) was a Chilean football player. He played for Chile national team from 1955 until 1968.

Sánchez died of pulmonary fibrosis on 2 April 2022 in Santiago, Chile at the age of 85.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="18"|Universidad de Chile|1953|rowspan="17"|Chilean Primera División|4|1|–|–|4|1||
|1954|5|3|–|–|5|3||||||
|1955|33|14|–|–|33|14||||||
|1956|22|10|–|–|22|10||||||
|1957|21|14|–|–|21|14||||||
|1958|25|9|2|1|–|27|10|||||
|1959|26|22|6|4|–|32|26|||||
|1960|23|10|–|2|0|25|10|||||
|1961|24|6|2|0|–|26|6|||||
|1962|32|19|–|–|32|19||||||
|1963|27|11|–|3|0|30|11|||||
|1964|24|5|–|–|24|5||||||
|1965|30|15|–|4|0|34|15|||||
|1966|19|8|–|5|2|24|10|||||
|1967|34|6|–|–|34|6||||||
|1968|27|6|–|1|0|28|6|||||
|1969|10|0|1|1|–|11|1|||||
|Colo Colo|1970|Chilean Primera División|31|2|–|–|31|2||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="14"|Chile|1955|2|0|
|1956|9|2|||
|1957|7|0|||
|1958|0|0|||
|1959|9|3|||
|1960|10|2|||
|1961|8|6|||
|1962|7|4|||
|1963|1|5|||
|1964|2|0|||
|1965|10|0|||
|1966|12|0|||
|1967|5|1|||
|1968|3|1|||

- _Scores and results list Chile's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sánchez goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|24 January 1956|Montevideo, Uruguay|||4–1|1956 South American Championship||||||||
|2|9 February 1956|Montevideo, Uruguay|||4–3|1956 South American Championship||||||||
|3|11 March 1959|Buenos Aires, Argentina|||1–2|1959 South American Championship (Argentina)||||||||
|4|26 March 1959|Buenos Aires, Argentina|||5–2|1959 South American Championship (Argentina)||||||||
|5|18 November 1959|Santiago, Chile|||4–2|Friendly match||||||||
|6|5 June 1960|Montevideo, Uruguay|||2–2|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|7|||||||||||||
|8|19 March 1961|Santiago, Chile|||5–2|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|9|||||||||||||
|10|26 March 1961|Santiago, Chile|||3–1|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|11|||||||||||||
|12|9 December 1961|Santiago, Chile|||5–1|Friendly||||||||
|align="center"|13|||||||||||||
|14|30 May 1962|Santiago, Chile|||3–1|1962 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|align="center"|15|||||||||||||
|16|10 June 1962|Arica, Chile|||2–1|1962 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|17|13 June 1962|Santiago, Chile|||2–4|1962 FIFA World Cup||||||||
|18|16 May 1965|Montevideo, Uruguay|||1–1|Copa Juan Pinto Durán||||||||
|19|21 July 1965|Santiago, Chile|||1–1|Copa Carlos Dittborn||||||||
|20|1 August 1965|Santiago, Chile|||7–2|1966 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|21|22 August 1965|Santiago, Chile|||3–1|1966 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|22|12 October 1965|Lima, Perú|||2–1|1966 FIFA World Cup qualification||||||||
|23|13 December 1967|Santiago, Chile|||4–5|Friendly||||||||
|24|27 August 1968|Ciudad de México, México|||1-3|Friendly||||||||

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Leonel Sánchez
- **image**: Leonel Sánchez (2) (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Sánchez in 1959
- **fullname**: Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros
- **height**: 1.74 m
- **birth place**: Santiago, Presidential Republic (1925–1973), Chile
- **death place**: Santiago, Chile
- **position**: Forward (association football), Left forward
- **years1**: 1953–1969
- **clubs1**: Club Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Chile
- **caps1**: 386
- **goals1**: 159
- **years2**: 1963
- **clubs2**: → AC Milan (loan)
- **caps2**: 0
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 1969–1970
- **clubs3**: Colo-Colo
- **caps3**: 31
- **goals3**: 2
- **years4**: 1971–1972
- **clubs4**: Palestino
- **caps4**: 15
- **goals4**: 10
- **years5**: 1972–1973
- **clubs5**: C.D. Ferroviarios de Chile, Ferroviarios
- **caps5**: 11
- **goals5**: 7
- **totalcaps**: 443
- **totalgoals**: 178
- **manageryears1**: 1985–1986
- **managerclubs1**: Club Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Chile
- **manageryears2**: 1987
- **managerclubs2**: Club Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Chile
- **nationalyears1**: 1955–1968
- **nationalteam1**: Chile national football team, Chile
- **nationalcaps1**: 85
- **nationalgoals1**: 24