Esteban Paredes

Esteban Paredes
Paredes with Colo-Colo in 2018
Personal information
Full name Esteban Efraín Paredes
Quintanilla
Date of birth (1980-08-01) 1 August 1980
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
1996–2000 Santiago Morning
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2009 Santiago Morning 169 (91)
2002Deportes Puerto Montt (loan) 18 (9)
2004Universidad de Concepción (loan) 14 (5)
2004Pachuca Juniors (loan) 17 (5)
2007Cobreloa (loan) 29 (10)
2009–2012 Colo-Colo 89 (50)
2012–2013 Atlante 29 (16)
2013 Querétaro 18 (6)
2014–2021 Colo-Colo 165 (103)
2021–2022 Coquimbo Unido 33 (7)
2023 San Antonio Unido 4 (0)
2024 Santiago Morning 7 (1)
Total 592 (303)
International career
2006–2018 Chile 42 (12)
2008 Chile U23 4 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Esteban Efraín Paredes Quintanilla (born 1 August 1980) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Paredes is the first player to be five-time Primera División de Chile top goalscorer and has scored 286 league goals in his career, highlighting his 217–Primera División de Chile goals record which allowed him to be the all-time top goalscorer of Chilean first-tier tournaments history. On 5 October 2019, he achieved the record surpassing Francisco Valdés in a 3–2 win over Universidad de Chile in the Chilean Superclásico.