Felipe Gutiérrez

Universidad Católica

Gutiérrez began his youth career at Everton de Viña del Mar in 2004. Four years later, after being scouted, he moved to Universidad Católica. He made his professional debut on 7 November 2009 at only 18 years of age, in a 4–1 win over Universidad de Concepción. In the 2010 season, Gutiérrez marked his first goal for the club in Copa Chile in a 4–0 win against San Pedro de Atacama and scored his first league goal for the club, in a 4–1 win over O'Higgins on 31 July 2010. Gutiérrez then scored his second goal for the club in the last game of the season, in a 5–0 win over Everton. Later in the 2010 season, Gutiérrez won the Chilean championship with Universidad Católica and went to score two times in fifteen appearances. In the Torneo Apertura, Gutiérrez started well in the tournament and made an impressive display, including scoring important goals against Colo-Colo twice in four encounters on 26 May 2011 and 16 October 2011. and Universidad de Chile on 15 May 2011. Later in the 2011 season, Gutiérrez scored ten goals in thirty–eight appearances in all competitions and he became runners-up in the championship with Universidad Católica, losing 4–1 in the final against Universidad de Chile, and won the Chilean Cup. He was also voted "revelation of the season" by readers of the Chilean edition of the El Gráfico magazine. His performance attracted interests from La Liga side Málaga, where he could link up his compatriot Manager Manuel Pellegrini.…

Due to his impressive display at Universidad Católica, Gutiérrez made his Chile debut on 30 May 2010, where he came on as a late substitute, in a 1–0 win over Northern Ireland. Gutiérrez then scored his first Chile goal after coming on as a substitute in the 75th minute, in a 2–1 loss against Argentina on 17 October 2012. Gutiérrez was included in three major tournament for Chile: he was called up into the squad for the Copa América and appeared four times on the substitute bench. Prior to his successful call–up in the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Gutiérrez suffered a knee injury in training that required examination and putting his World Cup place in doubt. It turns out that Gutiérrez was given an all-clear, regarding to his injury and expected to be in the World Cup squad for Chile. Gutiérrez made his first World Cup appearance against Australia, where he came on as a substitute for Arturo Vidal in the 60th minute, in a 3–1 win on 13 June 2014. Gutiérrez then made his first World Cup start in the final game of the group–stage, in a 2–0 loss against Netherlands. Gutiérrez played four times in the World Cup, as Chile progressed through the group stage, but was eliminated by Brazil in the round of 16. Despite missing out most of the 2014–15 season with a knee injury, Gutiérrez was included in the Chile squad for the Copa América. Up until then, Gutiérrez was on the substitute bench in the first four matches of the tournament and appeared once in the semi–final of the Copa…

In December 2024, Gutiérrez graduated as a football manager at INAF (National Institute of Football, Sports and Physical Activity of Chile). In January 2025, he joined the technical staff of Cristian Paulucci in Peruvian club Sport Boys and next Deportes La Serena. On 26 August 2025, Gutiérrez was appointed as the manager of Quintero Unido in the Chilean Tercera A. After returning to Sport Boys as assistant of Jaime de la Pava in December 2025, he returned to Chile few days later and assumed as manager of Deportes La Serena in the Liga de Primera.

Born in Quintero, Chile, Gutiérrez grew up with six–half sisters, which three of them came from his father side and the three other came from his mother side. Because of Pinochet, his father fled to live in Netherlands, and two of his half–sisters from his father side continued to live there. Gutiérrez has an older brother, Orlando Gutiérrez, who is also a footballer. However, unlike Felipe, Orlando have so far spent most of his career, playing for clubs in Chile. He is also the uncle of the Dutch golfer Nicolás Blaha Gutierrez, who was with the Feyenoord youth ranks. Gutiérrez speaks Spanish and upon moving to Twente, he began learning Dutch, having stated he had been taking Dutch lessons twice a week. Gutiérrez also has a wife, Carla, and a son, Matias. In April 2016, Gutiérrez became a father for a second time when his wife gave birth to another son, Gael. Gutiérrez has a school named after him in the city of Lautaro.