Audax Italiano

Audax Club Sportivo Italiano is a Chilean football club based in La Florida. Founded in 1910, it plays in the Campeonato Nacional and has spent most of its history in the top tier of Chilean football. Audax has been national champions four times, joint sixth alongside Magallanes. The club also achieved three Copa Chile runner-up finishes in 1981, 1998 and 2018.

The club had their first major success in 1936, when they won the league title. During the 1940s, Audax won two further titles in 1946 and 1948, and a fourth in 1957.

History
The club was founded by Italian residents in Santiago, on November 30, 1910, as Audax Club Ciclista Italiano in Alberto Caffi's hat store, and was originally focused on cycling. As football developed quickly in Santiago, in 1917 the club began participating in that sport, and in 1922, when the popularity of football increased within Audax's supporters, the club changed its name to Audax Club Sportivo Italiano.

In January 2007, the club was transformed into a limited liability corporation, and changed its name to Audax Italiano La Florida, adding the name of the comuna in which it's always been located.

The club has always been a regular protagonist in Chilean football, but had never been able to participate in any major international competition until 2007, when they played in the Copa Libertadores. As a club founded by immigrants, it has a special rivalry with the other immigrant clubs Unión Española (founded by Spaniards) and Palestino (founded by Palestinian Arabs).

Domestic

 * Primera División de Chile
 * Winners (4): 1936, 1946, 1948, 1957
 * Runner-up (8): 1934, 1935, 1938, 1940, 1944, 1947, 1951, 2006 C
 * Primera B de Chile
 * Runner-Up (1): 1995
 * Copa Chile
 * Runner-up (3): 1981, 1998, 2018
 * Campeonato de Apertura
 * Winners (1): 1941
 * Campeonato de Campeones
 * Runners-up (1): 1943

Performance in CONMEBOL competitions

 * Copa Libertadores: 3 appearances
 * 2007: Group stage
 * 2008: Group stage
 * 2022: Second stage


 * Copa Sudamericana: 4 appearances
 * 2007: Second preliminary round
 * 2018: First round
 * 2020: Second round
 * 2023: Knockout round play-offs


 * Copa CONMEBOL: 1 appearance
 * 1998: First round

Records

 * Largest margin of victory:
 * In Primera División matches: 9–2 vs. Universidad Católica in 1945
 * In Copa Chile matches: 13–0 vs. Juventud Varsovia in 2010
 * In international matches: 3–1 Alianza Lima in 2007


 * Largest margin of defeat:
 * In Primera División matches: 1–7 vs. Colo-Colo in 1939 & 0–6 vs. Santiago Wanderers in 1993
 * In international matches: 1–4 vs. Sportivo Luqueño in 2008


 * Longest win streak: 24 games in 2007
 * Most goals scored in international play: Rodolfo Moya & Carlos Villanueva (3 goals)
 * Most goals scored in Primera División: Carlos Tello (101 goals)
 * Most goals scored in one season in Primera División: José Luis Díaz (23 goals in 1999)
 * Most goals scored in two short tournaments: Carlos Villanueva (30 goals in 2007)

Notable players

 * 🇦🇷 Claudio Borghi
 * 🇦🇷 Franco Di Santo
 * 🇮🇹 Félix Corte
 * Carlos Villanueva
 * Marcelo Zunino
 * 🇮🇹 Bruno Iacoponi
 * 🇮🇹 Gino Iacoponi
 * Salvador Cabañas

Managers
Interim coaches appear in italics.
 * Carlos Giudice (1936-1937, 1939)
 * Raúl Marchant (1938, 1941-1943)
 * 🇦🇷 José Luis Boffi (1944-1945)
 * Raúl Marchant (1945-1946)
 * Bruno Iacoponi (1946)
 * 🇦🇷 Salvador Nocetti (1947-1948)
 * 🇭🇺 Ladislao Pakozdi (1951)
 * Mario Pretto (1953-1954)
 * 🇦🇷 Roberto Scarone (1955)
 * 🇭🇺 Ladislao Pakozdi (1956-1957)
 * Luis Tirado (1959)
 * Enrique Sorrel (1959-1960)
 * 🇭🇺  Janos Schwanner (1961)
 * 🇦🇷 Martín García (1962)
 * Hernán Carrasco (1963)
 * 🇭🇺 Ladislao Pakozdi (1964)
 * Sergio Cruzat (1965)
 * Salvador Biondi (1966)
 * Luis Álamos (1967-1969)
 * Ramiro Cortés (1969)
 * 🇦🇷 Salvador Biondi (1970)
 * José Santos Arias (1971)
 * Claudio Ramírez (1971)
 * 🇦🇷 Donato Hernández (1972)
 * Jorge Venegas (1972)
 * Julio Menadier (1973)
 * José Cárdenas (1974)
 * Dante Pesce (1975)
 * Hernán Godoy (1975-1976)
 * Adolfo Rodríguez (1976)
 * Hernán Godoy (1976-1977)
 * Orlando Aravena (1977)
 * Armando Tobar (1978)
 * 🇦🇷 Néstor Isella (1978-1979)
 * 🇦🇷 Vicente Cantatore (1979)
 * Aurelio Valenzuela (1979)
 * 🇦🇷 Salvador Biondi (1979)
 * 🇦🇷 Néstor Isella (1979-1980)
 * Hernán Godoy (1980-1981)
 * Hugo Berly (1981-1982)
 * Pedro Morales (1982)
 * Sasha Mitjaew (1983)
 * Caupolican Peña (1983)
 * Roque Mercury (1983)
 * Jorge Venegas (1984)
 * Jaime Campos (1984)
 * Hernán Godoy (1985)
 * Francisco Hormazábal (1985-1986)
 * Isaac Carrasco (1986)
 * Rosauro Parra (1986)
 * Leonel Herrera (1987-1988)
 * Victoriano Álvarez (1988)
 * Ramón Climent (1988)
 * Hernán Godoy (1988-1990)
 * Rosauro Parra (1990)
 * Sasha Mitjaew (1990-1991)
 * Victoriano Álvarez (1991)
 * José González V. (1992)
 * Miguel Hermosilla (1993)
 * Óscar Meneses (1993-1994)
 * Jorge Aravena (1995)
 * Roberto Hernández (1996-1997)
 * 🇦🇷 Oscar Malbernat (1997-1999)
 * Óscar del Solar (2000-2001)
 * Hernán Godoy (2001-2002)
 * 🇦🇷 Claudio Borghi (2002-2003)
 * Roberto Hernández (2003-2005)
 * Jaime Pizarro (2005)
 * Óscar Meneses (2005)
 * Eduardo Ahumada (2005)
 * Raúl Toro (2006-2008)
 * 🇦🇷 Pablo Marini (2009-2010)
 * 🇦🇷 Marcelo Barticciotto (2010)
 * 🇦🇷 Omar Labruna (2010-2012)
 * 🇦🇷 Pablo Marini (2012-2013)
 * 🇦🇷 Jorge Ghiso (2013)
 * Jaime Rubilar (2013-2014)
 * Jorge Pellicer (2014-2016)
 * Hugo Vilches (2016-2018)
 * Juan José Ribera (2018-2019)
 * 🇦🇷 Francisco Meneghini (2020)
 * José Calderón (2020)
 * 🇦🇷 Pablo Sánchez (2020-2021)
 * Ronald Fuentes (2022)
 * Juan José Ribera (2022)
 * 🇦🇷 Manuel Fernández (2023)
 * José Calderón (2023)
 * 🇦🇷 Luca Marcogiuseppe (2023)
 * Francisco Arrué (2023)
 * 🇦🇷 Walter Erviti (2024)
 * Nelson Tapia (2024)
 * Francisco Arrué (2024-)