Football club in Osasco, Brazil
Football club
Grêmio Osasco Audax Esporte Clube,
commonly referred to as Audax, is a professional association football🧾 club based in
Osasco, São Paulo, Brazil. The team competes in Campeonato Paulista Série A3, the third
tier of the🧾 São Paulo state football league.
The club was formerly known as Pão de
Açúcar Esporte Clube, PAEC and Audax São Paulo🧾 Esporte Clube.
History [ edit ]
The club
was founded as a city of São Paulo-based club on 8 December 2004 as🧾 Pão de Açúcar
Esporte Clube, playing their first professional game on 7 April 2007, against
Jabaquara, for the Campeonato Paulista🧾 Segunda Divisão.[1] They won the Campeonato
Paulista Segunda Divisão in 2008, after beating Batatais in the final.[2]
Pão de Açúcar
Esporte🧾 Clube was renamed to Audax São Paulo Esporte Clube on 17 July 2011, adopting a
new logo and new kits.🧾 The owner of the club, Grupo Pão de Açúcar, changed the club's
name to bring the team closer to its🧾 supporters.[3]
The club was sold on September 22,
2013 to Mário Teixeira, president of Bradesco and vice-president of Grêmio Osasco,
renamed🧾 to Grêmio Osasco Audax and moved to Osasco.[4]
In his little time after having
changed from the city, the team controlled🧾 by Fernando Diniz surprised to eliminate
major clubs, such as the São Paulo and Corinthians in the Campeonato Paulista.[5] With
🧾 its form engaging to play and until the number of play ugly. players as Tchê Tchê,
Camacho, Bruno Paulo and🧾 other stood out and came up to the end of the State where he
was vice after losing the final🧾 for the Santos.
After the brilliant campaign in
Paulistão, the club has a partnership with Oeste in dispute the Campeonato Brasileiro
🧾 Série B, where otherwise disposed in addition to Fernado Diniz, a good part of the
players.[6]
Achievements [ edit ]
Stadium [🧾 edit ]
Grêmio Audax Osasco plays they home
games at Estádio José Liberatti. The stadium has a maximum capacity of 12,430.
Audax
🧾 São Paulo Esporte Clube, until 2014, played their home games at Estádio Nicolau Alayon.
The stadium has a maximum capacity🧾 of 9,660 people.[7]
The club, until 2011, played
their home games at Estádio Conde Rodolfo Crespi, nicknamed Estádio Rua Javari.[1] The
🧾 stadium has a maximum capacity of 4,000 people.[7]
Current squad [ edit ]
As of 14
January 2024
Note: Flags indicate national team🧾 as defined under FIFA eligibility
rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Out on loan [ edit ]
Note:
Flags🧾 indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold
more than one non-FIFA nationality.
Women's team [ edit🧾 ]
Their women's team debuted in
the 2024 Campeonato Paulista de Futebol Feminino and then for two years put together a
🧾 combined squad with Corinthians (called Corinthians Audax) and won the 2024 Copa
Libertadores Femenina and the 2024 Copa do Brasil🧾 de Futebol Feminino.
